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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana

Joined September 2009
FEB 28 46BCE - Leap Year is conceptualized by Julius Caesar. - - #history #historynerd #historybuff #historymade... fb.me/6olMI0ZgH
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FEB 25 1836 - Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver. - - #history #historynerd... fb.me/1UsOEXki1
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FEB 24 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar - - #history #historynerd #historybuff... fb.me/3vhTN8FrC
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FEB 22 1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500 - - #history #historynerd #historybuff #historymade... fb.me/6eUrf8BdV
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FEB 20 1792 - The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by... fb.me/7JpoTR5Gg
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FEB 16 1937 - Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon (toothbrush, stockings, etc) - - #history... fb.me/NtE8Vo5x
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JAN 18 1778 - James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the... fb.me/8q08CM22j
JAN 16 2001 - The First surviving wikipedia edit is made. fb.me/5t392txGH
JAN 15 1885 - Benz first petrol driven car fb.me/1Nt8UqZZT
JAN 13 1733 - James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina. fb.me/28SqE8WKz
JAN 11 1935 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California. fb.me/sAo14ixh
JAN 10 1839 - Tea from India 1st arrives in UK fb.me/5nmMP9EIt
JAN 9 1768 - Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in London. fb.me/1FzAaDcVV
JAN 5 1940 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time. fb.me/UCMW9jZn
JAN 4 1865 - The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street... fb.me/10OfOGDMJ
JAN 3 1899 - The first known use of the word automobile, is seen in an editorial in The New York Times. fb.me/8WAxaiG4v
JAN 2 533 - Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy fb.me/1EntOo4O9
JAN 1 1954 - NBC makes the first coast-to-coast NTSC color broadcast fb.me/5aczm3ko8