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Misc. History
Misc. History
1774 - The First Continental Congress of the U.S. adjourned in Philadelphia.
1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000.
1905 - Norway gained independence from Sweden.
1949 - U.S. President Harry Truman raised the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour.
1951 - Winston Churchill became the prime minister of Great Britain.
1975 - Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to officially visit to the United States.
1990 - Wayne Gretzky became the first NHL player to reach 2,000 points.
| This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli, upon reading a young physicist's paper |
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