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1848 First women's rights convention
(Seneca Falls, NY)
1877 First Wimbledon tennis championships held
1909 First unassisted triple play in major-league
baseball
1913 Billboard publishes earliest known "Last
Week's 10 Best Sellers
1914 Boston Braves begin drive from last to first
place in the NL
1935 First parking meters installed in Oklahoma
City
1939 First use of Fiberglas sutures RP Scholz
St Louis Mo
1941 First US Army flying school for black cadets
dedicted (Tuskegee AL)
1941 British PM Winston Churchill launched his
"V for Victory" campaign
1946 Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen
test
1948 "Our Miss Brooks" debuted on CBS
radio
1951 Famous thoroughbred race horse Citation retired
from racing
1957 First rocket with nuclear warhead fired,
Yucca Flat, NV
1958 "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley
topped the charts
1960 SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1
hitter against Phillies
1961 First in-flight movie shown (TWA)
1961 Controversial ruling by baseball commissioner Ford Frick
1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15
reaches 344,500 feet
1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where
No Man Has Gone Before"
1969 Apollo 11 went into orbit around
the moon
1969 "In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)"
by Zager & Evans topped the charts
1975 Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2
days, separate
1975 "Listen to What the Man Said" by
the Wings topped the charts
1980 "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me"
by Billy Joel topped the charts
1980 Moscow Summer Olympics begin, US & others
boycott
1984 First female to captain a 747 across the
Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
1985 Two years after its initial release, "E.T.:
The Extra-Terrestrial" grossed an additional $8.8 million in its first
three days in rerelease
1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen first schoolteacher
to fly the space shuttle
1986 Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th
game
1986 "Invisible Touch" by Genesis topped
the charts
1987 Don Mattingly's 8-game home run streak ends
1987 Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base
hits in 10 consecutive games
1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda,
CA
1990 Dave Raghetti passes Whitey Ford
in games pitched by a Yankee
