1944 ~ Helicopters were first used in war today, as part of the British Atlantic patrol


1492 ~ Muhammad XI, the leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain, surrendered to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.


1788 ~ Georgia was admitted to the Union as the 4th state.


1839 ~ Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon.


1905 ~ The Russo-Japanese war ended.


1923 ~ The African-American town of Rosewood, Fla., was burned by a white mob.


1935 ~ The Bruno R. Hauptmann trial began for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby.


1959 ~ The first spacecraft to orbit the Sun, Mechta (Luna 1) was launched by the USSR.


1994 ~ Rudolph Giuliani is inaugurated as New York City's mayor.

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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