2017
Martin Shkreli’s bail revoked after he judged risk to community for posting $5,000 bounty for a strand of Hillary Clinton’s hair.
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2005
The pilot episode of “Supernatural,” created by Eric Kripke, aired on The WB Television Network.
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1997
Elton John released the single “Candle in the Wind” as a tribute to Princess Diana of Wales.
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1990
The legal drama TV series “Law & Order” aired for the first time on NBC.
The show had great success and went on to have 20 seasons with 456 episodes.
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1989
“Uncle Sam” became the official nickname of the United States.
Congress designated the personification of the United States of America as “Uncle Sam,” and this day became known as “Uncle Sam Day.” September 13 was the birthday of Samuel Wilson, a descendant of one of the oldest families of Boston, and is thought to have been where the nickname came from.
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1985
Super Mario Bros was released for the Nintendo Family Computer in Japan.
The Family Computer, popularly known as the Famicom, was the first version of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Super Mario Bros is one of the best-selling games of all time, with over 58 million copies sold across all platforms.
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1977
American sitcom “Soap” became the first show to display the warning “Viewer discretion advised.”
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1969
The animated mystery-comedy “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!” first aired on CBS.
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1965
The Beatles released their hit single “Yesterday.”
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1959
The Soviet Union’s Luna 2 space probe became the first spacecraft to reach the moon’s surface.
The entire purpose of the Luna 2 mission was to crash a probe into the moon’s surface – something neither the US nor the USSR had achieved.
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1955
Swiss engineer George de Mestral patented velcro.
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1935
Howard Hughes designed and built the world’s fastest plane called the H-1 racer, then, on this day, flew it at a new world speed record at 352 miles per hour in Santa Fe, California.
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1899
Henry Bliss became the first person killed in an automobile accident in the United States.
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1845
Chemist Michael Faraday discovered the Faraday Effect.
The Faraday effect is when there is a reaction between both a magnetic field and light when inside a medium.
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1501
Michelangelo began his three-year project sculpting the Statue of David.
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