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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 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

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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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Ruhollah Khomeini: Biography of the Day

Ruhollah Khomeini

Sh'ite cleric Ruhollah Khomeini—born this day in 1902, it is believed—led the 1979 revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and for the next 10 years served as Iran's ultimate political and religious authority.

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