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1593 State of Holland grants patent
on windmill with crankshaft
1612 Simon Marius, is first to observe Andromeda
galaxy through a telescope
1664 English colonizing Connecticut
1791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave
its approval
1791 First US law school established at University
of Pennsylvania
1792 First life insurance policy issued in US
(Philadelphia)
1820 First general pharmacopoeia in US published,
Boston
1836 Patent Office burns in Washington DC
1854 First street-cleaning machine in US first
used in Philadelphia
1859 GR Kirchhoff describes chemical composition
of Sun
1877 Thomas Edison patents phonograph
1890 Sioux leader Sitting Bull
was killed in a skirmish with U.S. soldiers
1891 James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)
1909 Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's
National League
1925 First hockey game at Madison Square Garden,
Montréal Canadiens 3, New York Americans 1
1925 First road with a depressed trough (Texas)
opens to traffic
1929 Walter Mittelholzer flies as first about
the Kilimanjaro
1933 Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders
until after June 15
1938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial
in Washington DC
1939 First commercial manufacture of nylon yarn,
Seaford DE
1939 World premiere of "Gone With The Wind"
in Atlanta GA
1941 Lena Horne records
"Stormy Weather"
1942 Massachusetts issues first US vehicular license
plate tabs (made from plastic)
1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over
English Channel
1946 Giants Frank Filchock & Merle Hapes suspended
by NFL
1948 Former state department official Alger Hiss
indicted in NYC for perjury
1951 "Sin (It's No Sin)" by Eddy Howard
topped the charts
1954 Fordham University scraps football team for
financial reasons
1954 "Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter"
debuts on Disneyland TV series
1956 "Singing the Blues" by Guy Mitchell
topped the charts
1959 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"
1961 Equal access rule, political parties get
TV broadcasting time
1962 Vaughn Meader's "The first Family"
album goes #1
1962 Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics set a NBA
record as he made his 5,926th field goal
1962 "Big Girls Don't Cry" by the Four
Seasons topped the charts
1964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag
1964 A patent was granted to Kenneth Olsen for
"magnetic core memory"
1965 Gemini 6 launched; makes first rendezvous
in space (with Gemini 7)
1966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite
of Saturn Janus
1967 Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here
Again"
1967 Joe Garagiola joins the Today Show panel
1970 Soviet Venera 7 is first spacecraft to land
on another planet (Venus)
1973 Sandy Hawley becomes first jockey to win
500 races in 1 year
1973 "The Most Beautiful Girl" by Charlie
Rich topped the charts
1973 Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland (Florida)
1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should release
all US hostages
1979 "Babe" by Styx topped the charts
1980 New York Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid
player, 10 years $15 million
1983 Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic"
premieres in New York NY
1984 "Out of Touch" by Daryl Hall &
John Oates topped the charts
1984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with
Halley's Comet
1986 Violinist Isaac Stern arrived in a horse-drawn
carriage to open the renovated Carnegie Hall
1990 "Because I Love You" by Stevie
B topped the charts
1993 John Williams final appearance as conductor
of Boston Pops
1997 San Francisco 49ers retire Joe Montana's
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