At Sand Creek, Colorado, in 1864, Major Chivington's Militia attacked the Cheyenne encampment there, massacring over 400 people, many of them chidren. His explanation for this atrocity later... "Nits make Lice!"


Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels in 1924 before he could complete his opera "Turandot


Commander Richard E. Byrd and a crew of three became the first to fly over the South Pole today in 1929


The Beatles released I Want to Hold Your Hand in Great Britain today in 1963


Also today, in 1963, President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy


Actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82, in 1986


Beatle George Harrison died of cancer today in 2001.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind