This Day in History Class

On this day in 1946, singer-songwriter Dolly Parton was born in Locust Ridge, Tennessee.

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On this day in 1779, English thesaurus author Peter Mark Roget was born in Soho, London.

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On this day in 1997, the High Court of Ireland granted the country’s first divorce.

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On this day in 1749, an angry crowd destroyed a London theater after a performer known as the Bottle Conjuror failed to make his scheduled appearance.

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On this day in 1942, American industrialist Henry Ford received a patent for a plastic-bodied car made from soybeans. 

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On this day in 1998, nineteen European nations signed a pact prohibiting the cloning of human beings. 

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On this day in 1878, the New York Dairy Company delivered milk in glass bottles for what’s believed to be the first time.

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On this day in 1897, Ukrainian scientist Waldemar Haffkine injected himself with a vaccine he created to combat bubonic plague.

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On this day in 1799, British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduced the nation’s first income tax.

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On this day in 1974, in response to an ongoing energy crisis, daylight saving time went into effect three months early in the United States. 

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