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★16 Dec 1893
Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

★09 Feb 1907
More than 3,000 women in London participated in the Mud March, the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, seeking women's suffrage in the United Kingdom.

★10 Dec 1911
Calbraith Rodgers completed the first transcontinental flight across the United States.

★04 Jun 1913
Emily Davison, an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, was fatally injured when she was trampled by King George V's horse at the Epsom Derby.

★28 Jun 1919
The Treaty of Versailles was signed, formally ending World War I.

★26 Aug 1928
At a cafe in Paisley, Scotland, a woman found the remains of a snail in her bottle of ginger beer, giving rise to the landmark civil action case Donoghue v Stevenson.

★08 Jun 1929
Margaret Bondfield became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of Labour by Ramsay MacDonald.

★13 Aug 1942
Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorized the construction of facilities that would house the Manhattan Project.

★06 Jan 1953
The first Asian Socialist Conference, an organisation of socialist political parties in Asia, opened in Rangoon, Burma, with 177 delegates, observers and fraternal guests.

★28 Jun 1956
Workers demanding better conditions held massive protests in Poznań, Poland, but were violently repressed by the following day by 400 tanks and 10,000 soldiers of the Polish People's Army and the Internal Security Corps.

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