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School segregation outlawed by U.S. Supreme Court: 17 May 1954 - This Day in History
On this day in 1954, lawyer Thurgood Marshall scored a landmark victory as the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in
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1918: Swedish operatic soprano Birgit Nilsson was born in Västra Karup.
1875: The first Kentucky Derby was run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, and the winning horse was Aristides.
1866: French composer Erik Satie was born in Honfleur.
1792: Meeting on what is now Wall Street in New York City, 24 businessmen took the initial steps to forming the New York Stock Exchange.
1510: Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, one of the greatest painters of the Florentine Renaissance, died.
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