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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010



On this day . . .
432 - -BC- Origin of Metonic Cycle
574 - John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1568 - Dean of St Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer
1787 - Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)
1787 - Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop
1793 - French rev writer Jean Paul Marat murdered by Charlotte Corday
1832 - Source of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft)
1836 - US patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels
1854 - US forces shell & burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
1863 - Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die
1865 - Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man"
1865 - PT Barnum's museum burns down
1868 - Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana
1878 - Treaty of Berlin amended terms of Treaty of San Stefano
1882 - 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
1896 - Ed Delahanty, becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 4 HRs in a game
1898 - Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio
1898 - SF Ferry Building at foot of Market St opens
1900 - Phillies beat Pittsburgh 23-8
1908 - 4th modern Olympic games opens in London
1917 - Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of F tima, Portugal
1919 - Race riots in Longview & Gregg counties Texas
1930 - Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
1934 - Babe Ruth hits HR #700 against Detroit
1936 - 112ψ F (44ψ C), Mio, Michigan (state record)
1936 - 114ψ F (46ψ C), Wisconsin Dells, Wisc. (state record)
1943 - 1st All Star night game (AL beats NL 5-4 at Shribe Pk, Phila)
1948 - AL beats NL 5-2 in 15th All Star Game (Sportsman Park, St Louis)
1953 - J A Bruwer discovers asteroids #1658 Innes & #3284
1954 - AL beats NL 11-9 in 21st All Star Game (Cleveland Stadium)
1954 - Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a
           batter, he threw out Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9
1960 - AL beats NL 6-0 in 29th All Star Game (NY Yankees host)
1960 - Democratic Natl convention nominates Sen John F Kennedy for president
1960 - KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA
1961 - NL beats AL 5-4 (10 innings) in 30th All Star Game (SF Candlestick)
1963 - Early Wynn, wins his 300th & last game at 43
1965 - NL beats AL 6-5 in 36th All Star Game (Metropolitan Stadium, Minneapolis)
1967 - Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die
1969 - Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
1971 - AL beats NL 6-4 in 42nd All Star Game (Tiger Stadium, Detroit)
1972 - C Torres discovers asteroid #3050 Carrera
1972 - LA Rams (Irsay) & Baltimore Colts (Rosenbloom) swap owners
1972 - T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2112 Ulyanov
1973 - Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating KC 5-0
1975 - 8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record)
1976 - Courtmartial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct)
1976 - NL beats AL 7-1 in 47th All Star Game (Veteran's Stadium Phila)
1977 - NYC experiences 25 hr black-out
1978 - Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years
1978 - BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"
1978 - Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor Pres by chairman Henry Ford II
1978 - Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida
1979 - George Harrison releases "faster"
1982 - NL scores 4-1 victory over AL for 11th straight All-Star triumph
1984 - Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m
1985 - Live Aid, a rock concert in London, Phila, Moscow & Sydney
1985 - Yankees retire Roger Maris (#9) & Elston Howard (#32) uniforms
1987 - Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against
           Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials
1991 - Bob Milacki & 3 other Balt Oriole pitchers no-hit the A's 2-0


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