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TODAY IN HISTORY

In 1783, Britain’s King George III proclaimed a formal cessation of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War.

In 1913, Rosa Parks, a Black woman whose 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus to a white man sparked a civil rights revolution, was born Rosa Louise Mccauley in Tuskegee.

In 1945, President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a wartime conference at Yalta.

In 1976, over 23,000 people died when an earthquake struck Guatemala with a magnitude of 7.5.

In 1977, 11 were killed when two Chicago Transit Authority trains collided on an elevated track.

In 2004, the social networking website Facebook had its start as Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.”

In 2012, Florence Green, who had served with the Women’s Royal Air Force and was recognized as the last veteran of World War I, died in England at age 110.

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