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4 days agoToday in History: February 21, Figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi wins gold for the US
In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto in London. In 1885, President Chester Arthur dedicated the Washington Monument. In 1911, composer Gustav Mahler, despite a fever, conducted the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall in what turned out to be his final concert. (He died the following May.) In 1916, the Battle of Verdun, the longest battle of World War I, began in northeastern France.
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