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On this day in . . .


1349, 6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz, accused to be the cause of the plague

1609, Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay

1789, William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn

1830, the passenger-carrying train locomotive Tom Thumb was demonstrated for the first time at Baltimore, MD. It was the first locomotive of its kind built in America

1898, Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola"

1907, United Parcel Service had its beginnings as the American Messenger Co. of Seattle

1922, the first commercial to be broadcast on radio was heard on WEAF in New York City. Announcer H.M. Blackwell spoke about Hawthorne Court, a group of apartment buildings in Queens, New York. The Queensboro Realty Company, of Jackson Heights, bought what was called Toll Broadcasting. WEAF, owned by AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph, in those days) sold their block programming, five one-minute programs, one a day for five days, for $50 plus long-distance toll fees. The Queensboro Realty Company paid $100 for 10 minutes of commercial airtime

1924, Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union

1943, during World War II: In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi , ym"sh, occupation is started

1963, 200,000 people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial

1968, police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic national convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president

1971, the dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time

1973, more than 600 people died as an earthquake shook central Mexico

1983, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, reportedly despondent over the death of his wife and the rising casualty toll of Israeli troops in Lebanon, announced his resignation

1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party

1996, Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales are divorced

1997, after nearly a year of legal challenges, California's affirmative action ban, Proposition 209, finally became law. ALSO: U.S. troops became more deeply embroiled in a violent power struggle among Bosnian Serbs, firing tear gas and warning shots to fend off rock-hurling Serb mobs

1998, President Clinton, speaking in Oak Bluffs, Mass., said he'd become such an expert in asking forgiveness in recent days that it was now "burned in my bones." But he still stopped short of offering a direct apology for the Monica Lewinsky affair

2003, practitioners of that "religion of peace" claiming to be holding two French journalists in Iraq gave France 48 hours to overturn the law banning the wearing of Islamic head scarves in schools. (The reporters, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, were released in December 2004.)

2006, prosecutors in Colorado abruptly dropped their case against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the crime scene despite his repeated insistence he'd killed the 6-year-old beauty queen

2008, U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the presumed Republican nominee for president, chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate

2011, Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage

2013, U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who admitted to killing 13 people and wounding many others at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009, was sentenced to death

2014, comedian Joan Rivers was rushed to New York's Mount Sinai Hospital after she suffered cardiac arrest at a doctor's office where she'd gone for a routine outpatient procedure (Rivers died a week later at age 81). AND: Acknowledging he "didn't get it right" with a two-game suspension for Ravens running back Ray Rice, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced tougher penalties for players accused of domestic violence, including six weeks for a first offense and at least a year for a second

2016, six scientists completed a yearlong Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they emerged after living in a dome in near isolation on a Mauna Loa mountain


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