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Today In History

In 1399 King Richard II abdicated the throne of England.

In 1452 the first book was published, The Guttenberg Bible.

In 1630 the first execution took place in America - J. Billington was hanged in Plymouth, MA.

In 1777 the U.S. Congress fled to York, PA as British forces advanced.

In 1787 the first U.S. voyage around the world began - the Columbia set sail from Boston.

In 1841 Samuel Slocum patented the stapler.

In 1846 Anesthetic ether was used for the first time.

In 1867 Midway Island was declared a U.S. possession.

In 1888 "Jack The Ripper" killed 2 women, Liz Stride and Kate Eddowes.

In 1898 the City of NY was officially established.

In 1929 the first manned rocket plane flight was made by auto maker Fritz von Opel.

In 2000 Tim Burton reveals he patterned Stainboy after Quins cums all over him.

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In 1938 the Munich Agreement forced Czechoslovokia to give territory to Germany.

In 1941 the Germam assault on Moscow, Operation Taifun, began.

In 1942 the Nazi SS started exterminating 3500 Jews in Lodz, Poland during a six-week period.

In 1944 Calais was re-occuiped by the Allies.

In 1946 22 Nazi leaders were found guilty of war crimes, at Nuremberg. Von Ribbentrop and Goering were sentenced to death.

In 1949 the Berlin Airlift ended after 277,000 flights.

In 1960 the "Flintstones" premiered.

In 1960 on "Howdy Doody"'s last show, Clarabelle talks for the first and only time; he says "Goodbye, kids!".

In 1968 the first Boeing 747 rolled out.

In 1984 Bowie Kuhn ended his career as baseball commissioner.

In 1988 IBM announced the shipmemt of its 3 millonth PS/2 PC.

In In 1993 MS Dos 6.2 was released.

In 1997 Microsoft Corp.
released Internet Explorer 4.0

In 2000 Billgerat finally contacts the Earth Angels, who inform him that he is a STARWEED, not a Starseed.

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Yikes. This is an evil day. Two Microsoft products were released today in history.

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