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woodblock print of a boat

30 January 1790 – Testing of the first specialist lifeboat on the River Tyne

Kendall Jenner hands a can of Pepsi

May 3 1963 – police in Birmingham, Alabama use violence against peaceful civil rights protesters

The martyrdom of Saint Leodegar

October 2 678: Death of Saint Leodegar

New Jersey Postcard

October 1 1869: Austria issues the world’s first picture postcard

Fresco of St John Chrysostom

September 13 – Feast of St John Chrysostom

Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer

4 March 1678 – Birth of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer

WW1 recruitment poster by Norman Lindsay

1 March 1901 – Formation of the Australian Army

DNA Strand

15 February 2001 – First draft of the human genome is published in Nature

Storm at night

5 February – National Weatherpersons’ Day (United States)

Decorative Letter A

1 February 1884 – First volume (A – Ant) of Oxford English Dictionary published

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