Today In History...

"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"

George Santayana

• 1990 Supreme Court rules police check for drunk driver's constitutional.
• 1989 Queen Elizabeth II knights Ronald Reagan.
• 1984 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members.
• 1972 Hurricane Agnes kills 117.
• 1954 President Eisenhower signs order adding words 'under God' to the Pledge.
• 1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus.
• 1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau.
• 1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin.
• 1846 California declares independence from Mexico in Sonoma.
• 1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine.
• 1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer, Jr., Springfield, Vermont.
• 1777 Continental Congress adopts Stars and Stripes replacing Grand Union flag.
• 1775 U.S. Army founded.
• 1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts.