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Everlasting League forms basis of Swiss Confederation (Nat'l Day)
Swiss Confederation Day
Lammas Day
Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
1st US census
Whiskey Rebellion
Battle of Nile
SF Methodists establish 1st black church Zion Methodist
1st voyage down Colorado River
Colorado becomes 38th state
US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island SF Bay
Burial within SF City limits prohibited
1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street SF
Hawaii Natl Park established
Pres Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission
Guam Territory created
Cal introduces it's Sales Tax (for Education)
1st coml building heated by sun Albuquerque NM
1st Class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years)
Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
New SF Hall of Justice opens
Charles Whitman climbs U of Texas tower & shoots 12 dead
CBS presents 6 Wives of Henry VIII
Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park
Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries rights signed by 35 nations
Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager
MTV premiers
Formal signing of Dec of Ind
1st street mailboxes - Boston Mass
1st trial run of SF cable car Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
SF Public Library opens with 5000 volumes
Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
1st Lincoln head pennies minted
Pres Harding dies at Palace Hotel SF
Hitler takes over presidency when Paul Von Hindenburg died at 86
Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
Billy Martin named manager of NY Yankees (1st time)
Thurmon Munson killed in a plane crash at Akron Ohio at age 32
TODAY/PC born today
Columbus sets sail from Palos Spain for "Indies."
David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira
Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America Griffon
Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games
USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap
Niger gains independence from France
Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as Yankee manager
John Sain of South Bend Ind. builds 3.91 m house of cards
365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
Dom Perignon invents champagne
US Coast Guard founded
US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
Peace Bridge between US & Canada opened
NY Giant Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game
Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs & wins 15-0
Dumont TV Network crumbles
Jamaica gains independence from Britain
US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day)
Phil Rizzuto Day Yanks retire #10
Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)
1st partition of Poland between Austria Prussia & Russia
1st Spanish ship San Carlos enters SF Bay
Oregon country divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel
1st transatlantic telegraph cable completed by Cyrus W. Field
US levies it's 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)
spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time by Giovanni Donati
Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid
US Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US
1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8 Phillies-0 (KDKA)
Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
American Bandstand goes on network TV
48ø C (118ø F) at Ice Harbor Dam Washington
Marilyn Monroe dies at 36
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
US begins bombing N Vietnam
Beatles release "Revolver" album
Mariner 7 flies past Mars
USSR launches Mars 6
Lou Pinella day at Yankee Stadium
Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy Roman nor an empire
Bolivia gains independence from Spain (National Day)
NY's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel
US troops leave Haiti which had been occupied since 1915
Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest
Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the 'Enola Gay'
US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
Gherman S Titov second Russian in space aboard Vostok 2
Jamaica gains independence from Britain
Beatles release "Help" album
Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee Wash
203.05 million shares traded in the NY Stock Exchange
Nineteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 returns to Earth
George Washington creates the Order of the Purple Heart
US War Department established.
1st servicable steamboat the Cleremont goes on 1st voyage
Battle of Boyac ; Bol¡var defeats Spanish in Colombia
1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
Feud between the Hatfield family of southern WV & McCoys of eastern Kentucky broke out. About 100 either killed or wounded.
Progressive Party nominated Theodore Roosevelt for president.
Peace Bridge between US & Canada dedicated
Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down govt's attempt to ban the controversial James Joyce novel `Ulysses'
US marines land in Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashed into a Polynesian archipelago reef
Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of earth from space
Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution
1st computer chess tournament
Apollo 15 returns to Earth
Joi Lansing dies at 43
Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between the twin towers
US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from earth
Bobby Murcer day at Yankee Stadium
Jim Deshales became the 1000th playing Yankee
5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 4ø C (39ø F) Bering Sea
Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory
Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope
1st known ascent in a hot-air balloon by Father Bartolomeu de Gusmao of Portugal (indoors!)
Peace negotiations begin in Ghent Belgium
Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony
Red Cross Anniversary
1st Davis Cup tennis matches held in Boston
Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game 73 minutes
Salem Oregon airport dedicated
Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River begins producing power
Battle of Britain began as Germany launched air attacks
Great Train Robbery in England
Yanks sign a 30 year lease with NY City
US launches Pioneer Venus probe
LBV Conference Center & Club Lake Villas open
Battle of Dupplin Moor (in Scotland)
Capt. Cook passes through Bering Strait
1st ascent of Mt. Blanc
1st horses arrive in Hawaii
US-Canada border defined by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Free-Soil Party nominates Martin Van Buren for president
Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia
Henry David Thoreau published `Walden'
Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria.
Only time Babe Ruth was pinch hit for Bobby Veach flied out
Betty Boop debutes in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes.
Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal of the Berlin Olympics
Britain arrested Indian nationalist Mohandas K. Gandhi
US drops 2nd atomic bomb on Japan destroying part of Nagasaki
1st state-wide state-supported educational TV network Alabama
South African women demonstrate against pass laws
Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)
The Manson family commits the Tate-LaBianca murders
USSR launches Mars 7
Richard Nixon resigns presidency
Yanks score 5 in bottom of 9th beat Brewers 8-7
Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
Missouri becomes 24th state
Smithsonian Institute established
Transatlantic cable laid - Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria
Robert Goddard father of American rocketry dies
ABC enters network TV at 7 PM - WJZ NY
Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
Lunar Orbiter 1 launched
1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's NL record of 3630 hits
Billy Martin day Yanks retire #1
George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Deimos
California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store)
Green Bay Packers founded
Babe Ruth hits his 500th homer
temp. reaches 58ø (136ø F) at San Luis Potos¡ Mex. (world record)
1st color baseball game telecast
Chad gains independence from France
Andrian G Nikolayev third Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
Vostok 3 launched; rendezvous with Vostok 4 next day
Watts riots begin in LA last 6 days
Al Downing becomes the 12th to strike out the side on 9 pitches
Reggie Jackson hits his 400th homer
Issac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine
Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
Hawaii formally annexed to the US
The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham published.
K Reinmuth discovers 1 000th asteroid names it Giuseppe Piazzi
Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park 41 766 on hand
diver Marjorie Gestring becomes youngest Olympic gold medalist (13)
French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany.
Ann Davidson -1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic arrived Miami
Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb.
Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour
1st ship firing of a Polaris missile Observation Island
Echo 1 1st communications satellite is launched
Russia launches Pavel Popovich. He lands safely Aug. 15.
10th time Mantle switch hits HR in a game one goes 502 feet
Last American combat ground troops left Vietnam.
1st time 2 teammates elected to Hall of Fame on same day they are Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford
1st test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
World's worst single aircraft disaster-Japan Boeing 747 (520 die)
Christiaan Huygens discovers the Martian south polar cap
English defeat French at Battle of Blenheim
Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
English astronomer J.R. Hind discovers asteroid Iris
Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins the game 1-0 in 10 tying the feat of Senator Tom Hughes who also won 1-0 in 10 in 1906
Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over the A's
Central African Republic proclaims independence from France
Berlin Wall erected in East Germany
BC The Mayan "long count" calendar system begins
Alaric sacks Rome
Construction of Cologne Cathedral is begun
Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota retain independence
Oldest exactly dated printed book (c. 3 years after Gutenberg)
French capture Ft. Oswego N.Y
Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
Oregon Territory created
Construction of Cologne Cathedral is completed
Intl forces including US Marines enter Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion which was aimed at ridding China of foreigners.
2 500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I
Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple play
Social Security Act became law
Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill
VJ Day - Japan unconditionally surrendered to end WW II
Pakistan gains independence from Britain
Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills
Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29 Edmonton 21)
US mail truck in Plymouth Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
1st US lunar orbiter
British troops intervened militarily in Northern Ireland
US bombs Cambodia
77 691 see NY Cosmos beat Ft Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giant Stad
Macbeth King of Scotland slain by the son of King Duncan
Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
Guy Hecker scores seven times in 1 game
Arch Rock danger to Bay shipping blasted with 30 tons of nitro
Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice
Panama Canal opens
US & Russia severed diplomatic ties
Wiley Post & Will Rogers killed in plane crash in Alaska
The Wizard of Oz premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theater Hollywood
South Korea liberated from Japanese rule. Riot in SF celebrating end of WW II. US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ended
India & Pakistan granted independence within British Commonwealth
Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)
Congo (Brazzaville) gains independence from France (Nat'l Day)
Beatle's Shea Stadium concert
Woodstock Music & Art Fair opened in NY State
Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
Pres Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages prices & rents
Bahrain gains independence from Britain
South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escaped an assassination
Robin Leamy of US swims a record 7.98 kph for 50 m
Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington Vt
British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden S.C
Detroit fell to British & Indian forces in the War of 1812.
Manchester Massacre; English police charge unemployed demonstrators
Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrived in Boston to be exhibited
Pres Lincoln prohibit Union states from trading with Confederacy
Emancipation Proclamation signed
Gold found at Bonanza Creek Ala
Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio Yanks win 12-8
Norman Lockyer editor of NATURE discoverer of helium in sun dies
Yanks Carl Mays' pitch hits Indian Ray Chapman in the head. Chapman dies the next day the only major league fatality
Baseball legend Babe Ruth died in NY at the age of 53
Adlai E. Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate
Britain grants independence to the crown colony of Cyprus
Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon at 31 330 m (record)
AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise to Miami Dolphins
Woodstock festival begins in NY
Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus
Elvis Presley dies of heart ailment at Graceland at age 42
Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th
LA federal jury acquits automaker John Z. De Lorean
Astrological Harmonic Convergence - Dawn of New Age
Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
US takes LA
1st bank in Hawaii opens
Federal batteries & ships bombarded Ft Sumter in Charleston
Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
Gold discovered at Bonanza Creek in Klondike region of the Yukon
Bank of Italy opens it's new HQ at Clay & Montgomery
Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County Ga. after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
The Wizard of Oz opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen France
Allied forces gained completed control of Sicily
Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 doubles in a game
Indonesia declares independence from the Netherlands (National Day)
Alger Hiss denied ever being a Communist agent
Indonesia gains it's independence
Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
Alliance for Progress established
E German border guards shot & mortally wounded Peter Fechter 18 who attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into the western sector
Hurricane Camille claimed more than 250 lives
USSR launches Venera 7 to Venus
1st manned balloon crossing of the Atlantic Ocean (Eagle II)
Nazi Rudolph Hess dies at 93 after 46 years in Spandau Prison
Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died.
Virginia Dare 1st child of English parents to be born in America
The last of the Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
US forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearney captured Santa Fe NM
Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality
Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment which guarantees the right of all American women to vote.
FDR dedicates the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada.
Asst Sec of Labor James Wilkins became 1st black to attend Cabinet
Lolita - by Vladimir Nabokov published.
Investigation starts of TV Game show scandal
1st photograph bounced off a satellite Cedar Rapids Iowa
James Meredith became 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi
USSR's Luna 24 softlands on the Moon
1st time NYSE tops 100 million figure 132.69 million shares traded
Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2 Guadalcanal Solomon Is
ABC begins the tradition of Saturday morning kid shows
Sputnik 5 carries 3 dogs into orbit (later recovered alive)
Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
Groucho Marx died in LA at the age of 86.
The crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34
Soyuz T-7 is launched
President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over
German forces occupied Brussels Belgium during WW I.
Britain opened its offensive on the Western front during WW I
US's 1st coml radio 8MK later WWJ Detroit began daily broadcasting
Dumont's 1st TV Broadcast for home reception NY city
Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico City by agents of Stalin
British PM Churchill said of the Royal Air Force `Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'
Dimout regulations implemented in SF
Russia publicly acknowledges a test detonation of a hydrogen bomb.
1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph - HA Hanes Palmdale Ca
Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
Republicans convene at the Cow Palace
Senegal gains independence from France
LBJ signs an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion.
650 000 Soviet-block troops invade Czechoslovakia
Viking 1 launched toward orbit around Mars soft landing
Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune
UN Security Council votes 14-0 US abstains condemning Israel's declaration that all of Jersualem was its capital.
A mail carrier in Edmond Okla. shot 14 fellow workers dead
Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy
Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa Fe
Former slave Nat Turner led a violent insurrection against slavery
John Hampson patents the venetian blind
1st Lincoln-Douglas debate in Illinois
American Bar Association organized at Sarasota N.Y
Ruth homer leads the AL to a 4-2 win in the 1st All Star Game
Leon Trotsky died of wounds inflicted by an assailant the day before
Pres Truman ended the Lend-Lease program
Hawaii becomes 50th US state
Martial law declared in S Vietnam
Gemini 5 launched into earth orbit (2 astronauts)
William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus is launched
Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut
Opposition leader Begnigno S. Aquino Jr. assassinated in Manila
Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas killing 2000
Next total solar eclipse visible from North America
Richard III slain at Bosworth Field - Last of the Plantagenets
John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests years before Fulton
Gold fields discovered in Australia
Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations
Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers
NASA's X-15 attains altitude of 67 miles
Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 106 km
Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700 000 slaves freed
1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF
1st Japanese commercial ship visits SF carrying tea
1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US: US lightship
Gasoline Alley cartoon strip premiers in Chicago Tribune
Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed in Mass
Rumania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
Digital Equipment Corp. founded
Beatles release "She Loves You"
Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of earth from the moon
Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
Intelsat communications satellite launched
Yanks leap frog over Red Soxs 1/2 game in 1st place to stay
1st man-powered flight (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
Mt. Vesuvius erupts; Pompeii & Herculaneum are buried
King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
St. Bartholomew's Day
British sack Washington DC White House burned
the waffle iron is invented
Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal
Territory of Alaska organized
1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman AE Putnam
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established
1st US Negro delegate to United Nations appointed - ES Sampson
1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
temp. drops to -88ø (-127ø F) at Vostok Antarctica (world record)
2nd Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 6-4
8th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 2-1
Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
Montreal taken by the Iroquois
William Herschel discoverer of Uranus dies at age 85
Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
Belgium begins revolt against the Netherlands
NY Sun publishes moon hoax story about John Herschel
Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda
Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim the English Channel
1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
Yankee Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying the record
Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game
Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
Paris liberated from Nazi occupation
Tiger's Virgil Trucks no hits the Yankees
Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
Voyager 2 closest approach to Saturn & discovers thousands of rings
Dow Jones average of industrial stocks reaches 2722.42 a record
B.C. Roman forces under Julius Caesar invaded Britain.
English longbows defeat French in Battle of Cr‚cy
Cambridge Agreement pledged. Massachusetts Bay Co. stockholders
John Fitch granted a US patent for his working steamboat
W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)
Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.
Krakatoa began erupting with increasingly large explosions.
Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg
Yanks turn a triple play & beat the Browns 10-6
19th amendment passes -- women's suffrage granted (about time!)
Pumping to build Treasure Island in S.F. Bay is finished
1st major league baseball telecast - Reds at Bkln Dodgers (W2XBS NY)
Fluoridation of SF water begins
USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
Official Intl Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto.
Mariner 2 launched for 1st planet flyby (Venus)
LBJ nominated at the Democratic convention in Atlantic City N.J.
Summer Olympics opened in Munich West Germany.
Women's Equality Day
Charles Lindbergh died at his home in Hawaii at 72.
Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
H.A. Rey author of a popular constellation book dies at age 78
Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I. Also Soyuz 31 is launched
Voyager's closest approach to Saturn enroute to Uranus & Neptune
Americans defeated by British in Battle of Long Island
1st hydrogen-filled balloon ascent (unmanned)
1st successful oil well drilled near Titusville Penn
Krakatoa west of Java blew apart; top that St. Helens!
Jack Chesbro's final game as a Yankee
Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes Tarzan
Green Bay Packers granted NFL franchise
Kellogg-Briand Pact where 60 nations agreed to outlaw war
Yanks Monte Pearson no hits the Indians 13-0 DiMaggio hits 3 triples
Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
Launch of Mariner 2 which makes 1st Venus flyby
Toby Harrah & Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium Rangers won 8-2
Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 78
Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
20th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 6 launched
St Augustine Fla established
Delaware Bay explored by Henry Hudson for the Netherlands
William Herschel discovers Enceladus satellite of Saturn
Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was born near Tula.
US occupies Midway Islands in the Pacific
Mickey Welsh strikesout the 1st 9 men he faces
United Parcel Service begins service in Seattle
Italy's declares war against Germany during WW I
10 suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House
WEAF in NYC aired the 1st radio commercial. Queensboro Realty Company of Jackson Heights paid $100 for 10 minutes of air time
Sen. Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
200 000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington D.C
Martin Luther King Jr I have a dream speech at the Lincoln Memorial
Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Democratic National Convention - nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president
More than 520 die as a strong earthquake shook central Mexico
Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
NY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders 2-1 at Civic Stadium in Portland Ore. winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship.
Ron Guidry faces just 28 men & beats the Rangers 1-0
John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill Pres Reagan
Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation
Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Moh cs
Last Incan King of Peru Atahualpa murdered by Spanish conquerors
Haverhill Mass. destroyed by French & Indians
Edmond Hoyle games expert dies (birth date unknown)
Shay's Rebellion in Springfield Mass
William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
2nd president of the Mormon Church Brigham Young died.
Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
Arizonan is 1st vessel to arrive in S.F. via the Panama Canal
USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
SF Intl Airport (SFO) opens
Strom Thurmond D-SC ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights
Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" is released
Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
Beatles public concert at Candlestick Park in SF.
Yankees longest day The Red Sox take the 1st game 2-1 in 9 the Yanks win second game in 20 4-3 a total of 8 hours & 19 minutes
Final television episode of The Fugitive
Lou Brock - Cardinals - eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year old career stolen bases record to a total to 893. The Padres won game 4-3.
Broadcaster Lowell Thomas died in Pawling N.Y. at age 89
treaty of peace between Dutch & Indians
Honolulu Hawaii becomes a city
Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no hit innings but loses 5-0 in the 11th
1st Negro judge of a District Court confirmed - JB Parsons
1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
8th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 3 is launched
12th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 1 is launched
US Naval Observatory is authorized by an act of Congress
California Pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets
1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US at Charleston S.C
Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
Gil Hodges hits 4 homers in 1 game
1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated Chicago Il
1st microwave television station operated - Lufkin Texas
Malaysia gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Trinidad & Tobago gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Malaysia Day
Aleksandr Fedotov sets world aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km (125 524 ft) in a Mikoyan E-266M turbojet
Poland's Solidarity labor union founded
