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Today in History: March 29

1867 The United States purchases Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars.

1886 Coca-Cola goes on sale for the first time at a drugstore in Atlanta. Its inventor, Dr. John Pemberton, claims it can cure anything from hysteria to the common cold.

1961 The 23rd amendment, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote for president, is ratified.

1962 Cuba opens the trial of the Bay of Pigs invaders.

1973 The last U.S. troops withdraw from South Vietnam.

1975 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat declares that he will reopen the Suez Canal on June 5, 1975.

1976 Eight Ohio National Guardsmen are indicted for shooting four Kent State students during an anti-war protest on May 4, 1970.

1986 A court in Rome acquits six men in a plot to kill the Pope.


Born on March 29


1819 Edwin Drake, drilled the first productive oil well.

1835 Elihu Thomson, the English-born American inventor of electric welding and arc lighting.


JOTD

I once dated a girl with a lazy eye.

She was seeing someone on the side.