1841First detective storyThe first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue was published.
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1769
Ottawa Indian chief Pontiac murdered.
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1902
Marie and Pierre Curie isolated radium.
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1912
Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, died.
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1971
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the practice of busing for racial desegregation.
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1999
14 students (including killers) and 1 teacher killed, 23 others wounded at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in the nation's deadliest school shooting.
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2008
Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first woman to win an IndyCar race.
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2010
An explosion on a BP oil drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana kills 11 people and injures 17. Experts estimate that 13,000 gallons of crude oil per hour are pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.
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