1832 – The U.S. Congress and President Andrew Jackson made Hot Springs, AR, the first Federal Reservation in order to protect the hot springs flowing from the southwestern slope of Hot Springs Mountain. It became a national park in 1872, and its name was changed to Hot Springs National Park in 1921.
1841 – Edgar Allan Poe published The Murders in the Rue Morgue, generally considered to be the first detective story.
1871 – Congress passed the Third Force Act, which authorized President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law impose heavy penalties against terrorist organizations, and use military force to suppress the Ku Klux Klan.
1893 – Silent screen star Harold Lloyd was born in Burchard, NE.
1902 – French scientists Marie and Pierre Curie successfully isolated radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende in their Paris laboratory.
1961 – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave approval for FM stereo broadcasting.
1999 – Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris unleash a barrage of terror on their high school, Columbine, in Littleton, CO, killing 12 students and a teacher, before killing themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vh_Cq7h_gI
2010 – The Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, caught fire and sank in the Gulf of México, killing 11 men, injuring 17 others and releasing approximately 4.9 million barrels of oil into the water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1eLHGblEww
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