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🚀 Time Machine
-270
St. Valentine, a holy priest in Rome under Claudius II, was said to have been executed.
-1779
Captain James Cook, the English explorer, was killed by Native Hawaiians during his third visit to Hawaii.
-1876
Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell applied for telephone patents separately, and the Supreme Court ruled that Bell was the rightful inventor
-1929
Seven gangsters were killed in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, allegedly on Al Capone's orders.
-1931
The original "Dracula" movie starring Bela Lugosi as the titular vampire was released.
-1957
Noam Chomsky's groundbreaking theory about human speech was published in Syntactic Structures.
-1971
President Richard Nixon installed a secret recording system in the Oval Office.
-1978
The first "micro on a chip" or microchip was patented by Texas Instruments.
-2005
Video-sharing site YouTube was founded in San Mateo, California, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim.
🗨️ Last Words
“Death cannot destroy us, for it is destroyed already by Him for Whose sake we suffer.”