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Sept 9, 1850.
On this day in history:
- 490 b.c. Battle of Marathon (race derived from).
- 1776 Second Continental Congress renames the 'United Colonies' to 'The United States'.
- 1836 Abraham Lincoln receives license to practice law.
- 1919 Boston's police force goes on strike. Some 1,500 men.
- 1926 National Broadcasting Company is formed by RCA.
- 1945 The Japanese surrender to China.
- 1950 Sal Maglie (New York Giants) pitched a fourth consecutive shutout.
- 1956 Elvis Presley gyrates on Ed Sullivan, scandalizing the nation.
- 1957 The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction was signed into law by Eisenhower.
- 1947 The first 'computer bug' is discovered. "First bug discovered in Computer Software Program when operators at the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory traced an error in the Mark II Computer to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book September 9th 1945." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:H96566k.jpg
- 1960 Hurricane Donna hits Florida
- 1965 Hurricane Betsy floods New Orleans.
- 1986 Ted Turner presented the first of his colorized films on WTBS in Atlanta, GA.
- 1998 Viagra!
- 2008 The iTunes Music Store reached 100 million applications downloaded.
- 2009 The iTunes Music Store reached 1.8 billion applications downloaded.
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On this day in history:
- 490 b.c. Battle of Marathon (race derived from).
- 1776 Second Continental Congress renames the 'United Colonies' to 'The United States'.
- 1836 Abraham Lincoln receives license to practice law.
- 1919 Boston's police force goes on strike. Some 1,500 men.
- 1926 National Broadcasting Company is formed by RCA.
- 1945 The Japanese surrender to China.
- 1950 Sal Maglie (New York Giants) pitched a fourth consecutive shutout.
- 1956 Elvis Presley gyrates on Ed Sullivan, scandalizing the nation.
- 1957 The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction was signed into law by Eisenhower.
- 1947 The first 'computer bug' is discovered. "First bug discovered in Computer Software Program when operators at the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory traced an error in the Mark II Computer to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book September 9th 1945." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:H96566k.jpg
- 1960 Hurricane Donna hits Florida
- 1965 Hurricane Betsy floods New Orleans.
- 1986 Ted Turner presented the first of his colorized films on WTBS in Atlanta, GA.
- 1998 Viagra!
- 2008 The iTunes Music Store reached 100 million applications downloaded.
- 2009 The iTunes Music Store reached 1.8 billion applications downloaded.
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Let's keep it clean folks.
