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1777 France recognizes independence
of English colonies in America
1790 Aztec calendar stone discovered in México
City
1791 NYC traffic regulation creates first 1-way
street
1843 Charles Dickens's classic: "A Christmas
Carol" published
1895 George Brownell patents a machine to make
paper twine (Massachusetts)
1900 First prize of 100,000 francs offered for
communications with extraterrestrials
1900 New Ellis Island Immigration station completed
costing $1.5 million
1903 At 10:35 AM, first sustained motorized aircraft
flight (Orville Wright)
1920 American League votes on spitball issue
1924 First US diesel electric locomotive enters
service, Bronx NY
1925 Colonel William "Billy" Mitchell
court-martial for insubordination
1926 Benny Goodman featured with Ben Pollack
and His Californians on "He’s the Last Word"
1928 John McGraw backs designated hitter concept
1933 NFL starts keeping official statistics as
Bears beat Giants 23-21 in championship game
1936 Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen & dummy Charlie
McCarthy, make their radio debut
1939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled
by its crew off Uruguay
1949 "Mule Train" by Frankie Laine topped
the charts
1953 FCC approves RCA's black & white-compatible
color TV specifications
1954 First fully automated railroad freight yard
(Gary IN)
1955 Carl Perkins wrote and recorded
"Blue Suede Shoes"
1955 "Sixteen Tons" by Tennessee Ernie
Ford topped the charts
1957 US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental
ballistic missile
1959 "On The Beach" is first film to
premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain
1960 "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by
Elvis Presley topped the charts
1965 Largest newspaper-Sunday New York Times at
946 pages (50¢)
1965 Astrodome opens, first event is Judy Garland
& Supremes concert
1965 David Levy begins his search for comets
1966 "Winchester Cathedral" by the New
Vaudeville Band topped the charts
1969 Tiny Tim marries on "The Tonight Show starring
Johnny Carson"
1969 USAF closes Project Blue Book
1969 "Chicago Transit Authority" earns
a gold record
1971 "Diamonds are Forever" premieres
in US
1974 The 1,000,000th trademark was registered
to Cumberland Packing Corp, for a simple G clef and staff design used on "Sweet'n
Low"
1976 Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national
1977 Elvis Costello & The Attractions first
US TV appearance (Saturday Night Live)
1977 "You Light Up My Life" by Debbie
Boone topped the charts
1979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 740 mph (record
for wheeled vehicle)
1983 "Say, Say, Say" by Paul McCartney
& Michael Jackson topped the charts
1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history
by having the first heart, lung & liver transplant (Papworth Hospital
in Cambridge, England)
1988 USS Tennessee, first sub to carry Trident
2 missiles, commissioned
1988 "Look Away" by Chicago topped the
charts
1991 Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs
its 6,000th episode
1991 Cleveland Cavaliers beat Miami Heat 148-80,
by record 68 points
1992 General Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year
old Australopithecus ramidus
1994 Ini Kamoze’s "Here Comes the Hotstepper"
was the #1
