Saturday, January 2, 2010

Today in History

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1800 Free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave

1811 US Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US)

1890 Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer

1890 Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny

1960 Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president

1965 The New York Jets signed University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath for a reported $400,000.

1968 - Newark, NJ, police confiscated a shipment of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's album "Two Virgins". The album featured a nude cover.

2008 Oil prices soared to $100 a barrel for the first time.

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