On this date in history…

1943 Hallucinogenic effects of LSD discovered

American Revolution

1738 General Sir Henry Clinton is born

Automotive

1946 Arthur Chevrolet commits suicide

Civil War

1863 Union ships pass Vicksburg

Cold War

1947 Bernard Baruch coins the term “Cold War”

Crime

2007 Virginia Tech shooting leaves 32 dead

Disaster

1947 Fertilizer explosion kills 581 in Texas

General Interest

1917 Lenin returns

1947 Texas City explodes

1972 Apollo 16 departs for moon

Hollywood

1889 Charlie Chaplin born

Literary

1922 Kingsley Amis is born

Music

1977 David Soul, of Starsky & Hutch, has the #1 song on the U.S. pop charts

Old West

1881 Bat Masterson’s last shootout

Presidential

1789 Washington leaves Mt. Vernon for his inauguration

Sports

1940 Bob Feller throws no-hitter

Vietnam War

1968 Johnson arrives in Honolulu

1972 United States resumes bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong

World War I

1917 Lenin returns to Russia from exile

World War II

1897 Frederick William Winterbotham, one of Britain’s top code breakers, is born

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