Fw: On This Day in History (May 17): Merchants Form the NYSE, First Color Photograph and the Cowboy President
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On This Day in History
May 17
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? Twenty-four merchants form the at 70 Wall Street
? John Hawkins and Richard French patent the reaping machine
| The first durable color photograph, a tartan ribbon was taken by Thomas Sutton using James Clerk Maxwell's three-color method |
? The , of a tartan ribbon is shown by Scottish scientist to the Royal Institution in London
? Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings into the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.
? becomes the first state to legalize same-sex marriage
? Center-right Hindu nationalist party, the BJP, led by , wins a landslide general election victory in India
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President Theodore Roosevelt began a camping trip on this day with naturalist, writer and conservationist John Muir. The trip had a profound effect on Roosevelt
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