Today in History |
2020 ‐
Price of US oil turns negative for the 1st time in history - West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark for US oil, falls as low as minus $37.63 a barrel as worldwide demand falls
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1997 ‐
1st baseball game in Hawaii, Cards beat Padres in doubleheader
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1973 ‐
Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit
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1971 ‐
US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
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1961 ‐
American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
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1926 ‐
1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic
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1918 ‐
Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day
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1887 ‐
Georges Bouton wins the world’s 1st motor race on a steam-powered quadricycle, a 'test' organised by French newspaper Le Velocipede
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1862 ‐
First pasteurization test completed by Frenchmen Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
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1836 ‐
Territory of Wisconsin created
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1828 ‐
Frenchman René Caillié is the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, returns to win 10,000 franc prize from Société de Géographie
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