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1775 Benjamin Franklin becomes first
Postmaster General
1835 First sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
1893 Commercial production of the Addressograph
started in Chicago, Illinois
1908 Federal Bureau of Investigation established
1933 Joe Dimaggio ends 61 game hitting streak
in Pacific Coast League
1939 Sixteen-year-old singer Kay Starr recorded "Baby
Me" with Glenn Miller and his orchestra
1942 Judy Garland joined Gene Kelly to record
"For Me and My Gal"
1945 The Indianapolis arrived at
Tinian Island in the Marianas with an unassembled atomic bomb
1947 President Harry Truman signed the National
Security Act
1948 Truman signed executive orders
prohibiting discrimination in the Armed Forces and federal government
1948 First black host of a network show-CBS' Bob
Howard Show
1952 Mickey Mantle hits his first grand-slammer
1952 "Half As Much" by Rosemary Clooney
topped the charts
1953 Fidel Castro's revolutionary
"26th of July Movement " begins
1955 Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive
horseshoe ringers
1956 Egyptian President Gamal Abdell Nasser nationalized
the Suez Canal
1958 Army launches 4th US successful satellite,
Explorer IV
1958 "Hard Headed Woman" by Elvis Presley
topped the charts
1963 US Syncom 2, first geosynchronous communications
satellite, launched
1964 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted
of fraud & conspiracy
1969 "In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)"
by Zager & Evans topped the charts
1969 Scientists open “rock box”
1971 US launches Apollo 15 to the Moon
1975 "The Hustle" by Van McCoy &
the Soul City Symphony topped the charts
1979 Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls
in Alvin, TX (national record)
1980 "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me"
by Billy Joel topped the charts
1984 "Purple Rain", the film creation
of Prince, premiered in Hollywood
1986 "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel
topped the charts
1988 Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in
2,155 games at 3rd base
1990 General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode
