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1656 Artificial pearls first manufactured
by M Jacquin in Paris
1774 First incident of the Revolution-400
attack Fort William & Mary, New Hampshire
1793 First state road authorized, Frankfort KY
to Cincinnati OH
1798 David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a
nut & bolt machine
1799 The first president of the United States,
George Washington, died at Mount Vernon
1825 Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar
Nicholas I begins
1849 First chamber music group in US gives their
first concert (Boston)
1882 Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels
from the Congo
1901 First table tennis tournament is held at
the London Royal Aquarium
1902 The "Silverton" set sail from San
Francisco to lay telephone cable to Honolulu
1911 South Pole first reached, by Norwegian Roald
Amundsen
1926 TILT-A-WHIRL was trademark registered. TILT-A-WHIRL
is the famous theme park ride
1928 Fanny Brice, records "If You Want the Rainbow
(You Must Have the Rain)"
1934 First streamlined steam locomotive introduced
(Albany NY)
1936 "You Can’t Take It with You"
openes in New York City
1938 Agreement and disagreement at baseball meetings
1941 First NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers
33-14
1944 Major-league baseball representatives, who
were meeting in New York City, decided to allow ball clubs to play night games
any day except Sundays and holidays, providing the visiting team agreed.
1946 UN General Assembly votes to establish UN
HQs in New York NY
1953 Brooklyn Dodgers sign pitcher Sandy Koufax
1953 Fred Allen narrates "Peter and the Wolf",
on the "Bell Telephone Hour" on NBC radio
1955 Tappan Zee Bridge in New York opens to traffic
1957 "You Send Me" by Sam Cooke topped
the charts
1959 "Heartaches by the Number" by Guy
Mitchell topped the charts
1959 J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude
record, 103,395 feet
1960 Expansion draft for the Washington Senators
and Los Angeles Angels
1961 Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is
first country song to get a gold record
1962 Mariner 2 reaches Venus
1963 "Dominique" by Singing Nun topped
the charts
1964 Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes
"Walk Away Rene"
1967 DNA created in a test tube
1968 "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"
by Marvin Gaye topped the charts
1969 Jackson Five made their first appearance
on "Ed Sullivan Show"
1972 Eugene Cernan & Harrison Schmitt leave
the Moon
1974 "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas
topped the charts
1977 "Saturday Night Fever", starring
John Travolta, premieres in New York NY
1981 Israel annexes Golan Heights (seized from
Syria in war of 1967)
1982 Marcel Dionne, Los Angeles CA, becomes 9th
NHLer to score 500 goals
1984 Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football
1984 "The Cotton Club" opened around
the U.S.
1985 "Broken Wings" by Mr. Mister topped
the charts
1986 Voyager takes off on first non-stop, non-refueled
flight around the world
1987 Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven
vehicles as new
1988 CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league
baseball rights
1988 NBA's Miami Heat wins first game ever
1990 Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named
Moe" premieres in London
1996 "Don't Speak" by No Doubt topped
the charts
