Sunday, November 16, 2014

History for November 16

History for November 16 - On-This-Day.com
Burgess Meredith 1908, Martha Plimpton 1970, Oksana Baiul 1977 


1864 - Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea" during the U.S. Civil War. 


1915 - Coca-Cola had its prototype for a countoured bottle patented. The bottle made its commercial debut the next year. 


1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations for the first time. 



1952 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy first held a football for Charlie Brown. 


1966 - Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial of charges he had murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954. 


1973 - U.S. President Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law. 


1981 - A vaccine for hepatitis B was approved. The vaccine had been developed at Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research. 


1998 - It was announced that Monica Lewinsky had signed a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with U.S. President Clinton


2000 - Bill Clinton became the first serving U.S. president to visit Communist Vietnam. 


2004 - A NASA unmanned "scramjet" (X-43A) reached a speed of nearly 10 times the speed of sound above the Pacific Ocean.

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