TODAY IN HISTORY historyorb 1802 - US Academy at West Point founded 1856 - 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts. 1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the USA, driving a Maxwell automobile 3,800 miles from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days with three non-driving female companions. 1934 - 1st Donald Duck cartoon, Wise Little Hen, released 1940 - General Charles de Gaulles 1st meeting with Winston Churchill 1943 - Pay-as-you-go (withholding) US income tax deductions authorized 1963 - 1st Sunday night game in baseball SF Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0 1963 - Equal Pay Act enacted 1972 - Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia 1978 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood 1984 - Donald Ducks 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland 1997 - Detroit Tigers baseball team bat out of order against Oakland As in 1st inning 2012 - It is announced that up to $125 million dollars in loans will be given to aid Spains struggling banks
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