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1560 Tycho Brahe becomes interested
in astronomy
1680 Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa Fe
from Spanish
1841 John Hampson patents venetian blind
1858 First Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
1878 American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota,
NY
1887 Mighty (Dan) Casey Struck-out in a game with
the NY Giants!
1888 The first practical adding & listing
machine was patented by William Burroughs
1901 Joe McGinnity, suspended from NL for punching
& spitting on an ump
1912 The first boy reached the rank of Eagle Scout,
the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America
1922 Curly Lambeau & Green Bay Football Club
granted NFL franchise
1926 White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in
just 67 minutes at Fenway
1929 Chicago Cardinals become first pro football
team to train out of town
1931 Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR (Yanks beat Browns
11-7)
1933 Ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in first
All Star Game
1938 A classic recording was made this day. Fats
Waller waxed "Ain’t Misbehavin"
1945 President Truman ends Lend-Lease program
1949 NY Giants beat Phillies on a forfeit, due
to fan's throwing debris
1950 The United Nations moved into its new permanent
facilities in New York City
1951 Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
1953 Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches
record 83,075 feet
1954 "Sh-Boom" by the Crew-Cuts topped
the charts
1959 Hawaii becomes 50th US state
1965 Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)
1965 “I Got You Babe” by Sonny &
Cher topped the charts
1968 After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice
of America radio
1968 William Dana reaches 262,500 feet (last high-altitude
X-15 flight)
1971 Laura Baugh became the youngest
winner of the US Women’s Amateur Golf tournament
1971 "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?"
by the Bee Gees topped the charts
1972 First hot air balloon flight over the Alps
1972 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus
launched
1975 Rick & Paul Reuschel become first brothers
to pitch a combined shut out
1976 RCA Victor Records announced that sales of
Elvis Presley records had passed the 400 million mark
1976 "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by
Elton John & Kiki Dee topped the charts
1977 Donna Patterson Brice sets high speed water
skiing rec (111.11 mph)
1980 Linda Ronstadt debuted on Broadway in "The Pirates of Penzance"
1982 "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor
topped the charts
1982 Rollie Fingers (Brewers) becomes first pitcher
to get save #300
1984 Victoria Roche was the first girl to compete
in a Little League World Series game
1989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune
