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0141 6th predicted perihelion passage
of Halley's Comet
1345 Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction; thought
"cause of plague epidemic"
1602 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms
1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
1800 Volta's battery announced
1815 Napoleon enters Paris - begins 100 day rule
1816 US Supreme Court affirms its right to review
state court decisions
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's
Cabin" published (Boston)
1865 A plan by John Wilkes Booth to abduct President
Abraham Lincoln foiled
1868 Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville
KY of $14,000
1886 First AC power plant in US begins commercial
operation, Massachusetts
1891 The first computing scale company was incorporated
in Dayton, OH
1900 Wireless transmission of electricity patented
1916 Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
1922 USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's first
aircraft Carrier
1930 Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed
record of 129.39 kph
1934 Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning
in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers
1934 German RADAR tested
1942 Gen MacArthur vowed - "I shall return"
1944 Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes
1947 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught
in South Atlantic
1948 Musicians Union ban lifted
1953 Senator Edwin C Johnson offers a bill to ban
radio-TV broadcasts of major league games
1954 "Make Love to Me!" by Jo Stafford
topped the charts
1954 First newspaper vending machine used (Columbia
Pennsylvania)
1956 Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR)
explodes
1958 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line
1961 "Surrender" by Elvis Presley topped
the charts
1965 "Eight Days a Week" by the Beatles
topped the charts
1967 Fashion model, Twiggy, arrived in the United
States for a one-week stay
1967 Supremes release "The Happening"
1971 "Me and Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin
topped the charts
1976 "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)"
by the Four Seasons topped the charts
1982 "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" by Joan
Jett & the Blackhearts topped the charts
1985 Libby Riddles is first woman to win Iditarod
Trail Dog Sled Race
1989 Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose
is under investigation
1990 Los Angeles Lakers retire Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's
#33
1991 Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in contract
violation suit against Disney
1995 Beatles song, "Free As A Bird"
is released
1995 Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record)
