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Misc. History
1793 - The Louvre Museum, in Paris, opened to the public for the first time.
1887 - Doc Holliday died at the age of 35. The gun fighting dentist died from tuberculosis in a sanitarium in Glenwood Springs, CO.
1933 - The Civil Works Administration was created by executive order by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The organization was designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed people in the U.S.
1942 - During World War II, Operation Torch began as U.S. and British forces landed in French North Africa.
1956 - After turning down 18,000 names, the Ford Motor Company decided to name their new car the "Edsel," after Henry Ford's only son.
1964 - Judy Garland and her daughter, Liza Minnelli appeared together at the London Palladium.
1967 - John Lennon's "How I Won the War" opened in the U.S. It was the first solo movie by a Beatle.
1995 - Michael Jackson and Sony Corp. of America combined forces and created the world's third-largest music publishing company with more than 100,000 titles.
| A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast. - Groucho Marx |
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