Today In History

"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"

George Santayana

• 1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals.
• 1867 Jesse James-gang robs bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken).
• 1873 Canada's NorthWest Mounted Police Force (RCMPF) forms.
• 1922 Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films.
• 1953 Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes.
• 1960 Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
• 1962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in U.S. Aurora 7.
• 1969 Who release rock opera "Tommy".
• 1969 BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
• 1970 Grateful Dead's in England, 1st performance outside of U.S.
• 1979 Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• 1991 U.S. Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion.
• 1994 Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication.