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Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted

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Headline 22 of 27 in the Hall of Fame rotation.

Weird history on January 21

1960 Oddly true
Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia, with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey, on board.
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1824 First ever
The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast during the First Anglo-Ashanti War.
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1789 First ever
The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth by William Hill Brown, is printed in Boston.
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Vintage clipping · 1919

Decorah-posten og ved arnen (Decorah, Iowa), January 21, 1919

Page 7 · mentions "UFO" · printed on this very day

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