On this day in 1963, U.S.President John Kennedy announced "Ich bin
ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) at the Berlin Wall.
An estimated 250,000 people crammed a large Berlin square to hear President Kennedy speak at the 1963 rally.
On this day in 1945, the U.N. Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, CA.
The Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics Corp. jointly
announced that they had created a working draft of the human
genome.
The first section of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ, was opened
to the public on this day in 1870.
Charlie Chaplin’s comedy "The Gold Rush" premiered in Hollywood
on this day in 1925.