ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY IN 1998: FDA approves Viagra; 1775: Jefferson elected to the Continental Congress; 1952: Toyota founder dies; 1865: Lincoln, Sherman and Grant meet; 1990: TV Marti begins broadcasting to Cuba; 1905: Fingerprint evidence is used to solve a British murder case; 1977: Jumbo jets collide at Canary Islands airport; 1912: Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac; 1958: Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier; 1964: Earthquake rocks Alaska; 1973: Marlon Brando declines Best Actor Oscar; 1923: Poet Louis Simpson born; 1979: Pattie Boyd and Eric Clapton are married; 1836: Mexicans execute defeners of Goliad; 1829: Jackson appoints John Eaton as secretary of war and starts scandal; 1939: March Madness is born; 1965: South Vietnamese forces conduct combat operations in Cambodia; 1973: Bombing of Cambodia to continue; 1918: Bessarabia annexed by Romania; 1945: Germans launch last of their V-2s; 1964: The biggest earthquake ever recorded strikes Anchorage, Alaska. It measured 8.3 on the Richter scare. BIZARRE AND UNIQUE HOLIDAYS: National Joe Day
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