Today in History |
2019 ‐
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg tells US Congress "I know you are trying but just not hard enough. Sorry.”
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1982 ‐
"Bad to the Bone" single by George Thorogood and the Destroyers first released
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1980 ‐
Polish workers under the leadership of Lech Walesa found the Solidarity movement at the Gdansk Shipyard
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1976 ‐
Space Shuttle Enterprise completed
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1964 ‐
Beatles are paid a then record $150,000 for a concert (Kansas)
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1916 ‐
WWI flying ace The Red Baron of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France
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1911 ‐
1st transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min
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1876 ‐
Race riots in South Carolina
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1861 ‐
First class for escaped slaves taught by Mary Peake at Fortress Monroe Virginia (now Hampton University).
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1849 ‐
Harriet Tubman 1st escapes slavery in Maryland with two of her brothers
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1787 ‐
The US Constitution is signed by delegates at the Philadelphia Convention
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1776 ‐
The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
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