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Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Today In History...

"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"
George Santayana

  • 1988 Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%.
  • 1979 "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line.
  • 1969 "Smothers Brothers comedy Hour," last airs on CBS-TV.
  • 1967 Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 U.S. crewmen.
  • 1959 1st official "missile mail" lands, Jacksonville, Florida.
  • 1949 Siam changes name to Thailand.
  • 1892 Homer A. Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy vs. Ferguson).
  • 1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec.
  • 570 Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca.

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