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1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine

1521 Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church for refusing to recant parts of his Ninety-Five Theses, which started the Protestant Reformation

1777 General George Washington's Revolutionary Army defeats British forces at the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey

1852 First Chinese immigrants arrive in Hawaii

1861 US Fort Pulaski and Fort Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia

1870 Construction begins on New York's Brooklyn Bridge

1872 First patent list issued by the US Patent Office

1890 First US college-level dairy school opens at the University of Wisconsin

1920 Boston Red Sox baseball club owner Harry Frazee announces agreement to sell slugger Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 in cash

1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio

1941 Canada and the US acquire air bases in Newfoundland on a 99-year lease

1944 World War II: Top US flying ace Major Pappy Boyington shot down in his Corsair by Japanese Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero (survives as POW)

1945 US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa

1959 Alaska is admitted as the 49th US state

1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro

1967 Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion(but leave alone Pelosi, Finestein and the rest)

1973 A 12-man syndicate led by Michael Burke and George Steinbrenner III buys MLB's New York Yankees from CBS for US$10 million

1977 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computer, Inc.

1993 "The Comeback", QB Frank Reich leads Buffalo Bills back from a 32-point deficit, to defeat the Houston Oilers 41-38 in overtime in a wild card
 playoff game, the greatest comeback ever in NFL history

2007 High profile Miami Dolphins NFL head coach Nick Saban resigns after agreeing to return to college football and take head coaching job at Alabama

2009 The Bitcoin network is created as the first block of the digital currency is mined by a person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto

1521 Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church for refusing to recant parts of his Ninety-Five Theses, which started the Protestant Reformation

It has always fascinated me that the two individuals most responsible for the Protestant Reformation (Martin Luther and Henry VIII) both lived and died thinking of themselves not as founders of a new Religion or sect but as "Good Catholics" who were trying to repair/reform (hence the name Reformation) a church that had lost it's way.


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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Donald Campbell Dies in Water Speed Record Attempt (1967)
Following in the footsteps of his father—record-breaking English racing enthusiast Malcolm Campbell—Donald Campbell set the world speed record on water at 276 mph (445 km/h) in 1964. In 1967, during an attempt to set a new record, Donald's jet-powered boat violently disintegrated over Coniston Water, killing him instantly. Though his teddy bear mascot was found floating among the debris, Donald's body was not recovered until nearly 35 years later.

1754 Columbia University is founded as King's College in New York City

1762 Seven Years' War: Great Britain declares war on Spain & Naples

1780 Snowstorm hits George Washington's army at Morristown, New Jersey

1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government

1903 Topsy the elephant is electrocuted at Luna Park on Coney Island by her owners; the event is filmed by the Edison Manufacturing Company(creeps, shame it didn't backfire into them)

1935 Bob Hope is first heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue"

1974 US President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee

1981 "Red Right 88", trailing 14–12 Clevelands Browns attempt an end zone pass play (Red Right 88) and a game-winning field goal in the final minute, but pass intercepted by Raiders safety Mike Davis and Oakland wins

2000 A day after accepting the head coaching position at the New York Jets, Bill Belichick resigns and moves to the New England Patriots

hated the Raiders back then, due to the super bowl vs my Vikings after the 76 season

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Peter Sutcliffe Charged in the "Yorkshire Ripper" Case (1981)
From 1975 to 1981, the Yorkshire area of England was terrorized by a string of murders. Though hundreds of investigators worked to find the killer, they were hampered by false leads, and the case generated so much paperwork that real clues were buried. After Sutcliffe was arrested for having stolen license plates, police noticed his similarity to the killer.