1835 - Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales.
1862 President Abraham Lincoln gives the State of the Union address to the 37th Congress. 1905 Twenty officers and 230 guards are arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the revolt at the Winter Palace. 1909 - The Pennsylvania Trust Company, of Carlisle, PA, became the first bank in the in the U.S. to offer a Christmas Club account. 1913 - Ford Motor Co. began using a new movable assembly line that ushered in the era of mass production. 1913 - The first drive-in automobile service station opened, in Pittsburgh, PA. 1919 - Lady Astor was sworn in as the first female member of the British Parliament. 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, defying the South’s segregationist laws. 1965 - An airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States began. 1981 AIDS virus officially recognized. 1987 - Construction began on the Channel Tunnel between the United Kingdom and France. 1990 - Iraq accepted a U.S. offer to talk about resolving the Persian Gulf crisis. 1998 - Exxon announced that it was buying Mobil for $73.7 billion creating the largest company in the world to date.
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