On this day :
1887 Helen Keller meets her miracle worker, 1776 Silas Deane embarks on secret mission to France, 2009 Superluxurious Maybach Zeppelin goes on sale, 1865 Freedmans Bureau created, 1952 Supreme Court rules on communist teachers, 1873 Congress bans sending obscene materials through the mail, 1974 Faulty door dooms plane, 1820 Congress passes the Missouri Compromise, 1863 Congress passes Civil War conscription act, 1918 Russia makes a separate peace, 1931 The StarSpangled Banner becomes official, 1991 Police brutality caught on video, 1915 Birth of a Nation opens in New York, 1926 James Merrill is born, 1875 George Bizets Carmen premieres in Paris, 1879 United States Geological Survey created, 1845 Congress overrides presidential veto for first time, 1877 Rutherford B Hayes is inaugurated in a private ceremony, 1875 First indoor game of ice hockey, 1965 US jets bomb Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1971 US 5th Special Forces Group withdraws, 1918 Treaty of BrestLitovsk concluded, 1945 Finland declares war on Germany,
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