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On this day in . . .


1777, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day

1779, John Adams was named by Congress to negotiate the Revolutionary War's peace terms with Britain

1821, Mexico gains its independence from Spain

1822, Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone

1825, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains. The north-eastern England route was 26 miles (40 km) long

1854, the steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean

1903, the Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name

1905, the physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc2

1908, the first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit

1922, King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II

1928, the Republic of China is recognized by the United States

1938, ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow

1939, during World War II: Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II

1940, during World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy

1941, the SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships

1956, USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed

1964, the Warren Commission releases its report, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy

1977, the 300 metre tall CKVR-TV transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed

1979, the United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency

1994, more than 350 Republican congressional candidates gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to sign the "Contract with America," a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House

1995, American government unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center

2001, President George W. Bush asked the nation's governors to post National Guard troops at airports as a first step toward federal control of airline security.

2003, U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin said they would join forces to oppose nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea

2016, the United States provided another $364 million in humanitarian aid to Syrians as their nation’s civil war appeared to be getting worse. ALSO: Scientists announced the first baby born from a controversial new technique that combined DNA from three people --- the mother, the father and an egg donor. (The goal was to prevent the child from inheriting a fatal genetic disease from his mother.)


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