Today in 1806, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike saw a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado Foothills of the Rocky Mountains. {There’s captions for the hard of French – just click CC at the bottom of the player}
Today in 1997, St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire hit his 58th home run of the season. AND today in 1785, Napoleon Bonaparte graduated from the military academy in Paris…
Today in 1725 – Nicolas Joseph Cugnot was born. French engineer and mechanic, Cugnot, was the guy who invented the first passenger carrying automobile in 1769…
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