Thursday, February 5, 2026


Tomorrow in
Misc. History


1815 - The state of New Jersey issued the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.

1926 - The National Football League adopted a rule that made players ineligible for competition until their college class graduated.

1943 - Frank Sinatra made his debut as vocalist on radio's "Your Hit Parade."

1959 - The U.S., for the first time, successfully test-fired a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile from Cape Canaveral.

1971 - NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used a six-iron that he had brought inside his spacecraft and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon.

1985 - The French mineral water company, Perrier, debuted its first new product in 123 years. The new items were water with a twist of lemon, lime or orange.


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