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Thurgood Marshall Confirmed as First African-American US Supreme Court Justice (1967)
The great-grandson of a slave and the first African American to serve on the US Supreme Court, Marshall was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Civil Rights movement. As a lawyer, he won 29 of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court, including the landmark Brown v. Board of Education and others that established equal protection for African Americans in housing, voting, employment, and education.

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Thomas Edison Patents Kinetoscope in the US (1897)
Developed by Edison's assistant, W.K.L. Dickson, the kinetoscope was a precursor to the modern motion-picture projector. It works through a phenomenon known as "persistence of vision," in which a sequence of images creates the illusion of motion. Initially, Edison hoped to synchronize the images with sound, but he was unable to achieve this. The kinetoscope was designed to be viewed by one person at a time.

1752 Pennsylvania's new State House bell (known today as the Liberty Bell) arrives in Philadelphia from Whitechapel Foundry in London, England

1862 Federal tax levied on tobacco  (so Sin Tax is nothing new evidently)

1894 Wildfire destroys 350,000 acres, including the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, killing over 418 people

1922 New York City law requires all "pool" rooms to change their name to "billiards"

1923 A magnitude 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo and Yokohama in Japan, killing 142,000 people

1931 Future Baseball Hall of Fame 1st baseman Lou Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days & 6th homer in consecutive games in NY Yankees' 5-1 win v Boston Red Sox

1939 World War II starts when Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig

1939 Switzerland proclaims neutrality at the outbreak of WWII

1971 Pittsburgh Pirates start what is believed to be first all-black line-up (including several Latinos) in MLB history‚ in 10-7 win v Philadelphia Phillies; includes future Hall of Famers Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell

1974 The SR-71 Blackbird sets the record for flying from New York to London in 1 hour, 54 minutes, and 56.4 seconds

1978 Last broadcast of "Columbo" starring Peter Falk on NBC

1983 Korean Boeing 747, flight 007, strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet fighters, killing all 269 on board including US congressman Larry McDonald

2007 In one of the biggest upsets in college football history, 109,218 fans see Appalachian State's Corey Lynch block a Jason Gingell 37-yard field goal attempt with 6 seconds remaining to inspire an epic 34-32 win v Michigan at Ann Arbor

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"Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick" (1901)
While speaking at the 1901 Minnesota State Fair, US Vice President Theodore Roosevelt used the proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick." Four days later, President McKinley was shot, and, after McKinley died on the 14th, Roosevelt became president. The statement he made in Minnesota became forever associated with his foreign policy of backing up negotiations with implicit military might, and political cartoons often portrayed him toting the proverbial stick.

"It snowed one to two inches on San Francisco streets in Feb. 5, 1976, dusting the Marin Headlands, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge." (Art Frisch/SF Chronicle)