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Monday, May 17, 2010

Today In History...

"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"
George Santayana

  • 1527 Panfilo de Narvaez departs to explore Florida
  • 1792 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
  • 1932 Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
  • 1954 Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
  • 1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
  • 1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft
  • 1980 Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured

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