1821 – The Philadelphia College of Apothecaries, the first pharmacy college in the U.S., was established.
1839 – William F. Harnden organized the nation’s first express mail service between Boston and New York City.
1886 – Charles M. Hall completed his invention of aluminum, using electricity.
1905 – The Rotary Club was founded in Chicago, IL by Attorney Paul Harris to advance goodwill and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
1927 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill into law that created the Federal Radio Commission, “to bring order out of this terrible chaos,” an effort to regulate the nation’s radio stations. The name was changed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on July 1, 1934.
1945 – During the bloody Battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines from the 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Regiment of the 5th Division mounted the U.S. flag on the crest of Mount Suribachi, the island’s highest peak and most strategic position. Marine photographer Louis Lowery was with them and recorded the event. Joe Rosenthal, a photographer with the Associated Press, met them along the way and recorded the raising of the second flag along with a Marine still photographer and a motion-picture cameraman.
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1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army demanded $4 million more for the release of Patty Hearst. Hearst had been kidnapped on February 4th and her father, publisher William Randolph Hearst, had already given up $2 million. Randolph said he would consider this second request.
1997 – News broke that Dr. Ian Wilmut, of the Roslin Institute in Roslin, Scotland, had cloned an adult mammal in July of 1996 – a sheep named Dolly.
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