In 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean.
In 1690, "Publick Occurrences," the first American newspaper, published its first and last edition in Boston.
In 1789, the first U.S. Congress, meeting in New York, adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. Ten of the amedments became the Bill of Rights.
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New York Yankee broadcaster Phil Rizzuto (1918)
ABC news correspondent Barbara Walters (1931)
Dancer-actress Juliet Prowse (1931)
Actor Robert Walden (1943)
Actor-producer Michael Douglas (1944)
Actor Mark Hamill (1952)
Actor Christopher Reeve (1952)
Actress Heather Locklear (1961)
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"The Constitution belongs to the peo;e and not the people to the Constitution."
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Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States