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1588 Tycho Brahe first sketches "Tychonic
system" of solar system
1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived
in Rome for trial
1689 British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
1741 First magazine published in America (The
American Magazine)
1826 American Temperance Society, forms in Boston
1861 First military action to result in Congressional
Medal of Honor
1866 Jesse James holds up his first bank, Liberty,
MO ($15,000)
1895 Moving picture projector patented
1899 State record low temperature of -16°
in Minden, LA
1905 State record low temperature of -40°
in Warsaw, Missouri
1905 State record low temperature of -29°
in Pond, AR
1905 State record low temperature of -2° in
Tallahassee, FL
1905 State record low temperature of -40°
in Lebanon, KS
1920 National Negro Baseball League organized
1920 League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality
of Switzerland
1923 First Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance,"
organizes
1932 "Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky"
McFarland to "Our Gang"
1935 First US surgical operation for relief of
angina pectoris, Cleveland OH
1935 Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap &
murder of Lindbergh's infant
1937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip debuts
1937 Cleveland Rams formed
1937 NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington DC
1940 Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines
recorded "Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues"
1943 Women's Marine Corps created
1947 "Family Theater of the Air"
premieres
1953 Major-league baseball owners were warned
against televising their games nationwide
1953 A's change name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack
Stadium
1954 Freshman Frank Selvy scores 100 points for
Furman
1954 "Oh! My Papa" by Eddie Fisher topped
the charts
1955 Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls
1960 France exploded its first atomic bomb
1960 "Teen Angel" by Mark Dinning topped
the charts.
1961 "Calcutta" by Lawrence Welk topped
the charts
1965 "You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling"
by the Righteous Brothers topped the charts
1971 "One Bad Apple" by the Osmonds
topped the charts
1972 "1776" closes at 46th St Theater
NYC after 1,217 performances
1979 Charles Chidsey received a patent for male
baldness solution.
1981 Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286
words
1982 "Centerfold" by the J. Geils Band
topped the charts
1983 World Boxing Council becomes first to cut
boxing from 15 to 12 rounds
1988 "Could've Been" by Tiffany topped
the charts
1990 Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw
streak of 71 games
1990 Solar System photographed from space
1997 Billion-mile tuneup for Hubble Space
Telescope
2003 Report states Enron Corp. manipulated the
U.S. tax code
