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Classic headlineMiners Refuse to Work After Death
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Weird history on August 19
1897 First everThe Bersey Electric Cab (pictured) entered service as the first electric taxi in London.
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1725 First everJ. S. Bach led the first performance of Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren, BWV 137, a cantata setting the unchanged text of Neander's hymn.
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1861 First everFirst ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
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Vintage clipping · 1909
The National tribune (Washington, D.C.), August 19, 1909
Page 3 · mentions "monster" · printed on this very day
“alaSbt advanced notions as was evidenced by their immediately beginning to make an ironclad out of the Merrimac Outside of the Navy there were many engineers and naval constructors who were keenly Interested in ironclad …”
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