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#OnThisDay in 1787, the Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia, where 55 state delegates, initially charged with amending the Articles of Confederation, later drafted the Constitution of the United States. 📷Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
"Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States" by Howard Chandler Christy (1940). Delegates at the Constitutional Convention prepare to sign the U.S. Constitution
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A brilliant feat of 19th-century engineering, the Brooklyn Bridge—spanning the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan Island in NYC—opened #OnThisDay in 1883, designed by civil engineer John Augustus Roebling. 📷Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 3b51126)
The grand display of fireworks and illuminations - at the opening of the great suspension bridge between New York and Brooklyn on the evening of May 24, 1883; chromolithograph by Currier and Ives.
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China formally annexed Tibet as an autonomous region #OnThisDay in 1951, giving rise to a Tibetan independence movement—led by the Dalai Lama, winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize—that continued into the early 21st century. 📷© Digital Vision/Getty Images
Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet
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#OnThisDay in 1980, following an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale, Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted in one of the greatest volcanic explosions ever recorded in North America. 📷© Getty Images
Photo of Mount Saint Helens (Cascade Range, southwestern Washington) spewing ash during the 1980 eruption
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#OnThisDay in 1954, lawyer Thurgood Marshall scored a landmark victory as the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. 📷AP Images
George E.C. Hayes, left, Thurgood Marshall, center, and James M. Nabrit join hands as they pose outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., May 17, 1954.
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#OnThisDay in 1997
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in the last game of a 6 game match to claim a 3.5–2.5 victory. This was the 1st time a current world champ lost to a computer under tournament conditions. 📷Adam Nadel/AP Images
Garry Kasparov, left, is contemplating his next move against Deep Blue, IBM's chess playing computer Sunday, May 4, 1997, in New York, during game two of their six-game rematch.
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Nelson Mandela, whose efforts to end apartheid led to his imprisonment (1962–90) and earned him a share (with F.W. de Klerk) of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, became president of South Africa #OnThisDay in 1994. 📷© Joao Silva—AAI Fotostock/age fotostock
Former South African State President Nelson Mandela at a funeral service for the ANC leader Walter Sisulu at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto,Johannesburg, South Africa, May 17, 2003.
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The Theatre Royal, built by the dramatist Thomas Killigrew for his company of actors & now known as
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Drury Lane Theatre (London, England) showing a Roman play in progress, print (black ink with watercolor on paper), 1808; design by Thomas Rowlandson and August Charles Pugin.
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