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561 - John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 855 - St Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1549 - Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium 1775 - 1st military hospital approved 1794 - African Church of St Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated 1794 - Richard Allen organizes Phila's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church 1841 - British humor magazine "Punch" 1st published 1850 - Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega) 1856 - Sunday school excursion train collides killing 46 children (Phila) 1861 - Congress authorizes paper money 1862 - US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers 1863 - Battle of Honey Springs, largest battle of war in Indian Territory 1864 - CSA President Davis replaces Gen Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood 1867 - 1st permanent university dental school in US, Harvard 1879 - 1st railroad opens in Hawaii 1897 - 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from the Yukon 1898 - Spanish American War-Spaniads surrender to US at Santiago Cuba 1902 - Baltimore (AL) didn't have enough men to field their team 1914 - NY Giants beat Pitts Pirates, 3-1, in 21 innings 1917 - British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor 1918 - Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings 1919 - Yanks 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play 1923 - Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians 1924 - St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 1935 - Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix" 1938 - Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland 1941 - Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak ends 1942 - 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15 1942 - Estimated 87.5 cm (34.5") of rainfall, Smethport, Pa. (state record) 1944 - 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322 1945 - Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting 1946 - Resistance leader Mikhailovich executed by Tito regime 1948 - C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1685 Toro 1948 - Proclamation of the constitution of the Republic of (South) Korea 1954 - 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers) 1954 - Construction begins on Disneyland. . . 1955 - . . . Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County 1955 - Arco, Idaho becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power 1959 - 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis 1959 - Dr Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old) 1959 - Tibet abolishes serfdom River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana) 1961 - John Chancellor becomes news anchor of the Today Show 1961 - Roger Maris loses a HR (of his 61) due to a rain-out in 5th Ford Frick rules that if anyone breaks Babe Ruth 60 HR record, it must be done in 1st 154 games 1962 - Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft) 1962 - Senate rejects medicare for the aged 1964 - Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph) 1966 - Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3) 1966 - Pioneer 7 launched 1967 - Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act 1967 - Race riots in Cairo Illinois 1968 - Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premiers in London 1968 - Revolt in Iraq 1970 - 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC 1972 - 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico 1974 - 1st quadrophinic studio in UK is open by the Moody Blues 1974 - Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 1974 - John Lennon is ordered to leave the US in 60 days 1975 - Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make 1st US/USSR linkup in space 1975 - Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce 1976 - 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montral 1976 - ABA merges into the NBA 1978 - Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend him 1979 - NL beats AL 7-6 in 50th All Star Game (Kingdome Seattle) 1979 - Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo 1980 - Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president #3341 Hartmann, #3452 Hawke & #3696 Herald E Bowell discovers asteroids #2554 Skiff, #2555 Thomas, #2587 Gardner, 1981 - Humbar Estuary Bridge, UK, world's longest span (1.4 km), opens 1981 - Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse 114 die, 200 injured Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23 year old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta 1983 - 1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Phila Stars 24-22) 1984 - Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7 1987 - 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx) 1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets the 100m woman's record (10.49) 1988 - Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103ψ F (39ψ C) 1989 - Paul McCartney releases "This One" 1990 - Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq 1990 - NY Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside the park homer but lose to the Boston Red Sox 1-0 Minn Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game 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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