Today In History...

"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"

George Santayana

• 1991 Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders.
• 1990 Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy.
• 1990 Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die.
• 1988 Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle the globe alone.
• 1985 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law.
• 1984 DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal.
• 1977 Apple II, the 1st personal computer, goes on sale.
• 1969 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hour flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft.
• 1957 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation.
• 1944 1st submarine captured and boarded on high seas-U 505.
• 1940 The synthetic rubber tire unveiled.
• 1912 Massachusetts passes 1st U.S. minimum wage law.
• 1850 Empire Engine Company No 1 organized
• 1794 Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers.
• 1789 U.S. constitution goes into effect.
• 1070 Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France.