"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"
George Santayana
- 1830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever.
- 1910 Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near panic.
- 1917 U.S. passes Selective Service Act. The draft board is born.
- 1934 TWA began commercial service.
- 1934 Congress approves "Lindbergh Act," makes kidnapping a capital offense
- 1953 Jacqueline Cochran is 1st woman to break the sound barrier.
- 1964 Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years.
- 1967 Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals "Monkey Law," upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial. Class of 69 at LHS does "Inherit the Wind" for senior play.
- 1980 Mount St. Helen blows its top in Washington State, 60 die.
- 1992 Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs.
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