1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.

2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.

1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.

1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.

1581 – The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.

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With much derision and sarcastic laughter from the guys at Encarta...

2001 – Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.

1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.

1938- Allen Toussaint born.


1941 - Dorothy Faye Dunaway born.

1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.

1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.

1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison

1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.

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A day that will live in infamy 

1973 – Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.

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welcome to arizona

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4 years of chaos and mayhem for the entire fricking world. and then, cleopatra.....

1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.

1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.

1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.