Payoff: After buying 46 gallons of beer, 35 gallons of wine, and other booze for voters, George Washington was elected - this day in 1758 - to the House of Burgesses for Frederick County, VA. He was 26pic.twitter.com/ANiDgUFIYW
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We have a weapon of unusually great power, President Truman told Soviet Premier Stalin this day in 1945, during U.S./Soviet/British talks in Potsdam. Stalin knew all about the atomic bomb, thanks to his spies - and told Truman to put it to good usepic.twitter.com/N3jylpAWtH
Worst rioting since the Civil War: Lyndon Johnson, this day in 1967, ordered 4,700 federal troops to Detroit after race riots erupted. An estimated 16 people were killed and 493 injuredpic.twitter.com/noX8moMcD2
This Day 1969: In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, President Nixon welcomed the crew of Apollo 11 back to earth after their historic mission. Armstrong , Aldrin and Collins were quarantined to make sure they didn't bring back any moon germspic.twitter.com/obtN5G4y6p
Because they had left the country, the Apollo 11 astronauts had to sign customs declartion forms (yes, really) after they returned to earth. They had to declare "moon rock and moon dust" samplespic.twitter.com/72I5g3sxLK
The beginning of the end for President Nixon: The Supreme Court, this day in 1974, ordered him - in an 8-0 vote - to turn over tape recordings to the Senate Watergate Committee (more)pic.twitter.com/pyPPqcMGHd
The tapes showed that not only did Nixon know about the Watergate break-in, but tried to cover it up. The disclosures shattered what was left of the president's political support. He would resign two weeks later
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