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On Aug. 13, 1961, on what would become known as Barbed Wire Sunday, East Germany sealed the border between Berlin’s eastern and western sectors before building a wall that would divide the city for the next 28 years.
In 1521, Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez captured Tenochtitlan (teh-natch-teet-LAHN’), present-day Mexico City, from the Aztecs.
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In 1792, French revolutionaries arrested and imprisoned King Louis XVI; he would be executed by guillotine the following January.
In 1889, William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut, received a patent for the first coin-operated telephone.
In 1918, Opha May Johnson became the first woman to join the U.S. Marine Corps.
In 1952, Big Mama Thornt
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