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1600 Tycho Brahe & Johannes
Kepler meet for first time outside of Prague
1787 Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts
farmers) fails
1783 Britain declared a formal secession of hostilities
with its former colonies, the United States of America
1789 First electoral college chooses Washington
& Adams as President & Vice President
1824 J. W. Goodrich introduced the world to the
first rubber galoshes
1887 Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal
regulation of railroads
1922 WGY-AM in Schenectady NY begins radio transmissions
1932 New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt opened
the Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid
1936 First radioactive substance produced synthetically
(radium E)
1938 "Our Town", by Thornton Wilder
opens on Broadway
1938 First public experimental demonstration of
Baird color TV (London)
1939 Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-minute
mile beyond human effort
1941 The United Service Organizations (US0) came
into existence
1941 Roy Plunkett received a patent in for "tetrafluoro-ethylene
polymers" (TEFLON)
1950 I Can Dream, Can't I?" by the Andrews
Sisters topped the charts
1951 "Tennessee Waltz" by Patti Page
topped the charts
1956 "Memories Are Made of This" by
Dean Martin
1957 First electric portable typewriter placed
on sale (Syracuse NY)
1961 "Will You Still Me Tomorrow?" by
The Shirelles topped the charts
1962 "Nedelya", a supplement of the
Soviet newspaper "Izvestia", claimed that, “...baseball is
an old Russian game”
1962 8 of 9 planets align for first time in 400
years
1966 "I'm a Believer" by the the Monkees
topped the charts
1969 John Madden is named head coach of the NFL's
Oakland Raiders
1973 Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible"
debuts
1974 Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his first word,
at 2 1/2 months
1978 "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees
topped the charts
1982 Indoor distance record for a paper airplane
(47 meters) Tacoma WA
1984 "Karma Chameleon" by the Culture
Club topped the charts
1996 State record low temperature of -55°
in Couderay, WI
