Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag, Dirk!!!!
On this day....
1586 | English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America. |
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1862 | Slavery was outlawed in U.S. territories. |
1903 | Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig was born in New York City. |
1910 | Father's Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Wash. |
1917 | During World War I, King George V changed the British royal family's German-sounding surname, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to Windsor. |
1934 | The Federal Communications Commission was created. |
1961 | The Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring state officeholders to profess a belief in God. |
1964 | The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate. |
1987 | The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creation science as well. |
1999 | Britain's Prince Edward married commoner Sophie Rhys-Jones in Windsor, England. |
2000 | The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, barred officials from letting students lead stadium crowds in prayer before football games. |
2007 | A truck bomb struck a Shiite mosque in central Baghdad, killing at least 87 people. |
2008 |
Democrat Barack Obama announced he would bypass public financing for the presidential election, even though Republican John McCain was accepting it. |