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Here is today’s Historical Daily Run Down.

• In 1585, The Olympic Theatre is inaugurated in Vincenza.
• In 1706, German composer, Johann Pachelbel, dies.
• In 1756, William Godwin, English Writer, is born.
• In 1820, The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
• In 1831, American Inventor George Pullman is born.
• In 1836, Texas celebrates Texas Independence Day.
• In 1845, Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. State.
• In 1847, Scottish-American inventor Alexander Graham Bell is born.
• In 1873, The U.S. Congress enacts the ‘Cornstock Law’.
• In 1875, THe first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada.
• In 1882, Italian Criminal Charles Ponzi is born.
• In 1885, The American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) is incorporated in New York.
• In 1910, J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces that he will devote all of his time to philanthropy.
• In 1915, The NACA, the precursor to the NASA, is founded.
• In 1923, TIME magazine is published for the first time.
• In 1931, The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
• In 1938, Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
• In 1943, 173 People are killed while trying to enter the Bethnal Green tube station in London, England.
• In 1959, American Radio Host Ira Glass was born.
• In 1959, American actor and comedian Lou Costello dies.
• In 1969, NASA launches Apollo 9.
• In 1982, American Actress Jessica Biel was born.
• In 1991, An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King.

Look for more current news later and another Historical Daily Run Down next week.

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