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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Today In History...

"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"
George Santayana

  • 1992 Longest salami is 68'9 and 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway.
  • 1980 "Blues Brothers," premieres in Chicago.
  • 1976 Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa, Soweto Day.
  • 1975 Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation.
  • 1933 U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, FDIC, created.
  • 1922 Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to U.S. Bureau of Aeronautics.
  • 1903 Ford Motors incorporates.
  • 1903 Pepsi Cola company forms.
  • 1893 R. W. Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack.

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