Today in History |
2012 ‐
US President Barack Obama officially secures Democratic presidential nomination
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2007 ‐
Conventional train world speed record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record. 357.2 mph
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1981 ‐
Race riots in London's Brixton area, England
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1973 ‐
1st mobile phone call is made in downtown Manhattan, NYC by Motorola employee Martin Cooper to the Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey
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1965 ‐
1st atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched
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1948 ‐
US President Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
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1933 ‐
1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
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1927 ‐
Interstate Commerce Comm transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
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1919 ‐
Austria expels all Habsburgers
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1882 ‐
American outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford at home in St Joseph
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1860 ‐
Pony Express began between St Joseph, Missouri & Sacramento, California
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1848 ‐
Thomas Douglas becomes 1st public teacher in San Francisco
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1776 ‐
George Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
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1764 ‐
Austrian Archduke Jozef crowned himself Holy Roman Emperor Josef II
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