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  • Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium.
    1898

    A radioactive discovery

    Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium.

  • 1620

    The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts.

  • 1891

    The first basketball game, invented at Springfield College in Massachusetts by James E. Naismith, was played.

  • 1913

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  • 1937

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  • 1988

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  • 1991

    Eleven of the former Soviet republics form the Commonwealth of Independent States.

  • 1995

    Palestinians took over the control of the city of Bethlehem.

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