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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 6:26am
Red_Dragon wrote: 1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch. I remember the publicity tour they did with that. It was mounted to the top of a 747 and flown around the country. My dad took me out of school for the day to go look at it.

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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 6:06am
1992 – Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.

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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 6:06am
1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 6:05am
1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 6:04am
1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 6:04am
1807 – The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.

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Posted: Mar 24, 2014 - 6:59am

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1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of petroleum after running aground.

It was a Friday. At the time I was managing the fueling part of a rest plaza on the Ohio Turnpike, and as a BP employee. I got a call from HQ advising me that I was to raise prices across the board by 10¢ per gallon on Saturday morning and another 10¢ on Sunday morning. Back in that time, 10¢ per was a big deal. We were to spread it out over two days to soften the shock.

The Valdez basically hadn't even come to a stop yet and the prices were being jacked up before any real impact was known. It was a turning point in my life regarding / revealing / proving how big oil will exploit any opportunity to make money. At the time, I already had about 50,000 gallons in the ground. Y'all can do the math ...

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Posted: Mar 24, 2014 - 6:30am
1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of petroleum after running aground.

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Posted: Mar 24, 2014 - 6:28am
1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.

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Posted: Mar 24, 2014 - 6:28am
1958 – Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted into the U.S. Army.

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Posted: Mar 23, 2014 - 7:51am
2001 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.

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Posted: Mar 23, 2014 - 7:49am
1989 – Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah.

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Posted: Mar 23, 2014 - 7:48am
1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).

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Posted: Mar 23, 2014 - 7:48am
1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world.

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Posted: Mar 23, 2014 - 7:47am
1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.

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Posted: Mar 23, 2014 - 7:46am
1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.

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Posted: Mar 21, 2014 - 4:34am
1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Posted: Mar 20, 2014 - 6:03am
1916 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.

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Posted: Mar 19, 2014 - 6:10am
1962 – Highly influential artist, Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, on Columbia Records label.

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Posted: Mar 19, 2014 - 6:07am
1931 – Gambling is legalized in Nevada.

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