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Supernova observed in Lupus the Wolf constellation
Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory
England - Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
1st wagon train leaves Independance - Mo for Cal
John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor
1st school for deaf founded
Folies-Bergre opens in Paris
1st US postal card issued
Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper
May Day
Angel Is US Quarantine Station opens
Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career - out of Polo Grounds
Dogers & Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
Empire State Building opens in NYC
Charles Lindbergh's baby kidnapped
Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated
Dem People's Rep of Korea (N Korea) established
Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid - (2nd satellite of Neptune)
Mickey Mantle's 1st HR
Bobby Feller's 15th 1-hit or less game
Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' US spy plane
1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
1st BASIC program run on a computer (Dartmouth)
Islander Parise & Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs Flyers 5-Isles 4 - Semi Finals- Flyers hold 2-0 lead
Empress Lilly dedicated
Marshall Islands becomes self-governing
Sabres & Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff
Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT) - Semi-Finals- Isles hold 3-0 lead
Leonardo da Vinci dies (birth date unknown)
Leonardo da Vinci Day
Hudson Bay Company founded
William Herschel discovers 1st binary star - Xi Ursae Majoris
Reds & Cubs pitch a dual no-hitter
South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville - Va
Pres Garfield assassinated
Congo Free State established by King Leopold II of Belgium
Okla Territory created
Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park opens
Lou Gehrig ends 2 -130 game streak - Yankees beat Tigers 22-2
Russia takes Berlin
Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz - 5 die
Stan Musial hits 5 HRs in a doubleheader
US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
Caryl Chessman executed in Calif for kidnapping
Israelli television begins
Mattingly's single broke up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid
Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver - BC
Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
Royal charter granted Conn
Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
1st US Medical school opened
Jamaica discovered by Columbus
1st regular steam train passenger service starts
Camp Merriman established at Presidio
British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
US marines land in Nicaragua - stay until 1933
Gil McDougald ties record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
3rd Mayor's Trophy Game - Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10
Natl non-coml Network Radio Begins Programming
Nixon administration arrests 13 -000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
Bruins 3-Isles 8 - Wales Conf Championship- Isles hold 3-1 lead
Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
Rhode Island declares independence from England
Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
Bourbon reign restored in France
1st major SF fire
Woodward's Gardens opens to public
1st pro baseball game played (Ft Wayne 2 - Cleveland 0)
Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices - beat Red Sox Babe Ruth 5-4
Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs - Yankees 11 - Tigers 9
Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather set altitude record for manned balloon flight - 34 -668 m - over Gulf of Mexico
4 students at Kent State U killed by Ohio Natl Guard
1st TV network female nudity - Steambath (PBS) - Valerie Perrine
Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots
Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels - ran record of 13 strike outs of last 14 faced - also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win 4-2
Nordiques 2-Isles 4 - Semi-Finals- Isles win series 4-0
British attack Ft Ontario - Oswego - NY
Battle of Puebla-Mexicans defeat Maximilian's forces (Cinco de Mayo)
Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Philadelphia
Great White Fleet arrives in SF
US marines invade Dominican Republic - stay until 1924
Construction on Yankee Stadium begins
Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6
Netherlands liberated from Nazi control
1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
Council of Europe established
West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers
Jim Bailey - 1st 4 minute mile run in USA - Los Angeles - Ca
Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
16th & final Mayor's Trophy Game - Mets beat Yanks 4-1 & hold 8-7 edge
Bruins 5-Isles 1 - Wales Conf Championship- Isles hold 3-2 lead
Sack of Rome - End Renaissance
Peter Minuet purchases Manhattan Island for $24
Haiti - under Toussaint L'Ouverture - revolts against France
1st postage stamps issued - by Britain
SF Chamber of Commerce starts
Dr John Farrie Patents a "refrigeration machine"
SF Olympic Club - 1st US athletic club founded
Arkansas becomes 9th state to secede from US
Lord Cavendish assassinated at Dublin - Ireland
Mormon Church renounces polygamy
Temporary permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street
Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut & 1st HR - loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15
Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst - NJ (36 die)
Bobo Holloman's 1st major league start - a no-hitter
Roger Bannister breaks 4 min mile (3:59:4)
1st nuclear warhead is fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
17th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 7 returns to Earth
English siege of Orl‚ans broken by Joan of Arc
Capt Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
Indiana Territory organized
Beethoven's 9th Symphony performed for 1st time
Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
SF Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan - Philippines
Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid
Nazis surrender to Gen Eisenhower at Reims - France
Kraft Television Theater premiers
French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dienbienphu
93 -103 largest baseball crowd (LA Coliseum) see Dodgers' Sandy Koufax beat Yankees in exhibition 6-2
Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6 -700 miles)
Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene
Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT) - Semi Finals- Flyers hold 3-1 lead
Bruins 4-Isles 8 - Wales Conf Championship- Isles win series 4-2
Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River
British Capt George Vancouver sights - names Mt Rainier - Wash
1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas
Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola
Mt Pel‚e erupts - wipes out St Pierre - Martinique
1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
Battle of Coral Sea ends
VE Day - Germany surrendered - WW II ends in Europe
Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores 6 runs in 1 game
Dacron men's suits introduced
1st shot-put over 60 feet - Parry O'Brien - Los Angeles - Ca
VP Nixon was shoved stoned booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru
1st practical sea water conversion plant - Freeport Texas
Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal - Washington
Jim (Catfish) Hunter of Oakland pitches perfect game vs Twins
Beatles release "Let it Be" album
Knicks beat Lakers for basketball championship
Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Sq Garden
Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for ten weeks surrendered
Sabres only take 15 shots - Islanders - 22 in a playoff
Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out - 1 short of record
Canucks 5-Isles 6 (OT) - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 1-0 lead
USSR announces it would not participate in LA Summer Olympics
Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to the New World
1st newspaper cartoon in America Divided snake `Join or die'
Telegraph Hill RR Co organized
17th amendment providing for election of senators by popular vote
Cornerstone for Hebrew University layed
Americans Byrd & Bennett make 1st airplane flight over North Pole
Italy annexed Ethiopia
1st eye bank opened in NYC
Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
1st Variety show - NBC's Hour Glass premiers
Robert Schuman announces Plan for European integration
Jim Gentile hits grand slammers in consecutive innings
FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a `vast wasteland'
House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record)
2nd Cont Congress convened in Pa issues paper currency for 1st time
Col Ethan Allen captured Ft Ticonderoga - NY
George Vancouver - British explorer dies (birth date unknown)
Golden Spike driven - Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinential RR complete
William Huggins - discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda - dies
Yanks commit 8 errors & still beat Tigers 10-9 in 10 innings
J Edgar Hoover became head of FBI
WGY Schenectady began regular TV programming
1st US (Adler) planetarium opens - in Chicago
Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as PM
Red Sox win 15th straight beat Yanks 5-4 - DiMaggio hits Grand Slam
USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water
US Special delivery rates go from 45 cents to 60
9th Mayor's Trophy Game - Mets beat Yanks 8-4
Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing
Oilers 0-Isles 2 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 1-0 lead
Constantinople founded
1st US fire insurance policy is issued - in Philadelphia
Columbia River discovered & named by American Capt Robert Gray
Work starts on 1st brick building in SF
Minnesota becomes 32nd state
John Herschel - cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars - dies at 79
Wash Senator Charlie Farrell throws out 8 attempted stealers
Bank of SF incorporated
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented
Yanks Jack Quinn & Senator Walter Johnson - 12 inning 0-0 tie
1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
BF Goodrich manufactures 1st tubeless tire - Akron - Oh
By a vote of 37-12 Israel became 59th member of UN
Jay Forrester patents computer core memory
Israelli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
Flyers 1-Isles 2 - Semi Finals- Series tied at 3 games
Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market
Canucks 4-Isles 6 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 2-0 lead
Pres McKinley visits SF
Yanks & Senators go 2nd straight extra inning tie - 4-4 in 15
Airship Norge is 1st vessel over North Pole
Chicago's Adler Planetarium opens - 1st in US
Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River
Axis forces in North Africa surrender
1st foreign woman ambassador received in US - SVL Pandit - India
Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
USSR launches 3-man crew in Voskhod I
Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Minn
Oilers 3-Isles 6 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 2-0 lead
World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans
English found Jamestown (1st permanent settlement)
Lewis & Clark begin expedition of La Purchase with Sacagawea
1st foreign embassy in Hawaii established
US declares war on Mexico
Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded
Brazil abolishes slavery
3 children see a vision of Virgin Mary at Fatima - Portugal
Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock - Texas
Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive HRs of at least 463 feet
Flyers 4-Isles 1 - Semi Finals- Flyers win semi finals 4-3
Canucks 0-Isles 3 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 3-0 lead
Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
1st English NA settlement (Jamestown - Va)
Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day)
Gail Borden applies for patent for condensed milk
Harvard & McGill play 1st game of American football
President Theodore Roosevelt visits SF
LA's Griffith Planetarium opens - 3rd in US
US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) founded
PM David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel
Warsaw Pact formed
Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller
US launches space station Skylab 1
Bucky Dent hits an inside the park HR - Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded - Yanks win 16-3
Soyuz 40 is launched - 1st Rumanian in space
Oilers 1-Isles 5 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 3-0 lead
Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Batholomew Gosnold
Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law
Whitsunday Term Day
Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse
2nd SF Vigilance Committee organized
American poet Emily Dickinson died
Sup Court dissolves Standard Oil violates Sherman Antitrust Act
US Airmail service begins (Wash DC - Philadelphia & NY)
Ellen Church 1st airline stewardess United flight SF to Cheyenne
Dept of Justice offers $25 -000 reward for Dillinger - dead or alive
1st nylon stockings sold in US
Yanks win 13-1 Joe DiMaggio starts 56 game hitting streak
18 -000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
USSR launched Sputnik III
Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7 - end US Project Mercury
Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigned from Supreme Court
George C Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer
Ryukyu Islands returned to Japan after 27 years of US control
11th Mayor's Trophy Game - Yanks beat Mets 9-4
Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
Leonard Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto
Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6
Johannes Kepler - by his own calculations - is conceived at 4:37 AM
James Boswell meets Samuel Johnson - in London
Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France
Congress authorizes nickel 5› piece (replaces silver half-dime)
President Johnson acquitted in Senate - by 1 vote
Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
Ewing Field - near Masonic Street - opens
Joan of Arc was canonized in Rome
Bob Meusel steals 2nd 3rd & Home
1st Academy Awards (Best film is Wings)
Israel issues its 1st stamps
American author & critic James Agee died in NY
Kraft Theatre presented an act from Profiles in Courage
Yanks involved in Copacabana Incident - leads to Billy Martin trade
Gordon Cooper completes 22 Earth orbits in Faith 7
Venera 5 lands on Venus
1st class postage now costs 8› (was 6›)
Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest's summit
Canucks 1-Isles 3 - Stanley Cup- Isles win cup 4-0 (15-4)
Isles win 3rd Cup in row def Canucks in Vancouver 3-1 in game 4
Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi - 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
Lewis & Clark begin exploration of La Purchase
Papal States annexed by France
Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day)
Bohemian Club incorporated
1st Kentucky Derby run at Churchill Downs Winner was Aristides
Camp Merritt established in Presidio
Pres Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show
Radio quiz show `Information Please!' debuts on NBC Blue Network
1st sports telecast - Columbia vs Princeton - College baseball
Nazis occupied Brussels Belgium
Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Ed reversed 1896 `separate but equal' Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
1st atomic reactor system to be patented - JW Flora - Canoga Park CA
Marin County withdraws from BART district
European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite
Senate Watergate Committee began its hearings
Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff
Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty
Oilers 2-Isles 4 - Stanley Cup- Isles win cup 4-0 (15-5)
England decares war on France
Napoleon became Emperor of France
NY Giant William Joyce sets record of 4 triples in 1 game
World Good-Will Day - 26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
US passes Selective Service act
TVA Act signed by FDR
UN moves HQ to NYC
1st woman pilot faster than speed of sound (Jacqueline Cochran)
Apollo 10 launched toward lunar orbit
India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
Mt St Helens blows its top in Washington State
Anne Boleyn Executed
George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley
About midday - near-total darkness descends on much of New England
Sen Charles Sumner - Mass - spoke out against proslavery people
Homestead Act becomes law
Simplon Tunnel opens from Brig - Switzerland to Iselle - Italy
USSR Mars 2 launched 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea - Asia Minor
Christopher Columbus died in poverty in Spain
Mecklenburg County - NC citizens declare independence from England
1st railroad timetable published in newspaper -`Baltimore American'
1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii
NC becomes 10th state to secede from US
Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of West
Intl Bureau of Weights & Measures established by treaty
US ends occupation of Cuba
Thomas Edison said Americans preferred silent movies over talkies
Lindbergh flew NY-Paris - 1st solo flight across Atlantic
Earhart left Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic
Pan Am began transatlantic passenger & air mail service
Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane - Bikini Atoll
Yanks sink to last place - 1st time since May 25 - 1940
White mob attacks `Freedom Riders' in Montgomery - Alabama
Republic of Cameroon declared
Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
Viking 1 - Mars landing
US Launches Pioneer Venus 1-produces 1st global radar map of Venus
Cambodian Martyrs Day
Dow Jones Avg closes above 1300 for 1st time
FBI arrests John A Walker Jr - convicted of spying for USSR
US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti
1st Democratic party natl convention
1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
Lawrence - Kans captured - sacked by pro-slavery forces
American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton
Yerkes Obsrvatory 40-inch refractor is used for 1st time
FIFA - soccer's intl governing body - is formed
Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million
Lindburgh lands in Paris - after 1st solo across Atlantic
Automatic electric stock quotation board installed - NYC
1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman landed - AE Putnam
Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
1st American ship sunk by a U-boat (Robin Moor)
1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight - sunrise to sunset
BC A daytime meteor shower - possibly Zeta Perseid observed in China
1st life insurance policy in US -issued in Phila
1st steamer arrives in Hawaii
Violence in Senate - SC rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner
Great Train Robbery seven men made off with $98000 in cash
1st SF fireboat - David Scannell - is launched
in Chicago - Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks
Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (10th of 60)
World Trade Day
Hitler & Mussolini sign `Pact of Steel'
Yankees turn triple play & defeat Tigers' 5-3
1st ballistic missile fired
Truman Doctrine went into effect aiding Turkey & Greece
Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple play - Yanks beat Wash 12-4
Roger Maris sets record by getting 4 intentional passes & ties record with 5 walks in a 9 inning game
Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade
Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel
Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus
Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11 but wins 2-0
Ceylon became Republic of Sri Lanka
Soyuz 40 returns to Earth
Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians who sold her to English
Italian preacher Savonarola tortured & executed in Florence
King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void
Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
Capt Kidd hung in London after convicted of piracy & murder
SC becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
Decl of Bab (Bah '¡ festival)
Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
Postal Cards sold in SF for 1st time
Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established
1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF
1st direct primary election law adopted - by Wisconsin
1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY - ended April 1
Dirigible explodes over SF Bay - 16 passengers fall - none die
NY Public Library building at Fifth Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft
Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in WW I
Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
Bonnie & Clyde shot in Louisana ambush
Industrialist John D Rockfeller died in Ormond Beach Fla
Nazi Himmler committed suicide while in prison at Luneburg Germany
Joe DiMaggio hits three consecutive HRs
West Germany was proclaimed
World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building
Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
Scott Carpenter orbits Earth three times in US Aurora 7
Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)
Copernicus allegedly sees 1st copy of DE REVOLUTIONIBUS & dies
English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants
at Battle of Pichincha - Bol¡var secures independence of Quito
Samual FB Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought"
Berkeley named (for George Berkeley - Bishop of Cloyne)
Bkln Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Gov Cleveland
1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
Britain annexes Orange Free State (South Africa)
Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19 inning
1st air-conditioned train installed - B&O Railroad
1st major league night baseball game - in Cincinnati (vs Phila)
Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs) Ben Chapman sets record by reaching 1st 7 times safely Yanks beat A's 25-2
HMS Hood sunk by German battleship Bismarck
Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager
1st rocket to exceed 150 mile altitude - White Sands - NM
1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited - Pleasant Hills - Pa
M Scott Carpenter & Aurora 7 launched into earth orbit
Beatles third appearance on Ed Sullivan
Soyuz 18B is launched
Flyers 4-Isles 5 (OT)- Stanley Cup- Isles win cup 4-2 (15-6)
St Gregory VII - pope (1073-85) - dies (birth date unknown)
Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia
Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (Nat'l Day)
American Unitarian Assn founded
Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs - Boston Braves vs Pirates
Golden Gate Intl Exposition reopens
Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
Jordan gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
SF receives its 1st telecast
Bkln-Battery Tunnel opened in NYC
1st atomic cannon electronically fired - Frenchman Flat - Nevada
1st noncommercial educational television station - Houston - Texas
JFK sets goal of putting a man on moon
African Unity Day
Org for African Unity formed
US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin - Conrad - Weitz
Star Wars released
Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
Return of the Jedi (Star Wars 3) released
William of Ockham Day
Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia
Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress
Montana Territory organized
President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
Dow Jones Industrial Average adopted
SF approves City Charter - allows Municipal ownership of utiliies
A's commit 7 errors & lose to Yanks 7-4
Golden Gate Bridge opens
1st president of Negro country to visit US - E Barclay - Liberia
Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
Union Square becomes State Historical Landmark
Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings - loses in 13th
Apollo 10 returns to Earth
Venera 8 launched toward Venus
George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center
Soyuz 36 is launched
Soyuz T-4 returns to Earth
S.F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to SF completed
Bay District Race Track closes
Bubonic Plague breaks out in SF
1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days
1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes - Langley Field Va
Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere - by balloon
Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released
Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
Trailing 11-3 - Yanks score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11
Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional
RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage
Golden Gate Bridge dedicated
German battleship Bismark sunk by British naval force
Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park - SF opens
Permission granted to Dogers & Giants to leave NY
6th Mayor's Trophy Game - Mets beat Yanks 4-3
WDW construction begins
Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
Inaugural Bands Parade for President Reagan
Norway Showcase groundbreaking
BC Thales Miletus predicts solar eclispe Persian-Lydian battle ends
Hernando de Soto lands in Fla
1st Baptist Church organized in Boston
1st Continental Congress convened in Virginia
US Customs Court created by Congress
1st all color talking picture "On With The Show" exhibited - NYC
1st night game at Yankee stadium
Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor - "Melody"
Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles into space on Jupiter missle
Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
USSR Mars 3 launched 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
Constantinople falls to Turks (Signaled end of Middle Ages)
Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth
SC formally incorporated as a royal colony
Rhode Is became last of original 13 ratifing Constitution
Wisconsin becomes 30th state
A patent for lifting vessels was granted to Abraham Lincoln
Mexican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz
Death of prophet Baha'Ullah (Ascension of Baha'Ullah)
US forces invade Dominican Republic - stay until 1924
Einstein's light-bending prediction is confirmed by Arthur Eddington
1st North Pole flight in single engine plane - CF Blair
Edmund Hillary & Norgay of NZ become 1st to reach top of Mt Everest
Actor - Kirk & Anne Douglas married
1st class postage now 15› (13› for 3 years)
Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m
Joan of Arc burned at stake in Rouen France at 19
U of Marburg (Germany) founded
French philosopher Voltaire died
1st Treaty of Paris - after Napoleon's 1st abdication
Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created
Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game
Indianapolis 500 car race run for 1st time
Joan d'Arc Day
Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
Patent on invisible glass installation
Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory
Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83 -533 at Yankee Stadium
1st major league network baseball game - Cleveland 7 - Chicago 2
Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs
US launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon
US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
3 Jap PFL terrorists kills 24 - wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lydda airport
10th Mayor's Trophy Game - Yanks beat Mets 9-4
Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
Spain became 16th member of North Atlantic Treaty Org
Joan of Arc has a hot time at stake
Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry
Composer Franz Josef Hayden died in Vienna Austria
Kansas Territory established
Battle of Fair Oaks - Va; North defeats South
1st recorded bicycle race - 2 kilometers in Paris
1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
Madison Square Garden opens its doors
Johnstown Flood; 2 -000 die in Penn
US troops arrive in Peking - help put down Boxer Rebellion
Union of South Africa formed
17th amendment providing popular election of senators
During WW I British & German fleets fought Battle of Jutland
Construction begins on cosmodrome launch facilities
Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof
South Africa becomes a republic (Natl Day)
WW II Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann hung in Israel
Tens of thousands in Peru die in an earthquake
Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
Martha Mitchell wife of former Att General John Mitchell dies in NY
