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All Saints' Day
Fortifications built on Angel Island by troops
US Weather Bureau begins operations
Knute Rockne leads underdog Notre Dame to 35-13 win over Army
Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program
1st US air raid shelter Fleetwood Pa
Dimout ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area
1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii
1st negro player in National Basketball Association Fort Wayne In
1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops NM
1st hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific
Germaoin Gagnon scores the 1st Islander hat trick
Islander Goran Hogosta's only shut-out Flames 9-0 - Trottier 4 goals
1st Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents
Despite Mike Bossy 4 goals Islanders lose 5-6 to Canadians making Islander record when scoring a hat trick - 77-3-4
Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts
North Dakota becomes 39th and South Dakota becomes the 40th state
Lansing-Ishii Agreement
The Balfour Declaration calls for a Jewish homeland
KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as 1st commercial radio station
Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for 1st (& last) time
Truman beats Dewey confounding pollsters and newspapers
JS Thurmond 1st senator elected by write-in vote - SC
1st titanium mill opened Toronto Ohio
Charles Van Doren confesses 21 was fixed
CBS purchases NY Yanks
Ed Giacomin return to Mad Sq Garden as a Red Wing beats Rangers 6-4
Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
Edith Bunker dies
Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
Columbia grants Panama independence
1st Class Mail now costs 3›
Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
Detroit-Windsor tunnel opens-1st vehicular tunnel to foreign country
Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
1st virus crystallized (announced)
Wizard of Oz 1st televised
USSR launches Laika 1st animal in orbit
Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics 1st mission to Mercury
UK grants Dominica independence (Natl Day)
63 Americans taken hostage at American Embassy (Teheran Iran)
Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island
Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia
90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall
1st cash register patented (James & John Ritty)
Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen
Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st US female gov (Wyoming)
1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited Chicago Il
World Community Day
UN Educational Scientific & Cultural Org formed
NY Giants & NY Yanks score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns
Israeli troops reach Suez Canal
Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against Islanders
Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3)
500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy take 90 hostages
Islanders started 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2)
Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%
Plot to blow up British parliment fails - 1st Guy Fawkes day
Guy Fawkes Day
John Hanson elected 1st 'Pres of the US in Congress assembled'
Susan B Anthony arrested for attempting to vote
1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden)
1st coast-to-coast airplane flight (NY-Pasadena with many stops)
ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disc
BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service
Ella Grasso Ct elected 1st woman US gov not related to previous gov
Cleve Cavs lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)
Adolphe Sax invents saxophone
Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
1st Hawaiian fire engine
Yerba Buena & Angel Islands reserved for military use
Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th pres
NY-SF direct telegraphic link established
1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6 Princeton 4)
Bolshevik revolution begins
WGY-TV (Schenectady NY) 1st coml TV station
US explodes world's 1st hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll
BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote
Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more
Nixon elected 37th pres of US defeating Hubert Humphrey
Pres Reagan was elected to a second term winning 49 states
22nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 returns to Earth
Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
Lewis & Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean
Battle of Tippecanoe gave Harrison a presial slogan
Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy murdered by mob at Alton Ill
London Gazette oldest surviving journal is founded
Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later
1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol
Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa
Canada completes its own transcontinental railway
Bolsheviks overthrew Russian govt in St Petersburg;
Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana 1st women Representative
October Revolution overthrows Russian Provisional Govt
Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
USSR Natl Day
Galloping Gertie bridge collapses Tacoma Wash
Detroit Lions 0 NY Giants 0 -- last scoreless tie in NFL
Richard Nixon quits politics - You won't have Nixon to kick around
Republican Nixon re-elected to 2nd term defeating George McGovern
Gone With the Wind televised
Bomb explodes in US Capitol causing heavy damage but no injuries
Colombian troops ends 27-hour siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice
Louvre in Paris opens
Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women
US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as pres
Montana admitted as 41st state
Wilhelm R”ntgen discovers x-rays
Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" failed In jail writes "Mein Kampf"
FDR elected pres Lehman NY governor & O'Brien NY mayor
Life with Father longest running Brdway drama opens (closes 1947)
Allied forces invade North Africa
Tom Dempsey of New Orleans kicks NFL-record 63-yard field goal
Blackhawk's Pit Martin failed on 1st penalty shot against Islanders Blackhawks score 2 goals within 9 seconds against Islanders
Walt Disney's "Robin Hood" is released
Islander's Mike Bossy's 10th career hat trick
Smoky fire set by a prisoner in a Biloxi Miss 28 killed
14th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 is launched
Judge overturned Rubin ``Hurricane'' Carter's conviction
Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
PO at Clay & Pike opens
Battle of Piketon Ky
Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
Congress of Industrial Org formed (CIO)
Germany invaded Norway & Denmark in WW II
Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
5:16PM massive power failure in New Engl & Ontario (NY blackout)
1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
Most shots in a Islander game - 88 - Isles 45 Rangers 43
US Marine Corps established by Congress
Kentucky outlaws dueling
Louis Napoleon banished to America
Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico
Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji Central Africa
1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by US
Jacobo Arbenz Guzm n elected pres of Guatemala
1st Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance
Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
Nuclear sub Thresher went down 220 miles east of Boston
USSR launches Zond 6 to moon
Sesame Street premiers
Luna 17 with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1 is launched
US table tennis team arrived in China
Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald lost in a storm on Lake Superior
PLO leader Yasser Arafat speaks at UN
Yanks trade Lyle Rajsich McCall Heath & Ramos to Texas for Righetti Mirabella Beniquez Jemison & Griffin
Voyager I flies past Saturn
41 Pilgrims signed a compact aboard Mayflower
Dutch & French agree to divide St Maarten Leeward Islands
Iroquois Indians in NY killed 40 people in Cherry Valley Mass
Former slave Nat Turner who led a violent insurrection executed
Washington admitted as 42nd state
Armistice Day -- WW I ends (at 11AM on Western Front)
Pres Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier
Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated (SF)
Cornerstones laid for Opera House & Veteran's Building
Kate Smith 1st sang Irving Berlin's `God Bless America'
During WWII Germany completed their occupation of France
NY Knicks 1st game at Madison Sq Garden Lose 78-68 to Chic Stags
Demolition begins on cable car barn at Calif & Hyde
Seals Stadium demolished
Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard's lifetime 544 goal record
Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian D Smith
Gemini 12 launched on 4-day flight
John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "Two Virgins" album
US Army turned over Long Bihn base to S Vietnamese army
Portugal grants Angola independence (Natl Day)
Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against North Stars
30th time Islanders shut-out - 2-0 vs North Stars
5th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 5 is launched 1st coml flight
Rev Martin Luther King Sr dies in Atlanta at 84
Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 million at auction
Bay District Race Track opens
Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500 becomes 1st pro football player
Austria becomes a republic
Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
Oakland Bay Bridge opens
1st TV Gardening show
German battleship Tirpitz was sunk off Norway
Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released
1st "autobank" (banking by car) established (Chic)
Japanese premier Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
Ellis Island immigration station in NY Harbor closed
Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
New Orleans elects 1st black mayor Ernest `Dutch' Morial
US space probe Voyager I approaches 77 000 miles of Saturn
1st time a spacecraft is launched twice (space shuttle Columbia)
1st balloon crossing of Pacific completed (Double Eagle V)
Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Oakland A's)
2nd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 2 is launched
Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev
NJ Devils' 1st overtime game lose 4-3 to Flames
Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
Van Gogh's `Irises' sells for $53 900 000 - Rec amount for a painting
St Nicholas I (the Great) pope (858-67) dies
English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
American Revolutionary forces captured Montreal
Peter Burnett elected 1st gov of Calif
Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
250 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry Ill
Sheik starring Rudolph Valentino released
NY-NJ Holland Tunnel 1st underwater vehicular tunnel opens
NBC forms 1st full sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
Walt Disney's "Fantasia" is released
British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean
Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country - Havana Cuba
Supreme Court struck down segregation of races on public buses
VP Spiro T Agnew accused network TV news depts of bias & distortion
Vice Pres Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"
Cyclone kills estimated 300 000 in Bangladesh
Mariner 9 1st orbit of another planet (Mars)
Karen Silkwood killed in a car crash
25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot
1st manned balloon flight across Pacific Ocean ended
Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini
Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia kills 25 000
Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
Capt George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter SF Bay
1st streetcar-horsedrawn vehicle called John Mason debuts in NYC
Moby Dick by Herman Melville published
Charles J Guiteau went on trial for Pres Garfield's assassination
NY World's Nellie Bly (Liz Cochrane) begins 72 day world trip
Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
1st airplane flight from deck of a ship
BBC began domestic radio service
FDR proclaimed Philippine Is a free commonwealth
During WW II German planes destroyed most of Coventry England
Bears' Sid Luckman throws 7 TD passes (NFL record)
Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)
Apollo 12 launched
Dow Jones closes above 1 000 for 1st time (1003.16)
Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner Capt Mark Phillips
Egypt Pres Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite
2nd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 2 returns to Earth
Old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired & working again
Sec & Exch Comm impose a record $100 million penalty against Boesky
Johannes Kepler dies
Continental Congress approves Articles of Conf
Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak
Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated
American Federation of Labor founded in Pitts (AFL)
Dom Pedro II Emperor of Brazil deposed; republic proclaimed
League of Nations holds 1st meeting in Geneva
NBC on-air debut with a radio network of 24 stations
Walt Disney Art School created
1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
Social Security Adm approves 1st unemployment check
1st 75 000 men were called to armed forces duty during peacetime
Cow Palace opens in SF
William Lyon Mackenzie King retired as prime minister of Canada
KRON (Channel 4 SF) signs on from 7 to 10 PM
1st Negro player in organized hockey - Arthur Dorrington signed
Flight over North Pole on regularly scheduled commercial route began
Actor Tyrone Power dies of a heart attack at 44
Mickey Wright shoots a 62 lowest golf score for a woman pro
Gemini XII returns to Earth
Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km
250 000 protesters peacefully demonstrate against Vietnam War
Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany
Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev
75th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy
Baby Fae who received a baboon's heart dies at Calif medical center
Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa
Sherman begins his march to sea thru Georgia
6 000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
Okla becomes 46th state
Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets ending a 31-game undefeated streak (NFL & major-league football record)
NY Rangers play their 1st game
Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
UN gets US govt approval to issing postage stamps
1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (DM Campbell)
Venera 3 launched 1st land on another planet (Crashed into Venus)
1st public announcement about Walt Disney World
Dr Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail by a jury
Skylab 4 launched into earth orbit
5th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 5 returns to Earth
14th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 returns to Earth
Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary
John Peter Zenger newspaper editor arrested for libel against NY colonial governor; later acquitted
Congress held 1st session in Washington
Street signs authorized at SF intersections
Suez Canal opens
Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel"
Panama Canal opens
Sculptor August Rodin died in Meudon France
Lyndon B Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor
Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane
Britain's House of Commons voted to nationalize steel industry
fullback Jim Brown Syracuse scores 43 pts (NCAA rec) vs. Colgate
Dulles Intl Airport outside Wash DC dedicated by Pres Kennedy
Heidi bowl-NBC misses Oakland rally to beat Jets 43-32
Russia lands unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
Pres Nixon told AP "...people have got to know whether or not their pres is a crook. Well I'm not a crook."
Egyptian Pres Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel
S Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim was legally declared dead
Islanders scored 20 assists against Rangers
Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope
Battle of Vertieres in which Haitians defeat French
Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B Palmer
Standard time zones established by railroads in US Canada
Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
US invades Nicaragua later overthrows Pres Zelaya
Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop
Latvia declares independence from Russia
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in "Steamboat Willie"
Flowers & Trees awarded 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
1st ambassador to Canada Ray Atherton nominated
Yanks trade Woodling Byrd McDonald Triandos Miranada & Smith to Orioles for Turley Larsen & Hunter as part of an 18 player deal
Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett
Devils shutout Rangers 6-0
Flyers' Ron Sutter failed on 11th penalty shot against Islanders
Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico Discovery Day
Mayflower pgrims reach Cape Cod
1st protestant ministry society in New England
Lincoln delivers Gettysburg address
Pencil invented
Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations rejected by US Senate
Ford cancels Edsel
Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal State Historical Landmark
Ft Wilderness opens
Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer failed on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders
Rev Jim Jones leads 911 people in suicide in Jonestown Guyana
Britain declares war against Holland
NJ became 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights.
William Bundy invents 1st timecard clock
US intervenes in Bluefields Nicaragua
Revolution broke out in Mexico led by Francisco I. Madero.
US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
Commercial teletype service began
NHL abolishes regular season overtime
American forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Is.
24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg Germany.
Meet the Press makes network TV debut on NBC.
UN General assembly looks into printing their own stamps
Britain's Princess Elizabeth marries Duke Philip Mountbatten
1st airplane to exceed 1300 mph - Scott Crossfield
At 11 AM Census Clock at Dept of Commerce ticks past 200 million.
Spain's Gen. Francisco Franco dies in Madrid at 82
Walter Payton of Bears rushes for NFL-record 275 yards
Egyptian Pres Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israel Knesset
Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Oakland A's)
UA withdraws $44 million movie `Heaven's Gate' for reediting.
Anatoly Karpov USSR retains world chess championship
100 million watch ABC-TV movie `The Day After'
Yankee Don Mattingly named AL MVP
UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS
Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Providencetown MA harbor
Jakob B”hme German philosophical mystic dies (birth date unknown)
Pilƒtre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight
NC becomes 12th state
Honolulu Harbor discovered
Phoenix is lost on Lake Michigan
1st US ambassador to USSR - WC Bullitt
Yanks buy Joe DiMaggio from SF Seals
1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet
World's longest suspension bridge Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened
Gene Michaels replaces Dick Howser as Yankee's 25th manager
Who Shot JR episode of Dallas
Intl Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS" as new call for help
Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college
Lebanon gains independence from France (Natl Day)
Arthur S Eddington dies
end Jim Benton of Cleveland gains 303 yards (NFL record)
Mickey Mantle beats Ted Williams by 1 vote for MVP
JFK assasinated in Dallas
UN Security council passes resol 242 - Israel must give back land
Beatles release "The Beatles" there only double album
Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak
Lake Buena Vista Club opens
just past midnight a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet
Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
Post Hospital at Presidio SF renamed Letterman General Hospital
Lens to provide zoom effects patented - FG Back
Merle Oberon dies at 68
Mae West dies at 88
Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
SC passes Ordinance of Nullification
Patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire
1st US Presial airplane christened
Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)
1st live murder on TV - Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
Apollo 12 returns to Earth
D B Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200 000
Kings' Charley Simmer failed on 8th penalty shot against Islanders
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
Britain captures Ft Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
Britain evacuated NY their last military position in US
John B Meyenberg of St Louis patented evaporated milk
VP Thomas A Hendricks died at 66 8 months after taking office
WTAW of College Station Tx broadcast 1st football play-by-play
1st Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261 ft
Ft Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed
Agatha Christie's "Mouse Trap" opens in London
Pres Eisenhower suffered a slight stroke
1st atomic reactor for research & development Richland Wa
Greek Pres George Papadopoulos ousted in a bloodless military coup
UN Secretary-General U Thant dies in NY of cancer at 65
Netherlands grants Surinam independence (Natl Day)
O.J. Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs. Det
Sugar Ray Leonard regains WBC welterweight championship
Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth 149 days after take-off
William Schroeder becomes 2nd to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart
1st lion to be exhibited in America (Boston)
Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)
1st natl celebration of Thanksgiving
Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1st fraternity Kappa Alpha formed at Union College (Schenectady)
1st horse drawn American street car -NYC- fare: 12›
Alice in Wonderland published
1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF at 25th & Folsom
Sojourner Truth abolitionist women's rights advocate dies
1st Meteor photograph
Hawaiian Sugar Planters Assn formed
Nazis force 4.5 mil Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto
India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
China enters Korean conflict
1st recording session under the name Beatles
France launches 1st satellite a 92-pound A1 capsule
1st major tidal power plant opened at Rance estuary France
Nixon's personal sec Rose Mary Woods told a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
Fed jury found Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
Rachael Roberts dies at age 53
Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
Clyde King named Yankee manager
23rd Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 is launched
Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade
Advent Sunday
Cracow declared a free republic
1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation
Army War College was established in Wash DC
NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
Pro-labor musical revue `Pins & Needles'opens produced by ILGWU
French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships & submarines to prevent them from falling into hands of Nazis
Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China
Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP beating Ted Williams by 1 vote
1st rocket to intercept an airplane White Sands NM
Playwright Eugene O'Neill dies in Boston at 65
in highest-scoring NFL game Wash Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41
Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"
Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"
Mars 2 1st crash land on Mars
Yanks trade Ellis Torres & Spikes to Indians for Nettles & Moses
Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP
SF Mayor George Moscone & City Sup Harvey Milk shot by Dan White
Soyuz T-3 is launched
Singer-actress Lotte Lenya dies in NY at 83
5th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 3-0
Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
Space shuttle Atlantis makes 2nd flight carries 7 (1 Mexican)
Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean
Olympia established as capital of Washington Territory
America's auto race starts; 6 cars 55 miles winner avg 7 MPH
Albania declares independence from Turkey
Adm RE Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight
Ernie Nevers scores 40 points for Cardinals vs Bears (NFL record)
Roosevelt Churchill & Stalin met at Tehran
Mauritania gains independence from France (Natl Day)
Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars
Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
Rosalind Russell dies at age 68
9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 is launched
Reagan adm exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey adviser to England's King Henry VIII died.
Indians kill Marcus & Narcissa Whitman 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore
Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians
US receives rights to Pearl Harbor on Oahu Hawaii
1st Army-Navy football game Score: Navy 24 Army 0
US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels
Richard Byrd & crew flies over South Pole
Chicago Bears beat Detroit in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally
Albania liberated from Nazi control (Natl Day)
Yugoslav Republic Day
UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
1st underground atomic explosion Frenchman Flat Nevada
Pres-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war.
Mercury 5 launches a chimp (Ham/Enos)
Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
LBJ sets up Warren comm to investigate assassination of JFK
US Sec of Def McNamara becomes president of the World Bank.
1st Prof Golf Championship at Walt Disney World
Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with Yankees
Actress Natalie Wood drowns off Santa Catalina Calif. at 43
Cary Grant dies in Davenport Iowa at 82
It was later ruled that he should not be credited with the goal
Ranger's Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs Isles)
BC Cleopatra died
St Andrew's Day
Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
USSR invades Finland over a border dispute
1st game of only 2-game Grey Cup (Ottawa 8 Toronto Balmy Beach 2)
Day after UN decree for Israel Jewish settlements are attacked
1st meteorite known to have struck a woman - Sylacauga Ala
1st guided missile destroyer launched Dewey Bath Me
USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars
Barbados gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
South Yemen (then Aden) gains independence from Britain
20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks)
