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1609 

English explorer Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay. He will go on to claim it for the Dutch East India Company.

1898

Pharmacist Caleb Bradham has developed a digestion aid at his North Carolina drug store concocted with sugar, water, caramel, lemon, nutmeg, and what he terms 'rare oils.' Today he names it 'Pepsi-Cola,' a play on the word 'dyspepsia,' the ailment that the drink purports to soothe.

1937 

Toyota Motor Corporation is formed. The car company was first founded in 1933 as a subsidiary of the Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd. The division was headed by Kiichiro Toyoda, the son of the Toyota founder, Sakichi Toyoda.

1941

Mass slaughter in the Ukraine. Hungarian Jews are murdered by the Gestapo in occupied Ukraine. SS General Franz Jaeckeln marched more than 23,000 Hungarian Jews to bomb craters at Kamenets Podolsk, ordered them to undress, and riddled them with machine-gun fire.

1944

German forces in Toulon and Marseilles, France, surrender to the Allies.

1963

One of the largest demonstrations in the history of the United States, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, takes place and reaches its climax at the base of the Lincoln Memorial when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech. The historic speech was a call to end racism in the United States and is one of the most recognizable speeches in recorded history.

2005

Hurricane Katrina reaches Category 5 strength; Louisiana Superdome is opened as a "refuge of last resort" in New Orleans.

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