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Adrian IV only English pope (1154-59) dies (birth date unknown)
Jacques Cartier French explorer dies (birth date unknown)
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in California
Aaron Burr aquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey
1st pullman sleeping car in service
R.C.Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare
RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated
Sherman's march through Georgia
Napoleon III captured at Sedan
1st woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)
1st baseball tripleheader - Boston vs Pittsburgh
Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces
Jack Combs pitches 24 inninings beating Red Sox
M. Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
Martha last known passenger pigeon dies at Cincinnati Zoo
US troops land in Vladivostok Siberia stay until 1920
Earthquake struck Tokyo estimated 74 000 people died
PHYSICAL REVIEW publishes paper 1st to deal with "black holes."
Germany invades Poland starting WW II
1st network dective series - Private Eyes premeirs
Sutro Baths SF purchased by George Whitney
Col Moammar Gadhafi rose to power deposed Libya's King Idris
Libyan revolution (National Day)
NJ Meadowlands racetrack opens
1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold
Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn discovers new moon rings
Korean Boeing 747 strayed into Soviet air space & was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter. All 269 people aboard died
Titanic sunk in 1912 found by French & American scientists
BC Battle of Actium; Octavian defeats Antony becomes Emp Augustus
BC Phidippides runs 1st marathon seeking aid from Sparta vs. Persia
Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth with 102 Pilgrims
Great Fire of London starts; destroys St. Paul's Church
Last day of Julian calendar in Britain British colonies
US Treasury Department established by Congress
K L Harding discovers Juno 3rd known asteroid
Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
Rumour starts that Gehrig will be traded to Tigers
1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
Vietnam declares independence from France (National Day)
V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri
Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager
Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
Milwaukee Brave's Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game
CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers
Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years
Treaty of Paris ending Revolutionary War is signed
Cal State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
British annex Natal (South Africa)
Yanks win second game on a forfeit over A's 2nd forfeit win
Allies turned back Germans in World War I's Battle of Verdun
1st automobile to exceed 300 mph Sir Malcolm Campbell
Yanks beat Red Sox on a forfeit 4th forfeit win
Britain declared war on Germany. France followed six hours later quickly joined by Australia New Zealand South Africa & Canada
US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for military bases
1st showing of high definition color TV
Allied troops invade Italy
US Viking 2 lands on Mars at Utopia
Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
Hurricane David a strong Atlantic storms kills over 1 000
28 year old Chicagoan won $40 million in Illinois state lottery
20th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 6 returns to Earth
Romulus Augustulus last Roman emperor in west is deposed
Navigator Henry Hudson discovered island of Manhattan
LA founded in Valley of Smokes (Indian Name)
1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty-NY Sun)
North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in S.F
1st daily newspaper in Hawaii published
French republic proclaimed
1st district lit by electricty (NY's Pearl Street Station)
Geronimo is captured ending last major US-Indian war
George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak."
Garros sets world altitude record of 4 250 m (13 944 ft)
US troops land in Archangel Russia stay 10 months
last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
Yankee Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia Athletics
1st airplane to exceed 300 mph JR Wendell Glenview Il
Yanks beat Red Sox 6-3 & clinch their 12th & earliest pennant
1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines
NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network
1st transcontinental TV broadcast by Pres. Truman
1st passage of McClure Strait fabled Northwest Passage completed
Ford Motor Co. introduced Edsel
NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single
American swimmer Mark Spitz 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals
Ron Guidry wins his 20th
Iraqi troops seized Iranian territory in a border dispute
189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1st Continental Congress assembles in Phila
Battle of Virginia Capes French defeat Britain trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown.
10 000 workers marched in the 1st Labor Day parade in NYC
1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer
Yankees final game at the Polo Grounds after 7 years
Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously.
Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings
Red Sox turn a triple play on the Yankees
1st privately operated atomic reactor - Raleigh NC
1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented Charlotte NC
11 Israeli athletes are slained at the Munich Olympics
Voyager 1 launched toward fly-by of Jupiter Saturn.
Cleveland Indians stage 1st I hate the Yankee Hanky Night
Sadat Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David Md.
World's longest auto tunnel St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps opens.
8th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 3 returns to Earth
12th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 1 returns to Earth
149 Pilgrims set sail from England aboard the Mayflower
Puritans land at Salem form Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1st lighthouse in US built in Boston
Great fire in NY.
1st westbound train arrives in SF.
Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
Southern Pacific line from Los Angeles to SF completed
Cub's Burns (extra bases) Williamson & Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn
Pres William McKinley assassinated in Buffalo N.Y.
Word received Adm. Peary discovered the North Pole five months ago
Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughriders formed.
Battle of the Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris.
All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev. 44 Miami 0).
Yankees record a record with 10 pinch hitters
Star Trek appears on TV for the 1st time (on NBC)
Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day).
John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
Bob Lemon named Yankee manager
Polish dissidents seized the Polish Embassy in Bern Switzerland
Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day).
James J. Corbett kayos John L. Sullivan in round 21 at New Orleans.
1st closed-circuit auto race at Cranston R.I.
Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF destroyed by fire.
1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete Akron Oh
Whitey Ford becomes the 5th pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters
Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126 000+ ft
The 1st game of the Boston Massacre Yanks beat Red Sox 15-3
32nd Emmy Awards shown despite boycott
Clement III 1st antipope (1084-1100) dies (birth date unknown).
Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo beginning decline of Tatars.
1st permanent settlement in US founded at St Augustine Florida
Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St. John.
Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to English.
Mission San Gabriel Archangel founded in California.
Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people
Loss of steamer Lady Elgin.
Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek Mont.
1st US Air Mail service begins
Senator Huey P. Long assassinated at Baton Rouge.
Yankees trail 6-1 come up with 8 in the 9th beat Boston 9-6
Yanks beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7 game called because of lightning
Italy surrenders to the allies in WW II
US invades Japanese-held Korea.
Billy Martin named manager of the Texas Rangers
Pres Gerald Ford pardons former Pres Richard Nixon
Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy
The 2nd game of the Boston Massacre Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2
Jean Seberg dies at age 40
Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland.
Continental Congress authorizes the name "US"
John Herschel takes the 1st glass plate photograph
Territory of New Mexico Territory of Utah created.
California becomes the 31st state
Luxembourg gains independence.
Lotta's Fountain (Kearny & Market) dedicated
President Hayes visits SF
E.E.Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea 5th Jupiter moon
NBC created by RCA
Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium
Frank Crosetti ties record strikes out twice in 1 inning
Yanks clinch 8th pennant
1st bombing on continental US soil Mount Emily Or (WW2)
Italy surrenders to the Allies
Allied forces liberate Luxembourg.
Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day).
1st use of TV laugh track - Hank McCune
4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13 Boston 10).
Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter a perfect game vs Cubs
1st successful test flight of a Saturn V.s
John Lennon releases the "Imagine" album
Viking 2 launched toward orbit around Mars soft landing.
Chinese communist party chairman Mao TseTung dies at 82
1st TRS-80 computer sold.
The 3rd game of the Boston Massacre Yanks beat Red Sox 7-0
Conestoga I 1st private rocket is launched
John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council Va.
Comm Oliver H. Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie
Elias Howe patents the sewing machine.
1st theater opens in Hawaii
Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
NYC welcomes home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25 000 WW I soldiers
Indian's Ray Caldwell no hits Yankees 3-0
Largest Polo Grounds crowd Meusel Ruth & Gehrig consecutive HRs
Leopold and Loeb found guilty of murder
2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21 Pittsburgh 0).
Canada declares war on Germany
Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.
Joe DiMaggio hits 3 homers
Swanson sells it's 1st "TV Dinner"
Gunsmoke premieres on CBS television
Mickey Mantle hits HR # 400
20 black students entered public schools in Alabama
Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia killing all 176 people
Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits
Convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi last to die in the guillotine
The 4th game of the Boston Massacre Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks outhit em 67-21 and outscore 42-9
Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan island
English Dutch & Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet.
French astronomer G.D Cassini dies
Battle of Brandywine Pa.; Americans lose to British.
Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury.
Battle of Lake Champlain N.Y.; Americans defeat British.
Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind 1st US concert
Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R.
1st electric telegraph in use Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos
1st commercially successful electric bus line opens in Hollywood.
US marines invade Honduras.
After a single Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires the next 27 Yanks
Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu.
Yanks Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers
1st TV drama - WGY's The Queens Messenger
Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
FDR dedicates Boulder Dam now known as Hoover Dam
Charles Lindbergh charges `the British the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration' were trying to get the US into WW II
FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at the second Quebec Conference
1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
US Defense Department formed
1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
1st Miss America TV broadcast
Johnny Miller became the 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat
US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
Nikita Khrushchev dies of a heart attack at age 77
BART begins service with a 26 mile line from Oakland to Fremont
Chile's President Salvador Allende deposed in a military coup
TV's Rhoda gets divorced
Pete Rose of the Cin Reds got career hit 4 192 off Eric Show of the San Diego Padres eclipsing the record held by Ty Cobb.
Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered biggest one-day decline ever plummeting 86.61 points to 1 792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
Lorne Green dies at 72
BC Athenians defeat 2nd Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon.
Henry Hudson discovers Hudson River.
Drogheda Ireland falls to Puritan troops; inhabitants massacred.
Charles Messier observes the Crab Nebula and begins catalog.
1st German ship in WW2 captured by US ship (Busko)
Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of the Communist Party
Indians sweep Yanks at Municipal Largest AL crowd 86 563
Luna 1 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the moon.
Bonanza premiers
The Monkees premiers
Gemini XI launched
USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility.
coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day).
240.49 million shares traded in the NY Stock Exchange
death of Dante Alighieri author of the Divine Comedy.
Dante Alighieri Day
Wolfe defeats Montcalm on Plains of Abraham; Canada becomes English.
NYC becomes the capitol of the US
Britain invades Egypt.
1st airplane flight in Europe.
Waite Hoyt became the only 20 game winner of the '27 Yankees
Yanks clinch their 7th pennant
Soviet Lunik 2 becomes 1st human-made object to crash on moon.
Car 54 Where are You? premiers
The Outer Limits premiers
Yanks clinch their 28th pennant
Beatles release "Yesterday"
IBM announces System 370 computer.
9 hostages and 28 prisoners die in take over a Attica State Prison
1st TV viewer discretion warning - Soap
2nd test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
According to South Africa Venda gains independence. Not recognized as an independent country outside of South Africa.
Princess Grace of Monaco dies at 52 in a car crash
Salem Mass. is founded.
1st lighthouse in US is lit (in Boston Harbor)
England and colonies adopt Gregorian calendar 11 days disappear.
Napoleon occupies Moscow.
Francis Scott Key inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner."
US troops capture Mexico City.
Typewriter ribbon patented
AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo
Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (NY)
Congress passes 1st peace time draft law
Yanks clinch pennant #13
Yanks clinch pennant #14
Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater
Giant's Bob Niemans 1st 2 at bats are homers
1st prefrontal lobotomy performed Washington DC
Walt Disney awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House
F-Troop premiers
Denny McLain 30th victory of the season
USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circum lunar flight
Charles Kowal discovers Leda 13th satellite of Jupiter.
Entertainment Tonight premiers
British forces occupy NYC during the American Revolution
Dept of Foreign Affairs renamed the Dept of State
Costa Rica El Salvador Guatamala Honduras & Nicaragua gain independ
Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang.
Russia was proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany.
WPA extends the L-Taraval streetcar to the Zoo (at Sloat Blvd)
Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II RAF beats Luftwaffe.
3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw. 14 Columbus 2).
1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested Columbus Oh
Yanks clinch pennant #15
During Korean conflict UN forces land at Inchon in the south
Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 homers (6th time he has done that)
Bachelor Father with John Forsythe premiers
SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham
Lost in Space premiers
Gemini XI returns to Earth
Soyuz 22 carries two cosmonauts into earth orbit for 8 days.
Yanks beat Boston 4-0 Guidry wins # 22 Yanks lead 2 1/2 games
Intl Peace Day
Morocco Showcase opens
Death of Tomas de Torquemada inquisitor who burned 10 000 people
Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims
Mass village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston
Flamsteed sees solar eclipse 1st known astronomical observation
Great Seal of US used for 1st time
British capture Capetown
Mexico 1st declares independence from Spain (National Day)
Fire of Moscow
Typesetting machine patent
1st overland mail for California
Cherokee Strip Oklahoma opened to white settlement homesteaders
William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors
US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
Cardinal Jim Bottomley bats in 12 RBIs in 1 game
Yanks clinch pennant #11
Samuel T Rayburn of Tx elected speaker of the House
1st US peace-time draft in US enacted
Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
James Jeans dies
1st automobile to exceed 400 mph John Cobb Bonneville Salt Flats
Bauer & Berra homer in the 9th beating Red Sox 5-4 taking over 1st
Shindig premiers
Metropolitan Opera opens at NY's Lincoln Center
Richard Nixon appears on Laugh-in
1st TV series about mixed marriage - Bridgit Loves Bernie
Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for Vietnam deserters
BART begins regular transbay service
Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop
Maria Callas American-born prima donna dies in Paris at 53
Yanks beat Red Sox for 6th time in 2 weeks 3-2
Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium
massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins
Miami Vice premiers
Boston founded
Presidio of SF founded as Spanish fort
US Constitution is adopted & formally signed
William Herschel discovers Mimas satellite of Saturn
1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii
Battle of Antietam Md; Confederate forces retreat
Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight
1st transcontinental airplane flight NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min
National Football League formed in Canton Ohio
Charles Lindbergh in SF
1st succesSFul separation of Siamese twins
Yanks clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of the year
The Fugitive premiers
Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999 2000 & 2001
Bewitched premiers
Mission Impossible premiers
Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon
BART begins passenger service
Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer Reggie hits 2 more
Red Sox finally beat Yanks in Sept 1978 7-3
Begin Sadat & Carter sign the Camp David accord
Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
Fort Ticonderoga NY opened
Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
NY Times starts publishing at 2› a copy
Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board)
the Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air
Even though they lost a double header Yanks clinch pennant #10
Wagon Train premiers
Get Smart premiers
Gemini X is launched
US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of earth & moon together
Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers
George Washington's farewell address as president
Napoleon's retreat from Russia begins
Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion
1st commercial laundry established in Oakland California
Battle of Chickamauga Tenn; Union forces retreat
Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails causing a securities panic
Pres Garfield dies of gunshot wound
Mike Burke named Yankees president
Baby born on Golden Gate Bridge (those Marin County folk!)
Mary Tyler Moore show premiers
Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service
St Christopher-Nevis gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
Captain EO permieres
Magellan starts 1st succesSFul circumnavigation of the world
Paoli massacre
US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
Slave trade abolished in DC but slavery allowed to continue
British & French defeat Russians at Alma in the Crimea
Patent granted on the electric range
Civil War Battle of Chickamauga near Chattanooga Tenn ended
US Grants come to SF for elaborate extended visit
Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP
Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header
German rocket engineers begin work in US
1st North Pole jet crossing
1st FORTRAN computer program run
After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls
Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season Yanks clinch pennant #26
Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis drills core sample
Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
Plaque dedicated in Thurmon Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium
WDW's 200-millonth guest
great fire in NY
1st daily newspaper in US begins publication in Penn
1st French Republic declared
1st auto manufacturer opens -- Duryea Motor Wagon Company
Yankee 1st baseman Hal Chase's 22 put outs ties the record
1st legal forward pass in Canadian senior football thrown (Calgary)
Johann Ostermeyer patents his invention the flashbulb
the nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is commissioned
Yanks set dubious record stranding 20 men on base Mantle hits a 500 foot plus homer but Red Sox win 13-9 in Fenway
Perry Mason premiers
1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours landed Dallas Texas
Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no hits Yankees 1-0
Malta gains independence from Britain
Monday Night Football on ABC premiers - Jets vs Browns
John Lennon & Yoko Ono were Dick Cavett's only guest
Diana Sands dies at 39
US Mariner 10 makes second fly-by of Mercury
Jaqueline Susann dies at 53
Richard Todd of the Jets completes 42 passes in a game (NFL record)
Belize gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Sandra Day O'Conner becomes the 1st female Supreme Court Justice
Devils beat Rangers 3-2 in exhibition - 1st hockey in Meadowlands
SF cable cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs
Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University
Nathan Hale is executed as a spy by the British
The US Post Office was established
Origin of French Republican Era
President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech
1st auto built in US (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield
Italo Marchiony granted a patent for the ice cream cone
Ice Cream Cone patented
Fred 'Bonehead' Merkle misses 2nd base costing NY Giants the pennant
Yank Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park-homers
Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples
Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney)
Boulogne reoccupied by Allies
Stan Musial goes 5 for 5 off 5 different pitchers
Mali gains independence from France (National Day)
The Man from UNCLE premiers
Zond 5 completes flight
War between Iran & Iraq begins
2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins
BC - Augustus 1st Roman Emperor
Naval engagement 'Bonhomme Richard' defeats 'HMS Serepis'
John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point
Johann Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
Urbain J.J. Leverrier codiscoverer of Neptune dies
Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning
1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie is released
Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey for world heavyweight boxing title
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia formed (National Day)
Yanks commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12
1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event
Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech
1st movie to become a TV series - How to Marry a Millionaire
ABC's 1st color TV series - The Jetsons
Largest known prime 2 ^ 132 049 - 1 is discovered
Ford-Carter TV debate
Soyuz 22 returns to Earth
Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels
3rd test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens
Congress' 1st Judiciary Act for Attorney General & Supreme Court
Congress creates the Post Office
1st baseball team organized
Battle of Monterey
a new invention the dirigible is demonstrated
1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks SF
Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey
Yanks set record of 106 victories
Lt James H Doolittle guided a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in the 1st all-instrument flight
Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
Babe Ruth made his farewell appearance as a baseball player
Ruth's final Yankee Stadium appearance Less than 2500 on hand
9 Allied govts pledged adherence to the Atlantic Charter
Tonight Show premieres on NBC
Yanks tie a record 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning
Pres Eisenhower suffered a heart attack on vacation in Denver
Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
Bkln Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field defeat Pirates 2-0
1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed Urbandale Ia
USS Enterprise 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier launched
1st atomic powered aircraft carrier the Enterprise is launched
Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing
The Munsters premier
That's Life premiers - A Broadway musical type TV show
60 Minutes premiers
Trial of `Chicago 8' began
1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16
Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal
Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter
Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0 rasing his record to 23-3 ERA 174
CompuServe system started
Columbus sailed on his second voyage to America
Vasco Nu¤ez de Balboa is the 1st European to see the Pacific Ocean
1st printing press in America
Publick Occurrences 1st American newspaper publish 1st & last ed
American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured
Congress proposes the Bill of Rights
12th amendment to the US constitution regulating judicial power
Mormon pres Woodruff issued a Manifesto formally renouncing polygamy
Congress establishes Yosemite National Park
Pres Wilson became seriously ill & collapsed after a speech
Henry Ford announces the five day work week
Yankee manager Miller Huggins dies at 50
Lou Gehrig plays in his 1500th consecutive game
1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation
Smallest Yankee stadium crowd 413 see White Sox win 4-1
3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
Pacific SW Airlines Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide
Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice
Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
Cabrillo discovers California
Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks & Venetians
British troops occupied Philadelphia in the American Revolution
Jefferson appointed 1st Sec of State; John Jay 1st chief justice; Samuel Osgood 1st Postmaster & Edmund J Randolph 1st Attorney Genl
Frontiersman Daniel Boone died in Missouri at the age of 85
Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives
John Philip Sousa led band's 1st performance in Plainfield NJ
Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began during WWI
Shortest double header Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to the Browns Yanks already clinched pennant
UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul
Yanks clinch pennant #19
Musical West Side Story opened on Broadway
1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place in Chicago
Roger Maris hits # 60 off Jack Fisher
Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)
TV comedy The Beverly Hillbillies premiered on CBS
Japan launches its 1st satellite in to space
The Staten Island is 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay
Beatles release "Abbey Road" album
Anna Magnani dies at age 64
Sir Freddie Laker began cut-rate `Skytrain' service London to NY
Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
Australia II won the America's Cup yacht race
Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by the British
Constitution submitted to the states for ratification
Railroad transportation is born with 1st track in England
Steamer Arctic is lost
Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small "crowd" of 12
Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike outs
Democratic National Committee voted to admit women
Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds
Lou Gehrig's 1st homer
The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth was launched at Glasgow
Floyd Giebells 1st game 2-0 pennent clinching beating Bob Feller
1st WWII liberty ship freighter Patrick Henry launched
NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down
Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiers
US sells Israel Hawk anti-aircraft missiles
Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
Cardinal's super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of the year
In 1st game at Coliseum Rangers beat Islanders 6-4 - Exhibition
Soyuz 12 launched
William the Conqueror landed in England
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California at San Diego Bay
Siege of Yorktown begins last battle of the the Revolutionary War
Donati's comet becomes the 1st to be photographed
US troops reoccupy Cuba stay until 1909
Baseball's biggest scandal grand jury indicts 8 White Sox for throwing the 1919 World Series with the Cincinnati Reds
Yanks slaughter Red Sox 24-4
End of 1st around-the-world flight Seattle to Seattle 57 stops
2 US Army planes completed 1st around the world flight
Yanks clinch pennant #6
Lou Gehrig'error ends his errorless streak at 885 consecutive games The winning pitcher was Babe Ruth beating the Red Sox 9-3
Ted Williams assures his 400 avg on last day with 6 hits
NY Americans NHL team folded
1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise)
Norm Van Brocklin of the Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards
Allie Reynolds 2nd no hitter of 1951 Yanks clinch pennant #18
Edwin Hubble dies
Ted Williams hits his final homer #521
Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates a record 41.5 kph for 440 yds
Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
Sadat replaces Egyptian Pres Nassar who died of a heart attack at 52
1st Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy
Pope John Paul I died of a heart attack at 65
1st reports appeared of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
Michaelmas
Scotland Yard formed in London
great auroral display in US
1st night football game was played in Mansfield Penn
Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks beating Browns 16-12 a major league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning
Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public
Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10
1st color telecast of football game on network Phila
S Nicholson discovers 4th & 12th satellite of Jupiter
Stan Musial's last game gets hit 3 629 & 3 630
Love American Style premiers
7th Mayor's Trophy Game Mets beat Yanks 7-6
Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into earth orbit
Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules killed seven in Chicago
1st book published Johann Guttenberg's Bible
Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
siege of Yorktown begins
William Morris 1st tooth extraction under anesthetics Charlestown
1st immigrants from Portugal arrive in Hawaii
Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of the Orion Nebula
City of NY established
Giants lose ending 26 straight winning streak
Yanks clinch pennant #2
Babe Ruth hits 60th HR setting the record off Tom Zachary
FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
Ruth's final game as a Yankee he went 0 for 3
Porgy & Bess premiers in Boston
Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany
1st manned rocket flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
1st televised College football game - Fordham vs Waynesburg
Calais reoccupied by Allies
Hank Greenberg's final day HR wins the pennent for the Tigers
Yanks beat Dodgers 5-3-largest WS crowd 73 365-1st WS televised
Flintstones premiers
On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"
Botswana gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition)
USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete the 1st automatic docking
Last Wash Senator home game Yanks win carreer 5th forfeit Yanks trailing 4-2 in the 9th with 2 outs fans rush the field
Yanks close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5
Tuvalu (Ellice Islands) gains independence from Britain
Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 average
