hAPPy iNDEPENdENCE daY sWITZERLAND!
aUGUST 1, 1291 AND aUGUST 1, 1985... wHAT i CONSIDER tWO oF THE gREATEST dAYS iN hISTORY! tHE sWISS foUNDED a cONFEDERATION AND i cAME iNTO THIS woRLD!
hERE aRE SOME oTHER (nOT AS eXCITING) eVENTS tHAT hAPPENED oN THIS DAY!
1994 The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour
1993 Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
1986 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma
1985 Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time
tHE sAME dAY i wAS bORN!!
1982 Greg Louganis, U.S. becomes 1st diver to score 700
1981 MTV premieres at 12:01 AM
1978 Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games
1978 Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak
1976 Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon, Co. on Route 34, kills 139
1976 Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton)
1972 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
1971 Bangladesh refugee concert with George Harrison
1969 Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars
1968 Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins
1964 ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation
1964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," single goes #1
1963 Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
1960 Aretha Franklins 1st recording session
1960 Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"
1959 New Continental baseball league formed
1958 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years)
1953 California introduces sales tax, for education
1936 Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
1933 Death penality for anti fascists in Germany
1927 Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards
1907 Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF
1903 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
1876 Colorado becomes 38th state
1873 San Francisco's 1st cable car begins service
1867 Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South
1838 Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas
1834 Slavery abolished through out the British Empire
1831 London Bridge opens to traffic
1793 France becomes 1st country to use the metric system
1790 1st U.S. census, population of 3,939,214
1789 U.S. Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
1785 Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
1780 Sweden declares neutrality
1291 Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation
...sEE nOT aNYTHING tHAT iNFULENCED hISTORY aS mUCH aS sWITZERlAND aND i DID!
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