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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Today In History...

"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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