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1968 was a good year

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Principality of Liechtenstein Is Created (1719)
Occupying 62 square miles (160 sq km) between Switzerland and Austria, Liechtenstein was formed when the Austrian family of the same name purchased the lordships of Schellenberg and Vaduz in the Holy Roman Empire. It became fully independent in 1866. Today, the tiny mountainous country has no airport, no military, and very little crime. It is best known for its financial industry but is also a leading producer of sausage casings and false teeth.

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Serial Killer Ted Bundy Is Executed (1989)
In December 1977, Ted Bundy escaped from jail in Colorado—for the second time—and fled to Florida. There, he resumed a streak of murders that he had begun in 1974, killing 12-year-old Kimberly Leach, among others. He was soon re-arrested, convicted of several murders, and sentenced to death. In an effort to avoid execution, Bundy confessed to numerous killings and promised to reveal more information in time. Despite this, he was executed in 1989.

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Grand Rapids, Michigan, Becomes First US City to Fluoridate Its Water (1945)
Around 1901, dentist Frederick McKay began to research why many Colorado residents' teeth were stained brown yet were also cavity-free. The culprit, as it turned out, was fluoride. Though it can discolor teeth in large doses, fluoride also prevents decay. Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first US city to experiment with adding fluoride to its water supply. The rate of cavities plummeted, and fluoridation became a national health policy.

I live in the part of Ohio that was originally the "Connecticut Western Reserve". Much of the land here was given by the State of Connecticut to their veterans of the Revolutionary War as compensation for unpaid wages. 

On July 4 of this year, one of our town's celebrations of America's Semi Quincentennial (250th Anniversary) will be to lay wreaths on the three Revolutionary War Veterans' Graves in our town cemetery. 

1755 Moscow University is established by Elizabeth of Russia and founded by Mikhail Lomonosov on Tatiana Day

1819 University of Virginia chartered by Commonwealth of Virginia, with Thomas Jefferson one of its founders

1858 Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" is first played at the wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter, Princess Victoria, and the Crown Prince of Prussia

1863 General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac

1875 Anti-slavery society forms in New York(good to see they figured out what the "Late Unpleasantness" was all about)

1881 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.

1904 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania

1915 Transcontinental telephone service officially inaugurated as Alexander Graham Bell in NYC calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco, California during the Panama–Pacific International Exposition

1919 The Hotel Pennsylvania, at the time the world's largest, opens in Manhattan, across Seventh from Pennsylvania Station and Madison Square Garden; closed 2020, demolished 2022-23

1924 1st Winter Olympic Games open in Chamonix, France

1939 1st nuclear fission experiment (splitting of a uranium atom) in the US, in basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University by a team including Enrico Fermi

1945 Grand Rapids, Michigan, becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water

1950 73°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January

1955 Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years

1960 Wilt Chamberlain scores 58 points, the most ever by an NBA rookie, as Philadelphia Warriors beat Detroit Pistons, 127-117 at Bethlehem, PA

1961 First live, nationally televised presidential news conference, held by JFK

1964 The Beatles get their first US #1, "I Want to Hold Your Hand"

1970 Dark comedy film "M*A*S*H", directed by Robert Altman, starring Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, and based on novel by Richard Hooker, premieres

1971 Charles Manson and three female followers are convicted of the Tate-LaBianca murders

1971 Philadelphia Mint's first trial strike of the Eisenhower dollar

1974 Ray Kroc, CEO of McDonald's buys San Diego Padres baseball team for $12 million

1979 First documented case of a robot killing a human in the US (I knew the bastages were up to no good)

1980 Paul McCartney is released from jail after his detention for pot possession in Tokyo, Japan, and is deported (Damn Hippies)

1981 Super Bowl XV, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA: Oakland Raiders beat Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10; MVP: Jim Plunkett, Oakland, QB

1990 Avianca Flight 052 runs out of fuel and crashes into a hillside at Cove Neck, New York, killing 8 of the 9 crew members and 65 of the 149 passengers on board

1993 Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years

1998 Super Bowl XXXII, Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, CA: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers, 31-24