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1621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league
of friendship (Plymouth)
1622 First Indian (Powhatan) massacre of whites,
Jamestown VA; 347 slain
1630 First colonial legislation prohibiting gambling
enacted (Boston)
1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled
from Mass Bay Colony
1778 Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery - in Wash
state
1841 Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)
1857 First department store elevator for passengers installed
1861 First US nursing school chartered
1882 Congress outlawed polygamy
1894 Stanley Cup: Montréal AAA beat Ottawa
Generals, 3-1 (first Cup game ever)
1895 Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their first
movie to an invited audience
1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) tickets first
go on sale
1933 FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2%
alcohol legal
1941 Grand Coulee Dam in Wash went into operation
1946 First US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere
(50 miles up)
1948 "The Voice of Firestone" airs
on both AM and
FM radio stations
1952 "Wheel of Fortune" by Kay Starr
topped the charts
1954 First shopping mall opened in Southfield
MI
1956 Perry Como became the first TV variety-show
host to book a rock and roll act
1958 "Tequila" by the Champs topped
the charts
1960 First patent for lasers, granted to Arthur
Schawlow & Charles Townes
1962 The play, "I Can Get It For You Wholesale",
opened on Broadway
1963 Beatles release first album, "Please
Please Me"
1968 Lynda Johnson ordered off Cable Car for eating
an ice cream cone
1969 "Dizzy" by Tommy Roe topped the
charts
1975 "My Eyes Adored You" by Frankie
Valli topped the charts
1980 "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)"
by Pink Floyd topped the charts
1981 First class postage raised to 18¢ from
15¢
1981 VideoDiscs debut
1981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian)
to Salyut 6
1982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 launched
1986 "These Dreams" by Heart topped
the charts
1987 A 3,100-ton pile of rotting garbage left
Islip, New York looking for a landfill
1989 NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle announces retirement
as NFL commissioner after 29 years
1990 Anchorage jury finds Captain Hazelwood innocent
of Valdez oil spill
1990 The Major League umpires announce that they
will boycott exhibition games
1991 New York Daily News begins using motto "Forward
with New York"
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth
(1.315 AU)
1997 "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" by
Puff Daddy topped the charts
