Posts Tagged ‘History’

1827 – Composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna, Austria, at age 56.

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1874 – Poet Robert Frost is born in San Francisco.

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1917 – The Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. team to win the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Canadiens.

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1982 – Ground breaking in Washington, DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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2000 – Vladimir Putin is elected president of Russia.

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1634 – Maryland founded by settlers sent by Lord Baltimore.

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1932 –  American writer Flannery O’Connor born.

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1965 – ev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to African-Americans.

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1996 – The redesigned $100 bill was introduced.

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2184 – Pavel Chekov is born

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