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1st earthquake recorded in U.S. - at Plymouth - Mass
Kentucky becomes 15th state
Tennessee becomes 16th state
Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto 'Don't give up the ship'
Homing pigeon completes 11 -000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
US adventurer Wm. Walker conquers Nicaragua - reestablishes slavery
Renegade Irish Fenians invade Fort Erie Ontario from US
U.S. troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
Yanks turn triple play - beat Tigers 5-4
Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp starts 2130 game streak
Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2
1st TV heavyweight boxing match - Max Baer vs Lou Nova
1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers - Newsweek
1st self-contained titanium plant opened Henderson Nevada
1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile - Don Bowden
constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
A Penzias and R. Wilson detect 3 degree Kelvin primordial background
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - by the Beatles - is released
Beatles release "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
Soyuz 9 launched into earth orbit for 18 days
Ed Sullivan's final show
weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg
Gaiseric and the Vandals sack Rome
1st Prohibition law enacted in Maine
Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer
Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
Ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad
ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad
1st night baseball under lights Ft Wayne IN
1st to wed during presidency-Grover Cleveland
1st statewide initiative and referendum law adopted - in Oregon
Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
US citizenship granted to all American Indians
Gen. Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
Yankee great Lou Gehrig dies at 37
Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum 1st moon soft-landing
Sgt Pepper album released in US
NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
John Paul II 1st pope to visit a communist country Poland
Toilet catches fire in Douglas DC-9 23 die at Cincinnati
Actress Jill Ireland had a radical masectomy
Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands"
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California
Alex Mackenzie began exploration of Mackenzie River
Casey at the Bat published (SF Examiner)
ROTC established by Act of Congress
Lou Gehrig hits 4 consecutive HRs Yanks beat A's 20-13
A's score 11 runs in 2nd - Yanks score 10 in 5th & win 17-11
Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin knighted
Atlantic crossing record French "Normandie": 1077 hours
Edward VIII - Duke of Windsor married Wallis Warfield Simpson
Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
200 inch Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
Dragnet's 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in LA)
Howard Cosell's 1st TV show
1st US Air Force Academy graduation
Gemini IV is launched Ed White 1st American to walk in space
Gemini 9 launched; 7th U.S. 2-man flight
Yanks turn 21st triple play in their history lose 4-3 to Twins
Yanks score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10
US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled
Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination
Pope John Paul II released from hospital after attempt on life
BC 1st total solar eclipse reliably recorded by Chinese
British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner
Mme. Thible becomes 1st woman to fly (in a balloon)
Capt. George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain
La Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"
Empire Engine Company No 1 organized
Henry takes his 1st Ford through sts of Detroit
US marines invade Costa Rica
British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300 -000 troops
Battle of Midway begins 1st naval battle won in air
1st submarine captured & boarded on high seas - U 505
Rome liberated from Mussolini's Fascist armies
Largest solar prominence (300 -000 miles) is observed
Taft-Hartley Act approved despite Truman veto
Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public
1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation
Tonga gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills two
Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon
Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
Jonathan Pollard spy for Israel pleads guilty
Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College - Cambridge
Adam Smith Day
Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight
Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
Danish National Day - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention
Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens
10 million American men began registering for draft in WW I
1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell
Indians triple play Yankees & win 15-3
US goes off gold standard
Battle of France begins in WW II
1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh
1st B-29 bombing raid 1 plane lost; engine failure
Sec of State George C Marshall outlines `The Marshall Plan'
Israel Syria Jordan Iraq & Egypt begin 6-Day War
Richard Speck sentenced to death in the electric chair
Sen Robert F Kennedy assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan
U.N. Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm
If You Had Wings opens
Suez Canal reopens (after 6 Day War caused it to close)
Revolution in Seychelles Islands
Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
TODAY/PC ran for 1st time
Conquistador Cielo wins Belmont Stakes by 14 1/2 lengths
Swedish Constitution and Flag Day (National Day)
YMCA founded in London
Great Fire in Seattle
Alaska Yukon and Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to U.S. (not ratified)
Battle of Belleau Wood 1st US victory of WWI
Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp
Yanks turn triple play but lose 7-5 to the Indians
US Federal gas tax enacted
1st drive-in theatre opens in Camden NJ
US Employment Service created
Securities & Exchange Commission established
Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ
1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
1st nylon parachute jump Hartford Ct Adeline Gray
Japanese forces retreated in WW II Battle of Midway
D-Day invasion of Europe Allies storm Normandy France
Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive homers beating White Sox 12-0
Activist James Meredith shot in Mississippi
Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with 'angry alligator'
6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin
Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
British voters decide to remain on Common Market
Supreme Court tossed out automatic death penalty laws
Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
Israel invades Lebanon to drive out PLO
1 -200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
Body of Dr Josef Mengele Nazi criminal located & exhumed
Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs
Louis XIV crowned king of France
Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Ky
Richard Lee Virginia calls for Declaration of Independence
Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
Workmen start laying Market Street RR track
Mexico City captured by French troops
Abe Lincoln renominated for Pres by Republican Party
Norway declares independence from Sweden
Vatican City becomes a soverign state
Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16 set record of no strike outs
Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown by Eddie Allen
Communists take over Czechoslovakia
1st color network telecast in compatible color Boston Mass
1st microbiology laboratory dedicated - New Brunswick NJ
1st President to appear on television in color - DD Eisenhower
Judy Holiday dies at 42
Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
Israel captures Wailing Wall
Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination
Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut
German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel
Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay law
Tommy John wins his 200th 3-0 on a 2 hitter
Temperance Hill wins Belmont Stakes (50:1 long shot)
Israel destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility
Pres Reagan meets Pope John Paul II & Queen Elizabeth
Prophet Mohammed died
Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
1st commercially-made ice cream sold in NY
Tennessee secedes from Union
Ives McGaffey patents his vacuum cleaner (It sucks)
Cable Cars begin service in LA
William Jennings Bryan quits as Sec of State
Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
Nova Aquila - brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604 - discovered
Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11
Element 93 Neptunium - discovery announced
Segregated lunch counters in D C forbidden by Supreme Court. Also Tornadoes kills 110 in Mich & Ohio
1st official `missile mail' landed Jacksonville Fla
NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean - killing 34
Don Drysdale pitches a record 68th consecutive scoreless inning
Mickey Mantle Day 60 -096 saw #7 retired
Soviets launch Venera 9 to Venus
The Source - 1st computer public information service - goes online
Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria. Also Boston Celtics win NBA championship #16 over Houston Rockets
Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide
royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe
SF Committee of Vigilance forms
1st dime novel published
1st meeting of Board of Regents U of Cal
Alvin Graham Clark dies 3 weeks after 1st use of Yerkes 40-inch lens
China leases Hong Kong's New Territories to Britain for 99 years
Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design
66 -545 fans help Yanks break million mark earliest
About 100 die in Worcester MA tornado
1st ballistic missile sub launched "George Washington"
Cleopatra opens in NY
Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice
First All-Nite Grad Parties
Secretariat wins Belmont Stakes & Triple Crown
Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks
Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth
Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley
Laserphonic Fantasy premieres
Rogers Commission report released blame on Morton Thiokol
British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires
Lus Vaz de Camoes - Portugal's national poet - dies
1st American log cabin at Ft Christina (Wilmington Del)
Ben Franklin flies kit in storm
Burning of the Gaspee British revenue cutter by Rhode Islanders
State of Tripoli declares war on the US
Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany
Agnes arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
Wilbert Robinson gets 7 base hits in 1 baseball game
US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War
Portuguese Natl Day
Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)
1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
Alcoholics Anonymous formed in Akron by Dr Robert Smith
Italy declares war on France & Britain
Nazis exterminate village of Lidice - Czechoslovakia
Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia) Gestapo kills 173
FDR 1st US pres to visit foreign country during wartime
Joe Nuxhall at 15 became youngest ML baseball player
Establishment of Italian Republic
PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting
1st virus separated into component parts - reported
Rocky Colovito hits 4 HRs in 1 game
Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
Israel Syria Jordan Iraq Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help
Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II. Also James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis
Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 2.39 m
Battle of Sauchieburn - Scotland
Capt Cook runs aground on Australian Great Barrier Reef
Iowa Territory organized
Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City - Nevada
300' of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm
1st auto race
Sir Barton 1st horse to win the Triple Crown
Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th of 60 HRs
Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released
US & USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II
WW II sugar rationing finally ends
1st jet magnesium airplane flown
Roger Maris hits #19 & 20 of 61 HRs
George Wallace backs down at Alabama schoolhouse door
US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
Train & school hostage incident in Netherlands ends
K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service SF
Larry Holmes defeats Gerry Cooney retains WBC heavyweight crown / Israel & Syria stop fighting in Lebanon / Movie "E T" released
English rename New Amsterdam NY after Dutch pull out
Va 1st to adopt Bill of Rights
Senators must be at least 30
Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins
Iowa Territory organized
Hopkins Observatory - dedicated in Williamstown - Mass
1st baseball game played in America
1st baseball perfect game - John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleve
Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain
Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to the Tigers
Secret Service extend protection of pres to his family
Farmer Labor Party organized
Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines
1st 50KW radio station - Pittsburgh Pa
USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued
Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
Philippines National Day
Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg
Medgar Evers - NAACP official - murdered in Jackson - Miss
Israel wins 6 day war
USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House
John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" & "Luck of the Irish"
Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer
Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library
Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel
3rd baseball strike starts
750 -000 anti-nuclear demonstrators in Central Park NYC
P W Botha declares South African national emergency
BC Alexander the great dies of fever at Babylon
Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed
John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowns
Yukon Territory of Canada organized - Dawson chosen as capital
China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians
Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers. 3rd forfeit win
Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
1st sodium vapor lamps installed Schenectady NY
Federal Savings & Loan Association authorized
Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
Babe Ruth's #3 is retired
Vostok 6 launched Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman cosmonaut
Miranda vs Az decision-Suspect must be informed of rights
Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice
NY Times began publishing Pentagon Papers
Convicted assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
Former Supreme Court Justice Tom C Clark died in NY at 77
Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
A teen-ager fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System
Benny Goodman the clarinet playing King of Swing died in NY at 77
Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
Geraldine Page dies
US Army founded
Continental Congress in Phila adopts Stars & Stripes as flag
Former Revolutionary War Gen Benedict Arnold died in London
1st Canadian parliament opened in Kingston
California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma
Bunsen invents a gas burner
Fire destroys part of SF
All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games
California St Cable Car RR Co gets it's franchise
Hawaiian Territorial Government begins
Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
1st direct airplane crossing of Atlantic
Baltimore radio station WEAR 1st to put on a President (Harding)
Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
German forces occupied Paris during WW II
Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS
1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct
Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released
1st B-29 raid against Mainland Japan
TV Guide is published
UNIVAC 1 - 1st commercial computer - unveiled
Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub the Nautilus
Yanks sweep Indians 6-2 3-0 before 74 -708 win streak of 18 straight
Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words `under God' to the Pledge
Valery F Bykovsky 5th cosmonaut (Vostok 5)
Launch of Mariner V for Venus flyby
USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4
Gong Show premiers
M L King killer James Earl Ray recaptured after prison break
Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR
Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is ending 74-day conflict
Lebanese Shiite Moslem gunmen hijack TWA 847 after Athens' takeoff
Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges in Geneva dies at 86
Death claimed Broadway librettist Alan Jay Lerner in NY at 67
Wild Kingdom host Marlin Perkins dies near St Louis at 81
BC Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet
King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede England
Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs - Bosnians
Pope threatens to toss Luther out of Catholic Church
NJ established
Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-What a shock
Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army
2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident
12th Amendment ratified manner of choosing President & VP
Arkansas becomes 25th state
Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber
Oregon Treaty signed - setting US-British boundary at 49 N
SF Water Works organized
Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington Va) turned into a milt cemetery
1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
Justin Clark of Corsicana - Tx minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game
General Slocum boat catches fire; over a thousand die
44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference
1st flight across Atlantic (Alcock & Brown)
Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
France surrenders to Hitler
American forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific
1st coml electronic computer dedicated Phila
Yanks trade Billy Martin & Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran
Gov Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill
Soyuz 19 launched
Yankees trade May - Martinez - Pagan - MacGregor & Demsey to Baltimore for Holtzman - Alexander - Grant Jackson - Elrod Henrick & Jim Freeman
Spain's 1st free elections since 1936
Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days
Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat
Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison
BC Hammurabi the Great dies - Babylon
Battle of Bunker Hill (actually Breed's Hill)
Battle of Kellogg's Grove - Ill
A house divided against itself cannot stand - Abraham Lincoln
1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams vs Cleveland Spiders)
Ford Motor Company vehicle manufacturer
1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox
Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)
1st nonstop transatlantic flight completed
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (US) created (FDIC)
National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)
Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC
Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
1st network news - Dumont's "News from Washington"
Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated Erie Pa
Despite Johnny Mize 2000th hit Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak
Rudolf Nureyev Soviet ballet dancer defects to West
Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space - aboard Vostok 6
Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM
US ambassador to Lebanon kidnapped & killed
Soweto Day Student uprisings begin in Soweto - South Africa
Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
Ron Guidry's 1st complete game 7-0 over KC Royals. Also Wernher von Braun dies at 65 from smoking
Tom Seaver no hits St Louis Cards
Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners
Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
One-day general strike in South Africa
Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)
3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly
Republican Party opened its 1st convention in Phila
John Ward - Providence - pitches perfect game vs Buffalo
Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'
Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY
France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
1st American expeditionary force to land in Africa (WW2)
Rep of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir
German Fed Rep National Day
1st round-the-world civil air service left NYC
Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for the next day their 14th anniversary
Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ended
Supreme Court strikes down Lord's Prayer recitation
US returns control of Okinawa to Japanese
Democratic HQs at Watergate burglarized - wire-tapped
Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike outs
President Galtieri resigns in Argentina. Also Ronald Reagan's "evil empire" speech
18th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 5 is launched
Singer Kate Smith dies in Raleigh NC at 79
Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated
NY Yankee & KC Royal Mgr Dick Howser dies at 51 of brain cancer
Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno
British Redcoats evacuate Phila
War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington & Blcher
Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
Susan B Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President
Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
Amusement pier opens - Atlantic City - NJ
Yanks score in every inning but 8th beat Indians 19-3
Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to cross Atlantic
US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
Winston Churchill urged perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"
William Joyce-Lord Haw-Haw Brit radio traitor charged with treason
Egypt proclaimed a republic
Eugene Stephens gets 3 hits as Red Sox score 17 runs in 7th inning
1st telecast transmitted from England to US
118 die in crash of British European Airways jet
Saudi Prince Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king
Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time - It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
Billy Martin replaces Bob Lemon as Yank manager (2nd time)
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor 1st woman on high court)
Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st US woman
52 die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon
BC Eratosthenes estimates circumference of earth
English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island NC
146 English people imprisoned in Black Hole of Calcutta
Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge
US declares war on England
1st baseball game-NY Nines 23 Knickerbockers 1 (Hoboken - NJ)
Anaheim PO established
Slavery outlawed in US territories
Mexican Emperor Maximilian executed - Mexican republic restored
Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio
Father's Day celebrated for 1st time in Spokane Wash
After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles & surnames They took the name Windsor
1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct
1st concert given in SF's Stern Grove
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
1st TV sports spectacular - Joe Louis vs Billy Conn
1st plane to exceed 600 mph - Albert Boyd Muroc Ca
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg executed at Sing Sing Prison Ossining NY (Julius takes 3 tries - Ethel 5)
Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100
Kuwait gains independence from Britain
US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders to belief in existence of God
Charter members of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen
Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to earth
Civil Rights Act of 1964 survived an 83-day filibuster in Senate
A Nikolayev and V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2000
US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from earth
Red Sox set record of 16 HRs in 3 games All against Yanks
Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cent bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint
Boeing Coml Chinook two-rotor helicopter gets certified
European Space Agency's Ariane carries two satellites into orbit
Artificial heart recipient Murray P Haydon died in Louisville Ky
Len Bias 1st pick of Celtics suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure
Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends
Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
British soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most died
Battle of Stone Ferry
Congress approves Great Seal of US & the Eagle as it's symbol
King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
Comm appoints to lay out streets west of Larkin - SF
West Virginia became 35th state
Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
Lizzie Borden found innocent in New Bedford Mass
Nicaragua - El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
Bert Daniels set AL mark by getting hit 3 times in a doubleheader
Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
Gangster Benjamin `Buggsy' Siegel shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
Pres Truman vetoed Taft-Hartley Act
Toast of the Town hosted by Ed Sullivan premier on CBS-TV
Joe Dimaggio's 2000th hit - Yanks beat Indians 8-2
US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
1st Mayor's Trophy Game Mets beat Yanks 6-2
Georges Lemaitre - originator of "big bang" theory - dies at 71
Muhammad Ali convicted of violating draft law in Houston
Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
River Country opens
Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
It's National Bald Eagle Day
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington
Yankee Bobby Murcer retires
Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan
Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure - curse - & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views
US Constitution went into effect as NH is 9th state to ratify it
Great Stoneface Mt found in NH
Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine
F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)
Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
Red Sox George Foster no hits Yanks
Hawaiian Red Cross founded
Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit
Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic laterial sclerosis
Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead
Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to US during WW II
Dr Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrated 'long playing record'
1st stored computer program run - on the Manchester Mark I
Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney-disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail
Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th & lose 6-5 - in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th & Yanks beat them 6-3
Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison
Wash DC jury finds John Hinckley Jr innocent by insanity
American Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists announce skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
Pres Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay during mutiny
Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
slavery outlawed in England
1st Continental currency authorized
British board USS Chesapeake - a provocation leading to War of 1812
Zebulon Pike reaches his peak
2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)
Doughnut invented
Stephen C Massett opens at courthouse as 1st professional entertainer using (allegedly) only piano in Cal
Fire destroys part of SF
Arkansas reenters US
Dept of Justice cabinet-level federal agency founded
Louisville Colonels set major-league baseball record with 26th consecutive loss
1st airship passengers - Zeppelin Deutscheland
King George V of England crowned
Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game - Ruth hits 3 in double header
Joe Lewis wins world heavyweight title from James Braddock by KO
Joe Lewis knocks out Max Schmeling in 1st round
France falls to Nazi Germany
Germany declares war on Russia during WW II
FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands
KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system
Pres Nixon signs 26th Amendment (voting age 18)
Skylab 2's astronauts land
Walt Disney's "The Rescuers" is released
Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in AL prison
Pluto's moon Charon discovered by James Christy
Pro Football Researchers Association founded at Canton - O
Julius Sommer dies of heart failure buried in Dayton Oh
Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing Beatle John Lennon
Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes
Prince Chuck & Lady Di take Prince William home from hospital
1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle
Actor/Dancer Fred Astaire dies
Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with NY Mets
William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Penn; only treaty "not sworn to - nor broken"
Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey - wins control of Bengal
Battle of Landshut - Silesia
Christopher Latham Sholes patents Typewriter
Yanks get record 16 walks & 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass - 15-0
Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox
Marineland opens in Fla - 1st aquarium
Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) created
Vetoed Taft-Hartley Act overriden by congress
Yanks & Tigers hit 11 HRs - Tigers win 10-9
Walt Disney's "Lady And The Tramp" is released
Senator Dodd (D-CT) censured for misusing campaign funds. Also President Johnson & Premier Kosygin (USSR) meet in NJ
Warren Burger sworn in as US Chief Justice
Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched
CN Tower in Toronto - tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens
13th Mayor's Trophy Game - Mets beat Yanks 6-4
33 inning game ends Pawtuckett 3 Rochester 2
Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air - 329 die
Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
Scotland under King Robert I defeats England
Eton College founded by Henry VI
John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England
Henry VIII becomes King of England
Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council
Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day)
David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Phila
1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
Tennessee becomes 11th (and last) state to secede from US
Jewish Natl Fund started
Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71
1st radar detection of planes Anacostia DC
Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
Flying Saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by Airline pilot Ken Arnold
Berlin Blockade & Berlin Airlift begin
Hopalong Cassidy becomes 1st network western
Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
1st demonstration of home video recorder - at BBC Studios - London
Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
113 killed in Eastern Boeing 727 crash at JFK
IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
Soyuz T-6 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 French) to Salyut 7 space station
Jean-Loup Chretien - first spacionaut - lifts off (Soyuz T-16)
Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
7th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 2 returns to Earth
18th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 5 returns to Earth
Disputed Ala Dem Gov runoff lets Guy Hunt win (1st Repub in 112 yrs)
US Senate approves "tax reform"
5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon
Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop
A lunar eclipse becomes the known astronomical event recorded
Va becomes 10th state
1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)
FL AL LA GA NC SC readmitted to US
Lt Col Custer & 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux & Cheyenne
Yanks & White Sox end deadlocked at 6-6 in 18
Architect Stanford White shot dead atop Madison Square Garden (which he designed) by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit
1st flight Junkers F13 advanced monoplane airliner
Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times
federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 per hour
British RAF staged a thousand-bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)
Korean Conflict begins; N Korea invades S Korea
El Al begins air service
1st color TV broadcast - CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities
1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
Walter Baade - astronomer - dies
Yankee's Roger Maris hits his 40th of 61 HRs
Yankee Jack Reed's 22nd inning HR wins a 7 hour game
Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional
Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m
John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee
Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
Roy C Sullivan of Va is struck by lightening for 7th time!
Report of LBJ having cancer operation while Pres denied
Supreme Court held male-only draft registration - constitutional
Sec of State Alexander Haig Jr resigns Schultz replaces
SF holds its 1st County Fair
Richard III usurps the English throne
Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow
1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
Custer's Last Stand
Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats yellow fever
Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 133 kph
1st American Expeditionary Force arrived in France during WW I
1st issue of NY Daily News published
FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing Credit Unions
UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF
US responses to Soviet blockade of Berlin
Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury
Pres Eisenhower joins Queen Elizabeth opening St Lawrence Seaway
St Lawrence Seaway opens - linking Atlantic Ocean with Great Lakes
British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)
Kennedy visits W Berlin `Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)'
Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album
Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency
42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
1st dedicated oceanographic satellite - SEASAT 1 launched
US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
1st flight of Shuttle Discovery scrubbed at T-4
Losing 9-0 to Red Sox Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn
Buenos Aires captured by British
Queen Victoria is crowned
Mormon leaders Joseph & Hyrum Smith killed by a mob in Carthage
NY & Boston linked by telegraph wires
Bank of Calif opens doors
1st color TV demo - NYC
Federal Savings & Loan Association created
End of USSR experimental calendar
FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
Cherbourg - France captured by Allies
Pres Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict
CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted Illinois
500 people killed by Hurricane Audrey in coastal La & Tx
Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass
NASA X-15 flies at 4105 mph
Robert Rushworth in X-15 reaches 87 km
Pres Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland
4th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 5-2
John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's `enemies list'
5-4 decision Supreme Court decides to let lawyers advertise
Djibouti gains independence from France (National Day)
Soyuz 30 launched
4th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 launched
Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
Balloonists Maxie Anderson & Don Ida died during a race
Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
Supreme Court Justice Powell retires
Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" helped American patriots
Battle of Monmouth
Tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous
James Madison 4th US pres died
Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey
Leipzig Obs discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) comet d'Arrest
Maria Mitchell - 1st American woman astronomer - dies at 71
Aust Archduke Ferdinand & wife Sofia assassinated (starts WW I)
1st flight between Hawaiian Islands
Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed
Harry S Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence
Carl Mazes pitches a complete double-header against Yanks
Queen Victoria ascends to British throne
Yanks hit 13 HRs sweep A's 23-2 & 10-0
Pan Am begins transatlantic air service Dixie Clipper
Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY)
N Korean forces captured Seoul S Korea
1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Il
1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson
Phillies Rick Wise hits 2 HRs & no-hits the Reds
Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers
Supreme Court orders Cal medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected
Prince Chuck & Lady Di name their baby "William"
Bridge section along I-95 in Conn collapsed kills 3
Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick
Don Baylor sets career hit by pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Roiden)
Gay Pride Day
Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
Va state constitution adopted & Patrick Henry made governor
Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az - NM) from Mexico for $10 million
very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport - Iowa
Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed
Chicago beats Louisville 36-7
Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
Empire State Building eminates high definition TV - 343 lines
Polish statesman pianist Ignace Paderewski died in NY at 80
DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record
British arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists
Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game win streak
South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn - the Oriskany
Atomic Energy Comm voted against reinstating Dr J Robert Oppenheimer
Charles Dumas - 1st high jump over 7 feet - LA Cal
1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 85 km
US bombs fuel storage facilities near N Vietnamese cities
Jayne Mansfield dies at 34
Israel removes barricades separating city of Jerusalem
US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days
Supreme Court-death penalty usually was `cruel & unusual punishment'
Seychelles gains independence from Britain
Supreme Court ruled out death penalty for rapists of adults
Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
Yanks blow 11-4 lead but trailing 14-11 Dave Winfield's 8th inning Grand Slammer beats Toronto 15-14 Mattingly also Grand slams
Battle of Ft Recovery - Ohio
Congress creates Indian Territory
Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
Korea declares independence from China - asks for Japanese aid
Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act adopted
Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska Event)
Cy Young no hits Yankees Red Sox win 8-0
Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest campaign for Indian rights in S Africa
New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
Adolf Hitler begins pogrom against his enemies
Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions
40 hour work week law approved (federal)
Gone With the Wind is published
Transistor demonstrated Murray Hill NJ
Pres Truman orders American troops into Korea
The Guiding Light soap opera moves from radio to TV
US ground forces enter Korean conflict
Yank pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting 3 batters in 1 inning. This was also Bobby Brown's last game he retired to become a Dr.
Zaire (then Belgian Congo) gains ind
Pope Paul VI crowned in St Peter's Square
26th Amendment ratified gives vote to 18 year olds-Ohio ratifies
3 cosmonauts die as Soyuz XI depressurizes during reentry
1st leap second - day
Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto
Equal Rights Amendment dies without ratification
New Jersey NHL Franchise named the Devils
39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed
Georgia sodomy law upheld by the Supreme Court
