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Events

• President Lincoln signed the National Currency Act, establishing a national banking system and uniform currency– 1863
• Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona was established– 1919
• Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming is established– 1929
• Groundbreaking ceremony for Golden Gate Bridge took place in San Francisco, California– 1933
• Spelling Bee, the first quiz show, aired on television– 1940
• NASA announced that Venus is about 800 degrees F– 1963
• Buffalo Creek disaster: 50 foot wall of water smashed down a narrow valley when a dam broke in Logan County, West Virginia– 1972
• Michael Jackson’s Thriller album hit number 1 on Billboard 200 chart and remained there for 37 weeks– 1983
• Robert Penn Warren named U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry– 1986
• A powerful bomb exploded in an underground parking lot of the World Trade Center in NYC, killing 6 people– 1993
• Canada’s GEODESIC mission launched in to northern lights, Alaska– 2000
• First sextuplets to be born in Ohio (Akron)– 2004
• At age 82, Christopher Plummer became the oldest Oscar winner after receiving the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Beginners– 2012