This date in history

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[HEADING=2]1867[/HEADING]
The United States purchases Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars.
(good buy that one was......... (y))

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$7,000,000 in 1867 is worth $124,398,513.51 **today
$7,000,000 in 1867 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $124,398,513.51 today, an increase of $117,398,513.51 over 154 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 1.89% per year between 1867 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 1,677.12%*.***
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Still a bargain as I see it

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3/31/21
HISTORIC
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3/31/21
HISTORIC
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Finally! (y)

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[HEADING=2]1974[/HEADING]
[Hank Aaron]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/hank-aaron-interview-with-the-former-atlanta-braves-slugger.htm') hits his 715th home run, breaking Babe Ruth's record.

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[HEADING=2]1471[/HEADING]
The Earl of Warwick, who fought on both sides in the War of the Roses, is killed at the Battle of Barnet with the defeat of the Lancastrians.

[HEADING=2]1543[/HEADING]
Bartolome Ferrelo returns to Spain after discovering a large bay in the New World (San Francisco).

[HEADING=2]1828[/HEADING]
The first edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.

[HEADING=2]1860[/HEADING]
The first [Pony Express]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/pony-express') rider arrives in San Francisco with mail originating in St. Joseph, Missouri.

[HEADING=2]1865[/HEADING]
[President Abraham Lincoln]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/abraham-lincoln') is assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth.

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[HEADING=2]1492[/HEADING]
Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spain to find a western route to the Indies.

[HEADING=2]1524[/HEADING]
Present-day New York Harbor is discovered by Giovanni da Verrazzano.

[HEADING=2]1758[/HEADING]
Frances Williams, the first African-American to graduate from a college in the western hemisphere, publishes a collection of Latin poems.

[HEADING=2]1808[/HEADING]
Bayonne Decree by [Napoleon Bonaparte]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/napoleon-bonaparte') of France orders seizure of U.S. ships.

[HEADING=2]1861[/HEADING]
Virginia becomes the eighth state to [secede from the Union]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/secession').

[HEADING=2]1875[/HEADING]
The game "snooker" is invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain.

[HEADING=3]1894[/HEADING]
Nikita S. Khrushchev, Soviet premier is born (1958-64).

[HEADING=2]1929[/HEADING]
Baseball player Babe Ruth and Claire Hodgson, a former member of the Ziegfeld Follies, get married.

[HEADING=2]1969[/HEADING]
Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

[HEADING=2]1970[/HEADING]
Apollo 13--originally scheduled to land on the moon--lands back safely on Earth after an accident.

[HEADING=2]1970[/HEADING]
The Beatles officially break up

[HEADING=2]1676[/HEADING]
Sudbury, Massachusetts is attacked by Indians.

[HEADING=2]1775[/HEADING]
American revolutionaries [Paul Revere ]('http://www.thehistorynet.com/mhq/blmidnightride/index.html')and William Dawes ride though the towns of Massachusetts warning that "the British are coming."

[HEADING=2]1838[/HEADING]
The Wilkes' expedition to the South Pole sets sail.

[HEADING=2]1853[/HEADING]
The first train in Asia begins running from Bombay to Tanna.

[HEADING=2]1861[/HEADING]
Colonel [Robert E. Lee]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/robert-e-lee') turns down an offer to command the [Union armies]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/union-army').

[HEADING=2]1923[/HEADING]
Yankee Stadium opens with Babe Ruth hitting a three-run homer as the Yankees beat the Red Sox 4-1.

[HEADING=2]1942[/HEADING]
[James H. Doolittle]('http://www.thehistorynet.com/ahi/bldoolittle/index.html') bombs Tokyo and other Japanese cities.

[HEADING=2]1943[/HEADING]
Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral [Isoroku Yamamoto]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/lightning-strike-the-secret-mission-to-kill-admiral-yamamoto-and-avenge-pearl-harbor-book-review.htm'), the mastermind of the attack on [Pearl Harbor]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/pearl-harbor'), is shot down by American P-38 fighters.
(y) (y)

[HEADING=2]1983[/HEADING]
A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon.

[HEADING=2]1764[/HEADING]
The English Parliament bans the American colonies from printing paper money.

[HEADING=2]1775[/HEADING]
The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.

[HEADING=2]1782[/HEADING]
The Netherlands recognizes the United States.

[HEADING=2]1887[/HEADING]
Ole Evinrude, inventor of the first successful outboard motor is born.

[HEADING=2]1934[/HEADING]
Shirley Temple appears in her first movie.

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[HEADING=2]1519[/HEADING]
Envoys of Montezuma II attend the first Easter mass in Central America.

[HEADING=2]1800[/HEADING]
The Library of Congress is established in Washington, D.C. with a $5,000 allocation.

[HEADING=2]1805[/HEADING]
U.S. Marines attack and capture the town of Derna in Tripoli from the Barbary pirates.

[HEADING=2]1833[/HEADING]
A patent is granted for the first soda fountain.

[HEADING=2]1898[/HEADING]
[Spain declares war on United States]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/war-of-1898.htm'), rejecting an ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.

[HEADING=2]1915[/HEADING]
Turks of the Ottoman Empire begin massacring the Armenian minority in their country.

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[HEADING=2]1789[/HEADING]
[George Washington]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/george-washington') is inaugurated as the first U.S. president.

[HEADING=2]1803[/HEADING]
The United States doubles in size through the [Louisiana Purchase]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/louisiana-purchase'), which was sold by France for $15 million.

[HEADING=2]1812[/HEADING]
Louisiana is admitted into the Union as a state.

[HEADING=2]1931[/HEADING]
The George Washington Bridge, linking New York City and New Jersey, opens.

[HEADING=2]1945[/HEADING]
[Adolf Hitler]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/adolph-hitler') [commits suicide]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/what-if-hitler-had-not-killed-himself.htm') in his bunker. Karl Donitz becomes his successor.

[HEADING=2]1975[/HEADING]
North Vietnamese troops enter the Independence Palace of South Vietnam in [Saigon ]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/final-fiasco-the-fall-of-saigon.htm')ending the [Vietnam War]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/vietnam-war').

[HEADING=2]1598[/HEADING]
Henry IV signs Treaty of Vervins, ending Spain's interference in France.

[HEADING=2]1776[/HEADING]
France and Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British.

[HEADING=2]1808[/HEADING]
The citizens of Madrid rise up against Napoleon.

[HEADING=2]1863[/HEADING]
[Stonewall Jackson]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/stonewall-jackson') smashes [Joseph Hooker']('http://historynet.wpengine.com/joseph-hooker')s flank at [Chancellorsville]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/battle-of-chancellorsville'), Virginia.

[HEADING=2]1865[/HEADING]
[President Andrew Johnson]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/andrew-johnson') offers a $100,000 reward for the capture of the [Confederate President]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/jefferson-davis')

[HEADING=2]1890[/HEADING]
The Territory of Oklahoma is created.

[HEADING=3]1892[/HEADING]
[Manfred von Richthofen]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/red-baron-world-war-i-ace-fighter-pilot-manfred-von-richthofen.htm') (the Red Baron), German fighter ace of [World War I]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/world-war-i').

[HEADING=2]1919[/HEADING]
The first U.S. air passenger service starts.

[HEADING=2]1941[/HEADING]
Hostilities break out between British forces in Iraq and that country's pro-German faction.

[HEADING=2]1945[/HEADING]
Russian forces take Berlin after 12 days of fierce house-to-house fighting.

[HEADING=2]1970[/HEADING]
Student anti-war protesters at Ohio's Kent State University burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard takes control of campus.

[HEADING=2]1986[/HEADING]
The release of Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer

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[HEADING=2]1494[/HEADING]
Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica, which he names Santa Gloria.

[HEADING=2]1814[/HEADING]
British attack the American forces at Ft. Ontario, Oswego, New York.
[HEADING=2]1818[/HEADING]
Karl Marx, German philosopher (The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital) is born.

[HEADING=2]1821[/HEADING]
[Napoleon Bonaparte ]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/napoleon-bonaparte')dies in exile on the island of St. Helena.

[HEADING=2]1862[/HEADING]
Union and Confederate forces clash at the Battle of Williamsburg, part of the [Peninsular Campaign]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/peninsular-campaign').

[HEADING=2]1912[/HEADING]
Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing.

[HEADING=2]1916[/HEADING]
[U.S. Marines invade the Dominican Republic]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/ask-mhq-marines-in-the-dominican-republic.htm').

[HEADING=2]1943[/HEADING]
Michael Palin, actor and screenwriter (Monty Python's Flying Circus) is born.

[HEADING=2]1945[/HEADING]
Holland and Denmark are liberated from Nazi control.

[HEADING=2]1961[/HEADING]
Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space.

[HEADING=2]1965[/HEADING]
173rd Airborne Brigade arrives in Bien Hoa-Vung, Vietnam, the first regular U.S. Army unit deployed to that country.

[HEADING=2]2000[/HEADING]
The Sun, Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn align - Earth's moon is also almost in this alignment - leading to Doomsday predictions of massive natural disasters, although such a 'grand confluence' occurs about once in every century.