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1855 First train crosses first US railway suspension
bridge, Niagara Falls
1862 Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" sees first action
1887 Everett Horton, Connecticut, patents fishing
rod of telescoping steel tubes
1894 New York passes first state dog license law
1898 Richard Straus' "Don Quixote" premieres
in Keulen
1900 National League decides to go with 8 teams
1913 Federal League organizes with 6 teams
1913 Internal Revenue Service begins to levy &
collect income taxes
1916 US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end
corrupt Menocal regime
1917 Russia's "February Revolution,"
began with the rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg
1930 Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000
1941 First baseball player drafted into WWII (Hugh
Mulcahy, Phillies)
1946 First helicopter licensed for commercial
use (New York, NY)
1952 "Slow Poke" by Pee Wee King topped
the charts
1953 Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up
farming in last 2 years
1958 "Don't/I Beg of You" by Elvis Presley
topped the charts
1959 Groucho, Chico & Harpo's final TV appearance
together
1967 New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets
(20,000 sold first day)
1969 "Everyday People" by Sly &
the Family Stone topped the charts
1972 First flight of the Goodyear blimp - or was it?
1973 Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/US longest,
opens
1975 "Have You Never Been Mellow" by
Olivia Newton-John topped the charts
1976 3,903 lb. (largest observed) stony meteorite
falls in Jilin, China
1979 First extraterrestrial volcano discovered
(Jupiter's satellite Io)
1980 "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
by Queen topped the charts
1983 IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0
1983 President Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil
Empire"
1986 "Kyrie" by Mr. Mister topped the
charts
1994 Don Ku granted a patent for a wheeled suitcase
with a collapsible towing handle.
