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1808 First college orchestra in
US founded, at Harvard
1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military
academy
1834 The city of York and Upper Canada was incorporated
as Toronto
1836 Fort Alamo fell to Mexican forces
troops
1853 Verdi's opera "La Traviata" premiered
in Venice, Italy
1857 Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules
slaves cannot be citizens
1869 Dmitry Mendeleev published his first version
of the periodic table
1886 First US alternating current power plant
starts, Great Barrington MA
1896 First auto in Detroit MI, Charles B King
rides his "Horseless Carriage"
1899 "Aspirin" patented by Felix Hoffmann
1902 Census Bureau forms
1918 US naval collier "Cyclops" disappears
in Bermuda Triangle
1921 Rudolph Valentino's
"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" released
1926 Look at that camel go! Recordsetter in Tunis,
Africa
1930 Brooklyn's Clarence Birdseye develops a method
for quick freezing food
1940 First US telecast from an airplane, New York
NY
1947 XB-45, first US 4-engine jet bomber, makes
first test flight, Muroc CA
1948 Who was “The Walking Man" on the
radio?
1954 "Secret Love" by Doris Day topped
the charts
1959 Pioneer IV sent the furthest radio signal
ever heard: 400,000 miles
1961 First London minicabs introduced
1965 "My Girl" by the Temptations topped
the charts
1967 Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service
to be inducted
1970 Beatles release "Let it Be" in
UK
1971 "One Bad Apple" by the Osmonds
topped the charts
1974 An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette
in Monte Carlo
1976 "Love Machine (Part 1)" by the
Miracles topped the charts
1981 Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of
"The CBS Evening News"
1982 NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio beat
Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT)
1982 "Centerfold" by the J. Geils Band
topped the charts
1983 US Football League begins its first season
1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance
of "King & I"
1986 Soviet Vega 1 probe passes within 10 -000
km of Halley's comet
1989 Yankees beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game
(first meeting since 1985)
1990 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying
2,404 miles in 1:08:17
1990 Mel Evenson received a design patent for
the ornamental design for a paperclip holder
1993 "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)"
by Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle topped the charts
1994 Seven scientists enter
Biosphere2
