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Posted: Jun 16, 2025 - 6:58am
1977 â Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL), by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.

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Posted: Jun 16, 2025 - 6:57am
1961 â While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.

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Posted: Jun 16, 2025 - 6:54am
1911 â IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.

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Posted: Jun 16, 2025 - 6:53am
1884 â The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.

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Posted: Jun 16, 2025 - 6:53am
1824 â A meeting at Old Slaughter's coffee house in London leads to the formation of what is now the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).

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Posted: Jun 15, 2025 - 9:05am
1878 â Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.

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Posted: Jun 14, 2025 - 10:16am
kurtster wrote: The US Army was established 250 years ago today. And shamefully disgraced just a few days ago.

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Posted: Jun 14, 2025 - 10:16am
kurtster wrote: Not true as Pluto was still a planet then. It was until 2006. Revisionist history. Until it passed Pluto it was still in the central Solar System. Fail. Attention whore.

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Posted: Jun 14, 2025 - 10:11am
The US Army was established 250 years ago today.

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Posted: Jun 14, 2025 - 5:42am
1954 â U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.

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Posted: Jun 14, 2025 - 5:39am
1822 â Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.

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Posted: Jun 13, 2025 - 9:50pm
Red_Dragon wrote: 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune. Not true as Pluto was still a planet then. It was until 2006. Revisionist history. Until it passed Pluto it was still in the central Solar System. Fail. Attention whore.

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Posted: Jun 13, 2025 - 7:16am
1983 â Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.

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Posted: Jun 13, 2025 - 7:15am
1967 â U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Posted: Jun 13, 2025 - 7:14am
1966 â The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their Fifth Amendment rights before questioning them (colloquially known as "Mirandizing").

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Posted: Jun 12, 2025 - 7:36am
1967 â The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws that prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.

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Posted: Jun 12, 2025 - 7:34am
1942 â Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

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Posted: Jun 12, 2025 - 7:32am
1817 â The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by Karl von Drais.

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Posted: Jun 11, 2025 - 7:46am
1936 â Inventor Edwin Armstrong demonstrates FM broadcasting to an audience of engineers at the FCC in Washington, DC.

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