"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"
George Santayana
- 1752 Benjamin Franklin's 1st tests the lightning rod.
- 1823 1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Ft. Snelling.
- 1908 1st Mother's Day observed.
- 1924 J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI.
- 1933 Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany.
- 1944 Smith vs. Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal.
- 1960 USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water.
- 1969 Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space.
- 1994 Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president.
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