1986 UN’s WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS
1984 McDonald’s made its 50 billionth hamburger
1975 Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Republican nomination for president
1967 U.S. population reaches 200 million
1914 U.S. State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
2009 Big Bird is on Google
1977 U.N. Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa
1957 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched
1922 Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
1861 University of Washington founded in Seattle
1856 James Buchanan elected U.S. president
1990 England and France complete Chunnel
1976 Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
1952 Clarence Birdseye sells 1st frozen peas
1896 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator
1862 Dr. Richard Gatling patents machine gun
1965 630 foot high Gateway Arch completed in St. Louis
1954 Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature
1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by President Grover Cleveland
1858 Macy’s Department store opens in New York City
1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin
1978 Begin and Sadat win Nobel Peace prize
1972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created
1969 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader’s Raiders
1925 Water skis patented by Fred Waller
1775 U.S. Navy forms
1979 John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House
1968 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis
1818 49th parallel forms as border between U.S. and Canada
1803 U.S. Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase
2009 Yovia offering $5 to anyone that signs up for a Blog
1984 Baboon heart transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl
1964 China becomes world’s 5th nuclear power
1962 Byron R. White becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1941 Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow
1923 Disney company founded
1982 6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1982 President Reagan proclaims war against drugs
1980 Bob Marley’s last concert
1962 U.S. U-2 planes locate missile launchers in Cuba
1960 Peace Corps 1st suggested by John F. Kennedy
1987 1st military use of trained dolphins by the U.S. Navy
1978 President Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio
1943 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany
1884 Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude
1792 1st Old Farmer’s Almanac is published Today
1994 Contact with Venus orbitter Magellan broken
1977 4th test of space shuttle Enterprise
1972 Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole
1969 1st time 5 people in space
1792 Columbus Day is 1st celebrated
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