"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"
George Santayana
- 1986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel.
- 1983 Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students.
- 1976 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington D.C.).
- 1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional.
- 1962 M. Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit.
- 1961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi.
- 1958 UP and International News Service merge into United Press International.
- 1954 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour.
- 1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations.
- 1883 Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur and Governor Cleveland.
- 1844 Samuel FB Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph msg).
- 1818 General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida.
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