Turkmenistan ~ "Anniversary of the Battle of Geok-Tepe". 6,000 Russian troops overwhelmed 25,000 Turkomans in 1881.


1773 ~ The first public museum in the U.S. was established in Charleston, S.C.


1896 ~ H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was a hand with a bullet in it.


1915 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.


1932 ~ Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.


1964 ~ One month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was overthrown in a violent coup.


1991 ~ A divided Congress gave President Bush the go-ahead on the Persian Gulf War.


1998 ~ Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind