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1498 Columbus arrives in Caribbean
1620 Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
1782 George Washington created the Order of the
Purple Heart
1789 US War Department established
1807 First servicable steamboat the Clermont goes
on first voyage
1820 First potatoes planted in Hawaii
1882 Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east
Ky feud, 100 wounded or die
1888 Theophilus Van Kannel of Phila patents revolving
door
1906 Flexible Flyer was trademark registered.
1907 Walter Johnson pitched his first major-league
victory
1912 Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates
Theodore Roosevelt for president
1927 Peace Bridge between US & Canada dedicated
1928 The U.S. dollar shrinks
1929 Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in
consecutive games
1937 Bunny Berigan and his orchestra recorded
"I Can’t Get Started"
1940 Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000
for 1 1856 British Guiana)
1944 The world's first program-controlled calculator
1946 First coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
1947 The balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki crashed into a reef in
a Polynesian archipelago
1949 "Martin Kane, Private Eye" was
first heard on Mutual radio
1951 Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,238
mph
1954 "Sh-Boom" by the Crew-Cuts topped
the charts
1959 Explorer 6 transmits first TV photo of Earth
from space
1961 Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for
a full day in Vostok 2
1963 Jim Hickman becomes the 1st NY Met to hit for the cycle
1965 "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" by Herman's
Hermits topped the charts
1970 First computer chess tournament
1971 "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?"
by the Bee Gees topped the charts
1974 Philippe Petit tightropes between
the twin towers of the World Trade Center
1976 US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after
11-month flight from Earth
1976 Viking I finds strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars
1976 "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by
Elton John & Kiki Dee topped the charts
1982 "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor
topped the charts
1983 First World Track & Field Championships
1984 Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee
1985 Baseball players end a 2 day strike
1986 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel
& Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska
to Argentina
1987 Lynne Cox swims 2.7 miles from US to USSR
2004 Greg Maddux wins his 300th for the Cubs
2007 Barry Bonds sets career home run mark
