On This Date In History

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Birthdays

Ronald E. Rosser

Rosser would be awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on the day of Jan. 12, 1952 in an engagement during the Korean War.

Events

1901

- First person to go over Niagara Falls in barrel (Annie Edson Taylor)

1829

- Wall Street Crash of 1929 begins