History Today

In 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed.

In 1991, Magic Johnson announced he had HIV and retired from the NBA.

In 1966, John Lennon had a chance encounter with Yoko Ono.

In 2000, the US Presidential race turned into a long waiting game and introduced the term ‘hanging chad’ into our national lexicon.
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In 1869, Rutgers and the school that would become known as Princeton played what is recognized as the first collegiate football game.

In 1906, US President Theodore Roosevelt became the first president to make an official diplomatic tour outside of the continental United States.

In 1995, Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell stunned the city of Cleveland when he announced he had reached an agreement to move the team to Baltimore.

In 1993, Fan Man crashed the party during the Evander Holyfield / Riddick Bowe Heavyweight Title fight in Las Vegas
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In 1605, the Gunpowder Plot was discovered.

In 1998, the journal Nature published a report that DNA testing had confirmed that a member of Thomas Jefferson’s family had fathered a child with Sally Hemings.

In 1994, George Foreman won the heavyweight title at age 45.

In 1872, Susan B. Anthony voted.
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In 1922, the steps to the burial room for King Tutankhamun were uncovered by a team of Egyptian excavators led by British archaeologist Howard Carter.

In 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated following a peace rally in Tel Aviv.

In 1979, the US Iranian Hostage Crisis began when 66 American men and women were taken hostage in Tehran.

In 1960, primatologist Jane Goodall witnessed a chimpanzee strip leaves from a straw stick and then insert it into a termite mound to extract the insects inside.
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In 1957, Laika became the first living creature

In 1962, a meeting in a New York hotel bar set in motion what would become Fantasy Football.

In 1948, the Chicago Tribune misprinted 'Dewey defeats Truman' in their morning edition.

In 2024, music producer Quincy Jones died at the age of 91.

In 1993, inventor Leon Theremin died at the age of 97.

(Theremin musician: Carolina Eyck)

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