"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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