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1703 St Petersburg (Leningrad)
founded by Peter the Great
1796 James S McLean patents his piano
1890 First jukebox patented
1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film
camera/projector
1896 First major tornado to strike urban
US
1904 National League record of 5 stolen bases
in a game (Dennis McGann, New York Giants)
1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster
1930 Richard Drew invents masking tape
1931 First full scale wind tunnel for testing
airplanes, Langley Field VA
1931 Piccard & Knipfer make first flight into
stratosphere, by balloon
1933 Walt Disney's "Three Little Pigs" released
1933 Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
1936 The Cunard liner Queen Mary left England
on its maiden voyage
1937 Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game
(since July 17, 1936)
1937 200,000 people celebrated
the grand opening of the Golden Gate Bridge
1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British
naval force
1941 President Franklin
D. Roosevelt proclaimed an "unlimited national emergency "
1943 US forbids racial discrimination in war industry
1957 "That’ll be the Day", by The
Crickets featuring Buddy Holly, was released
1961 "Mother-in-Law" by Ernie K. Doe
topped the charts
1963 3 New Jersey businessmen purchase the NHL
Colorado Rockies, & get approval to move them to the New Jersey Meadowlands
(Devils)
1964 "From Russia With Love" premieres
in US
1967 "Groovin'" by the Young Rascals
topped the charts
1968 National League awards Montréal &
San Diego major league franchises
1968 George Halas retired as head coach of the
Chicago Bears
1972 "Oh Girl" by the Chi-Lites topped
the charts
1977 NYC fines George Willig for climbing the World Trade Center
1978 "With a Little Luck" by the Wings
topped the charts
1981 Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller
foul but the umpire says no
1985 In Beijing representatives of Britain and
China exchanged instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong
to the Chinese in 1997
1986 Diving on the Atocha site, Mel Fisher finds
emeralds
1987 Yankee Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make
700th start (Young & Sutton)
1989 "Forever Your Girl" by Paula Abdul
topped the charts
1993 Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 homeruns
1994 Flintstones live action movie opens in theaters
1997 Major league revenue sharing begins, New
York Yankees pay out most $28 million
