Hello ladies and gents this is the viking telling you that today we are talking about history.
1904 A woman is placed under arrest for smoking a cigarette on New York's Fifth Avenue
1913 Race riots in Harriston, Mississippi, kill 10 people.
1928 Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin when he notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory; it remained for Howard Florey and Ernst Chain to isolate the active ingredient, allowing the "miracle drug" to be developed in the 1940s.
1963 Roy Lichtenstein's pop art work Whaam!, depicting in comic-book style a US jet shooting down an enemy fighter, is exhibited for the first time; it will become one of the best known examples of pop art.
2008 SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, Falcon 1
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