THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
October 16 1860: Grace Bedell, 11, of Westfield, New York, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln suggesting that he could improve his…
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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
October 9 1985: Beatrice Foods unveiled its “Monday Night Winning Lineup” scratch card game, a marketing disaster that soon cost the company about $14…
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October 2 1919: Twenty-eighth President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed. 1925: John Logie Baird performed the first test of…
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September 25 1237: England and Scotland signed the Treaty of York, establishing their common border still in use today. 1911: Ground was broken for…
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September 18 1851: The New York Times began publishing. 1870: Old Faithful Geyser was observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane…
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September 11 1978: Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident, was assassinated in London with a specially modified umbrella that fired a metal pellet with a…
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September 4 1882: Thomas Edison flipped the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan….
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August 28 1937: Toyota Motor Corporation was founded in Tokyo. 1943: Born this day: Major League Baseball player and manager Lou Piniella, and actor-singer…
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August 21 1888: The first successful adding machine was patented by William Seward Burroughs. 1897: Oldsmobile was founded by Ransom E. Olds. 1911: The…
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August 14 1842: The Second Seminole War ended, forcing the Seminoles from Florida to Oklahoma. 1848: Oregon Territory was organized by act of Congress….