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Historical Examination of Boiler Advancements in America
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Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.
1902
"Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
1979
A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
1986
Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.
2021
At least 49 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan after a truck accidentally rolls onto the track.
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