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1543 Copernicus allegedly sees first
copy of DE REVOLUTIONIBUS & dies
1626 Peter Minuit buys Manhattan from Indians
for trinkets, valued at $24
1738 Methodist Church is established
1830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb" is written
1830 First passenger rail service in US (Baltimore
& Elliots Mill, Maryland)
1844 Samual FB Morse taps out "What hath
God wrought" (first telegraph message)
1859 Madame Caroline Miolan-Carvalho sang Charles
Gounod’s "Ave Maria" in its first public performance
1862 Westminster Bridge across Thames opens
1869 First voyage down Colorado River
1878 CA Parker (Harvard) wins first American bike
race, Beacon Park Boston
1883 Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur
& Governor Cleveland
1890 George Train & Sam Wall circle world in
record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma
1899 W. T. McCullough of Boston, MA opened the
first public garage
1902 Cleveland's Bill Bradley is first ALer to hit a homer in 4 consecutive games
1914 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record
telephone conversations
1928 Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the
field, as Yankees beat A's 9-7
1929 Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5,
in 21 innings
1930 First woman to fly from England to Australia
solo, lands (Amy Johnson)
1931 First air-conditioned train installed-B&O
Railroad
1935 First major league night baseball game, in
Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phils 1)
1936 Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs) as Yankees beat A's 25-2
1938 Parking meter patented
1940 First night game at New York's Polo Grounds
(Giants 8, Braves 1)
1940 First night game at St Louis Sportsman Park
(Indians 3, Browns 2)
1941 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS
Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive
1950 Nat 'Sweetwater' Clifton becomes the first
black player in the NBA
1951 Willie Mays begins playing for the New York
Giants
1952 "A Guy Is a Guy" by Doris Day topped
the charts
1953 Rod Steiger, starred in "Marty" on the
"Goodyear Playhouse"
1954 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic"
brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour
1954 First rocket attains 150 mile (241 km) altitude,
White Sands NM
1954 The first traveling sidewalk in a railroad
station
1958 "All I Have to Do Is Dream" by
the Everly Brothers topped the charts
1958 UP & International News Service merge
into United Press International
1959 First house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited
(Pleasant Hills PA)
1959 Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England
1962 M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched
into earth orbit
1964 Longest homerun (471') in Baltimore's Memorial
Stadium (Harmon Killebrew)
1967 AFL grants a franchise to the Cincinnati
Bengals
1969 Beatles' "Get Back" single goes
#1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1975 "Shining Star" by Earth Wind &
Fire topped the charts
1976 First commercial SST flight to North America
(Concorde to Washington DC)
1980 "Call Me" by Blondie topped the
charts
1981 Bobby Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial
Indianapolis 500
1982 Increased penalties for trafficking in counterfeit
labels for certain works and criminal infringement of these works are added
to the Copyright Act in 1982
1986 "Greatest Love of All" by Whitney
Houston topped the charts
1988 John Moschitta set record for fast talking:
586 words per minute
1989 "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade"
premieres
1989 New York Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets
record of pitching 30-2/3 innings
1992 Al Unser Jr. became the first second-generation
winner of the Indianapolis 500
1997 "Mmm Bop" by Hanson topped the
charts
2002 In Mexico Pres. Fox announced that all of
Mexico's waters are a preserve for whales and off-limits to whale hunting.
