Today's Fact
Honolulu, Hawaii boasts the only royal palace in the UnitedStates of America.


Today In History

1753 - St. David's Day
1781 - Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation
1790 - 1st US census began
1803 - Ohio becomes 17th state
1859 - Present seal of SF adopted (its 2nd)
1864 - Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
1864 - Rebecca Lee becomes 1st black woman MD in US
1867 - Nebraska becomes 37th state
1872 - Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park
1879 - Library of Hawaii founded1919 - Korean independence Demonstrations from Japan begin
1927 - Bank of Italy becomes a Natl Bank
1932 - Charles Lindbergh Jr. kidnapped in NJ; found dead May
1937 - 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Ct)
1947 - Intl Monetary Fund began operations1951 - 22nd amendment limits president to 2 terms
1961 - Pres Kennedy establishes Peace Corps
1966 - Venera 3 becomes 1st manmade object to impact on a planet (Venus)
1969 - Mickey Mantle announces retirement
1970 - End of coml whale hunting in the US
1970 - White govt of Rhodesia declares ind from Britain
1982 - Soviet Venus 13 soft lands on VenusMore