On this Day in History.. 668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath near Syracuse, Italy 1584 - San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is completed 1620 - The Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims 1835 - The HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galapagos Islands 1857 - Timothy Alder patents his typesetting machine 1904 - Wilbur Wright completes his first airplane flight 1928 - Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin 1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany 1949 - The "Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV 1959 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives in the US to begin a 13-day visit 1963 - A church in Birmingham ALabama is bombed, killing 4 African-American girls 1966 - U.S. President Lyndon B Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation 1973 - Secretariat wins the Marlboro Cup in world record time of 1:45 2/5 for 1¼ miles 1998 - With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business (and soon after fails) 2012 - Japan announces that it will phase out nuclear energy by 2030 #guncontrol #sports #galapagosislands #aviation johnfsapp.wordpress/
Posted on: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:57:43 +0000
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