| 1054 |
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Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days) |
| 1636 |
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City of Providence, Rhode Island form |
| 1653 |
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Barebones Parliment goes into session in England |
| 1776 |
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Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain |
| 1789 |
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1st US tariff act |
| 1802 |
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US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY) |
| 1817 |
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Construction on Erie Canal begins |
| 1819 |
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William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet |
| 1827 |
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Slavery abolished in NY |
| 1828 |
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Construction begins on Band O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR |
| 1829 |
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Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila) |
| 1832 |
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"America" 1st sung publicly |
| 1836 |
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Wisconsin Territory formed |
| 1845 |
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Texas Congress votes for annexation to US |
| 1845 |
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Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond |
| 1862 |
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Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell |
| 1863 |
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Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho) |
| 1863 |
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Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces |
| 1865 |
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1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published |
| 1866 |
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Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying « of Portland, Me |
| 1873 |
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Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens |
| 1874 |
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Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed |
| 1875 |
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White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg |
| 1876 |
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1st public exhibition of electric light in SF |
| 1881 |
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Brooker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute |
| 1882 |
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Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF |
| 1883 |
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Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr |
| 1884 |
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1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks) |
| 1884 |
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Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris |
| 1886 |
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1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC |
| 1888 |
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1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz |
| 1889 |
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Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting |
| 1893 |
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A Borrelly discovers asteroid #369 Aeria |
| 1894 |
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Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH |
| 1894 |
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Republic of Hawaii established |
| 1898 |
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"La Bourgogne" collides with "Cromartyshire", 560 drown |
| 1898 |
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French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark "Cromartyshire", 50 die |
| 1898 |
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US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War) |
| 1903 |
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Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message |
| 1905 |
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Phila A's beat Boston Red Sox 4-2 in 20 inning game |
| 1908 |
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NY Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn |
| 1910 |
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Jack Johnson KOs James Jeffries in 15 rounds, ending come-back try |
| 1911 |
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Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 & ends a 40 game hit streak |
| 1912 |
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Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0 |
| 1914 |
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1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks) |
| 1918 |
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Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa |
| 1919 |
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Cincinnati Reds are 10« games back in NL, & win the World Series |
| 1919 |
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Jack Dempsey beats Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship |
| 1919 |
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M Wolf discovers asteroid #914 Palisana |
| 1925 |
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44 die when the Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses |
| 1925 |
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Yanks Lefty Grove beats A's Herb Pennock 1-0 in 15 innings |
| 1929 |
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AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down |
| 1933 |
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Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge |
| 1938 |
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1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5 |
| 1939 |
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Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game |
| 1939 |
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Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day |
| 1941 |
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Howard Florey & Norman Heatley meet for the 1st time, 11 days later
they successfully recreate pencillin |
| 1942 |
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1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II) |
| 1946 |
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Philippines gains independence from US |
| 1950 |
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Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own consitution) |
| 1954 |
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West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern |
| 1956 |
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Independence National Historical Park established in Philadelphia |
| 1956 |
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US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland |
| 1959 |
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America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled |
| 1959 |
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Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony |
| 1960 |
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America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled |
| 1960 |
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Mickey Mantle hits career homer # 300 |
| 1962 |
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Island Records begins |
| 1966 |
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LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act |
| 1967 |
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Freedom of Information Act goes into effect |
| 1967 |
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Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader |
| 1969 |
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"Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in the UK |
| 1969 |
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140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin |
| 1969 |
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Ann Jones defeats Billie Jean King for Wimbeldon Ladies championship |
| 1970 |
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100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ |
| 1970 |
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Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of
Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons |
| 1973 |
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In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who
"offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth" |
| 1975 |
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Bundy victim (?) Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah |
| 1976 |
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Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers |
| 1977 |
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Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher |
| 1977 |
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Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie |
| 1978 |
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L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3332 |
| 1978 |
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Memphis firefighters halt 3-day strike under a court order |
| 1982 |
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4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB |
| 1982 |
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Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe for his last Wimbeldon championship |
| 1983 |
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Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox |
| 1984 |
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Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m |
| 1985 |
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Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins |
| 1987 |
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Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission |
| 1987 |
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Martina Navratilova wins 6th straight Wimbeldon defeats Steffi Graf |
| 1987 |
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Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" convicted by a French court |
| 1988 |
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Steffan Edberg beats Boris Becker for Wimbeldon crown |
| 1988 |
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US navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290 |
| 1990 |
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2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star
Spangled Banner & Gettysburg Address |
