"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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