Today In History...

"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"

George Santayana

• 2005 Apple Computer announces they will switch to Intel processors in 2006.
• 1991 NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992.
• 1988 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant.
• 1982 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO.
• 1978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57 percent.
• 1977 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws.
• 1971 "Ed Sullivan Show" last broadcasts on CBS-TV.
• 1967 Israeli troops occupy Gaza.
• 1944 D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France.
• 1933 1st drive-in theater opens, Camden, New Jersey.
• 1872 Susan B Anthony is fined for trying to vote.
• 1850 Levi Strauss made his 1st blue jeans.
• 1844 Young Men's Christian Association, YMCA, forms in London.
• 1772 Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago.
• 1716 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana.
• 1536 Mexico begins its inquisition.