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- 1974
Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold View Post →
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- 1896
Gold is discovered in Canada's Yukon Territory, leading to a rush of more than 30,000 people over the next year
- 1908
The first beauty contest is held in Folkestone, England
- 1937
The Appalachian Trail, traversing 2,000 miles and 14 US states from Georgia to Maine, is formally completed
- 1953
The Whiffle ball is invented
- 1971
The controversial Stanford prison experiments begin to study the effects of authority in a prison setting. The experiment is shut down on the 6th day due to adverse effects on the subjects
- 2015
The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed due to severed Cuba–United States relations
- 2021
It rains for the first time at the highest point of Greenland's ice sheets at the Summit Station research facility. Above freezing conditions cause some melting across 337,000 square miles of ice
