ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 

Happy 17th, Honeybear!

1819 - Walt Whitman born in West Hills, Town of Huntington, Long Island

1921 – The Tulsa race riot kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.

2013 – Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.

1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.

1967 – The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.

1938 – In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.

1897 – Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.

1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.

1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.

1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.

2015 – The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum.

1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson launches the Great Society.

1954 - Bill Haley & His Comets' "Rock Around The Clock" is the first Rock N Roll song to reach Number 1 on the charts.

1964 – Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.

2004 – The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.

1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.

 oldviolin wrote: 
Back in my youth I once went to a McDonald's and tried to pay for my lunch with a $100 bill.  The kid at the counter said he wasn't allowed to accept them.  I pointed out the sign to him and gave him a lot of grief about claiming to sell a billion and not being able to break a lousy little hundred, but in the end he got paid largely in quarters.