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- Some Interesting Historic Events
- on This Unusual Date:
1504 ~ Christopher Columbus used a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians.
1692 ~ The Salem Witch Trials began...
1904 ~ Theodore Roosevelt appointed a seven-man committee to study the proposed Panamá Canal.
1908 ~ The announcement of the liquefaction of helium, by physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, the Netherlands.
1940 ~ For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award (Best Supporting Actress). Gone with the Wind won an additional seven Oscars.
1960 ~ An earthquake destroyed much of Agadir, Morocco, killing 12,000 people.
1960 ~ Hugh Hefner opened the first of his Playboy clubs, in Chicago, USA.
1968 ~ Jocelyn Bell (now Jocelyn Bell Burnell), one of Britain's leading astronomers, announced her discovery on the 24th, of the 'pulsar'.
1984 ~ Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau resigned.
1988 ~ The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu, was arrested for demonstrating outside parliament, in defiance of a ban on political activity.
