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St. David's Day
Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation
1st US census began
Ohio becomes 17th state
Present seal of SF adopted (its 2nd)
Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
Rebecca Lee becomes 1st black woman MD in US
Nebraska becomes 37th state
Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park
Library of Hawaii founded
Korean independence Demonstrations from Japan begin
Bank of Italy becomes a Natl Bank
Charles Lindbergh Jr. kidnapped in NJ; found dead May 12
1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Ct)
Intl Monetary Fund began operations
22nd amendment limits president to 2 terms
Pres Kennedy establishes Peace Corps
Venera 3 becomes 1st manmade object to impact on a planet (Venus)
Mickey Mantle announces retirement
End of coml whale hunting in the US
White govt of Rhodesia declares ind from Britain
Soviet Venus 13 soft lands on Venus
US slave importation forbidden
Ark territory organized
Tx declares independence from Mexico
Heinrich Olbers - discoverer of comets & asteroids - dies
Washington territory organized
Congress creates Dakota & Nevada territories
Congress abolishes peonage in NM
Hawaii's 1st telegraph co opens
Puerto Rico territory created - US citizenship granted
Time mag 1st published
Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals
1st automatic st light (New Milford - Ct)
1st non-stop - round-the-world airplane flight completed
1st surface crossing of the Antarctic continent is completed
Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 pts in an NBA game
American Airlines 1st flight of Boeing 747
Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby
1st class postage raised to 10› from 8›
Walt Disney World's 50-millionth guest
Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
3rd Islander scoreless tie - Penguins in Pitts
60th hat trick in Islander history - Bryan Trottier
Robert Hooke - scientific genius - dies in London
US Mint established
Congress passes 1st foreign aid bill
Alabama territory organized
Missouri compromise passes
Florida becomes 27th state
Gold Coinage Act passed
Minn Territory organized
Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3› piece)
Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
Congress authorizes 20› coin lasts only 3 years
Bulgaria liberated from Turkey
A T & T incorporated
Russia signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - withdraws from WW I
Time mag's 1st issue
Star Spangled Banner officially became US national anthem
US wins Battle of Bismark Sea over Japan
US & Philippine forces recapturedsCorregidor
Morocco gains independence from France (National Day)
Apollo 9 launched
Pioneer 10 launched thru asteroid belt & Jupiter
Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4 Making Islander record when scoring a hat trick - 5-1-0
Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal
Isle's Mike Bossy 9th & final hat trick of season - 4 goals
Isles score 11 goals-Lafontaine's 1st hat trick-Maple Leafs
Moonlighting premiers
John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of GB
King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn
1st Congress declares constitution in effect
Vt admitted as 14th state
Oranges introduced to Hawaii
Washington's 2nd inaugration - shortest speech 133 words
1st pres inaugration in Wash DC (Thomas Jeffersin)
1st US RR chartered - Granite Railway in Quincy - Mass
Longest inaugration speech - 8443 words - William Henry Harrison
Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag
Idaho Territory established
Great fire in Shanghai 1 -000 buildings destroyed
American Automobile Association opens
Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
FDR inaugurated - says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson (SF) dedicated
1st black US sub-cabinet member appointed - JE Wilkins
1st radio facsimile transmission is sent across the continent
Pioneer 4 makes 1st US lunar flyby
Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped - to Los Alamos Laboratories - NM
US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
40th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy
2nd double hat trick in Islander history - Bossy & D Potvin
Corpernicus' DE REVOLUTIONIBUS placed on Catholic Forbidden index
Boston Massacre - 5 die
Congress appropriates $30 -000 to ship camels to western US
1st ascent of Mt. Erebus - Antarctica
US marines land in China to protect American property
FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
Josef V Stalin died
King Kong 1st televised
Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot
Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter
Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society published
Alamo falls. Remember it!
Dred Scott decision
Nora Blatch becomes 1st woman elected to Am Soc of Civil Engineers
Bkln's Clarence Birdseye developes quick freezing food method
Gold Coast (Ghana) gains independence
Soyuz 39 returns to Earth
Soviet Vega 1 probe passes within 10 -000 km of Halley's comet
BC Aristotle died
Thomas Aquinas - philosopher & saint - dies
Thomas Aquinas Day
British close Boston port to commerce
Capt. James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast - at Yaquina Bay
In Hawaii - Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
US sent 20 -000 troops to Mexican border
Roald Amundsen announces the discovery of the South Pole
1st transatlantic telephone call (London-New York)
Monopoly invented
Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles - sends troops to Rhineland
During WW II - US crosses Rhine River
Mary Martin as Peter Pan televised
1st aviator to fly a million miles in a jet (MC Garlow)
US Orbiting Solar Observatory launched
March by civil rights demonstrators broken in Selma - Ala
Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
Senate revises filibuster rule - allows 60 senators to limit debate
Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter
Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
Walter Cronkite's final CBS anchor appearance
Sen Jacob K Javits - R-NY - dies in Palm Beach - Fla
Confederate ironclad Merrimack launched
US invades Cuba for 3rd time
Edwin Hubble photograph shows as many galaxies as Milky Way stars
Intl Women's Day
1st helicopter licensed for coml use - NYC
1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel - BR Walters
Groucho - Chico & Harpo's final TV appearance together
Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day
1st US forces arrive in Vietnam
Largest observed falling single stony meteorite (Jiling - China)
Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation -
Cardinal Jules Mazarin - chief minister of France - died
Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
Charles Graham of NY granted patent for artificial teeth
1st Japanese-US ambassador
Monitor (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads
Edward R Murrow criticizes Sen McCarthy (See it Now)
Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent - Blues 4-0
1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io)
1st money minted in Hawaii
Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent - only US president to do so
1st telephone call
Harriet Tubman - abolitionist - conductor on Underground RR - dies
Earthquake in Long Beach
1st civilian to exceed speed of sound -HH Houver - Edwards AFB Ca
Rings of Uranus discovered during occultation of SAO
Soyuz 28 returns to Earth
1st London daily newspaper
Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
John Chapman `Johnny Appleseed' dies in Allen County - Ind
Confederate convention in Montgomery - adopts constitution
Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville - NC
Great Mauna Loa volcano erupts
Blizzard struck NE US - 400 die
1st public basketball game (Springfield - Mass)
Pres & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington
Germany invades Austria
FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill
Gen MacArthur left Bataan for Australia
1st woman army Dr commissioned (FM Adams)
Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV's 21
Pioneer 5 launched; orbits sun between Earth & Venus
Rings of Uranus are discovered
Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko
187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
NJ became a British colony
Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence - Italy
1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
1st $20 gold piece issued
Congress abolishes manufactures tax
British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
Great blizzard of '88 kill 400 in NE US
AL offically approves NY Highlanders (Yankees)
Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savanah Ga
1st transatlantic radio broadcast
Chinese rev leader Sun Yat-Sen died
Mohandas Gandhi began 200-mile march protesting British salt tax
FDR's 1st "Fireside Chat"
Germany invades Austria
Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II
British Empire Day
Commonwealth Day
House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
Bob Dylan cancels Ed Sullivan appearance
Pioneer Plaza dedicated
Mauritius gains ind from Britain (Natl Day)
Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman in London
Sadat pledges to regain arab terrority from Israel
Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33
Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial - Richmond - VA
210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
Harvard U named for clergyman John Harvard
Mass gains title to Maine for $6 -000
Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really Uranus)
Uncle Sam debuts in NY Lantern
Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
Chester Greenwood patents ear muffler
Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated
US adopts standard time
Benjamin Harrison - 23rd pres - dies in Indianapolis
American suffragist Susan B Anthony dies
Tenn law prohibits teaching evolution
400 die in St Francis Dam burst (Calif)
Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
Anschluá -- Austria joins Nazi Germany
Attorney Clarence S Darrow dies
Kitty Genovese stabbed dead - 40 witness attack in Queens
Apollo 9 returns to Earth
Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
SF city employees start 4 day strike
Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
Soyuz T-15 launched
Royal charter grants Mass Bay Colony
England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now RI)
1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
Eli Whitney patents cotton gin
1st train crosses Niagara suspension bridge
Calif legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
Karl Marx dies
Sutro Baths opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1 - 1952)
US currency goes on gold standard
1st natl bird reservation established in Sebastian - FL
Pres Harding became 1st pres filing income tax report
1st theatre built for rear movie projection (NYC)
36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars
Freedom Train arrives in SF
During Korean War - UN forces recaptured Seoul
Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of Lee Harvey Oswald murder
Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with W Germany
JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
Susan Hayward dies at 56
Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (540 km)
Julius C‘sar assassinated in Roman Senate
Maine admitted as 23rd state
NY State unveals Automatic Ballot Cabinet (The Voting Machine)
Woodrow Wilson holds 1st Pres Press Conference
Gen. Pershing - 15 -000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico - stay 10 mo
Nicholas II - last Russian tsar - abdicates
1st blood bank established - Chicago - Ill
1st state contraceptive clinic opens - Raleigh - NC
Greatest 24-hour rainfall begins: 29 cm at La Reunion - Indian Ocean
My Fair Lady opens (NY)
Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
US Mint stops buying & selling gold
Wrestler Antonino Rocca dies at 49
Israel invades Lebanon to rid area of Palestine guerrillas
Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
1st all-color TV station televising live local programs
Pluto again becomes outermost planet
1st Indian appears at Plymouth - Mass
Law signed to establish US Milt Academy at West Point - NY
1st US black newspaper - Freedom's Journal (NYC)
US & Canada sign Migratory bird treaty
Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket 184 feet
Hitler orders German rearmament - violating Versailles Treaty
US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima
1.87m rain fall at Cilaos - La R‚union in 24 hrs (world record)
Gemini 8 launched with 2 astronauts
My-Lai massacre occurs
US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
St Patrick - patron saint of Ireland - died in Saul
1st official St. Patrick's Day
British forces evacuated Boston during Revolutionary War
FW Bessel - measurer of distance to 61 Cygni - dies
Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
Eleanor Roosevelt married FDR in NY
Pres Theodore Roosevelt used term "muckrake"
Camp Fire Girls organize
Natl Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC
Element 98 (Californium) announced
Vanguard 1 measures shape of Earth
Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (sainted in 1975)
US sub locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean
Golda Meir became Israeli PM
US casts 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
70th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy
St. Edward the Martyr - king of Anglo-Saxons (975-78) dies
de Soto becomes 1st European to record flooding of Mississippi River
Britain repeals Stamp Act
American Express founded
Vera Cruz - Mexico besieged by Miramon
Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in MSG
Lord Stanley proposes silver cup challenge for Hockey
Einar Dessau of Denmark-1st ham broadcast
Mohandas K Gandhi sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment
1st electric razor marketed by Schick
Tx gas explosion kills 400
Mexico took control of foreign-owned oil properties
1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted - Phila
Pres Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
French & Algerian rebels agree to a truce
Russia launches 2nd & final Voshkod-1st spacewalk-Aleksei Leonov
Most Arab oil producing nations end US embargo
Vietnam hands over MIA to US
Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC
Treasury Dept announces plans to alter paper money
Boston - Mass incorporated
Faust by Charles Gounod premiers in Paris
LA Railway established
US Supreme Court upheld 8 hour work day for RR
Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight time
US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time
Amos & Andy debuts on radio
Nevada legalized gambling
FDR orders men between 45 & 64 register for non military duty
800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan
1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy - Oak Ridge - Tn
Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny published
Academy Awards ceremony (1st telecast)
1st rocket-driven sled on rails tested - Alamogordo - NM
Anne Klien dies at 50
Buckingham Palace announces separation of Princess Margaret
House of Reps begin day-to-day TV broadcasts
2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
Kate & Allie premiers
PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns
Sir Isaac Newton dies in London at 84
Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
Napoleon enters Paris - begins 100 day rule
US & Siam conclude coml treaty
Harriet Beecher Stowe's `Uncle Tom's Cabin -' published
1st AC commercial power plant begins operation
Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens
Martha Place of Bkln - became 1st woman to die by electrocution
Gen MacArthur vowed - "I shall return"
1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90 minutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscvanni on NBC
156-day strike against Westinghouse ended
Tunisia gains independence from France
1st "Pop Art" exhibition in NYC
Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
Flyers' Rick MacLeash scored on 6th penalty shot against Islanders
US appeals to Intl Court on hostages in Iran
Jean Harris sentenced 15 to life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr
French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
Bah 'ˇ New Year
Yosemite Valley discovered in Cal
US extradition treaty with Sweden
US invades Honduras
During WW I Germany launchs Somme Offensive -
During WW II Allied bombers begin 4 day raid over Germany
UN set up temporary hq at Hunter College (Bronx)
S African authorities kill 69 demonstrators at Sharpeville
Alcatraz fed pen in SF Bay closed
Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery
US Ranger 9 launched takes 5 -814 pictures before lunar impact
199.22 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony
Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water
Britain enacts Stamp Act
Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery - in Wash state
F.W.A. Argelander - cataloguer of 324 -000 stars - dies
Stephen Decatur killed in a duel with Com James Barron
Congress outlaws polygamy
Montreal AAA beats Ottawa Capitals 3-2 & wins 1st Stanley Cup
NY Highlander (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
USCG vessel sank Canadian-reg schooner suspected of carrying liquor
Grand Coulee Dam in Wash went into operation
Arab League founded
Jordan (then Transjordan) gains independence from Britain
Earthquake gives SF shakes
AL Schawlow & C H Townes obtain patent for the laser
Beatles release 1st album - Please Please Me
Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali's 1st MSG fight
Lynda Johnson ordered off Cable Car for eating an ice cream cone
Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
Robert Frost Plaza - at Calif - Drumm & Market - dedicated
Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
1st class postage raised to 18› from 15›
Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 launched
Chaim Herzog elected Israeli pres
Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game
George Frideric Handel's oratorio `Messiah' London premiere
Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias - died 2 days later
Patrick Henry asks for liberty or death
Lewis & Clark reached Pacific coast
1st photo of moon taken
Benito Mussolini founded Fascist movement in Milan Italy
Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
1st telephone installed in White House
German Reichstag granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
LA Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars
All-India-Muslim league calls for a Muslim Homeland
US began moving Japanese-Americans to detention centers
Nicholas Alkemade falls 5 -500 m without a parachute & lives
UN World Meteorological Org established
Pakistan became independent within British Commonwealth
JFK visits SF
Gemini 3 launched - 1st US 2-man space flight
Intl Bill of Rights goes into effect - 35 nations ratify
Isle's Mike Bossy's 20th career hat trick - 4 goals
1st Artificial heart recipient Dr Barney Clark died after 112 days
Britain enacts Quartering Act
Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF - 89 days out of NY
British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
37 miners die at Franklin - Wash
FDR grants future independence to Philippines
Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins & 30 seconds of 9th period. 176 minute games is hockey's longest
In occupied Rome - Nazis executed more than 300 civilians
1st oil drill seagoing rig placed in service
Tennessee Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens on Broadway
Elvis Presley inducted into Army in Memphis Tenn
US Ranger 9 strikes moon 10 miles NE of crater Alphonsus
Great Britain imposed direct rule over N Ireland
Argentine pres Isabel Peron deposed by country's milt
Salvadoran death squads assassinate Archbishop Oscar Romero
Nightline with Ted Koppel premiers
US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
Maryland founded as a Catholic colony
Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan - (Saturn's largest satelite)
Annunciation Day
Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
Frederick Laggenheim takes the 1st photograph of a solar eclipse
Great Dayton Flood
Greek Independence Day
E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
RCA manufactures 1st COLOR TV set
E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power - USSR
1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
Bombay - India transferred to England
Orleans territoy organized in La Purchase
Composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna
Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster - precusor of bandaid
Hastings College of Law founded
Eastman Film Company manufactured 1st coml motion picture film
Poet Walt Whitman dies in Camden NJ
Spinach growers of Crystal City - Tx - erect statue of Popeye
USAF flag approved
Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine against polio
Army launched US's 3rd successful satellite Explorer III
Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg
Golden Gate Park Conservatory made a City Landmark
E Pakistan proclaimed independence taking name Bangladesh
Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
Groundbreaking in Wash DC for Vietnam Vet Memorial
Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Fla
Charles I King of England Scotland & Ireland ascends to throne
Pres Washington & Congress creates US Navy
Pallas (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers
Vesta (asteroid) discovered by OLbers
1st Mormon temple dedicated in Kirtland Ohio
Abraham Gesner receives a patent for kerosene
ML Byrn patents corkscrew (NY)
1st Japanese cherry trees planted in Wash DC
Seattle Metropolitans 1st US team to win Stanley Cup beat Canadiens
Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
Gen Eisenhower declared German defenses on Western Front broken
Khrushchev became Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party
Earthquake strikes Alaska - 8.4 on Richter scale - 100 die
Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated
Yuri Gagarin - 1st man to orbit Earth & Seryogin died in a plane crash
Venera 8 launched to Venus
582 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM 747-Pan Am 747 crash
Diana Hyland dies at 40
Mt. St. Helens becomes active after 123 years
Disney-MGM Studio Tour groundbreaking
Roman Emperor Pertinax assassinated
Jan Amos Komensky - Moravian educational reformer
Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
Heinrich Olbers discovers 2nd asteroid - later called Pallas
Heinrich Olbers discovers 4th asteroid (Vesta)
Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US
SF Art Assn holds open reception at 430 Pine
Constantinople & Angora change to Istanbul & Ankara
Spanish Civil War ends - Madrid fell to Francisco Franco
Novelist & critic Virginia Woolf dies
British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire
Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff dies
Athlete Jim Thorpe dies
Eisenhower the 34th pres dies in Washington at 78
Nuclear accident at 3 Mile Is - Middletown - Pa
Vera Cruz - Mexico falls to Americans
Albert Hall opens in London
Coca-Cola created (with cocaine)
Jack Benny debuts on radio
Yanks & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17 - spring training game
23rd Amendment ratified - Wash DC can vote for pres.
1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My-Lai massacre
US troops leave Vietnam - 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution
Mariner 10's 1st fly-by of Mercury - returns photos
Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
Fla became a US territory
Dr. Crawford Long - 1st physician to use ether as anesthetic
Hyman Lipman of Phila patents a pencil with attached eraser
US purchases Alaska for $7 -200 -000 (Seward's Folly)
15th Amendment passes - guarantees right to vote regardless of race
Tx readmitted to US after Civil War
Queensboro Bridge opens linking Manhattan & Queens
Amelia Earhart 1st woman to solo cross the Atlantic
USSR invades Austria during WW II
Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
Phototransistor invention announced - Murray Hill - NJ
P.J Melotte - discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae - dies
John Glenn withdrew from Ohio senate race
Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to S Vietnam
Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr
3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 returns to Earth
US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
James Cagney dies at his Stanfordville NY farm at 86
Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris
Quebec & Montreal incorporated
Col John W Geary 1st postmaster of SF
Japan opens ports to foreign trade by Commodore Perry
Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
Thomas P Mundy became 1st black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ)
Wabash Ind - 1st town completely illuminated by electric light
Eiffel Tower in Paris officially opened
US purchases Virgin Is from Denmark for $25 million
1st US daylight savings time goes into effect
1st dance marathon - NYC - Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hrs
Ford publicly unveiled its V-8 engine
1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper - "Soperton News" (Ga)
Congress authorized Civilian Conservation Corps
Ground broken for Union Sq Garage
Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! opens on Broadway
Newfoundland becomes 10th Canadian province
UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjold secretary-general
US Navy forms atomic sub division
LA ends streetcar service after 90 years
USSR launches Luna 10 - 1st spacecraft to orbit moon
LBJ announces he would not seek re-election
Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs Islanders - on 60 shots
Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan could be disc from respirator
Jesse Owens of 1936 Berlin Olympics fame dies in Az at 66
167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
