Today In History...

"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"

George Santayana

• 1996 Intel releases 200 MHz Pentium chip.
• 1990 Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing.
• 1985 Coca-Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula.
• 1981 Pete Rose ties Stan Musial's NL record of 3,630 hits.
• 1977 Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II.
• 1973 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit.
• 1966 Janis Joplin's 1st live concert, Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco.
• 1964 Southern Democrats filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked.
• 1963 John F. Kennedy signs law for equal pay for equal work for men and women.
• 1955 1st separation of virus into component parts reported.
• 1935 Dr. Robert Smith and William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous.
• 1905 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Maine.
• 1760 New York passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine.
• 1720 Mrs. Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard.
• 1610 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island.