Safety officers destroyed it by remote control.ġ988 - The White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule her husband's activities.ġ992 - Five days of rioting and looting ended in Los Angeles, CA. They found that the North Vietnamese had evacuated the area.ġ971 - Anti-war protesters began four days of demonstrations in Washington, DC.ġ971 - National Public Radio broadcast for the first time.ġ971 - James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's assassin, was caught in a jailbreak attempt.ġ986 - In NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff. Marines retook Dai Do complex in Vietnam. Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable.ġ952 - The first airplane landed at the geographic North Pole.ġ966 - The game "Twister" was featured on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.ġ968 - After three days of battle, the U.S. William Doering produced the first synthetic quinine at Harvard University.ġ945 - Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.ġ948 - The U.S. Mint was under the direction of a woman for the first time when Nellie Ross took the position.ġ937 - Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With The Wind."ġ944 - Wartime rationing of most grades of meats ended in the U.S.ġ944 - Dr. Wilde of Meadowmere Park, NY, patented the electric sign flasher.ġ933 - The U.S. Marines landed in Nicaragua and stayed until 1933.ġ926 - In Britain, trade unions began a general strike.ġ927 - Francis E.J. Allen became the first African American to be admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts.ġ888 - Thomas Edison organized the Edison Phonograph Works.ġ916 - Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.ġ921 - West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.ġ926 - The revival of Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" opened in New York.ġ926 - U.S.
1568 - French forces in Florida slaughtered hundreds of Spanish.ġ802 - Washington, DC, was incorporated as a city.ġ855 - Macon B.
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