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1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce
de León sights Florida
1790 The shoelace invented
1794 Congress authorizes the President "to
provide a naval armament" (US Navy)
1841 First US steam fire engine tested, New York
NY
1848 John Parker Panyard originates medicated
adhesive plaster
1849 Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion
rock drill
1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1860 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw
with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
1866 Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
1879 Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
1884 First long-distance telephone call, Boston-New
York
1899 Inventor Marconi demonstrated the first international
radio transmission between England and France
1912 First Japanese cherry blossom trees planted
in Washington DC
1914 First successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
1931 Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished
Legion of Honor
1931 John McGraw says night baseball will not
catch on
1933 Polyethylene discovered by Reginald Gibson &
Eric William Fawcett
1939 First NCAA Men's Basketball Championship:
University of Oregon beats Ohio State 46-33
1943 "Blue Ribbon Town" was first heard
on CBS radio
1945 Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record
"It's Only a Paper Moon"
1952 Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
1954 "Make Love to Me!" by Jo Stafford
topped the charts
1958 CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier
& first Secretary of Communist Party
1964 Earthquake strikes Anchorage AK, 9.2 on Richter
scale
1965 "Stop! In the Name of Love" by
the Supremes topped the charts
1971 "Me and Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin
topped the charts
1972 Venera 8 launched to Venus
1972 Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching
University of Kentucky
1975 Work began on the Alaskan oil pipeline
1976 Washington DC underground Metro opens
1976 "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)"
by the Four Seasons topped the charts
1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123
years
1982 "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" by Joan
Jett & the Blackhearts topped the charts
1986 Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking
1990 Harold Osrow and Zvi Bleier received a patent
for a portable ice cream machine.
