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Portugal becomes independent of Spain
Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
1st drive-up gasoline station opens in Pitts
Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town
Iceland becomes independent state under the Danish crown
1st skywriting over US - "Hello USA" - by Capt Turner RAF
Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe
Bernard Schmidt invented Schmidt camera dies
Golden Gate Bridge closed because of high winds
Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to move to back of the bus
Central African Republic established (National Day)
1st color photograph of Earth from outer space
International Antarctic Treaty signed in Washington
Grey Cup halted by fog resumed next day (Winnipeg 28 Hamilton 27)
Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch Isaac Newton Telescope
Napoleon becomes 1st French emperor placing crown on his own head
Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
1st savings bank in US opens as Phila Savings Fund Society
In San Salvador a congress proposes incorporation into US
Pres Monroe declares his doctrine
French monarchy restored; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
John Brown hung
US & Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
1st Model A Fords sold for $385
1st controlled nuclear reaction at University of Chicago
1st human birth televised to public Denver Co
US Senate censures Joe McCarthy for his conduct
1st full-scale atomic electric power plant - power generated Pa
1st OT Grey Cup game (Winnipeg 21 Hamilton 14)
Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
United Arab Emirates gains independence from Britain (National Day)
In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
Soyuz 16 launched
Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
Moscone Convention Center in SF opens
1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted
Galileo invents telescope
Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College Oxford
Illinois becomes 21st state
Andrew Jackson elected pres
Oberlin College in Oh 1st truly coeducational college opens
Paid Fire Dept takes over from volunteer companies
Joe Lilliard QBed Chic Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946
Tennessee Williams play `A Streetcar Named Desire ' opens
Pumpkin Papers came to light
Cleve Browns last NFL team with no pass game (beat Phila 13-7)
1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
Joseph McCarthy condemned by Senate
Police arrests 800 at U of Cal at Berkeley
1st human heart transplant performed (Capetown South Africa)
20th Century Ltd famed NY-Chic luxury train final run
Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)
11 die at Riverfront Coliseum Cin at a Who concert
NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy D-NY guilty
2000 die in Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal India
23rd Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 returns to Earth
America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va)
A hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with figure of great comet 1st seen on December 16 1680
1st Gen Assembly in Penn (Chester)
Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern NYC
1st Grey Cup game (University of Toronto 26 Toronto Parkdale 6)
Roald Amundsen reaches South pole
Panama Pacific International Exposition opens
1st edition of Chase's Annual Events published
Gemini 7 launched with 2 astronauts
Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies)
South Africa grants Transkei independence
Columbus discovers Hispaniola
Phi Beta Kappa 1st American scholastic fraternity founded
Mozart dies
Daniel C Stillson patents pipe wrench
21st Amendment ratified 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed
1st coml hydroponics operation established Montebello Ca
Joe Wolcott beats Joe Louis
Dragnet premiers
AFL & CIO merge
Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album
Seattle Seahawks formed
Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
University Baptist Church Seattle declares sanctuary for refugees
Haiti discovered by Columbus
Quito Ecuador founded by Spanish
1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory
City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time
Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
Coal mine explosions in Monongah WV kills 361
Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
Irish Free State gains independence from Britain
1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
Gerald Ford becomes 1st unelected VP
South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
George Darwin theorized moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean dies
Winnipeg Blue Bombers become 1st western team to win Grey Cup
Pearl Harbor attacked (a day that will live in infamy) 1st Japanese submarine sunk by American ship (Ward)
Israel's PM Ben-Gureon retires
France grants Ivory Coast independence (National Day)
Apollo 17 last of Apollo moon series launched
10th Islander shut-out opponent - Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres
Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent - Black Hawks 4-0
Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 1st woman full prof at Harvard U dies
James Hoban White House designer dies
German amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 5th asteroid Astra
Fire in Santiago Chile kills 2 000
20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council Vatican I opens in Rome
American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions
Enlightment of Buddha
Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF
Coaxial cable patented
1st NFL championship on natl radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
SF 1st blackout at 6:15PM. Also US declares war on Japan
1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
A terrible Yankee trade Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith
Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
John Lennon assassinated in NY by David Mark Chapman
Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 returns to Earth
Sa'di great Persian poet (Orchard Rose Garden) dies
1st cremation in US
Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper American Minerva
1st Christmas Seals sold in Wilmington PO
300 Montgomery opens as new Bank of America HQ
UN Gen Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
Tanganyika gains independence from Britain
Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demanding that he recant
Mississippi becomes 20th state
Poet Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst Mass
Women granted right to vote in Wyoming Territory
Alfred Nobel dies; Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date
Spanish-American War ends - US acquires Guam from Spain
1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant Fr‚d‚ric Passy)
Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize
Harold Gould (Rhoda
Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
UN Genl Assembly adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights
Ralph J. Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years
Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
Israeli hmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
Singer Otis Redding dies in plane crash at 26
Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth 211 days after take-off
South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
Indiana becomes 19th state
French Panama Canal company fails
Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed
German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
Snow falls in SF
King Edward VIII of England abdicates for woman he loves
Japanese occupy Guam
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
KTVA Anchorage becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
USS Forrestal christened in Newport News Va
Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France
Yanks trade Marv Thronberry Don Larsen Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri
JFK provides US milt helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
John Lennon release an album that contains songs with word "fuck"
1st class postage rises from 10› to 13›
Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph Dock Ellis & Ken Brett from Pirates for George 'Doc' Medich
Penns becomes 2nd state
Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
George F Grant patents golf tee
Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal England to US
Henrietta Leavitt cepheid period-luminosity relation discover dies
1st mobile TV unit (NYC)
Kenya gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Russia launches Voshkod I 1st multi-crew in space (3 men)
Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs ties NFL record
Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves
Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world
Battle of Fredericksburg Va; South beats North
Wright brothers 1st airplane flight at Kittyhawk
Wilson 1st to make a foreign visit as Pres
Interferometer used to measure 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres
Playland at the Beach reopens
Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
Maltese Republic Day
Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
Susan B Anthony dollar 1st US coin to honor a woman issued
Solidarity Day
Devil's 1st hat trick - Steve Tambellini
Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers
Charleston SC evacuated by British
George Washington died at Mt Vernon Va
Alabama becomes 22nd state
South Pole 1st reached by Roald Amundsen
Iraq gains independence from Britain but British troops remain
Mariner 2 makes 1st US visit to another planet (Venus)
Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night from power failure
Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent - Kings 3-0
Anders Kailur scored in 6th Islander penalty shot
Yankee catcher Elston Howard dies
Roger Maris dies at 51
Simon Marius namer of Jupiter's 4 inner satellites is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
Bill of Rights ratified when Va gave its approval
Patent Office burns in Wash DC
G.R. Kirchoff describes chemical composition of sun
Thomas Edison patents phonograph
1st hockey game at Madison Sq Garden Candiens 3 Americans 1
1st coml manufacture of nylon yarn Seaford Delaware
Bandleader Major Glenn Miller lost over English Channel
Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL failed to report bribe attempt
American Radio Relay League founded
1st rendevous in space: Gemini 6 & Gemini 7 link up
Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn Janus
Walt Disney passes away
SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
USSR's Venera 7 becomes the 1st craft to land on Venus
Golf Resort (The Disney Inn) opens
Pirates of Caribbean opens
Free agent Dave Winfield signs with Yankees
USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed
English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor Indians welcome
Earthquake in Naples Italy
Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres
Variety covering all phases of show business 1st published
Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise
US pressure forces Nicaraguan Pres Jos‚ Santos Zelaya from office
South Pole 1st reached by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
Battle of the Bulge began
Gemini VI returns to Earth
Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time
Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
France recognizes independance of the 13 colonies
Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City
NYC traffic regulation creates 1st one-way street
Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city
Charles Dickens's classic: A Christmas Carol published
1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
Anaheim Township created in LA County
Violent bread riots at Montreal
At 10:35AM 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight by Wright Bros
Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
1st professional NFL football game: Chicago Bears vs NY Giants
M-OceanView streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
1st fully automated railroad freight yard - Gary In
1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities - On The Beach
1st time Islanders shut-out Rangers 3-0 - Billy Smith's 5th
Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
Antonio Stradivari violin maker dies
NJ becomes 3rd state
British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812
William Bond obtains 1st photograph of moon through a telescope
13th Amendment ratified slavery abolished
Auto speed record set -- 63 kph
Pres Wilson widowed the year before marries Edith Bolling Galt
Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game
Uruguay joined UN
Japan admitted to the UN
1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip
1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa Damao & Diu
Borman & Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII
Britain abolished death penalty
1st Candlelight Processional
Diana Lynn dies at 45
US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
Soyuz 13 launched into earth orbit for 8 days
SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin suffered a fatal heart attack at 76
UN Security Council unanimously condemns `acts of hostage-taking'
Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
Vitus Bering Dutch navigator & explorer died
Thomas Paine publishes his 1st `American Crisis' essay
Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge Pa for the winter
US recognized independence of Hawaii
Charles Dickens publishes `A Christmas Carol ' in England
Grading started for Market Street RR
Battle of Black Water
Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek Penn
British Broadcasting Corp. began transmitting overseas
Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc authorized
War broke out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacked French
Gen. Eisenhower named NATO commander
The Music Man starring Robert Preston opens on Broadway
Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
Apollo 17 returns to Earth
Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st VP
Nellie Tayloe Ross 1st woman governor dies at 101
Fire at the Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
Va Co settlers leave London to establish Jamestown
Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed - Sept 1 to Jan 1
1st successful US cotton mill (Pawtucket RI)
Louisiana Purchase was formally transferred from France to US
Sacagawea Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark dies
Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
Hawaiian PO established
SC becomes 1st state to secede from US
Union Gen. Sherman continued his `march to the sea.' Savannah Ga
Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
Intl cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
Phileas Fogg completes around world trip according to Verne
Pneumatic automobile tire patented
Canadian National Railways established (longest on continent with more than 50 000 kilometers of track in US & Canada)
14 republics formed USSR
Mt Davidson dedicated as city park
Radio Australia starts shortwave service
Battle of Bastogne Nazis surrounded 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
Berlin Wall opened for 1st time to West Berliners
Author John Steinbeck dies in NY at 66
Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley dies at 74
Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns
1st Space walk made by G. Grechko from Salyut
Arthur Rubinstein pianists dies in Geneva Switzerland at 95
Islanders scored 11 goals against Penguins
Boccaccio author of Decameron dies
Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
Samuel Slater opens 1st textile factory in US in Rhode Island
U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole
1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
1st group hospital insurance plan effected Dallas Tx
Human blood serum 1st prepared
1st feature-length cartoon with color & sound premieres (Snow White)
Broadway Tunnel opens in SF
Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn was murdered
Apollo 8 (Frank Borman Jim Lovell Bill Anders) 1st manned moon voyage
Israel Egypt Syria Jordan US & USSR meet in Geneva
20th Islander shut-out opponent - Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins
Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win - Whalers 1-0
Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
Washington resigns his milt commission
Hawaiian PO established
US deports 250 alien radicals
Lincoln Tunnel opened to traffic
Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3 530 kph (record for a jet)
Islanders scored 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 teenagers on a subway train
St Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea a satellite of Saturn
John Flamsteed observes Uranus but doesn't realize its undiscovered
Washington resigns as US Army's commander-in-chief
US Federal Reserve system authorized
Ireland divided into two parts each with its own parliament
Transistor invented by Bardeen Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs
PM Tojo 6 other Japanese hung for war crimes by US
Borman Lovell & Anders 1st men to orbit moon
Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua
Islanders end 15 games winless streak
6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
Islanders scored 7 goals in one period against the Rangers Trottier scores 8 pts vs Rangers 5 goals-NHL rec 6 pts in 1 pd
Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama dies in Cochin India
Vasco daGama Day
Treaty of Ghent signed ending War of 1812 (This news did not arrive until after Battle of New Orleans)
Silent Night composed by Franz Gruber sung next day
Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash destroys 35 000 volumes
Several Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski Tn
Giuseppe Verdi's `Aida' premiere in Cairo at Suez canal opening
1st radio program broadcast in Brant Rock Mass
Reginald A. Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio
Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250 000 people at Lotta's Fountain
Enrico Caruso gave his last public performance
1st radioactive isotope medicine administered Berkeley Ca
FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
Libya gains independence from Italy
Luna 13 lands on moon
Apollo 8 astronauts read Old Testament Book of Genesis passages
Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released
Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
1st recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec. 25 took place in Rome
William the Conqueror was crowned king of England
Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
Washington crosses Delaware & surprises Hessians
Silent Night by Franz Joseph Gruber & Joseph Mohr sung for 1st time
Despite bitter opposition Pres Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion (the Civil War)
Hirohito became emperor of Japan
NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
Walt Disney's "The Sword In The Stone" is released
Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting moon
Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland at 88
Israeli PM Menachem Begin met in Egypt with Egyptian Pres Sadat
1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
1st Spanish settlement in New World founded by Columbus
Expulsion of tea ships from Phila
1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
James Mason patents 1st American coffee percolator
Fed govt took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I
Yanks & Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth
1st East-West football game at Ewing Park before 25 000 fans
US foreswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere
Harry Truman 33rd US Pres dies at 88
Soyuz 13 returns to Earth
Prussian forces took Olmutz Czechoslovakia
1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England
Darwin begins his voyage onboard HMS Beagle
Hawaiian Fire Department established
Ontario & Quebec legislatures held 1st meeting
Sweet Adaline a barbershop quartet favorite is 1st sung
Show Boat opens in NYC
Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR Trotsky expelled
Radio City Music Hall opens in NY
1st youth hostel opened Northfield Mass
Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an `open city'
International Monetary Fund established-World Bank founded
1st `Howdy Doody' show (Puppet Playhouse) telecast on NBC
Apollo 8 returns to Earth
LA Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak
Lester Pearson Canadian PM (Nobel-1956)
Soviet troops invade Afghanistan
Propane gas fire devastated 16 square blocks of Buffalo
Terrorists kill 20 & wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome & Vienna airports. President Reagan blamed Libyaner Moammar Gadhafi
William Semple patents chewing gum
John Calhoun became the 1st Vice-president to resign
Iowa becomes 29th state
Battle of Wounded Knee SD - Last major conflict with Indians
Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
Earthquake strikes Messina Italy; 80 000 die
SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St. (MUNI)
SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel into South Korea
30th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy
Warring Lebanese Moslem and Christian leaders sign peace agreement
Archbishop Thomas A Becket murdered by King Henry II supporters
Texas becomes 28th state
Gas lights installed at White House for 1st time
1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened in Boston
Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball
Federal troops massacre 300 captive Sioux at Wounded Knee SD
SF Symphony formed
Death of Rasputin
William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM
Identification of heavy water publicly announced HC Urey
Pan Am starts SF to Auckland New Zealand service
1st UHF television station operating regular basis Bridgeport Ct
Hungary nationalized its industries
1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale Elmsford NY
11 killed 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC
US announced withdrawal from UNESCO
Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
1st coffee planted in Hawaii
Gadsden Purchase 45 000 sq miles by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million. Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico
602 die as flames swept through Iroquois Theater in Chicago
Grigori Rasputin Russian monk advisor to tsarina is assassinated
USSR organized as a federation
Edwin Hubble announces existence of other Milky Way systems
Italian bombers destroyed Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
Electronic television system patented VK Zworykin
Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders)
Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
Democratic Republic of Madagascar founded
John Wycliffe English religious reformer died
British East India Company chartered
John Flamsteed 1st Astronomer Royal dies at 73
James Bradley announces discovery of earth's motion of nutation
Battle of Qu‚bec
End of French Republican calendar
Future Pres & Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes marry
Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as new capital of Canada
Pres Lincoln signs an act admitting West Virginia to the Union
Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank at Cape Hatteras NC
Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)
Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
Ellis Is opens as a US immigration depot
Last SF firehorses retired
NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater
48 people die in a train accident in Ogden Utah
Pres Truman officially proclaims end of WW II
1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X
Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3 million Yank contract
US citizens allowed to buy & own gold for 1st time in 40 years
Lt Rawlings stages coup in Ghana
Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH
Rajiv Gandhi took office as India's 6th PM
Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama
