"He who forgets history is doomed (or condemned) to repeat it"
George Santayana
1478 Easter is celebrated for the first time (gee and I thought it was an ancient rite).
1514 Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn.
1654 Jews are expelled from Brazil.
1721 Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated.
1887 Huntsville Electric Company is established to sell electricity.
1933 Jewish students are barred from school in Germany (beginning to see a pattern here).
1954 Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins (Polio in this country soon becomes a thing of the past)
1961 Roger Maris hits 1st of 61 homers in 1961(goes on to have a record breaking season, for which Busch Beer awards him the Gainesville distributorship)
1986 Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl USSR explodes, 31 die (mostly the operators who stood by their posts and the fire-rescue crews that responded who's courage prevented and even bigger disaster)
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