•1858 – Abraham Lincoln says “A house divided against itself cannot stand”
•1903 – Ford Motors incorporates
•1903 – Pepsi Cola company is formed
•1909 – 1st U.S. airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
•1909 - Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals
•1976 - Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa, Soweto Day
•1977 – Leonid Brezhnev named president of U.S.S.R.
•1989 – The movie, “Ghostbusters II” premieres
•1991 – Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR
•1995 – Salt Lake City is awarded the XIX Winter Olympics
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