| Today in History |
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1986 ‐
US Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money
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1967 ‐
Beatles' "Penny Lane" single goes #1
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1948 ‐
Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in first sign of Tito-Stalin split
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1891 ‐
Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone
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1850 ‐
Henry Wells & William Fargo form American Express in Buffalo
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1813 ‐
David Melville, Newport, Rhode Island, patents apparatus for making coal gas
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1781 ‐
French astronomer Charles Messier rediscovers global cluster M92
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1766 ‐
Britain repeals the Stamp Act, which had caused outrage in colonial America and helped lead to the American Revolution
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