On this day :
1873 Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans, 1778 Battle of Barren Hill Pennsylvania, 1995 Street in front of the White House closed to traffic, 1862 Union Congress passes the Homestead Act, 1956 United States drops hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll, 2005 Mary Kay Letourneau marries former victim, 1965 Plane crashes at Cairo airport, 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India, 1506 Christopher Columbus dies, 1862 The Homestead Act, 1927 Spirit of St Louis departs, 1969 Battle for Hamburger Hill ends, 1996 Supreme Court defends rights of homosexuals, 2007 The Simpsons airs 400th episode, 1946 WH Auden becomes a US citizen, 1998 Frank Sinatra is laid to rest, 1873 Levi Strauss patents copperriveted jeans, 1862 Lincoln signs Homestead Act, 1989 Sunday Silence wins Preakness by a nose, 1953 French see light at the end of the tunnel in Vietnam, 1969 Kennedy criticizes the Hamburger Hill battle, 1915 British renew attacks in Battle of Festubert, 1940 Germans break through to English Channel at Abbeville France,
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