On this day in US History, 1854 Henry David Thoreau publishes - TopicsExpress



          

On this day in US History, 1854 Henry David Thoreau publishes his classic, Walden. 1936 Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics. 1945 The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, prompting Japan to surrender in World War II. 1974 Gerald Ford is sworn in as the thirty-eighth U.S. president, following Richard Nixon’s resignation. 1988 President Reagan nominates Lauro Cavazos to be secretary of education and the first Hispanic to serve in a president’s Cabinet.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:38:42 +0000

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