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552 - Origin of Armenian calendar 1629 - 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in America founded (Salem, MA) 1690 - Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeats Anglo-Dutch fleet 1775 - Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army 1832 - Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US 1847 - Urbain J.J. Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel 1850 - VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death 1866 - Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass 1875 - L Schulhof discovers asteroid #147 Protogeneia 1886 - Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand) 1890 - Wyoming becomes 44th state 1892 - 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio) 1910 - Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0 1913 - 134ø F (57ø C), Greenland Ranch, Calif (US record) 1914 - Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from the Baltimore Orioles 1917 - Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing the draft 1918 - Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic established 1919 - Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate 1923 - 2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle. (Rostov, Russia) 1923 - All non-fascist parties disolved in Italy 1925 - Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial 1925 - USSR's official news agency TASS established 1926 - Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage 1928 - H E Wood discovers asteroid #3300 1929 - In game between Pirates & Phillies 9 HRs hit 1 in each inning 1929 - US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency 1932 - Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd & continues to 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job 1933 - 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY 1934 - 1st sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia 1934 - AL beats NL 9-7 in 2nd All Star Game (Polo Grounds NY) 1934 - Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig & Foxx in the All star game 1936 - 109ø F (43ø C), Cumberland & Frederick, Maryland (state record) 1936 - 111ø F (44ø C), Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record) 1936 - New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles 1936 - Phillies Chuck Klein becomes 4th to hit 4 HRs in a game 1940 - Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air 1943 - US & Britain invade Sicily in WW II 1947 - 200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China 1947 - Cleveland Indian Don Black no-hits Phila A's, 3-0 1949 - 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh 1950 - "Your Hit Parade" premiers on NBC (later CBS) TV 1951 - Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong 1951 - E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1609 Brenda 1951 - NL beats AL 8-3 in 18th All Star Game (Briggs Stadium, Detroit) 1956 - NL beats AL 7-3 in 23rd All Star Game (Griffith Stad, Washington) 1958 - 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed) 1962 - Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia 1962 - NL beats AL 3-1 in 32nd All Star Game (DC Stadium, Wash) 1962 - Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched 1965 - Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks 1965 - Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" 1966 - Orbiter 1 launched to Moon 1969 - Chilean Association of Librarians created 1969 - NL votes to split into 2 divisions 1972 - Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida (McGovern) 1972 - Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India 1973 - Bahamas gain independence after 300 yrs of British rule (Nat'l Day) 1978 - E F Helinand E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3484 1978 - Military coup in Mauritania 1980 - Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen 1980 - Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5ø C temp 1981 - CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV) 1982 - Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze 1983 - E Bowell discovers asteroids #3222 Lillerand #3751 1985 - Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke 1985 - French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand 1990 - AL beats NL 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago 1990 - AL beats NL 2-0 in 61st All Star Game (Wrigley Field Calif) 1990 - Andrew Dice Clays cries on Arsenio Hall Show 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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