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0322 BC Aristotle died
1644 Massachusetts establishes first 2-chamber
legislature in colonies
1778 Capt. James Cook first sights Oregon coast
- at Yaquina Bay
1854 Charles Miller patents first US sewing machine
to stitch buttonholes
1857 Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an
official game, not 9 runs
1870 Cincinnati Red Stockings, first pro BB team,
begin 8-mo tour of Midwest & East
1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1897 Dr. John Kellogg served the world's first
cornflakes
1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before
city council & announced that, "women are not physically fit to operate
automobiles"
1911 Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma CA, patents coin-operated
locker
1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the
South Pole
1933 CBS radio debuted the first daytime radio
serial. "Marie the Little French Princess"
1933 Game of "Monopoly" invented
1939 Glamour of Hollywood begins publishing. We
know it today as Glamour Magazine
1939 Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians first
record "Auld Lang Syne"
1942 First cadets graduated from flying school
at Tuskegee
1953 "The Doggie in the Window" by Patti
Page topped the charts
1955 Comedienne Phyllis Diller made her debut
at the Purple Onion in San Francisco, CA
1955 Baseball commissioner Ford Frick says he
favors legalization of spitter
1955 Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
1956 Lonnie Donegan ushered in the new music
craze called ‘skiffle’
1958 Chicago Cardinals announce they will play
their 1958 opener in Buffalo
1959 "Stagger Lee" by Lloyd Price topped
the charts
1959 First aviator to fly a million miles (1.61
Mkm) in a jet
1962 US Orbiting Solar Observatory launched
1962 Beatles made their broadcasting debut on
BBC radio
1964 "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by the
Beatles topped the charts
1965 Selma civil rights demonstration turns
violent
1967 Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good
Man, Charlie Brown" premieres in New York
1970 "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by
Simon & Garfunkel topped the charts
1973 Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg
Observatory
1974 "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) restored
at Cape Hatteras NC
1975 Senate revises filibuster rule - allows 60
senators to limit debate
1979 Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro
& amateur umpires
1979 Rings around Jupiter discovered
1981 "I Love a Rainy Night" by Eddie
Rabbitt topped the charts
1982 NCAA Tournament Selection televised live
for first time
1983 TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable
TV
1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
1985 "We Are the World," was played
on the radio for the first time
1987 "Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi
topped the charts
1994 The Supreme Court ruled that parodies
don't require permission from the copyright holder
1996 First surface photos of Pluto (photographed
by Hubble Space Telescope)
