Miranda Mattson The Paw Print
1345 – The alignment of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars was thought to have caused a plague epidemic.
1814 – The Netherlands have a new monarch, Prince Willem Frederik.
1852 – Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is published in Boston.
1868 – In Russelville, Kentucky, the Jesse James Gang steals $14,000 from a bank.
1885 – The Shoe Lacing Machine is patented by John Matzeliger from Suriname.
1911 – On Broadway, in New York City, the Winter Gar- den Theater opens.
1920 – A plane flies from London to South Africa for the first time, and it took one-and-a-half months.
1933 – The first Nazi concentration camp, Dachau, was completed.
1944 – In Italy, Mount Vesuvius erupts.
1954 – In Columbia, Pennsylvania, the first newspaper vending machine is put to use.
1963 – In New York City, the first “pop art” exhibition opens.
1982 – The song “I Love Rock and Roll” by Joan Jett and the Black Hearts officially goes #1 for seven straight weeks.
1984 – An amendment to allow spoken prayer in public schools is rejected by the Senate.
1987 – AZT, AIDS treatment, is approved for sale by the FDA.
1990 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s number “33” jersey is re- tired by the Los An
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