TODAY IN HISTORY 1780 - British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnolds plot to betray West Point 1821 - Fall of Tripolitsa, Greece, massacre of 30.000 Turks. 1862 - Lincolns Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers 1879 - Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone 1889 - Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda. 1897 - 1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming) 1914 - Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves 1938 - Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at Worlds Fair in NYC (capsule contained a womans hat, mans pipe & 1,100 of microfilm) 1942 - The Manhattan Project commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim - to deliver an atomic bomb. 1949 - US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSRs 1st nuclear device detonation 1952 - Richard Nixon makes his Checkers speech 1957 - Thatll Be Day by Buddy Holly & Crickets reaches #1 1962 - ABCs 1st color TV series - The Jetsons 1969 - Northern Star and Illinois Univ newspaper start rumors that Paul McCartney is dead 1977 - Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlies Angels 1979 - Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC 1984 - Sparky Anderson is 1st manager to win 100 games in both leagues 1986 - Congress selects the rose as US national flower 1998 - 32nd Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood & George Strait wins 2002 - The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (Phoenix 0.1) is released. 2012 - 20 Iranian US Visas are denied, including diplomats and two ministers, ahead of the UN general assembly meeting in New York 2012 - Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer
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