This Day In History

September 8th

1565  Pedro Menendez de Aviles of the Spanish Navy established the first permanent European settlement in North America in St. Augustine, Florida it is the oldest city in the United States today.
1636  Harvard College becomes the first college founded in America, it was originally called Cambridge College.
1866  The first recorded sextuplets are born (3 boys, 3 girls) to James & Jennie Bushnell in Chicago, Illinois
1900  A hurricane travelling at 120mph kills 6,000 people in Galveston, Texas.  
1917  Eugene Bullard of Columbus, Georgia becomes the first African-American combat aviator
1935  Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr. shoots and kills Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long in the state capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1943  Italy surrenders to the Allies five days after the British Army invaded Calabria.
1966  Star Trek debuts on NBC-TV with its first episode entitled The Man Trap.
1974  US President Gerald R. Ford pardons former president Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he may have committed and defends this actions by explaining that he wanted to end the national divisions created by the Watergate scandal.

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