"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"
George Santayana
- 325 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea, Asia Minor.
- 1874 Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz.
- 1892 George Sampson patents clothes dryer.
- 1902 U.S. occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends.
- 1902 Cuba gains independence from Spain.
- 1932 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic.
- 1940 Igor Sikorsky unveils his helicopter invention
- 1942 U.S. Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve.
- 1959 Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship.
- 1985 U.S. began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Mart.
- 1990 Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photograph's from space.
- 1992 India launches its 1st satellite independently.
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