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260 - St Dionysius begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1298 - English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk 1587 - 2nd English colony established on Roanoke Island off NC 1686 - City of Albany, NY chartered 1775 - George Washington takes command of the troops 1796 - Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen Moses Cleaveland 1812 - Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain 1854 - J R Hind discovers asteroid #30 Urania 1864 - Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman & suffers terrible losses 1898 - Belgica crew see 1st sunrise in 1600 hrs-1st to endure Antarct winter 1905 - Phila Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0 1908 - W Lorenz discovers asteroid #665 Sabine 1912 - 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes 1916 - A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in SF killing 10 1917 - Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian PM 1917 - M Wolf discovers asteroids #879 Ricarda, #880 Herba & #881 Athene 1918 - Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park 1923 - Walter Johnson becomes the 1st to strikeout 3,000 1925 - Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher 1926 - 105ø F (41ø C), Waterbury, Connecticut (state record) 1926 - 108ø F (42ø C), Troy, New York (state record) 1926 - Cin Red Curt Walker ties record of 2 triples in an inning 1930 - G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1306 Scythia 1930 - H Van Gent discovers asteroids #1666 van Gent, #1752 van Herk & #1945 Wesselink 1933 - Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida," NYC-1st negro prima donna in US 1933 - Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight 1935 - C Jackson discovers asteroids #1359 Prieska & #1360 Tarka 1935 - Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia 1936 - Phillies John Moore hits 3 consecutive HRs 1937 - Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court 1939 - 1st black woman judge (Jane Matilda Bolin-NYC) 1942 - Gasoline rationing begins in US during WW II 1943 - Allied forces captured Palermo, Sicily 1944 - Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation 1946 - Estelle Bennett, rocker (The Ronettes) 1947 - -8ø F (-13ø C), Charlotte Pass, NSW (Australian record) 1950 - King Leopold, after 6 years in exile, returns to Belgium 1952 - Polish constitution adopted (National Day) 1955 - 1st VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon 1955 - Phillies longest win streak since 1892 hits 11 1962 - 1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off 1962 - Chic White Sox Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles) 1963 - Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson to retain heavywieght championship 1963 - The Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles" 1964 - Steve Ballesteros wins the Britsh Golf Open 1967 - Atlanta Braves use a record 5 pitchers in the 9th inning 1967 - Jimi Hendrix quits as openoing act of the Monkees' tour 1969 - Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit 1969 - USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite 1972 - 27.53 cm (10.84") of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record) 1972 - Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus 1973 - Sue Berning wins her 3rd US Golf Open championship 1975 - House of Reps votes to restore citizenship to Gen Robert E Lee 1981 - Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life 1982 - Academic Text Processing Service established in Seattle 1983 - -128ø F (-89ø C) recorded, Vostok, Antarctica (world record) 1983 - Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world 1983 - Poland's PM Januzelski lifts martial law 1984 - Kathy Whitworth wins a record 85th pro golf tournament 1986 - House of Reps impeaches Judge Harry E Claiborne on tax evasion 1987 - Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome 1987 - Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian) 1987 - US began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf 1988 - 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research 1990 - Greg Lemond of US wins bicycling's 3rd tour de France 1990 - Nick Faldo of England wins the British Open Golf championship 1991 - Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978 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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