Today in History – 1814 – Treaty of Kiel – Denmark gives Norway to Sweden – Denmark keeps Greenland, Iceland and Faroe. 1834 – Jacob Perkins receives British patent for his ice-making machine. 1880 – The Cathedral in Cologne, Germany is finally completed after 632 years of construction. 1893 – The world’s first car registration plates are issued in France with the first driving licenses and parking rules. 1900 – Peking is captured by European forces and US Marines. 1933 – A forest fire in Tillamook, Oregon wipes out 270,000 acres - $200 million in damages. 1935 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, granting an income for the unemployed and retirees. 1936 – The last public execution in America – Rainey Bethea dies for murder of a 70 year old woman. 1945 – A million people flock to times Square, New York to see the news flash: Japan Surrenders. 1985 – Michael Jackson purchased the publishing rights to the vast majority of the Beatles’ catalog for $47 million. 2003 – A major power outage across the eastern United States and parts of Canada affects 50 million people. 2007 – Worst attack by Al-Qaeda in the war – 400 people die as a result of a quadruple suicide bombing.
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