THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1630 – Boston enacts law prohibiting gambling 1765 – Brits slap the first direct tax on the colonists with the Stamp Act (it kinda backfired on them) 1904 – The London
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Wednesday – March 20, 2019
THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1841 – Edgar Allen Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue” is published — the first detective story 1852 – “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published1854 – The Republican
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1822 – Boston is incorporated as a city 1918 – Congress authorized Daylight Saving Time 1931 – Nevada legalized gambling 1953 – The Academy Awards were televised for the first time
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1881 – Barnum & Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison Square Garden 1925 – Tri-State tornadoes kill 689, injure 13,000 in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana 1942 – FDR’s government
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 44 – Beware the Ides of March! Caesar is shivved in the Senate house by gang including Marcus Junius Brutus (Et tu, Brute?) 1493 – Columbus returned to Spain
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1900 – The U.S. Currency goes on the gold standard 1950 – FBI debuts the ’10 Most Wanted’ list 1958 – The recording industry awards the first gold record to Perry
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1639 – Cambridge College is renamed Harvard University 1793 – Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin 1852 – In the NY Lantern (a weekly newspaper) — ‘Uncle Sam’ makes his first
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1894 – Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time 1930 – Mohandas Gandhi begins his 241 mile march to protest the British control that outlawed even salt collection /
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1811 – Ned Ludd leads a group of workers protesting ‘mechanization’ — (Ever been called a “Luddite?”) 1930 – President Taft is the first U.S. President buried in Arlington National Cemetery
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1790 – George Washington delivers the first “State of the Union” address 1948 – The Supreme rules religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional 1950 – The USSR claimed to have
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