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The original Famous Birthdays website was created by Edward Morykwas, a Michigan schoolteacher, in 1996. [4] [5] [6]The site was updated to its current format in November 7, 2012, by Evan Britton, [7] who has since described the website as "Wikipedia for Generation Z".
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The driver and 26 children die in one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history. [ 13 ] 1959 – Discoverer 1 , an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit , is launched but fails to achieve orbit.
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1705 – George Frideric Handel's opera Nero premiered in Hamburg. [3]1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for his revolver firearm. [4]1843 – Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet affair.
1657 – The Flushing Remonstrance articulates for the first time in North American history that freedom of religion is a fundamental right. [ 5 ] 1703 – Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which allows Portugal to export wines to England on favorable trade terms.
1973 – In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, before being shot to death by police officers. [30] 1979 – Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the ...
1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair. 1921 – Warren G. Harding , 29th President of the United States , signs the Willis–Campbell Act into law, prohibiting doctors from prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes.