"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"
George Santayana
- 1817 Mississippi River steamboat service begins
- 1866 Congress authorizes nickel 5 cents piece (replaces silver half-dime)
- 1866 Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer
- 1891 George A Hormel and Co introduce Spam
- 1927 Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax
- 1943 Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting
- 1963 Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends U.S. Project Mercury
- 1965 Spaghetti-O's 1st sold
- 1975 Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mount Everest's summit
- 1988 U.S. Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant
- 1988 Surgeon General C. Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin
- 1994 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando, Florida on WTKS 104.1 FM
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