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Misc. History
Misc. History
1858 - In Boston and New York City the first mailboxes were installed along streets.
1876 - "Wild Bill" Hickok was killed (shot from behind) while playing poker in Deadwood, SD. Jack McCall was later hanged for the shooting.
1892 - Charles A. Wheeler patented the first escalator.
1939 - Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the U.S. to have an atomic weapons research program.
1943 - The U.S. Navy patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, sank after being hit by a Japanese destroyer. The boat was under the command of Lt. John F. Kennedy.
1983 - It was designated that the third Monday of January would be a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1990 - Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by OPEC.
1999 - In eastern India, at least 278 people were killed when two trains collided at a station.
| Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. - Pierre Laplace, to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God. |
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