On this day in 1520, Martin Luther burned his copy of the Exsurge Domine outside the gate at Wittenberg.
On this day in 1817, Mississippi became the 20th US state.
On this day in 1861, Kentucky became the 13th state of the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
On this day in 1906, US President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
And, in Chuckery, Ohio in 1903, it was reported that Matthias Loschky was having a telephone put in on the farmers' line.
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