331BC Alexander the Great of Macedonia defeats the Persian army at Gaugamela
110BC Origin of Sidonian Era
366 St. Damascus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1800 Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty
1847 Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet
1851 The first Hawaiian stamps issued
1869 The first postcards are issued
1885 Special delivery mail service begins in US
1886 The US mint at Carson City, Nevada closes
1889 Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum
1890 Yosemite National Park is established
1893 The 3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 people in Mississippi
1894 A Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben is founded in Omaha, Nebraska
1898 Henry Huntington buys the LA Railway
1898 The Jews are expelled from Kiev Russia
1903 The first baseball World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates Vs The Boston Pilgrims
1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car: the cost is $825.00
1910 The first state fair: Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Massachusetts
1936 General Francisco Franco establishes the state of Spain
1937 The Pullman Company formally recognizes the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
1938 Germany annexes Sudetenland
1939 Winston Churchill refers to Soviet policy as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
1940 Pennsylvania Turnpike, the pioneer toll thruway, opens
1943 Allied forces captured Naples during WW II
1945 Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from the army
1947 The first helicopter air mail and express service
1947 US control of Haitian customs and governmental revenue ends
1948 The California Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages
1948 Radio Denmark begins transmitting
1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-tung
1949 Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on the island of Formosa
1951 24th Infantry Regiment, the last all-black military unit, deactivated
1952 The first ultra high frequency (UHF) television station opens in Portland Oregon
1955 TV series "Honeymooners" with Jackie Gleason premieres
1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack
1958 Britain transfers Christmas Island to Australia
1958 Inauguration of NASA
1958 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA
1961 A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha
1961 East and West Cameroon merge as the Federal Republic of Cameroon
1962 Barbra Streisand signs her first recording contract
1962 Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage the Beatles through 1977
1962 James Meredith became first black at the University of Mississippi
1962 Johnny Carson hosts his first Tonight Show
1962 The Lucy Show premiers
1964 Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley
1964 The San Francisco cable cars are declared a national landmark
1968 "Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh
1971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens
1972 The first games of the World Hockey Association
1973 Leo Durocher resigns as the Houston Astros manager
1977 Brazilian soccer great Pele' retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games
1979 US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years
1982 EPCOT Center opens in Orlando Florida
1982 West Germany's Parliament ousts Chancellor Helmut Schmidt
1987 Six people are killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA
1989 Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany
1989 US issues a stamp, labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus
1990 President Bush at the UN, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait
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