| Today in History |
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1972 ‐
The Musical "Grease" 1st opens on Broadway at the Eden Theatre
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1971 ‐
Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in the White House
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1957 ‐
Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
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1924 ‐
Thomas J. Watson renames the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) as International Business Machines (IBM)
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1919 ‐
United Parcel Service forms
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1899 ‐
US Congress begins using voting machines
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1876 ‐
Alexander G. Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
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1849 ‐
James Knox Polk becomes first serving US President to have his photograph taken (by Matthew Brady, in NYC).
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1778 ‐
"Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
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