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64 - Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle) 390 - -BC- Battle of Allia-Gauls inflict heavy casualties on Romans 1536 - Pope's authority declared void in England 1716 - Jews are expelled from Brussels Belgium 1753 - Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slaveholder in Framingham Mass 1814 - British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc) 1853 - 1st train to cross the US-Canada boundary, Portland, Me.-Montral, PQ 1853 - Completion of Grand Trunk Line, Americas 1st intl railroad 1872 - Britain introduces secret ballot voting 1904 - P Gotz discovers asteroid #538 Friederike 1913 - After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk 1914 - US army air service 1st comes into being, in the Signal Corps 1915 - Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs 1918 - US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I 1927 - Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit 1931 - 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched 1932 - US & Canada signed a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway 1936 - Spanish Civil War begans, Gen Francisco Franco led uprising 1938 - Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif 1940 - 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct 1942 - 1st legal NJ horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens 1942 - Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight 1947 - Tigers shut out Yanks 2-0, end 19 game win streak 1947 - US receives UN trusteeship over Pacific Islands 1948 - Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 HRs in a game 1951 - Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion 1951 - Jersey Joe Walcott KOs Ezzard Charles in 5 for heavyweight belt 1951 - Uruguay accepts its constitution 1954 - Cards losing 8-1 to Phillies begin stalling in 5th, they forefeit game 1955 - 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially 1959 - 1st black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright) 1960 - Baseball's NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises 1964 - Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln) 1965 - Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit 1966 - Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old 1966 - Gemini 10 launched 1967 - Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY 1968 - C Torres discovers asteroid #2654 Ristenpart 1968 - Intel incorporates #1974 Caupolican, #1992 Galvarino & #2028 Janequeo C Torres & S Cofre discovers asteroid #1973 Colocolo, 1969 - Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL 1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne & Sen Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge 1970 - Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily 1970 - Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time 1970 - Willie Mays hits # 3,000 1972 - 200,000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns 1974 - World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed 1975 - Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Fopbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play) 1976 - Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut 1978 - Billy Martin suspends Reggie Jackson for not bunting 1978 - Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks 1979 - Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London 1980 - Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts 1980 - Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit 1984 - James Huberty kills 21 McDonalds patrons in San Ysidro Calif 1984 - Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF 1986 - Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains 1987 - Molly Yard elected new pres of Natl Org for Women 1987 - Yanks Don Mattingly ties major league record of HRs in 8 cons games 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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