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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Sesame Street Premieres (1969)
Today, Sesame Street is an American institution. However, at the time of its debut, the show was revolutionary. Developed by the Children's Television Workshop, Sesame Street was the first educational children's show to base its content on laboratory research. Much of that research went into determining what would capture the attention spans of young viewers, and Muppets—such as Elmo and Oscar the Grouch—were found to be particularly effective.

Just repeatedly taser the POS the hell with the electric chair

Today is the Marine Corps' 250th birthday. Leathernecks are really into the Corps' birthday, so if you know one, wish them a happy Marine Corps birthday.

My dad always remembered it and I wanted to share this with @Cincydawg

1439 Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament

1799 Andrew Ellicott makes the first known record of a meteor shower observation in the U.S, from a ship off the coast of Florida Keys

1847 Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anesthetic

1859 Jules Leotard performs the first flying trapeze circus act in Paris; he also designs the garment that bears his name

1885 Montreal & Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game

1910 First possible movie stunt: A man jumps into the Hudson River from a burning balloon

1919 Ross and Keith Smith start a one-month flight from London to Australia

1920 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis elected first baseball commissioner by team owners

1923 Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to seize power during "Beer Hall Putsch" coup(what I'd like to know is who sprung bail for the A-Hole)

1927 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, paving the way for Joseph Stalin to consolidate complete power(another A-Hole)

1932 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion

1933 Hugh Gray takes the first known photo of the so-called Loch Ness monster

1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese naval forces in the Solomon Islands; US forces prevail after days of intense fighting

1942 The SS Robert E. Peary, a Liberty ship built in 4 days and 15.5 hours at Henry J. Kaiser's Richmond Shipyard #2, is launched, setting a new record


1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released

1948 Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal

1955 Doc and Marty McFly are sent "Back to the Future" when lightning strikes the Hill Valley clock tower at exactly 10:04 pm, generating the power to send the DeLorean and Marty back to 1985 [fictional]

1956 The largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, is first sighted

1964 Paula Murphy sets a female land speed record of 226.37 mph 

1966 Buzz Aldrin takes the first 'space selfie' during the Gemini 12 mission in 1966

1967 Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7

1970 Cleveland Cavaliers notch 1st NBA victory, in their 16th game, beating the Trail Blazers 105-103, in Portland, Oregon

1974 A salmon is discovered in the River Thames, England, for the first time since 1833

1980 NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana

1981 First balloon crossing of the Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)

1988 First commercial bungy jumping company begins operating near Queenstown, New Zealand

1988 Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)

1990 "The Body Bag Game" - after Eagles coach Buddy Ryan threatens beating Redskins so badly "they'll have to be carted off in body bags" the Eagles defense score 3 touchdowns winning 28–14, knocking 8 Redskins out of the game

1990 The World Wide Web is first proposed by CERN computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau

2003 Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world record for commercial railway systems with a speed of 311 mph

Next tim I'll leave a 

1775 American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal

1789 In a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, Benjamin Franklin writes "in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes"

1839 Last bull run in Britain as the Stamford bull run ends after 700 years

1856 The Great Bell of Big Ben first chimes at the foot of the still-unfinished clock tower outside the Palace of Westminster

1907 French bicycle maker Paul Cornu flies the first twin-rotor helicopter, lifting 1.5 m (5 ft) off the ground for 20 seconds

1927 New York - New Jersey Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens

1937 NBC forms the first full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio

1940 Walt Disney's animated film "Fantasia," starring Leopold Stokowski, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Mickey Mouse, and ballet-dancing hippopotamuses, premieres at the Broadway Theatre, NYC

1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal near Gibraltar

1946 Scientist Vincent Schaefer produces the first artificial snow by dropping pellets of dry ice from an airplane into a supercooled cloud over Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts

1954 Dentist Fred Slack invents false fingernails after cutting his nail at work and creating an artificial nail using dental acrylic resin and aluminum foil

1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children in Amude, Spain

1967 Carl Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland, Ohio)

1968 As a rookie, future Basketball Hall of Fame forward Elvin Hayes scores 54 points in San Diego Rockets' 122-120 win over Detroit Pistons, a career-high

1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens in Washington, D.C., featuring the names of over 58,000 US soldiers killed or missing in the Vietnam War

1983 Alvin "Junior" Samples, American comedian and country singer (Hee Haw), dies of a heart attack at 57

1986 US President Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran

1995 "GoldenEye", 17th James Bond film released, starring Pierce Brosnan for the first time

2001 War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.

2016 Leon Russell, American musician and singer-songwriter (Carny), dies at 74

2017 First Barbie doll to wear a hijab, modeled on Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad unveiled in New York 🤮

2017 World's earliest winemaking is uncovered in Khramis Didi Gora, Georgia, in clay pots from 6,000 BC

2020 Paul Hornung, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1956, Notre Dame; Pro Bowl 1959, 60; Green Bay Packers), dies from dementia complications at 84

2021 Sam Huff, American College / Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker (5 x Pro Bowl; First-team All-Pro 1958, 59; NY Giants, Washington Redskins), dies from dementia complications at 87

2022 Four Idaho university students stabbed and killed in their home in Moscow, Idaho. Suspect Bryan Kohberger arrested seven weeks later.

2023 Kenya holds its first national tree-planting holiday, aiming to plant 100 million trees as part of a climate change initiative to plant 15 billion trees by 2032

2024 World's largest coral, larger than a blue whale and 300 years old, is found off the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean