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Posted: Sep 3, 2014 - 6:24am
1895 – John Brallier became the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12-0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.

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Posted: Sep 1, 2014 - 6:48am
1939—Germany invades Poland. With 1.5M troops, and huge array of armor and ordnance, Blitzkrieg, or lightning war, is coined to describe Germany's use of "shock and awe".

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Posted: Sep 1, 2014 - 6:45am
1873—San Francisco. Cable cars begin service

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Posted: Aug 29, 2014 - 6:07am
1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

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Posted: Aug 29, 2014 - 6:05am
1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

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Posted: Aug 29, 2014 - 6:04am
1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.

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Posted: Aug 28, 2014 - 9:38am
1950-Ron Guidry was born, one of the few Yankees I like, others being Jeter, Rivera, Ruth and some others, mostly their home grown guys, not the buy a bats/pitchers. Ruth gets a pass.

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Posted: Aug 28, 2014 - 6:19am
1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech

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Posted: Aug 28, 2014 - 6:16am
1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.

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Posted: Aug 27, 2014 - 6:08am
1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.

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Posted: Aug 27, 2014 - 6:08am
1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.

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Posted: Aug 27, 2014 - 6:07am
1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.

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Posted: Aug 25, 2014 - 6:40am
& Born to Run was released 1975

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Posted: Aug 25, 2014 - 6:39am
1918—Leonard Bernstein is born.

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Posted: Aug 25, 2014 - 6:03am
2012 – Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.

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Posted: Aug 25, 2014 - 6:02am
1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.

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Posted: Aug 24, 2014 - 3:56pm
Proclivities wrote: Thanks, Obama deGrasse Tyson.

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Posted: Aug 24, 2014 - 3:54pm
Red_Dragon wrote: 2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet. Thanks, Obama deGrasse Tyson.

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Posted: Aug 24, 2014 - 10:07am
2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.

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Posted: Aug 24, 2014 - 10:05am
1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.

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