On this day in 1937, cartoon icon Daffy Duck appeared for the first time in the Warner Bros. animated short “Porky’s Duck Hunt.”

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On this day in 1945, the crew of a Nazi submarine had to abandon ship after a plumbing issue forced them to surface in the line of enemy fire.

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On this day in 1976, to mark the bicentennial of American independence, a new $2 bill was released to the public.

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On this day in 1877, Harvard student James Tyng became the first-known baseball player to wear a catcher’s mask.

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On this day in 1938, the first meeting of the Barbershop Harmony Society was held in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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On this day in 1912, the RMS Titanic departed from Southampton on its doomed maiden voyage to New York. 

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On this day in 1978, U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced his decision to delay production of the neutron bomb. 

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On this day in 1896, the opening ceremony of the first modern Olympic Games took place in Athens, Greece.

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On this day in 1985, more than 8,000 radio stations played the charity single “We Are the World” simultaneously.

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On this day in 1958, the world famous peace symbol was displayed for the first time at an anti-nuclear war rally in London. 

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