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News:
Reading the newspaper is like watching history
unfold. The Mercury News began publishing in 1851, so we've reported
on every historic event in the last 150 years.
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History: Tomorrow's history is being written today. The events you read about in today's paper may very well appear in the textbooks that your children will study in the future. | ||
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  Thursday June 28, 1888 "THE LICK TELESCOPE---THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD" "A mighty telescope swings in its appointed place, turning its clear eye heavenward and pointing out new pathways to island stars in the immeasurable ocean of space."  |
 Friday October 2, 1891 "DEDICATED. The Leland Stanford Junior University now Open" "Yesterday Palo Alto was the scene of the greatest educational event in the history of California..." |
 Tuesday April 16, 1912 "WORLD'S GREATEST SHIP FOUNDERS, CARRYING 1200 TO OCEAN GRAVE " The ocean palace Titanic sinks on its maiden voyage after striking an iceberg. |
 Sunday August 16, 1914 "PANAMA CANAL OFFICIALLY OPENED TO COMMERCE OF THE WORLD" The steamship Ancon becomes the first vessel to pass through the "Ditch" since the official opening of the canal.
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 Friday November 10, 1916 "FIRST WOMAN SENT TO HOUSE" Miss Jeanette Rankin, a Republican candidate from Montana, becomes the first woman elected to congress. |
 Monday November 11, 1918 "ARMISTICE TERMS SIGNED---WORLD WAR ENDS" The World War (later to be known as WWI) ends with the signing of the armistice, a truce which amounts to the surrender of Germany to Allied forces. |
 Sunday May 22, 1927 "CROWDS DELIRIOUS WITH JOY AS LINDBERGH LANDS PLANE SAFELY IN FRANCE" Captain Charles Lindbergh gambles with death to become the first human to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. |
 Monday May 7, 1945 "NAZIS SURRENDER" World War II ends with Germany surrendering undonditionally to the Western Allies and Russia at 2:41 a.m. French Time. |
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 Saturday October 5, 1957 "SOVIET SATELLITE LAUNCHED" The Soviet Union claims victory over the U.S. after launching Earth's first "artificial moon" into orbit. |
 Wednesday July 16, 1969 "THEY'RE OFF TO MOON" A Saturn 5 rocket vaults America's Apollo 11 astronauts into the vital first-step earth orbit, beginning the 250,801 mile voyage to the moon.
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 Monday July 21, 1969 "ON THE MOON" Neil Armstrong and Ed Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the moon. |
 Thursday July 24, 1969 "BACK TO EARTH! Splashdown From Moon" The men who opened the Moon Age blazed back to earth today, splashing to a near pinpoint landing in the Pacific. |
