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Demonstration


1992 Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test

1989 Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square

1988 Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon

1985 Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques

1984 Libyan embassy demonstration, 1 shot dead

1979 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC

1968 West Berlin student Rudi Dutschke seriously wounded at demonstration

1968 State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A and M

1963 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London

1962 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany, Georgia

1962 Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia

1962 Demonstration for sovereign status of New-Guinea in Amsterdam

1957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)

1957 Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba

1948 Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir

1947 Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan

1941 Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands

1938 Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam

1938 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV in London

1935 Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews

1933 Final demonstration of German Communist Party in Berlin

1932 Austria forbids demonstration by Nazi's and anti fascists

1932 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass

1932 1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, New York (demonstration sport)

1926 1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London

1923 Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent

1922 Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent

1922 Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent

1918 Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration, dies in Geneva, Switzerland, at age 60

1917 Spontaneous demonstration at Tauride-palace Petrograd

1910 Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration

1905 Great revolutionary demonstration for amnesty in St. Petersburg

1902 Nathan Stubblefield makes 1st public demonstration of radio, Penn

1896 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in U.S. (New York City)

1882 1st demonstration of pancake making (Department store in New York City)

1879 Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp

1856 Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, born in Tambov, Russia, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration

1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration

1838 Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph

1780 Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London

1131 Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, dies

1048 Omar Khayyam, born in Nayshapur, Iran, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra


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