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Platinum Supermommy
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
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1819 - The United States first bank opened in New York City. The first day saw deposits totalling $2,807
1939 - "Blondie," Chic Young’s comic strip character, made her debut on CBS radio. Later, the comic strip would become a television favorite.
1945 - Since February 1942, the first civilian passenger car to be built was driven off the Ford Motor Company's assembly line at their plant in Detroit, Michigan. Automotive production had been diverted to military production for World War II efforts.
1951 - The New York premier of Alfred Hitchcock's cinema classic, Strangers on a Train, was on this date.
1971 - Jim Morrison, lead singer and composer for the rock group The Doors, died at the age of 27, while in a hot bath in the middle of the night at a Paris, France hotel room.
1986 - After renovations on the Statue of Liberty, United States President Ronald Reagan presided over the statue's relighting.
1988 - The Unites States Navy warship USS Vincennes mistakenly shot down Iran Air flight 655, destroying the plane and killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard.
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