Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by
flogging.
* 1909, Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from
Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the
United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a
car, in fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles
from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.
* 1959, the USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine
to carry ballistic missiles.
* 1967, during the Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from
Syria.
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