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Modesto Morning Herald

Verified Real 1922

Corpse Spoils Wake; Refuses to Stay Dead

1922-06-17Source: Newspapers.comView clipping source

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Weird history on May 16

1866 First ever
The United States Congress authorized the minting of the Shield nickel (example pictured), the country's first five-cent piece to be made of a copper–nickel alloy.
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1777 Oddly true
Button Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, is wounded in a duel with Continental Army officer Lachlan McIntosh, dying of his injuries several days later.
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1891 First ever
The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
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