TODAY IN HISTORY 1837 - Collision of river boat Monmouth & Trement on Miss; 300 die 1868 - Standard uniform approved for US postal carriers 1876 - Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876 ravages British India (Modern-day Bangladesh), resulting in over 200,000 human deaths. 1892 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. 1913 - 1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway is dedicated 1917 - World War I: Battle of Beersheba in southern Palestine- last successful cavalry charge in history 1918 - Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in US in 1 week 1938 - Great Depression: In an effort to try restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public. 1941 - Mount Rushmore Monument is completed 1956 - Rear Adm GJ Dufek becomes 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole 1963 - Leaking propane gas explodes kills 64 at Holiday on Ice (Indiana) 1974 - Ted Bundy victim Laura Aime disappears in Utah 1988 - 1st Monday Night NFL game in Indianapolis, Colts beat Denver 55-23 1994 - American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary, Indiana: 68 killed 2002 - A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas formally indicted former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer. 2011 - The world population reaches 7 billion inhabitants according to the United Nations
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