Volume 12 , Issue 18

History of The Past

1985> The Coca-Cola Co. announced it was changing its secret formula for Coke.

1968> Leftist students at Columbia University in New York City began a weeklong occupation of several campus buildings.

1941> The first organ is played at a baseball stadium in Chicago.

1937> The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes.

1929> The first non-stop flight from England to India is completed.

1919> The first U.S. air passenger service starts.

1890> The Territory of Oklahoma is created.

1803> The United States doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase, which was sold by France for $15 million.

1789> George Washington is inaugurated as the first U.S. president.

1789> President-elect George Washington and his wife moved into the first executive mansion, the Franklin House in New York City.

1514> Copernicus makes his first observations of Saturn.

1527> Henry VIII of England and King Francis of France sign treaty of Westminster.
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