Birth anniversary of George Washington (1732-99), first president of the US.
Birth anniversaries of baseball manager Sparky Anderson (1934-2010), Robert Wadlow, world’s tallest man (1918-40), Edward M "Ted" Kennedy, coward/murderer/scumbag posterboy
Anniversary of the “Miracle on Ice” in 1980—when the US Olympic hockey team upset the Soviet hockey at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics. The US went on to win gold after defeating Finland
Happy Birthday! Lea Salonga 1971, Robert Young 1907
1630 - Quadequine introduced popcorn to English colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner.
1819 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
1860 - Organized baseball’s first game was played in San Francisco, CA.
1879 - In Utica, NY, Frank W. Woolworth opened his first 5 and 10-cent store.
1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin became the first woman to win a U.S. thoroughbred horse race.
1973 - The U.S. and Communist China agreed to establish liaison offices.
1984 - The U.S. Census Bureau statistics showed that the state of Alaska was the fastest growing state of the decade with an increase in population of 19.2 percent.
1997 - Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut and colleagues announced that an adult sheep had been successfully cloned. Dolly was actually born on July 5, 1996. Dolly was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell.
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