"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"
George Santayana
- 1980 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network.
- 1971 Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS.
- 1966 Short-wave station Radio New York Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW.
- 1962 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit.
- 1961 FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard.
- 1957 1st U.S. runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden).
- 1938 Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1.
- 1880 1st pay telephone installed.
- 1862 Slavery abolished in all U.S. possessions.
- 1808 1st U.S. land-grant university founded at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
- 1495 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller.
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