1803: United States and France sign the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, "the letter that bought a continent."1900: President McKinley signs the Organic Act, making Hawaii a territory of the United States.
1945: as Russian troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler commits suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.
1975: The Vietnam war ends, with the South surrendering to the North.
1997: ABC TV airs "coming out" episode in which Ellen DeGeneres's character "Ellen" acknowledges her homosexuality.
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Today's Birthdays:
Mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
Naturalist John Lubbock (1834–1913)Economist Theodore Schultz (1902 -1998)
Actress Cloris Leachman (1926)
Musician Willie Nelson (1933)
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Something to Think About:
"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books." ~ John Lubbock
