451 The Council of Chalcedon opens
1604 The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is first sighted
1775 Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from the Continental Army
1818 Two English boxers are the first to use padded gloves
1822 The first eruption of Galunggung in Java sends boiling sludge into valley
1840 The first Hawaiian constitution is proclaimed
1860 The Telegraph line between LA and SF opens
1862 The Battle of Perryville
1865 Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains
1869 Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of US, dies in Concord, NH
1871 The Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4 square miles of Chicago buildings, and the original Emancipation Proclamation
1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks
1904 The first Vanderbilt Cup auto race is held in Long Island, New York
1906 Karl Nessler demonstrates the first 'permanent wave' for hair in London
1912 The first Balkan War begins
1918 Sgt. Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, and captures 132 Germans
1933 Coit Tower is dedicated in San Francisco: a monument to firefighters
1934 Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for the murder of Lindbergh's son
1935 Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie and Harriet)
1939 Germany annexes Western Poland
1944 The TV series "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debut on CBS radio
1945 Truman announced that the atomic bomb secret was shared with Britain and Canada
1951 Ford C. Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball
1951 Warren C. Giles becomes the president of baseball's National League
1952 Two trains collide with a derailed commuter train and kills 112 people in England
1955 Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, The Saratoga, is launched
1957 The Brooklyn Dodgers announce their move to Los Angeles
1957 Turkish and Syrian border guards exchange fire
1962 Algeria is admitted as 109th member of the UN
1962 N. Korea reports 100% election turnout and that 100% vote for Workers' Party
1964 Ringo Starr takes and passes his driving test
1970 Soviet author Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
1971 John Lennon releases "Imagine"
1978 Ken Warby set the new world water speed record at 319.627 mph
1981 USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Al Unser
1982 Poland bans Solidarity
1988 Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes its evacuation and $2,000.00 damage
1990 The Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
1990 US doctors Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas win the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
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