TODAY IN HISTORY historyorb 1797 - Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He cant sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil! 1870 - The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States. 1896 - 1st movie theater in US opens, charging 10 cents for admission 1916 - Cleveland Indians experiment with #s on their jerseys (one game) 1934 - FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions 1938 - Cin Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader 1948 - US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin 1952 - Nelson Mandela & 51 others infringe South Africa curfew 1964 - Beatles release A Hard Days Night album 1974 - The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigleys chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio 1975 - Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. 1977 - Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, the last performance of his career 1989 - Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty 1993 - Late Night with David Letterman airs for last time on NBC-TV 1993 - The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait. 1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment 2008 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the ban on handguns in the District of Columbia is unconstitutional.
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