| Today in History |
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2016 ‐
Philadelphia is the first US city to pass a tax on sweetened drinks
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1979 ‐
Single "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6
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1970 ‐
Race riots in Miami, Florida
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1943 ‐
Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)
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1933 ‐
US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
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1909 ‐
1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
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1903 ‐
Pepsi Cola company forms
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1884 ‐
1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
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1873 ‐
US President Ulysses Grant decrees a portion of Wallowa Valley, Oregon for Nez-Percé Indians; order rescinded two years later and tribe forcibly re-located to Oklahoma
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1858 ‐
Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" accepting Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the Senate
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1784 ‐
Holland forbids the wearing of orange clothes
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1779 ‐
US General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, New York, inflicting heavy losses on the British
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