On This Day In

1896
H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was a hand with a bullet in it.
1915
The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1932
Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
1964
One month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was overthrown in a violent coup.
1998
Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.

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