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1773 Captain James Cook becomes
first to cross Antarctic Circle
1871 First cable car patented, by Andrew S Hallidie
(begins service in 1873)
1882 Leroy Firman received a patent for the telephone
switchboard
1893 Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown
1893 State record low temperature of -17°
in Millsboro, DE
1905 Punchboards were patented by Charles A. Brewer
& C.G. Scannell
1912 English explorer Robert Falcon Scott &
his expedition reach the South Pole
1916 Professional Golfer Association (PGA) forms
1926 George Burns marries Gracie Allen
1928 First fully automatic photographic film developing
machine patented by Anatol M. Josepho
1929 Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip
"Thimble Theatre"
1943 Tin Can Drive Day
1946 United Nations Security Council holds its
1st meeting in London with the adoption of its rules of procedure
1949 "The Goldbergs" came to
CBS-TV
1950 11 men rob Brink's office in Boston of $1.2M
cash & $1.5M securities
1953 "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes"
by Perry Como
1954 Jacques Cousteau's first network telecast
airs on "Omnibus" (CBS)
1955 Submarine USS Nautilus begins first nuclear-powered
test voyage
1959 "Chipmunk Song" by David Seville
and the Chipmunks topped the charts
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes
X-15 to 133,500 feet
1970 357 baseball players are available in the
free-agent draft
1970 Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player
of the Decade for the 1960s
1970 "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"
by B. J. Thomas topped the charts
1976 "I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow
topped the charts
1981 "(Just Like) Starting Over" by
John Lennon topped the charts
1987 "Shake You Down" by Gregory Abbott
topped the charts
1998 "Truly, Madly, Deeply" by Savage
Garden topped the charts
2001 Faced with an electricity prices, California
used rolling blackouts to cut off power to hundreds of thousands of people
