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Date: July 19, 2016 at 6:04:54 AM EDT
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Subject: 1799: Rosetta Stone found
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1799 Rosetta Stone found On this day in 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria. The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different... read more »
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Cold War 1956 United States withdraws offer of aid for Aswan Dam »
Crime 1991 Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant »
Disaster 1979 Oil tankers collide in Caribbean Sea »
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Old West 1879 Doc Holliday kills for the first time »
Presidential 1884 President Arthur proclaims power to impose quarantine on immigrants »
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World War I 1919 Cenotaph is unveiled in London »
World War II 1943 America bombs Rome »
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