today, way back when

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1690 Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money

1799 Metric system established in France

1864 General Shermans armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins


1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)

1906 Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
 
1915 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled
 
1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson
 
1927 Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville
 
1931 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
 
1950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
 
1964 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr
 
1965 The Grateful Dead played their first concert, at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.


1967 Singer Otis Redding died at age 26 in the crash of his private plane in Wisconsin.

1984 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
 
1985 Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress
 
1995 Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours
 
2002 Former President Jimmy Carter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomacy in the Middle East in the 1970s.


2007 Former Vice President Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize

2007 NFL star Michael Vick was sentenced by a federal judge in Richmond, Va., to 23 months in prison for bankrolling a dogfighting operation and killing dogs that underperformed.