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Alexander Selkirk (aka Robinson Crusoe) rescued from Juan Fernandez
William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
US Supreme Court convened for 1st time (NYC)
13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
Sherman's march through SC
Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
1st armored car introduced
1st telecast of atomic explosion
1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1st Negro pilot on scheduled passenger airline - PH Young
Egypt & Syria join to form United Arab Republic
4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in - at Greensboro Woolworth's
Nicholas Piantanida sets unofficial world altitude record for manned balloon flight (123 -800 ft or 37 -700 m) - but dies in descent
1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced
Lorne Henning scored in 3rd Islander penalty shot
Sonny & Cher resumes on TV despite real life divorce
Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
Candlemas
1st shipload of Chinese arrive in SF Mexico sells US; Texas - California - New Mexico & Az for $15 million
National Baseball League formed with 8 teams
SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton
US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef
Lie detector 1st used in court - Portage Wi
8 of the 9 planets aligned for 1st time in 400 years
Late Night with David Letterman premiers
Territory of Illinois organized
Sherman's march through Mississippi
Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11 -920 ft) streetcar tunnel begins service
Walt Disney's "The Three Caballeros" released
Yalta Conference agreed that Russia would enter WWII against Japan
Meet the Beatles goes Gold
Soviet Luna 9 1st spacecraft to soft-land on moon
10th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 is launched
Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague
1st US Telegraph Company established in Maryland
Hawaiian Board of Education is formed
Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
1st Winter Olympics held at Lake Placid - NY
1st radioactive substance produced synthetically - radium E
Roosevelt - Stalin & Churchill meet in Yalta - USSR
Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale - Syracuse NY
Amendment 24 banning poll tax
Islanders & Sabres had a penality free game
Reshef - Israel's missile boat - is unveiled
Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore
20 countries (not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
Earthquake in Canada
Snow falls on SF
Present Mexican constitution adopted
Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium
FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court - plan failed "court packing"
Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released
Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
US Apollo 14 - 3rd manned expedition to moon - lands near Fra Mauro
US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus's cloud structure
According to Census Bureau - US population reaches 200 million
College of William & Mary chartered in Williamsburg - Va
Mass becomes 6th state to ratify constitution
Waitangi Day; treaty signed between European & Natives of N Zealand
Spanish-American War ends
1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike
US - UK - France - Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation
20th amendment changes date of presidential inaugurations
Elizabeth II becomes queen of Great Britain
Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow
Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole in one
3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0
Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in SF
Dominican Rep. signs treaty turning over customs collection to U.S
Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium
Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" released
US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam
1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation in USSR
Soyuz 24 launched
Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk
Haitians overthrow dictator - "Baby Doc" Duvalier
Mary - Queen of Scots beheaded
Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
Charter granted for College of William & Mary - 2nd college in US
Confederate States of America organized in Montgomery - Ala
Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen
Boy Scouts of America founded
US helps to overthrow Miguel D vila - president of Honduras
Radio arrives in the White House
Walt Disney Studios formed
SF Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall
Meteorite weighing over one ton is recovered in Chihuahua - Mexico
Skylab 4's astronauts land
Caps only got one shot in a period against the Islanders
Earthquake in SF - at 5.0 - strongest since 1966
Soyuz T-10 is launched
Nevill Maskelyne - 5th Astronomer Royal of England dies
US Weather Service is founded
1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento
Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prision for fraud.
Snow on Mauna Loa
Japanese evacuated Guadalcanal - ending epic battle
Superman TV series premiers
1st appearance of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan
Boeing 747 makes its 1st coml flight
Apollo 14 returns to Earth
Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
Halley's Comet reaches perihelion (closest approach to sun)
Edmund Halley is appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
Treaty of Paris ends French & Indian War
Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert
City of Anaheim incorporated (1st time)
1st electric arc light used (in California Theater)
Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo Choo goes gold
25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect
2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno
King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
Rene Descartes - "I think therefore I am" - dies
Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
Leon Foucault discovers 1st physical proof of earth's rotation - dies
Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome
Pumping begins to build Treasure Island
44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint - Mich. ends
1st flight with Negro stewardess - RC Taylor - Ithaca NY
Jack Paar walks off his show
Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens
Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
25th hat trick in Islander history - Denis Potvin
Tenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 returns to Earth
Santiago - Chile founded
Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe
Anna Jeanes bequests $1 -000 -000 to Swarthmore to become all girl
Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington - DC
Rhapsody In Blue" premiers in Carnegie Hall
Export-Import Bank incorporated
SF selected for site of UN Conference
A daytime fireball & meteorite fall is seen in eastern Siberia
Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam
USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
2nd Islander scoreless tie - Jets at Nassau
Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" idea of solar system
1st magazine published in America (The American Magazine)
Blue Danube" waltz premiers in Vienna
Prince Valiant comic strip appears; known for historical detail
Los Angeles Rams formed (then in Cleveland)
Fire-bombing of Dresden begins; c. 50 -000 killed
Israel acquires 4 of the 7 dead sea scrolls
France explodes its 1st atomic bomb - in Algerian desert
Islander's Bryan Trottier scores five goals against the Flyers
Valentine's Day
Oregon admitted as 33rd State
Alexander Graham Bell files application for patent on the telephone
Arizona becomes 48th state
USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
Skeezix of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallet's doorstep
St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago - 7 gangsters killed
Karl Jansky - discoverer of cosmic radio sources - dies
Sen John Kennedy appears on Meet the Press
Element 103 - lawrencium - 1st produced in Berkeley California
Mrs Kennedy gives TV audience a tour of the White House
John & Yoko guest host Mike Douglas Show for the entire week
USSR launches Luna 20; unmanned probe soft-lands on moon - returns
US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
Lupercalia
St. Louis founded
William Parsons - the Earl of Rosse - 1st uses 72-inch reflector
Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
Historic Elm at Boston blown down
USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor - cause unknown
SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
1st bevatron in operation - Berkeley - California
Production announced-1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds
Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager
Giordano Bruno - advocate of Copernican theory & plurality of worlds - is burned at the stake by the Inquisition in Rome
Ft. Donelson captured by Gen. Grant
Ladies Home Journal begins publication
1st airplane flight to LA from SF
Lithuania declares independence from Germany
Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun
Nylon patented - WH Carothers
US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized
US forces land on Corregidor - complete conquest on March 3
1st commercially designed helicopter tested - Bridgeport Ct
SF City Hall dome fire
1st all solid propellant rocket put in orbit-Wallops Island - Va
Beatles second appearance on Ed Sullivan
Giordano Bruno burned in Rome as a heretic
British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)
Mississippi readmitted to U.S. after Civil War
Sardines were 1st canned - in Eastport - Maine
1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones
Geronimo - Apache hero - dies (birth date unknown)
