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1773 First US public museum established
(Charleston, SC)
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Sydney, Australia
1896 First X-ray photo in US (Dr Henry Smith,
Davidson NC)
1905 State record low temperature of -35°
in Chester, MA
1906 First time Dow Jones closes above 100 (100.26)
1920 Minor league baseball draft approved
1926 "Sam ’n’ Henry" debuted
on WGN radio in Chicago, Illinois
1928 Vladimir Horowitz debuted as a soloist with
the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall
1932 Ed Sullivan joined CBS radio in a program
of gossip and interviews
1937 Plow for laying submarine cable patented
1946 NFL champs Cleveland Rams given permission
to move to Los Angeles
1949 "Arthur Godfrey & His Friends"
premieres on CBS TV
1952 "Slow Poke" by Pee Wee King topped
the charts
1957 "Singing the Blues" by Guy Mitchell
topped the charts
1958 NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football
scoring
1958 Syracuse National Dolph Schayes sets NBA
record at 11,770 points
1960 Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is first
NBA'er to score 15,000 points
1963 "Go Away Little Girl" by Steve
Lawrence topped the charts
1966 "Batman" with Adam West & Burt
Ward premieres on ABC TV
1966 Red Auerbach wins his 1,000th game as coach
of NBA Boston Celtics
1971 "All in the Family" premieres on
CBS
1974 "The Joker" by the Steve Miller
Band
1975 Chrysler Corp offers first car rebates
1980 "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)"
by Rupert Holmes topped the charts
1985 Bruce Springsteen’s "Born In the USA"
topped the charts
1985 "Like a Virgin" by Madonna topped
the charts
1986 First Hispanic-American in space, Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz
1997 HAL becomes operational (2001: A Space Odyssey);
this date was given as January 12, 1992 on screen, but 1997 is the date used
in both the novel and screenplay
