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683 - St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1608 - City of Qu‚bec founded by Samuel de Champlain 1754 - George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War) 1775 - Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass 1778 - British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa 1806 - Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry 1814 - Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada 1816 - French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas 1819 - 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors 1839 - 1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students 1841 - John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus 1848 - Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) 1852 - Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif) 1861 - Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North 1886 - 1st NY Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine 1888 - NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak 1890 - Idaho admitted as 43rd US state 1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Black Peter" (BG) 1898 - Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe 1898 - US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba 1911 - Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day 1912 - NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak 1913 - Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic 1915 - US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934 1916 - 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die) 1920 - Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England 1930 - Veterans Administration created 1932 - 1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2 1932 - John McGraw retires from baseball 1934 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1367 Nongoma 1934 - FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL 1939 - Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler 1939 - Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech 1940 - British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa 1944 - Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore 1947 - 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC 1947 - Cleveland Indians purchase Larry Dolby, the 1st black in the AL 1950 - 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in the Korean War 1958 - "The Andy Williams Show" premiers on ABC (later on CBS & NBC) 1962 - Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5) 1965 - Phillies Dick Allen & Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice 1966 - Brave pitcher Tony Cloninger, is 1st NL to hit 2 grand slams in a game 1966 - Race riots in Omaha Nebraska 1967 - "News at 10" premieres on English TV 1968 - Cleve Indian Luis Tiant strikes out 19 Minn Twins 1969 - 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI 1970 - 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival 1970 - Calif Angels Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0 1970 - L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3702 1973 - Brothers Jim & Gaylord Perry face each other for only time, Tigers beat Indians 5-4, as Gaylord loses 1974 - Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3 1976 - Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers 1978 - Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words" 1980 - 73,096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0 1981 - NYC transit fare rises from 60 to 75, new brass Y-cut-out token 1982 - Martina Navratilova defeats Chris Evert Lloyd at Wimbeldon 1983 - Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (9.93 s for 100 m) 1983 - John McEnroe regains men's singles title at Wimbledon 1984 - Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island 1984 - Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members 1985 - CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover 1986 - Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty 1987 - 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic 1987 - NY Met Darryl Strawberry threatens teammates Wally Backman & Lee Mazzilli for criticizing his play 1988 - US Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290 1989 - Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3k steeplechase rec (8:05.39) in Stockholm 1989 - Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions 1989 - The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million (10 days) 1991 - Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7.45 karat diamond ring DannyCarlton.net • BytheFireplace.com • America.NeedsYourPrayers.com • LookListenLearn.org • radioJesus.com • phpBible.org • Memorite Rogue • JackLewis.net • TulsaTalk.net • ElevenOClock.com • SpelChek.com • Red Primer |
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