Today In History...

"He who forgets history is doomed (or condemned) to repeat it"

George Santayana

• 1660 Isaack B. Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni.
• 1824 Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna.
• 1832 Greece becomes independent republic.
• 1873 U.S. Marines attack Panama (what is it with Marines and Latin America?).
• 1888 George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera", (a Kodak Moment is born).
• 1914 U.S. Congress establishes mother's day.
• 1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed (talk about sexist!).
• 1958 Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m or 17.28 miles (27.8 K).
• 1970 "Long and Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release.
• 1975 President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era".
• 1982 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1.
• 1992 U.S. space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour).