* 1493, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, sailing near the
Dominican Republic, sees three "mermaids" -- in reality manatees -- and
describes them as "not half as beautiful as they are painted."
* 1894, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson copyrights the first motion
picture. The movie, filed in February 1893 at the Edison studio in West
Orange, New Jersey, featured 47 images of a man sneezing
* 2001, two practitioners of that "religion of peace", stormed an
Israeli army post near the Gaza Strip, killing four soldiers before
being shot dead in a gun battle
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