History for December 12

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Frank Sinatra 1915

• 1800 - Washington, DC, was established as the capital of the United States.
• 1870 - Republican, Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina became the first black lawmaker to be sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives.
• 1896 - Guglielmo Marconi gave the first public demonstration of radio at Toynbee Hall, London.
• 1925 - The "Motel Inn," the first motel in the world, opened in San Luis Obispo, CA.
• 1975 - Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to a charge of trying to kill U.S. President Ford in San Francisco the previous September.
• 1982 - 20,000 idiot, Soviet supporting women encircled Greenham Common air base in Britain in protest against proposed cite of U.S. Cruise missiles there.
• 2001 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would implement minimum federal election standards and provide funding to help states modernize their voting systems.