Today In History...

"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"

George Santayana

• 1991 South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws.
• 1988 Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0.
• 1986 Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated.
• 1972 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate.
• 1972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National headquarters at the Watergate Hotel.
• 1970 Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera.
• 1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools.
• 1950 1st kidney transplant, Chicago.
• 1947 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves New York City.
• 1947 Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline.
• 1946 SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St. Louis.
• 1916 U.S. troops under General Pershing march into Mexico.
• 1894 1st U.S. poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont.
• 1885 Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City.
• 1863 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered, 1st accident insurer.
• 1856 Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia.
• 1824 Bureau of Indian Affairs established.
• 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill, actually it was Breed's Hill.
• 1579 Francis Drake entered San Francisco Bay.
• 1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of California.