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1535 Francisco Pizarro founds
Lima Peru
1644 Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's
first UFO sighting
1671 Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders,
captures Panamá
1733 First polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)
1778 Captain James Cook discovers Hawaii
1896 First demonstration of an x-ray machine in
the US, New York City, NY
1911 First shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan
Park to USS Pennsylvania)
1929 "New York Daily Mirror" columnist
Walter Winchell made his debut on radio
1930 State record low temperature of -27°
in Watts, OK
1937 The CBS Radio Network debuted "Aunt
Jenny’s Real Life Stories"
1939 Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded
"Jeepers Creepers"
1943 The sale of pre-sliced bread banned during
wartime
1943 State record low temperature of -60°
in Island Park Dam, Idaho
1948 Ted Mack's "The Original Amateur Hour"
debuted on the DuMont network
1950 Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season,
takes $20,000 salary cut to $45,000, pay cut is Feller's own suggestion
1951 NFL rules tackles, guards & centers ineligible
for forward pass
1951 NFL takes control of the failing Baltimore
Colts
1957 Lerner and Lowe's musical motion picture
"My Fair Lady" was registered
1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world
flight, 45 hours 19 minutes
1958 "At the Hop" by Danny and the Juniors
topped the charts
1960 "Running Bear" by Johnny Preston
topped the charts
1964 "There! I've Said it Again" by
Bobby Vinton
1964 Beatles first appearance in Billboard Chart
(I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35)
1964 Plans for the World Trade Center announced
(New York City, NY)
1969 "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"
by Marvin Gaye topped the charts
1973 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty
Python's Flying Circus" on BBC
1975 "Mandy" by Barry Manilow topped
the charts
1980 Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce
1983 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals
1986 "That's What Friends Are For" by
Dionne Warwick topped the charts
1989 Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of
Supernova 1987A (LMC)
1991 Eastern Airlines goes out of business after
62 years
1992 "All 4 Love" by Color Me Badd topped
the charts
1993 Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in
all 50 states for first time
1996 Baseball owners unanimously approve interleague
play in 1997
