Birth anniversaries of Johnny Cash (1932-2003), Buffalo Bill Cody (1846-1917), Levi Strauss (1829-1902).
Happy birthday, Fats Domino!
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from the Island of Elba. He then began his second conquest of France.
1848 - The second French Republic was proclaimed.
1848 - The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, was published.
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln signed the National Currency Act.
1870 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-powered subway line was opened to the public.
1907 - The U.S. Congress raised their own pay to $7500.
1919 - In Arizona, the Grand Canyon was established as a National Park with an act of the U.S. Congress.
1929 - U.S. President Coolidge signed a bill creating the Grand Teton National Park.
1930 - New York City installed traffic lights.
1934 - President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the creation of the Federal Communications Commission. It was established June 19, 1934 by Congress.
1945 - In the U.S., a nationwide midnight curfew went into effect.
1987 - The U.S.S.R. conducted its first nuclear weapons test after a 19-month moratorium period.
1993 - Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists.
1998 - In Oregon, a health panel rules that taxpayers must help to pay for doctor-assisted suicides.
2 comments:
The picture you are using for the Soviet nuclear test is in fact a picture of the first Chinese nuclear test in 1964.
Anon, good get!
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