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This Day in History | 1775 The U.S. postal system is established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster general. Franklin...
This Day in History | 1978 Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first baby to be conceived via in vitro fertilization is born in Manchester, England. Good...
This Day in History | 1969 Apollo 11, the U.S. spacecraft that had taken the first astronauts to the surface of the moon, safely returns to...
This Day in History | 1885 Civil War hero and former president Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer shortly after completing his memoirs with the...
This Day in History |1969 Astronaut Neil Armstrong, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: “That’s one small step for man,...
This Day in History | 1799 A French soldier discovers the Rosetta Stone near Alexandria Egypt. The irregularly shaped stone contained passages written in Greek, Egyptian...
This Day in History | 1940 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as America’s 32nd president, is nominated for an unprecedented third term....
This Day in History | 1955 Disneyland, Walt Disney’s metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy and futurism, opens. The $17 million theme park was built on 160 acres...
This Day in History | 1945 The Manhattan Project comes to an explosive end as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico....
This Day in History | 2006 The San Francisco-based podcasting company Odeo officially releases Twttr—later changed to Twitter—its short messaging service (SMS) for groups, to the...
