1926 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio becomes Walt Disney Studios
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1845-The Portland Vase is broken by drunken museum visitor
1971- American astronaut Alan Shepard is 1st to hit a golf ball on the moon
1811-Prince George IV, is appointed as Prince-Regent after his father King George III is declared insane
2004-Mark Zuckerberg launches Thefacebook from his Harvard dormitory room
1959-“The Day the Music Died” plane crash kills musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J. P. Richardson and pilot near Clear Lake, Iowa
1709-British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued by William Dampier after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires “Robinson Crusoe
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1862-Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Sumner meet with President Abraham Lincoln at The White House, Washington
1874-Jesse James gang robs a train at Gads Hill, Missouri
1836- Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria dies in pact with his mistress
1905-Tsar Nicholas II of Russia enacts reforms to improve the conditions of workers (although they don’t stop the country’s disorder)
1887-Work begins on the Eiffel Tower in Paris
