On this day in the year 1871 of the common era (CE), millions of birds dark the skin while flying over western San Francisco; three years later the Jesse James gang robs a train at Gads Hill, Missouri.
On this day in the year 1928 CE, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) begins marketing Scotch Tape; one year later Leon Trotsky is expelled from Russia and sent to Turkey. Sixty-one years after that, the first McDonalds opens in the Soviet Union and Moscow celebrates arrival of the American hamburger.
On this day in 2020 CE the United Kingdom formally withdraws from the European Union in a geopolitical disaster known as Brexit.
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