This Day in History Class

On this day in 1910, the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1910 was signed, and Japan formally annexed Korea.

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On this day in 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia stole the "Mona Lisa" from the Louvre museum. 

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On this day in 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's paper on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society: Zoology. 

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On this day in 1814, entrepreneur and abolitionist Mary Ellen Pleasant was born. 

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On this day in 1612, the Pendle witch trials began in England. 

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On this day in 1887, activist and journalist Marcus Garvey, namesake of the ideology of Garveyism, was born.

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On this day in 1927, an air race sponsored by James D. Dole and marked by tragedy began. 

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On this day in 1977, the radio telescope Big Ear recieved the Wow! signal, which many people believed to be a sign of extraterrestrial intelligence. 

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On this day in 1975, the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" premiered in London. 

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On this day in 1904, Tewa potter Margaret Tafoya was born. 

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