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Pfizer and Allergan agree to merge

Pfizer Inc. is an American pharmaceutical corporation headquartered in New York City and is considered one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. The company was expected to merge with Allergan plc, in a deal that would have been worth $160 billion. The merger was called off due to recent new rules from the United States Treasury.

Africa's first elected female president

Sirleaf stood for president as the candidate of the Unity Party in the 2005 general election. She placed second in the first round of voting behind footballer George Weah. In the subsequent run-off election, Sirleaf earned 59% of the vote versus 40% for Weah, though Weah disputed the results.

Life magazine is first published

Life was an American magazine that ran weekly from 1883 to 1936 as a humor magazine with limited circulation. The third magazine published by Luce, after Time in 1923 and Fortune in 1930, Life developed as the photo magazine in the U.S., giving as much space and importance to images as to words.

First commercial jukebox is installed in San Francisco

A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that will play a patron's selection from self-contained media. The classic jukebox has buttons with letters and numbers on them that, when entered in combination, are used to play a specific selection.

Areopagitica a pamphlet by John Milton is published

Areopagitica is a prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing and censorship. Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defenses of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. Areopagitica was published at the height of the English Civil War.

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