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1686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his
island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
1732 Benjamin Franklin first published Poor Richard's
Almanac
1777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge
PA for the winter
1828 South Carolina declares the right of states
to nullify federal laws
1854 Allen Wilson of Connecticut patents sewing
machine to sew curving seams
1871 Albert L Jones (New York NY), patents corrugated
paper
1887 Jake Kilrain & Jem Smith fight 106 round
bare knuckle draw
1888 Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa
1903 Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between
Brooklyn & Manhattan
1910 Rayon first commercially produced, Marcus
Hook PA
1917 First NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto)
1918 Robert Ripley began his "Believe It
or Not" column (New York Globe)
1920 First US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline,
MA)
1922 Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court
to being married 62 times
1928 First autogiro flight in US (Patco Field, Norristown, PA)
1932 British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting
overseas
1939 Station W2XBS TV in NYC presented a movie
premiere festivities from the Capitol Theatre
1941 US Office of Censorship created to control
info pertaining to WWII
1950 General Eisenhower named NATO commander
1955 Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes"
1957 "The Music Man", starring Robert
Preston, opens at Majestic Theater NYC
1958 First radio broadcast from space (recorded
Christmas message by President Eisenhower)
1959 "Heartaches by the Number" by Guy
Mitchell topped the charts
1960 Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test
flight
1960 Neil Sedaka’s "Calendar Girl"
was released on RCA Victor Records
1960 Frank Sinatra's first session with Reprise
Records
1961 "Judgment At Nuremberg" opened
in New York City
1962 Transit 5A1, first operational navigational
satellite, launched
1964 "Come See About Me" by the Supremes
topped the charts
1969 Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released
1970 "Tears of a Clown" by Smokey Robinson
& the Miracles topped the charts
1971 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
1971 CBS airs "Homecoming - A Christmas Story"
(introducing the Waltons)
1972 Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series)
returns to Earth
1974 Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as the 41st
Vice-President
1974 "The Man With the Golden Gun" premieres
in US
1974 Altair 8800 microcomputer was first put on sale
1976 Piper Cherokee crashes into Baltimore Memorial
Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers; No one
seriously hurt
1978 Indira Gandhi ambushed in India
1980 Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees
to free hostages
1980 Mutual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater
1981 "Physical" by Olivia Newton-John
topped the charts
1984 Scotty Bowman becomes NHL's all time winningest
coach
1984 UK signs agreement with China to return Hong
Kong to China in 1997
1984 Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th & youngest
NHL-er to score 1,000 points
1984 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in the Yale library
1986 Parachuter Michael Sergio sentenced
1987 Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champion
1987 "Faith" by George Michael topped
the charts
1988 NASA unveils plans for lunar colony &
manned missions to Mars
1988 Unexploded WWII bomb found in Frankfurt,
Germany-5,000 evacuated
1989 Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw
streak of 71 games
1995 Queen Elizabeth askes Prince Charles &
Diana to divorce
1996 "Once Upon a Mattress" opens at
Broadhurst NYC for 187 performances
1997 "Titanic" premieres
1998 The House of Representatives impeached President
Bill Clinton
2000 A volcano outside Mexico City spewed a fiery
fountain of ash and rock
2003 New plans for the World Trade Center
revealed
