This Day in History Class
From the desk of “Stuff You Missed in History Class,” “This Day in History Class” quickly recounts a tidbit from today’s events in history.
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On this day in 1866, Native American tribal leader Chief Seattle died at the Suquamish Reservation in Washington.
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On this day in 1892, the first "L" train in Chicago made its inaugural journey through the city.
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On this day in 1887, American anthropologist Ruth Fulton Benedict was born in New York City.
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On this day in 1937, Sylvan Goldman introduced the world’s first shopping cart at his Humpty Dumpty supermarket chain in Oklahoma City.
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On this day in 1888, Ernest Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat” was first published in the San Francisco Examiner.
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On this day in 1859, the world famous Big Ben clock bell rang out over London for the first time.
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On this day in 1593, English playwright Christoper Marlowe was stabbed to death in a London tavern.
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On this day in 1913, Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “The Rite of Spring” made its inauspicious debut at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
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On this day in 1912, 16 women were dismissed from the Curtis Publishing Company for dancing the Turkey Trot on their lunch break.
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On this day in 1986, American inventor Lonnie Johnson received a patent for the iconic Super Soaker water gun.
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On this day in 1900, William H. Carney was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravely defending the American flag during the Civil War.
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On this day in 1570, Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius published the world’s first modern atlas.
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On this day in 1924, two wealthy college students abducted and killed a 14-year-old boy in an effort to commit a “perfect crime.”
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On this day in 1862, the Homestead Act was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
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On this day in 1964, the first Tim Horton Donuts shop opened in Hamilton, Ontario.
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On this day in 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the peak of Mount Everest.
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On this day in 1942, seventeen U.S. states instituted mandatory gasoline rationing.
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On this day in 1961, a small group of Freedom Riders was attacked by a white mob at the Greyhound depot in Anniston, Alabama.
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On this day in 1920, the Socialist Party of America nominated Eugene V. Debs as its presidential candidate.
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