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0585 BC Thales Miletus predicts
solar eclispe Persian-Lydian battle ends
1539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
1742 First indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's
Fields, London)
1754 George Washington defeats French & Indians
at Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
1818 First steam-vessel to sail Great Lakes launched
1830 Congress authorizes Indian removal from all
states to western prairie
1863 First Black regiment (54 Massachusetts) leaves
Boston to fight in Civil War
1892 Sierra Club forms by John Muir in San Fransisco,
for conservation of nature
1897 Jello introduced
1900 Fire in Cincinnati nearly destroys Reds'
grandstand
1901 Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition
white phosphorous)
1914 Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome
1915 John B Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll
1923 Attorney General says it is legal for women
to wear trousers anywhere
1926 US Customs Court created by congress
1928 Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged
1929 First all color talking picture "On
With the Show" exhibited (NYC)
1931 WOR radio in New York City premiered "The
Witch’s Tale"
1934 The Dionne quintuplets were born to Elzire
Dionne in Ontario, Canada
1937 Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco opens
to vehicular traffic
1941 First night game at Washington DC, Griffith
Stadium (Yankees 6, Senators 5)
1946 First night game at Yankee Stadium (Senators
2, Yankees 1)
1949 "Riders in the Sky" by Vaughan
Monroe topped the charts
1951 After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects
for his first homerun
1951 Jerry Colonna Show, debuts on ABC-TV
1953 Premier of first animated 3-D cartoon in
Technicolor-"Melody"
1955 "Dance with Me Henry" by Georgia
Gibbs topped the charts
1956 Dale Long becomes first to hit homeruns in
8 straight games
1956 Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government
to store agricultural surplus
1957 National League approves Brooklyn Dodgers'
& New York Giants' move to west coast
1959 Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles (500
km) into space on Jupiter missile
1961 Amnesty International was founded by London
lawyer Peter Berenson
1961 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient
Express (after 78 years)
1966 "Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop
hits #34
1966 "When a Man Loves a Woman" by Percy
Sledge topped the charts
1968 American League announces it is splitting
into 2 divisions
1971 USSR Mars 3 launched, first spacecraft to
soft land on Mars
1972 White House "plumbers" break into
Democratic National HQ at Watergate
1973 Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland Indians,
6-3, in 21 innings
1975 The Doobie Brothers went gold with the album,
"Stampede"
1977 Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder topped the
charts
1980 Two Oakland A's steal home in first inning
1980 Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5"
1983 "Flashdance...What a Feeling" by
Irene Cara topped the charts
1986 White Sox Joe Cowley sets record striking
out first 7 Rangers he faces
1987 Baltimore Oriole Mike Young hits 2 homeruns
in extra innings
1987 Bob Milacki sets Southern league pitching
record 11 1/3 no hit innings
1987 Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard
in Augusta
1987 19-year-old Mathias Rust
lands a private plane in Moscow's Red Square
1988 "One More Try" by George Michael
topped the charts
1990 Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5
hours 12 minutes 33 seconds (Channel Islands)
1994 Twin's Dave Winfield passes Rod Carew into
15th on hit list
1997 Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted
around-the-world flight
2003 First cloned horse born
