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BC Alexander of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela
Treaty with Winnebago Indians
Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet
1st Hawaiian stamps issued
1st postcards are issued in Vienna
Yosemite becomes a National Park
Henry Huntington buys the LA Railway
1st Baseball World Series
Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory beats Walter Johnson 2-1
Henry Ford introduces the Model T car
Yanks lose game #100 enroute to a 50-102 season
Yanks win their 1st pennant
Babe Ruth's famous homerun called off of Cubs Charlie Root
Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia)
Penn Turnpike pioneer toll thruway opened
1st jet propelled airplane tested
Bob Feller 348th strikeout of the season
1st helicopter air mail & express service LA Ca
People's Rep of China proclaimed (National Day)
1st treaty signed by woman ambassador - Eugenie Anderson
1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station Portland Or
Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA
Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Roger Maris sets record of 61 homers last off of Tracy Sallard
The Lucy Show premiers
US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' radio telescope
Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show
SF cable cars declared a national landmark
Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida opens
Reunion Island no longer prints stamps France takes over production
Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title
Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians setting up a play off game with Red Sox
US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)
EPCOT Center opens
BC Aristotle dies of indigestion
Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch a new invention - the telescope
NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle
Italy annexes Rome & the Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
1st Pan American conference
Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
Grover Cleveland Alexanders 16th shutout of the year
Yanks sweep Cubs in the world series
NY Hayden Planetarium the 4th in the US opens
1st alcohol power plant established Atchison Kansas
Tony Lazzeri becomes the 1st Yank to hit a world series grand slam
Birdbaths installed in Union Square
1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated Chicago
1st network soap opera - Faraway Hill - Dumont
Yogi Berra become the 1st player to pinch hit a world series homer
Yanks & Red Sox tie for 1st place played the final game of the season Yanks won 5-3 & clinched pennant #16
Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD catches
The comic strip 'Peanuts' 1st appears in 9 newspapers
Alfred Hitchcock Presents premiers
1st atomic power clock exhibited - NYC
Guinea gains independence from France (National Day)
Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS
Ben Casey premiers
Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts
Billy Martin named manager of the Tigers
homing pigeon averages 133 kph (record) in 1100-km Australian race
Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding
3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
The comet said to predict the death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%)
NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
Iraq gains full independence from Britain
Italy invades Ethiopia
Launch of the 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles
With only 1 out to go Yank Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his world series no hit bid it scored 2 runs & he lost the game.
1st telescope lens 200 inches in diameter completed
NFL becomes 1st sport of the week
1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV - Beulah
Bobby Thomson HR - The Giants win the pennant
1st video recording on magnetic tape LA Ca
Father Knows Best premiers
Mickey Mouse Club premiers
Captain Kangaroo premieres Good Morning Captain!
Yanks win 8-7 & end season on a 15 game win streak
SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard
Dick Van Dyke Show premiers
Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into earth orbit
Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
William Knight sets world speed record for fixed-wing craft of 4 534 MPH (Mach 6.72) in X-15
Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
Space shuttle Atlantis makes all-military maiden flight
1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
Mexico becomes a republic
Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time
the dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
The comic strip Dick Tracy debuts
Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off
Indians beat Red Sox in 1st AL playoff game
Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory beating Yankees
USSR launches Sputnik I the 1st artificial earth satellite
Leave It to Beaver debuts on CBS
Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began
USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
Whitey Ford's world series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends
Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
Janis Joplin dies at 27
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after racial 'joke'
pier 39 opens in SF
Yanks clinch AL East
21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 is launched
James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception. (He scored on laterals.)
Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone
Palace Hotel on Market Street opens
Chief Joseph surrenders ending Nez Perc‚ War
Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville Kansas bank holdup
Giant's Henry Matthewson walks 14
Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)
Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey
Portugal overthrows monarchy proclaims republic
Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium
1st Yank & radio broadcast of the World Series beat Giants 3-0
Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie world series game
Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
1st nonstop transpacific flight Japan to Wenatchee Wash
Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely
1st Presidential address televised from White House - HS Truman
Billy Martin 12 hits sets record Yanks win record 5th straight WS
Yogi Berra becomes the 4th Yank to hit a World Series Grand Slam
Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park
SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated
PBS becomes a network
Yanks set AL attendence mark at 2 627 417
Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9 851 kph at White Sands N. Mex
41-G Challenger carried 1st Canadian Marc Garneau into orbit
13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 launched
Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the 1st public bath in Brooklyn
Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
Yanks lose 100th game of the year go 51-103 for season
Babe Ruth hits 3 homers in a world series game
The Jazz Singer 1st movie with a sound track premieres
Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in the world series
Zoological Gardens opens (on Sloat & Skyline)
Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in the world series
Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in the world series
Soviet Luna 3 1st successful photographic spacecraft impacts moon
Egypt & Syria invade Israel - The Yom Kippur war
Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs Yanks win championship game 3 6-5
Anwar Sadat assassinated Hosnai Mubarak becomes Egytian president
Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick
Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish & Italians in Battle of Lepanto
The Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY
British defeated by Americans in Battle of Saratoga
Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
Edgar Allen Poe dies in Balt at 40
Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
Crete unites with Greece
Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record)
Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series
1st infra-red photograph Rochester NY
Dem. Rep of Germany (East) formed
Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping the Phillies
US forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel
Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in the world series
Luna 3 photographs far side of moon
Route 66 premiers
Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills Omaha Nebr.
Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
1st regular gat at Coliseum Flames - 3 Islanders - 2
In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3
21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 returns to Earth
The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is 1st sighted.
1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains.
Franklin Peirce 14th president of US died in Concord N.H.
Nation's worst forest fire starts in Peshtigo WI. Great Fire destroys over 4ý miles of Chicago
Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks
Sgt. Alvin York single-handedly kills 25 captures 132 Germans.
Yanks sweep Pirates in the world series
Coit Tower dedicated in SF a monument to firefighters.
Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son
Ozzie & Harriet Nelson married
Yanks sweep Reds in the world series
Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet debut on CBS radio
Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada
Don Larsen's Perfect world series game beats Dodgers 2-0
Brooklyn Dodgers announced they would move to LA
Bobby Richarson hits a world series grand slammer
N Korea reports 100% election turnout 100% vote for Workers' Party.
Soviet author Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit
Kenneth Warby sets world speed record on water (514 kph).
Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship against Kansas City
Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter Gerald R. Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U) chartered in New Haven.
Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay.
Benjamin Banneker black American astronomer dies.
Joshua Stoddard of Worcester Mass. receives patent for 1st calliope
1st 2-way telephone conversation
Public admitted to Washington Monument.
Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer Only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
Yanks sweep Cards in the world series
1st transcontinental flight by woman lands Laura Ingalls
Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA
Yanks sweep Cubs in the world series
Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in the world series
Gil McDougald's World Series Grand Slam Yanks beat Giants 13-1
Pope Pius XII died 19 years after he was elevated to the papacy.
Yanks beat Braves 4 games to 3 in the world series
Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning - world series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1
Uganda gains independence from Britain (National Day).
Che Guevara executed in Bolivia.
Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits SF
Yanks 1st AL Championship game beat Royals 4-1
Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 5 but returned after failing to dock
Yanks beat Royals for pennant #31
Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st American woman to walk in space
Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E. Claiborne making him the 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.
US Naval academy opens at Annapolis Maryland
Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park NY (the tuxedo)
Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader. Also 41 game winner Chesbro loses the 1st game & chance at pennent
China Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew Manchu dynasty
Pacific & Atl mix as engineers blow Gamboa Dam opening Panama Canal
Bill Wambsganns unassisted world series triple play
1st synthetic detergent for home use marketed
George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess opens in NY
Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 1 in the world series
Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in the world series
On Skowron's grand slammer Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7
Braves Lew Burdette beats Yankees 3 times in 1 world series
Pres Eisenhower apologized to finance minister of Ghana Komla Agbeli Gbdemah after he was refused service in a Dover Del. restaurant
Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards.
treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US UK USSR.
18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day).
VP Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns.
Vice-Pres. Agnew resigns after conviction for income-tax evasion.
Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75
Pres Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
4 500 people die when a pair of earthquakes struck NW Algeria
Yanks lost 4-2 & are swept by Royals in the AL Championship series
Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
Pope John Paul II proclaimed Rev. M Kolbe who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp a saint
US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy gunmen were placed in custody
British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown the Netherlands.
The Juliana the 1st steam-powered ferryboat begins operation.
slavery abolished in Maryland.
Daughters of the American Revolution founded
Lou Gehrig elected MVP
Yanks beat Cards 4 games to 1 in the world series
Pioneer 1 launched; 1st spacecraft launched by NASA
Pope John XXIII convenes Vatican II Council.
21st Roman Catholic ecumenical council Vatican II opens in Rome.
Billy Martin named manager of Twins
Apollo 7 launched 1st of manned Apollo mission
Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next two days.
Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick
Saturday Night Live premiers
Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series
Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st American woman to walk in space.
200 000 gays march for civil rights in Washington.
Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day.
British & French troops capture Peking.
General Robert E. Lee dies in Lexington VA at age 63.
Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated.
NY Giant's Casey Stengel Hr beats Yanks 1-0 in the World Series
Cubs blow 8-0 world series lead A's score 10 in 1 inning
Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County OH jail.
Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager
Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US
1st coml flight between Cal & Antartica
Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session.
US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology
At 4 AM traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck
Archaeological digs begin at Masada Israel
USSR launches 1st 3-man crew into space
Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 world series
Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.
Soyuz 7 is launched
Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot
Mariner 9 took pictures of Martian north pole
Gerald Ford named as Spiro Agnew's successor to vice presidency
Throwaway Game Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers
4th test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
Int'l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize.
Tycho Brahe greatest naked-eye observer dies in Prague.
Continental Congress establishes a navy
Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House)
Battle of Queenstown Heights.
B'nai B'rith founded in NY.
Texas ratifies a state constitution.
Italy declares war on former ally Germany.
Kukla Fran & Ollie premiers
Burglar alarm - ultrasonic or radio waves - patented - Samuel Bagno
Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats Yanks 10-9 in game 7 of World Series
Voshkod 1 crew returns
Soyuz 8 is launched
1st World Series night game (Pitts 4 - Balt 3)
Graig Nettles at 3rd makes spectactular play after spectacular play
Guidry beats Dodgers after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4
NJ Devils 1st short handed gaol - Don Lever
Intl Olympic Comm restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe. Medals taken away because he played baseball for pay
Blackhawk Bill Gardner scored on 10th penalty shot against Islanders
John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million.
13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 is launched
1st military use of trained dolphins by US Navy in Persian Gulf.
Battle of Hastings in which William the Conqueror wins England
Mary Qn of Scots conspiracy trial against Qn Elizabeth I begins
1st declaration of colonial rights in America
British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy.
George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
Giant's Christy Mathewson's 3rd straight world series shutout
Theodore Roosevelt is shot in the chest in Milwaukee while campaigning for President with the Bull Moose Party.
1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler.
Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak beat Bears.
Chuck Yeager 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015 at 12 800 m).
14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition.
Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km.
Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homers gives Yanks pennant #30
Soyuz 23 launched to Salyut 6 but return without docking
Bing Crosby dies in Madrid Spain.
1st TV movie from a TV series - Rescue from Gilligan's Island
Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10 making Islander record when scoring a hat trick - 22-2-1
Islanders assessed 108 penality minutes Penguins 125 (233 total)
Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar cut 10 prior days.
Jean Pilƒtre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent.
Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln tells him to grow a beard.
Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on the site).
Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of the season
ASCAP founded (American Soc of Composers Authers & Publishers)
Mata Hari executed by firing squad outside of Paris.
Yanks win 1st world shampionship Beating the Giants
LaGuardia Airport opened in NYC
Nazi Hermann Goering poisons himself in prison.
Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in the World Series
I Love Lucy premiers
Untouchables premier
Kosygin & Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev
Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
Yanks defeat A's 4-0 & win 33 pennant
Portland Maine burned by British.
Washington takes Yorktown
Marie Antoinette beheaded in France.
Dentist William T. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether
British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras.
John Brown leads group of 20 in a raid on Harper's Ferry Va.
Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing
Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (Bkln)
Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin -- only mid-game coaching change in NFL history.
Disney Co founded
Gordo (by Gus Arriola) 1st appeared in newspapers
Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system.
10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials.
Woolworth's at Powell & Market (S.F.) opens.
Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip arrive in Virginia
Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 3 in the world series
Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia
China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in S.F.
Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II.
Israel's General Moshe Dayan dies at 66
Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins
Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel
Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu named Nobel Peace Prize winner
Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
Armand Hammer arrives back in US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
175-kph winds cause blackout in London much of southern England.
18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued 58 hours after she fell 22 feet into a well shaft in Midland TX.
Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador
new royal charter for Massachusetts now including Maine Plymouth.
British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY
Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
Marie Antoinette executed.
Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized
Gustav Kirchoff discoverer of the laws of spectroscopy dies.
Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man.
Sutro railroad sold to Robert F. Morrow for $215 000.
Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors.
RCA created.
Al Capone convicted of tax evasion sentenced to 11 years in prison
Albert Einstein arrives in the US a refugee from Nazi Germany.
1st American destroyer torpedoed in WW2 the Kearny off Iceland
Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits White House.
French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature.
Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship
Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra
Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km.
Soyuz 7 returns to Earth
1st time Islanders shut-out - 5-0 vs Penguins
The Arab oil embargo begins. It will last until March 1974.
West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu Somalia free all 86 hostages aboard & killing three of the four hijackers.
Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament.
Islanders start 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8)
Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year
Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Lou Pinella named Yankee manager
US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982.
1st World Series game in a covered stadium (Minnesota Metrodome).
Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes outlaws Protestantism.
Boundary between Md & Pa the Mason Dixon line agreed upon.
English astronomer J.K Hind discovers Flor his second asteroid
US took formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)
Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football
1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY).
American flag raised in Puerto Rico
Mata Hari was shot as a spy by French firing squad
British Broadcasting Corporation established
Inventor Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange N.J. at age 84.
Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II.
Connie Mack announced retirement as manager of the Phila Athletics
Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times.
Dr. Watson of US & Drs. Crick & Wilkins of Britain win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released
Soviet Venera 4 becomes the 1st probe to send data back from Venus
Robert Beaman of US broad jumps a record 8.90 m.
US Olympic Committee suspended Tommie Smith & John Carlos for giving `black power' salute as a protest during victory ceremony
Federal govt bans use of artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates
Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record
1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th
Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship 1st in 15 years
Former 1st lady Bess Truman died in Independence Mo. at age 97
Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 p.m.; the fighting is over.
Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow.
Wagner's opera Tannh„user performed for 1st time.
1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations
Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope.
world's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales.
Thomas A. Edison successfully demenstrates the electric light
H.R. Ekins of the "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights by 18 1/2 days.
Yanks trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds
1st jet transcontinental non-stop scheduled service
Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on television by Arthur Godfrey.
The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba.
Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
Mariner 5 flew by Venus
Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
Billy Martin hired as manager of N.Y. Yankees for 5th time.
Dow-Jones loses 508.32 points more than 4« times previous record.
Black Monday - Dow Jones down 508.32 points worst day on Wall St
Battle of Sekigahara establishes Tokugawa clan as rulers of Japan (shoguns) until 1865 (basis of Clavell's novel).
Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria Hungary & Bohemia
Senate ratifies La Purchase.
Kingdom of Westphalia abolished.
US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country.
Spain sells (east) Florida to US for $5 million.
US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska & Canada.
Dr Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube
Bayshore Highway opens (SF).
During WWII MacArthur goes to Phillipines saying `I have returned'
Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd Chicago Cards vs. N.Y. Giants.
The House Un-American Activities Committee opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in the Hollywood movie industry.
1st fully mechanized post office opened Providence RI
Ralph Houk replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
31st president of US Herbert Hoover died in NY at age 90.
Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.
Harlow Shapley discoverer of the sun's position in the galaxy dies.
Sat Night Massacre Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox dismissed by Solicitor Gen Bork. AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned
70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston.
Billy Martin fired as manager of the Oakland A's
Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick - 4 goals
Bernhard Goetz sentenced to six months in jail
US Navy frigate Constitution Old Ironsides launched in Boston
Battle of Trafalgar Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet
Severe earthquake at 7:53 a.m. centered in Hayward Calif.
1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
Thomas Edison perfects the light bulb.
Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated.
Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min.
Deutsches Museum Munich 1st Walther Bauersfeld's Zeiss Planetarium.
During WWII US troops captured Aachen 1st large German city to fall
Women in France allowed to vote for the 1st time
Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated Washington DC
Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright opens in NY
JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final pres debate
Ejnar Hertzsprung Danish astrophysicist dies at 94.
Thousands opposing Vietnam War tried to storm the Pentagon
Nixon nominates Lewis F. Powell & William H. Rehnquist to US Supreme Court following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
1st Islander shut-out opponent - Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
Venera 9 1st craft to orbit the planet Venus launched
Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
US recalls William Bowdler ambassador to South Africa
Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2 h 8 m 5 s.
Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter.
Andr‚-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon (Paris)
Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas
Original Metropolitan Opera House in NY held its grand opening
Pres Hoover spoke of `American system of rugged individualism.'
Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd shot dead by FBI in Ohio.
Apollo 7 crew returns
1st coml flight from mainland to Hawaii.
1st TV NFL game - Eagles vs Dodgers
Laos gains full independence from France.
West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba beginning missile crisis.
Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center.
Apollo 7 returns to Earth
Security Council Resol 338 - a cease fire to the Yom Kippur War
Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds
Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 lands on Venus
Cincinnati Reds win 1st World Series in 35 years
WDW's 100-millionth guest
Deposed Shah of Iran arrived in NY for medical treatment
US national debt tops $1 trillion
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified
B.C. Universe created at 8:00 PM according to the 1650 pronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Ussher.
Meal Tub Plot against James II of England.
Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed).
Union Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeats Conf Gen. Stirling Price
Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
25 000 women marched in NYC demanding the right to vote
Walt Disney's "Dumbo" is released
During WW II Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein Egypt
UN Gen Assembly convenes in NY for 1st time in Flushing Meadow.
Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary
1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak wins Nobel Prize for Literature
President Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings
Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent - Flyers 3-0
By 2/3 majority Panamanians vote to approve the new Canal treaties
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns due to illness.
241 US Marines & sailors die in a terrorist suicide attack in Beriut
Jane Seymour third wife of Henry VIII dies.
3rd partition of Poland between Austria Prussia & Russia.
the match is patented.
Ariel & Umbriel moons of Uranus discovered by Lassell
William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel satellites of Unranus.
1st transcontinental telegram sent
mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese.
Anna Taylor 1st to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel & live
Black Thursday the beginning of the stock market crash.
United Nations Charter goes into effect
UN publishes its 1st postage stamps
Disaster on USSR launch pad killed missle expert Nedelin & team (unconfirmed); USSR claims he was killed in plane crash
Zambia (N. Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day).
Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile.
Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
Yom Kippur War ends - Israel 65 miles from Cairo 26 from Damascus
Billy Martin named A.L. Manager of the Year (Texas Rangers)
1st Jewish film & TV festival
Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman
Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after failed
Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate
NBC technicians accept pact end 118 day strike
Author Geoffrey Chaucer dies in London.
Battle of Agincourt Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight
Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus satellite of Saturn.
Iapetus moon of Saturn Discovered by Giovanni Cassini
George III ascends the British throne.
Erie Canal opens for business in NY
The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War)
Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin.
1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale NYC
Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missle bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over
UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan.
Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
USSR Venera 10 made day Venus landing
US invades Grenada a country 1/2000 its population.
Rangers beat Devils 11-2
1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened
Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express)
Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game.
Shootout at the OK corral in Tombstone Az
Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross SF Bay.
US Savings Bonds go on sale
Pres Truman increases minimum wage - from 40 cents to 75 cents.
International Atomic Energy Agency established
Vatican Radio begins broadcasting
PanAm flies the 1st transAtlantic jet trip - NY to Paris.
Soyuz 3 is launched
Doonesbury comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers.
UN votes to replace Taiwan with China
Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin
according to South Africa Transkei gains independence. Not recognized as an independent country outside of South Africa.
Fifth & Final test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
S Korean Pres Park Chung-hee is assassinated.
St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains independence from Britain.
Baby Fae gets a baboon heart in an experimental transplant in Loma Linda CA. She will live for 21 days with the animal heart.
head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm. assassinated by death squads.
Michael Servetus burned at the stake for heresy in Geneva Switz.
Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers.
Treaty of San Lorenzo provides free navigation of Mississippi
US annexes West Florida from Spain.
RH Macy & Co opens 1st store NYC Gross receipts $1106
Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed) Democratic leader of Tammany Hall arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption
Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee on his 22nd birthday.
1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)
NY opens 1st section of its subway system.
DuPont announces that its new synthetic fiber will be called 'nylon'
You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx premieres on ABC radio.
Walt Disney's 1st TV show Disneyland premiers on ABC.
1st Saturn Made a unmanned flight test
St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
Rep of Congo becomes Zaire.
Golden Gate Natl Recreation Area created
1st time Islanders beat the Rangers - 3-2
Begin & Sadat with the Nobel Peace prize
Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph.
Columbus discovers Cuba
Harvard College 1st US college founded.
Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ
NY gives up claims to Vermont in exchange for $30 000.
Eli Whitney applies for patent for the cotton gin.
Pres Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
St Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints
Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austria.
Volstead Act passed by Congress starting Prohibition
Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government.
1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game.
1st child born in aircraft Miami Fl
German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
Flag of Israel is adopted
Bud Grant of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record).
Krushchev orders withdrawal of Cuban missiles
Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion.
Gateway Arch (190 meters high) completed in St. Louis Missouri.
The Gateway Arch (630 feet high) completed in St Louis Missouri
US/USSR signed an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit.
Elmore Smith of the Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record).
1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game - MacMillian & Westfall
Billy Martin named A.L. Manager of the Year (NY Yankees)
TV's Rhoda gets married
Dick Howser (Best Yank mngr win-lost pct 636) replaces Billy Martin
BC Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia.
Sir Walter Raleigh is executed in London.
Pennsylvania granted to William Penn by King Charles II.
Severe earthquake in New England.
1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans.
1st College Fraternity founded
Intl Comm. of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917 1944 1963).
1st election of the Hawaiian Republic
Leon Czolcosz assassin of President McKinley is executed.
Edward Barrow named Yankee general manager
Turkey proclaimed a republic (National Day).
Black Tuesday the Stock Market crash.
Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
Chet Huntley & David Brinkley NBC News team up
Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of Tiran
Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY.
Billy Martin fired as Yankee Manager (2nd time)
John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking will be acquitted.
8th & last crusade is launched.
US Navy founded
Helena Montana's capital founded.
Tsar Nicholas II grants Russia a constitution.
Mussolini forms cabinet in Italy
Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of War of the Worlds.
US Navy destroyer Reuben James torpedoed by Germany
US govt announces end of shoe rationing.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer received Nobel Peace Prize for 1952.
Gen. George C. Marshall awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square.
Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch
Worst US rail accident in 14 years occurred
Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire
NY Daily News ran headline `Ford to City: Drop Dead'
Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime 2 ^ 21701 - 1.
22nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 is launched
space shuttle Challenger carries 8 crewmen (2 Germans 1 Dutch).
Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses begins Protestant Reformation
Execution of the Girondins at Paris during the Reign of Terror.
Nevada admitted as 36th state.
William Parson 3rd Earl of Rosse & maker of large telescopes dies
Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy.
Erich Weiss better known as Magician Harry Houdini dies.
1st thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands
Bkln NY ends streetcar service
1st American to land by air at South Pole - GJ Dufek
Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam.
Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16 806 m).
