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Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason
Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats former Roman Catholic king James II in the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland
1st vote on the Declaration of Independence
United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico.
Amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers his second asteroid Hebe
1st adhesive US postage stamps go on sale
US issues its 1st postage stamps.
At least 626 ships lying at anchor around SF Bay
1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington and Mason Streets S.F.
Congress outlaws polygamy; bad news for Utah.
Battle of Gettysburg Pa.; Lee's northward advance halted.
Dominion of Canada formed from N.Bruns. N.Scotia Ontario & Qu‚bec.
Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province.
Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
SF City Hall turned over to city after 29 years of building
Eisenhower married Mary ``Mamie'' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo
1st class postage drops to 2› from 3›.
NY Gov FDR nominated for president at the Dem Convention in Chicago
1st coml TV license granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS) NYC
DiMaggio ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak
1st withholding tax from paychecks
Bretton Woods Conference starts establishing IMF and World Bank.
World Refugee Year
Italian Somalia gains independence unites with Somali Republic.
Ghana becomes a republic.
Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii
Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days).
Beatles record "She Loves You"
Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART
Medicare goes into effect.
US Britain USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Charles Philip Arthur George invested as the Prince of Wales
Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?)
Caribbean Day
WEDway PeopleMover inaugurated
Virginia Wade beats Betty Stove for Wimbeldon's woman's singles
Kosmos 1383 1st search and rescue satellite launched.
More than 2000 Unification Church couples married at NY MSG
NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes the 1st 24 hour all sports radio replacing WHN's country music WYNY-FM adopts country music format
French astrologer physician & prophet Nostradamus dies in Salon
Battle of Marston Moor; Parliamentary forces defeat royalists.
William Gascoigne introducer of telescopic sights is killed at 24
Continental Congress passes resolution saying `these United Colonies Care & of right ought to be Free & Independent States'
partial emancipation of Russian serfs.
Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker Garfield died the following September
Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies.
1st flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1).
Yanks win by forfeit for their 1st time
US Army Air Corps created
Carl Hubbell shutsout Cards 1-0 in 18 innings
Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean
DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak
Lawrence Welk Show premiers on ABC television
1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor completed-The Seawolf
1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched Grayback
Maris hits his 29th & 30th of 61 homers
Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death in Ketchum Idaho
Pres Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
Sweden's Bjorn Borg won Wimbeldon men's singles over Jimmy Connors
Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start
Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
Proto launched on its way to Halley's Comet
The Supreme Court upheld affirmative action in 2 rulings
Chorus Line Director Michael Bennet dead of aids at 44
Accused Nazi Karl Linnas died of heart failure in Russia
City of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain
Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge Mass.
1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by the irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus.
slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands).
Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends in a major victory for the North
Idaho becomes 43rd state.
US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago Cuba
US military forces occupy Haiti remain until 1934.
Lou Gehrig day Gehrig makes 'luckiest man' speech
1st time American & North Korean forces clash in the Korean War
Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule
Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3.
Israel launches rescue of passengers & Air France crew members being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers
73 096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0
Martina Navratilova deats Chris Evert Lloyd at Wimbeldon
Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (36.25 kph for 100 m).
Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island.
CBS announced it would buy back 21 percent of its own stock
Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty
Brightest known super-nova starts shining for 23 days
Crab Nebula supernova recorded by Chinese & Japanese astronomers.
Declaration of Independence -- US gains independence from Britain.
US Milt Academy officially opened at West Point NY
William Herschel makes last telescopic observation comet of 1819.
2nd & 3rd presidents-John Adams & Thomas Jefferson die
1st US passenger railroad was begun Baltimore & Ohio
James Monroe the fifth president died
Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
Lewis Carroll began inventing the story of Alice in Wonderland for his friend Alice Pleasance Liddell during a boating trip
Boise Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF.
Statue of Liberty was presented to US in Paris
Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting.
Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the 1st US autos
Republic of Hawaii established.
Aphelion Passage
Pacific Cable (SF Hawaii Guam Phil) opens FDR sends message
Work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge
Yankees retire 1st uniform #4 Lou Gehrig 1st Old Timers Day
1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW2)
Philippines gains independence from US
America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
Mickey Mantle hits career homer # 300
America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
Mariner 4 flies past Mars sends 1st close-up photos.
LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
Raid on Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
Fourth Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 returns to Earth
Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe for championship at Wimbeldon
Yankee Dave Righetti no hits the Red Sox
Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m.
Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
Martina Navaratalova wins her 6th straight Wimbeldon
Tynwald Day on Isle of Man.
Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA is published by Royal Society in England.
Tynwald Day (Isle of Man)
Battle of Buenos Aires.
Venezuela-1st South American country to gain independence from Spain
France invades Algeria begins a 40 year conquest
Capt. N.C. Brooks discovers Midway Islands.
William Booth founded Salvation Army in London
1st Hawaii Calls radio program is broadcast.
President FDR signs Natl Labor Relations Act
Joe DiMaggio 1st grand slammer
Herb Caen's 1st column in SF Chronicle
Diplomatic relations broken between Britain & Vichy govt in France
1st rocket airplane flown
Louis Reard's Bikini swimsuit design debuts at a fashion show Paris
Larry Doby signs with Cleveland Indians-1st black player in AL
Carole Landis dies at age 29
Law of Return passes allowing all Jews rights to live in Israel
Pvt Kenneth Shadrick of Skin Fork WVa-1st US fatality in Korean War
Junction transistor invention announced Murray Hill NJ
Mantle hits 2 homers enroute to 4 consecutive homers
Voting age lowered to 18 by 26th amendment.
Cape Verdes Islands independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
Soyuz 30 is launched
Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old `exclusionary rule'-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
Nancy Reagan cuts red white & blue ribbon reopening Statue of Liberty
Australian Pat Cash wins Wimbledon-upsets No 1 seed Ivan Lendl
Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller of Konigsberg) dies.
Newton publishes 'Principia'
Capt. William Kidd arrested in Boston.
1st Republican state convention
1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being by Louis Pasteur
Striking steelworkers in Homestead Pa. fire on scabs killing 7.
R-34 lands in NY 1st airship to cross Atlantic
Yanks score team record 14 runs in 1 inning vs Senators
1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY).
1st class postage back up to 3› from 2›.
1st All-Star baseball game AL wins 5-2
Soviets launch Titov in Vostok 2; 17 orbits; 25hr/18 min.
Mantle hits his 3rd & 4th consecutive homer
Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day).
Comoros gain independence from France (most of them).
Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station.
Isaac Newton receives his M.Afrom Trinity College Cambridge.
Kings College in NYC opens. School later renamed Columbia College
Central American federation is dissolved.
US annexs Calif
4 people hunged in Wash DC convicted of conspiring with John W Booth
Travelers cheque patented
US annexes Hawaii
Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay
Construction began on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
Mother Frances X Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
`Dragnet' premiers on NBC radio. A TV series in 1951 & in 1967
Pres Eisenhower signs Alaska statehood bill
Vivian Leigh dies at 53
Apollo 15 returned 12d /7 hr/11 min/53 sec.
Veronica Lake dies at 58
Solomon Is gains independence from Britain (National Day).
1st solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel.
Az Judge Sandra Day O'Connor 1 female nominated on Supreme Court
Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 & 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7
Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition vote to admit women
King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island
Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes.
Col. John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Dec of Ind
Vt becomes 1st state abolishing slavery adopts male sufferage
1st American Passport issued by US State Dept
Liberty Bell cracks (again).
John L. Sullivan wins by KO in 75 rounds in last bareknuckle bout.
Vol 1 # 1 of "The Wall Street Journal" published
Future president Harding marries Florence K. DeWolfe in Marion Ohio
William Jennings Bryan 'cross of gold' speech at Dem convention
Harbor Hospital formally opens
Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights.
Pitcher Rube Marquard loses after winning 19 straight games
Demolition began in NYC for new permanent headquarters of UN
Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea
Gen. Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief UN forces in Korea
Maj. Dale & Master Sgt Ovnand 1st American fatalities in Vietnam War
Yank Shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 innings
Pres Ford announced he'd seek Republican nomination for pres
Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs).
Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus.
England's King Henry VIII 6-month marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled
Johannes Kepler discovers inscribed perfect geometric solid "construction of universe."
Dec of Ind read aloud to Gen. Washington's troops in NY
Argentina declares independence from Spain.
Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (SF) for US
Bab (Bah 'ˇ prophet) executed in Tabriz Iran.
Zachary Taylor 12th pres of US died in White House served 16 months
101 killed in worst US train wreck in Nashville Tenn
Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) formed.
Yanks Ben Chapman hits 2 inside the park HRs tying record
Frankford Yellowjackets sold rechristened Philadelphia Eagles.
Pres Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
1st helicopter passenger service NY city
Announcement of discovery of element 102 - nobelium
Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe
Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter.
Walt Disney's "The Fox & The Hound" is released
Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US
Urbain J.J. Leverrier & John Couch Adams codiscoverers of Neptune meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel.
VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death
Wyoming becomes 44th state.
Johann Galle discoverer of Neptune with telescope dies.
Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
Jury selection took place in John T. Scopes evolution trial
USSR's official news agency TASS established
Jack Burnett gets 9 hits in 1 18 inning game
1st police radio system operated Eastchester Twp NY
Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air
US & Britain invade Sicily in WWII
Robert Goddard died.
1st practical rectangular TV tube announced - Toledo Oh
Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
Telstar 1st geosynchronous communications satellite launched.
Orbiter 1 Launched to moon.
Bahamas became independent after 3 centuries of British rule
Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I. Queen
Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze.
Coca-Cola Co. announces it would resume selling old formula Coke
French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand.
Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
US Marine Corps was created by an act of Congress
VP Aaron Burr kills Alex Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken
Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Wash D.C.
Simon Newcomb celestial mechanics authority dies.
Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day).
Pres FDR became 1st pres to travel through Panama Canal
Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan Bronx & Queens opened
Yanks host 7th All Star Game McCarthy starts 6 Yanks AL wins 3-1
New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colo
1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
Cosmonaut Micolaev set longevity space flight record-4 days
House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
World Football League plays 1st games.
Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates.
American hostage Richard I. Queen freed by Iran
Italain soccer team wins 1st World Cup in 44 years
Astros' Nolan Ryan 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M Sara.
England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th & last wife).
Orangeman's Day-Battle of Boyne Protestant victory in Ireland
US forces led by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812).
Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs
1st televised tennis match.
Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33› per hour).
US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
Yankee Allie Reynolds no hits Indians 1-0
1st President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower
Echo I 1st passive satellite launched.
USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs.
Cosmonaut Popovich in space 1st time 2 manned craft in space
5th Mayor's Trophy Game Mets beat Yanks 4-0
Sao Tom‚ e Prˇncipe gains independence from Portugal (Nat'l Day).
1st free flight test of Enterprise.
Sun Bank Building opens
Kiribati (Gilbert & Ellice Is.) gains independence from Britain.
Minnie Ripperton dies of cancer at 30
Geraldine Ferraro NY became 1st woman major-party VP candidate
Drs discover a cancerous growth in Pres Reagan's large intestine
James Bradley 3rd Astronomer Royal dies.
Congress establishes NW Territory.
Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60 000 pop
US forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte Nicaragua
Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west"
SF Ferry Building at foot of Market Street opens
1st lighter-than-air transatlantic flight completed.
Babe Ruth hits #700 against Detroit
Yankees host 29th All Star game AL lost 6-0
Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs beating KC 5-0
NYC experiences a 25 hr black-out
Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m.
Yankees retire Roger Maris (#9) & Elston Howard (#32) uniforms
Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in Cal
Bastille Day - citizens of Paris storm Bastille prison
Sedition Act prohibits "false scandalous & malicious" writing against US govt
1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
Com Perry requests trade relations with Japan
1st ascent of Matterhorn
Billy the Kid killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Ft Sumner NM
Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham Mass.
1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
Citation 1st horse to win $1 000 000 in races
1st national monument dedicated to a Negro - GW Carver
Iraqi army Iraq overthrew monarchy
1st atomic powered cruiser the Long Beach Quincy Mass
Astro's Eddie Matthews hits HR #500
Brave's Hank Aaron hits HR #500
US Mariner IV 1st Mars probe passes at 6 100 miles
Richard Speck kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
Houston Astro Don Wilson strikesout 18 beats Reds 6-1
Futbol War between El Salvador and Honduras begins.
EPCOT Center plans announced
Reps. Daniel Crane R Ill. & Gerry Studds D-Mass. admitted having had sexual relations with congressional pages.
Richard W. Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
Charles II grants a charter to establish Royal Society in London.
Napoleon Bonaparte captured.
SF Merchant's Exchange opens
Georgia readmitted to US after Civil War.
NW Territories created & Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province.
St. Vladimir's Day
Ruth ties his record of 29 homers in a season
1st airport hotel opens - Oakland Ca
1st betatron placed in operation Urbana Il
Diligenti quintuplets born in Buenos Aires Argentina
Greenwich Observatory is damaged by World War II flying bomb.
1st helicopter transatlantic flight began
1st coml jet transport airplane built in US tested (Boeing 707)
US troops occupy Lebanon stay 3 months.
Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle
Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later.
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain.
La Paz Bolivia is founded.
Father Serra founds Mission San Diego 1st mission in Calif
Congress establishes Dist of Columbia
1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run
many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners.
Ruth sets season home run record with 30 enroute to 54
Augusto Sandino begins war against US occupation of Nicaragua.
1st automatic parking meter in US installed Oklahoma City Ok
1st atomic blast Trinity Site Alamogordo NM
Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)
Bobo Newsom won his 200th game 1st as a Yankee & Yanks 18th straight In the night cap Vic Rashi extended streak to 19
Apollo 11 1st manned ship to land on the moon is launched.
Spain ceded Florida to US
British humor magazine `Punch' 1st published.
Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
1st railroad opens in Hawaii
Spanish American War-Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba.
British royal family adopts the name `Windsor.'
Yanks 21 hits Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17 on squeeze play
Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
Variety's famous headline `Sticks Nix Hick Pix.'
Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for Los Angeles.
Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak ends
Potsdam Conference (FDR Stalin Churchill) holds 1st meeting.
Rep of Korea founded.
construction begins on Disneyland....
Disneyland opens its doors in Anaheim Cal
Tibet abolishes serfdom
Roger Maris loses a HR due to a rain-out in the 5th
Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354 300 ft).
Apollo/Soyuz the 1st US/USSR linkup in space
Apollo-Soyus; 1st US/USSR linkup in space
Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend him
Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president
Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse kill 114 injure 200
Humbar Estuary Bridge UK world's longest span (1.4 km) is opened.
Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7.
Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle)
Pope's authority declared void in England.
Britain introduces secret ballot voting
Ty Cobb's 4000th career hit
1st air-conditioned ship launched - "Mariposa"
US & Canada signed a treaty to develop St. Lawrence Seaway.
Spanish Civil War begans Gen. Francisco Franco led uprising
Douglas `Wrong Way' Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
1st successful helicopter flight Stratford Ct
Tigers shut out Yanks 2-0 ending a 19 game win streak
US receives UN trusteeship over Pacific Is
Joe Adcock records 18 total bases (4 homers & a double)
1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
Carl Sagan turns one billion seconds old
Gemini 10 launched.
Intel is incorporated.
Mary Jo Kopechne & Sen Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge
Billy Martin suspends Reggie Jackson for not bunting.
Rohini 1 1st Indian satellite is launched.
Walter F. Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF. Also Gunman opens fire at McDonald's in San Ysidro Cal killing 21
Svetlana Savitskaya accompanies Vladimir Dzhanibekov on EVA outside Salyut 7 becoming 1st woman to walk in space.
Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
Yanks Don Mattingly ties Major League record of HRs in 8 cons games
1st Women's Rights Convention Seneca Falls NY
1st Wimbledon tennis championships held.
SF Public Library starts lending books
Neil Ball turns an unassisted triple play at 1st
1st parking meters installed in Oklahoma City.
1st use of Fiberglas sutures RP Scholz St Louis Mo
Laos becomes associated state within French Union.
Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum.
1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired Yucca Flat Nevada
1st in-flight movie is shown (on TWA).
Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km.
Mary Jo Kopechne dies at 28
Yanks host 48th All Star Game NL wins 7-5
Yanks start a 14 1/2 game comeback with 2-0 win
Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza.
Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games
Columbia gains independence
Admission fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50›)
British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province.
1st telephone introduced in Hawaii.
Yanks hit into a triple play but beat A's 9-2
Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17
US invaded Japanese-occupied Guam in WWII
Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike outs
USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space.
1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
1st men on the Moon Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin Apollo 11
1st baby born on Alcatraz Island
US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia 1st Martian landing.
Voyager 2 launched.
Uwe Hohn of E Germany throws javelin a record 104.80 m.
Don Mattingly ties major league fielding record with 22 put outs
Belgium gains independence from Netherlands (Natl Day).
1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run Va.; South wins.
City Gardens on Folsom opens
World's 1st train robbery by Jesse James
Spain cedes Guam to US
Indians 9 & Yankees 7 doubles for a record 16 doubles
John Scopes found guilty in Tenn for teaching evolution
Soviet Union annexes Estonia Latvia Lithuania.
US forces return to Guam after Japanese occupation.
at Geneva France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam.
1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched - Seawolf
1st atomic powered merchant ship Savannah christened Camden NJ
Mercury 4 is launched into sub-orbital flight
Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty bell) with Grissom.
Gemini 5 launched atop Titan V with Cooper & Conrad
Gemini X returns to Earth
Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 a.m. (GMT).
Billy Martin fired as manager of Tx Rangers
Legionnaire's Disease kills 29 in Phila
1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US
Pleasure Island plans unveiled
English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk.
Giuseppe Piazzi discoverer of 1st asteroid dies.
Battle of Atlanta; Gen. Sherman defeats Confederate defenders.
Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher
Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight.
John Dillinger shot & killed in Chicago movie theatre
Polish constitution adopted (National Day).
1st US Vice-President to preside over cabinet meeting - R Nixon
Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus.
Napoleon captures Alexandria Egypt.
Robert Emmett's insurrection in Dublin.
Typewriter patented
1st interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio
Cincinatti Baseball club (The Reds) established
1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii is completed
Ice cream cone invented
Isolation of pituitary hormone announced
US forces invaded japanese-held Tinian in WWII
1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets Quonset Point RI
Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day).
PLO's 1st hijacking of an EL AL plane
ERTS 1 (Earth Resources Technology Satellite) later called LANDSAT - launched to start its multi-spectral scans of Earth
Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6.
Edmund Halley enters Queen's College Oxford as an undergraduate.
French make 1st landing at site of Detroit.
Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain
Mormon leader Brigham Young & followers arrive at Salt Lake City Ut
Martin Van Buren 8th pres dies in Kinderhook N.Y.
Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union.
Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS fined $100 & costs
Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounced war
Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
US detonates atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll
Pres Truman announced a settlement in a 53-day steel strike.
VP Nixon argued with Khrushchev known as the `Kitchen Debate'
Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Quebec libre! Long live free Quebec!'
Apollo 11 returns to Earth
Apollo 18 returns to Earth
Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after 'the one is a born liar the other a convicted one' comment about Steinbrenner & Jackson
France's King Henri IV a Protestant converted to Roman Catholicism.
NC becomes royal colony.
Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British.
US Grant named 1st general of Army
Wyoming Territory created.
Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
Louis Bl‚riot makes 1st airplane flight across the English Channel.
Red Sox turn a triple play but Ruth's 35 HR leads Yanks 8-2 win
Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created.
Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after collided with the Stockholm
Andrea Dorea sinks off Nantucket Island after collision.
Maris hits home runs 37 38 39 & 40 in a double header
US Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty
Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
USSR launches Mars 5
USSR launches Mars 5
Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
Voyager 2 encounters Saturn.
Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became 1st woman to walk in space
Movie director Vincente Minnelli died in Los Angeles at age 76.
USSR launches Kosmos 1870 15-ton earth-study satellite.
Benjamin Franklin becomes 1st Postmaster General.
NY becomes 11th state to ratify constitution.
Sydney Australia settled by British colonists.
1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society
1st Esperanto book published.
Federal Bureau of Investigation established
Yanks score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1
Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRa
Churchill resigns as Britain's prime minister
Department of Defense established
1st black host of a network show - CBS' Bob Howard Show
Argentina's 1st lady Eva Peron dies in Buenos Aires at 33
Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand slammer
Fidel Castro began revolution against Batista
Korean War Armistice
Egypt seizes Suez Canal
Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200
USSR launchs 1st intercontinental multi-stage ballistic missle.
US Syncom 2 1st synchronous communications satellite launched
US launches Sycom 2 the 1st geosynchronous satellite
Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy
Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day).
Twins beat Yankees 3-2 in 18
Apollo 15 launched to the moon.
US launches Apollo 15 to the Moon
USSR's Soyuz failed to dock with Salyut 3.
Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
Canada's Anik D1 comsat launched by US delta rocket.
Soyuz T-12? is launched with a female cosmonaut
Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie.
Bank of England is chartered.
Adelaide South Australia founded.
Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1 686 miles long)
Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts.
Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak
Korean War ends
Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation.
Mariner 2 launched to venus; flyby mission.
Pioneer 10 Launched.
Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe.
Bach dies
Peru gains independence
revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe.
Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF 120 days out of N.Y.
total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill Mo.
Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
14th Amendment ratified citizenship to exslaves.
Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Conn
Yankees turn a triple play beating Cleveland 6-4
Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia - World War I began
US forces invade Haiti stay until 1924.
Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd National Anthem
President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment.
1st Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee) NYC
Yankee Charle Keller hits 3 HRs
Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
US Ranger 7 launched for lunar impact between Mare Nubium
Ranger 7 launched toward the moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures.
US launches Ranger 7 to the Moon
Skylab 3's astronauts are launched
242 000 killed in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) earthquake.
Eldon Joersz & Geo. Morgan set world air speed record of 3 530 kph.
At Old Timer's Game it is announced Martin will again manage Yankees
Peruvian National Day
1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begun.
1st commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
1st motorcycle race Manhattan Beach N.Y.
Italian king Umberto I assassinated.
1st transcontinental phone link made Between NYC & SF
US marines land in Haiti stay until 1924.
1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
1st transpacific non-stop flight by jet
International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN
Jack Paar's Tonight show premiers
Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running
Pres Eisenhower signs into law NASA & Space Act of 1958.
Gemini 5 returned after 12 d/7 hr/11 min/53 sec.
Pioneer 11 transmitted images of Saturn & its rings.
Prince Charles & Lady Diana wed
19th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 is launched
House of Burgesses Virginia formed 1st elective US governing body
1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
1st rocket to attain 100-mile altitude White Sands NM
Motto of US "In God We Trust" authorized
US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium.
Vanuatu (then New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain France.
Weightlifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg.
STS-8 3rd flight of Challenger. 1st night launch & land.
STS-14 1st flight of Discovery.
Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad.
St. Ignatius of Loyola founder of Society of Jesus died in Rome.
English fleet attacks Spanish armada
Marquis de Lafayette 19 made major-general of Continental Army
1st US patent granted to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
British invade Plattsburgh NY
17th pres Andrew Johnson dies in Tennessee at 66
Yanks suspend Jake Powell after he said on Chicago radio 'he'd hit every colored person in Chicago over the head with a club'
President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport) NY
Ranger 7 transmits the 1st lunar close-up photos before impact
US Ranger 7 takes 4 316 pictures before crashing on moon.
Chet Huntley retires from NBC ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report'
Democratic VP candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew
Son of Sam shot to death 20-year-old Stacy Moskowitz
Yanks now 7 1/2 out of 1st picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks
Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
Leader of Panama Gen. Omar Torrijos killed in a plane crash.
7-week-old major league baseball strike ended.
US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics
