1. 1848 - The first U.S. Post Office in California
opens in San Francisco at Clay and Pike streets. At the time there are only
about 15,000 European settlers living in the state.
2. 1965 - Roger Allen LaPorte, a 22-year-old former
seminarian and a member of the Catholic worker movement, immolates himself at
the United Nations in New York City in protest of the Vietnam War.
3. 1967 - NASA
launches Apollo 4 into orbit with the first successful
test of a Saturn V rocket.
4. 1972 - Bones discovered
by the Leakeys push human origins back 1 million years.
5. 2007 - German Bundestag
passes controversial bill mandating storage of citizens’ telecommunications
traffic date for six months without probable cause.
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