Glad it's the downside of the week.
So for today in history
- 1586 Potatoes (originally from Columbia) are introduced to England
- 1818 Illinois is admitted in the USA as the 21st State.
- 1847 The North Star an anti slavery newspaper is started be Fredrick Douglass and Martin R Delaney
- 1967 The First Human Heart Transplant is performed by Dr Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky
- 1989 The USA (George H. W. Bush) and the USSR (Mikhail Gorbachev) announce the end of the Cold War.
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