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1799 First known record of a meteor
shower observed in the US
1833 Leonid Meteors observed
1859 Jules Leotard performs first Flying Trapeze
circus act (Paris)
1892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes
first pro football player
1894 First manned box kite flight
1910 First Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson
river from a burning balloon
1919 Ross & Keith Smith start a 1 month flight
from London to Australia
1920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected first
baseball commissioner
1925 Louis Armstrong recorded "My Heart"
1927 Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue
jerseys for green
1931 Maple Leaf Gardens opened in Toronto,
Ontario
1933 First known photo of Loch Ness monster (or
whatever) is taken
1933 First Sunday football game in Philadelphia
(previously illegal)
1936 American League OKs night baseball for St
Louis
1940 BATMAN was trademark
registered
1941 Hot Lips Page performed the vocal for Artie
Shaw’s very long and very slow version of "St. James Infirmary"
on RCA Victor.
1946 First drive-up bank window established (Chicago)
1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of The South"
released
1949 "That Lucky Old Sam" by Frankie
Laine topped the charts
1953 US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black
out TV home games
1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor,
closed
1955 Date returned to in "Back to the Future"
& "Back to the Future II"
1955 "Autumn Leaves" by Roger Williams
topped the charts
1956 Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles,
first sighted
1960 "Save the Last Dance For Me" by
The Drifters topped the charts
1964 Paula Murphy sets female land speed record
226.37 MPH
1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward
Venus
1966 "Poor Side of Town" by Johnny Rivers
topped the charts
1967 Pearl Bailey took over the lead in the Broadway
musical, "Hello Dolly!"
1977 "You Light Up My Life" by Debbie
Boone topped the charts
1980 John Lennon’s "Starting Over",
was released
1980 US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi
(124,000 km) of Saturn
1981 First balloon crossing of the Pacific is
completed (Double Eagle V)
1981 2nd shuttle mission-first time spacecraft
launched twice (Columbia 2)
1983 "All Night Long (All Night)" by
Lionel Richie topped the charts
1984 Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite
first space salvage
1988 "Wild Wild West" by Escape Club
topped the charts
1988 "Rattle and Hum", the album by
U2, topped the album charts
