On This Day

Mr. Shaman

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1876: Thomas Edison patents mimeograph.

1918: 6 U.S. soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France; Alvin York is given command & shoots 20 Germans & captures 132 more.

1940: Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks.

1955: Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy.

1963: Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie"; radio stations label it obscene.

1966: Beatles' release "Revolver".

1973: VP Spiro T. Agnew branded as "damned lies" reports he took kickbacks from govt contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign.
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1974: President Richard M Nixon announced he'd resign his office.

1988: Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9-year-war.

1991: Carlos Santana pleads no contest to marijuana possession charge.

2009: Sonia Sotomayor made history today when she was sworn in as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justicehttps://www.houseofpolitics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8136.
 
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