701 St. Sergius I ends his reign as the Catholic Pope
1513 Battle of Flodden Fields: the English defeat James IV of Scotland
1776 Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," to the "United States"
1830 Charles Durant, the first US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ
1839 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph
1841 Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY and kills 300
1850 California becomes a state
1850 Territories of New Mexico and Utah are created
1862 Lee splits his army and sends Jackson to capture Harper's Ferry
1867 Luxembourg gains its independence
1880 President Rutherford Hayes visits San Francisco
1892 Almalthea, the 5th moon of Jupiter, is discovered by E.E. Barnard.
1895 The American Bowling Congress is formed in NYC
1908 Orville Wright makes the first 1-hr airplane flight
1911 The first airmail service of the British Post Office
1912 J. Verdrines becomes the first person to fly over 100 mph
1913 Association for the Study of Negro Life & History organizes in Chicago
1919 Boston's police force goes on strike
1926 The National Broadcasting Company is created by the Radio Corporation of America
1927 Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium
1942 The first bombing on the continental US - Mount Emily, OR
1943 Italy surrenders to the Allies
1944 The Allied forces liberate Luxembourg
1944 Bulgaria is liberated from Nazi control
1945 The Japanese in South Korea, Taiwan, China, and Indochina surrender to Allies
1948 The People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed
1950 The first use of TV laugh track: used by Hank McCune
1956 Elvis Presley appears on national TV for first time: on the Ed Sullivan show
1957 Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School is dynamited
1965 Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
1966 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an Avant-garde art exposition
1967 The first successful test flight of a Saturn V rocket
1968 The first US Open: Arthur Ashe wins
1969 Allegheny 853 collides with a Piper Cherokee above Indiana and kills 82
1971 1,000 convicts seize Attica, NY prison
1971 John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear on the Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV)
1971 John Lennon releases the "Imagine" album
1971 Gordie Howe retires – the hockey great
1975 Viking 2 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing
1976 Mao Tse-Tung dies at 82
1977 The first Tandy TRS-80 computer is sold
1979 John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis for the US Open Tennis title
1979 Sid Bernstein offers $1-billion for a Beatle reunion
1979 Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque
1981 Vernon E Jordan resigns as president of the National Urban League
1982 The Conestoga I, the first private commercial rocket, makes a suborbital flight
1983 Radio Shack announces their color computer: the Coco2
1984 John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl for the US Open Tennis title
1987 Gary Hart admits to cheating on his wife on "Nightline"
1987 Larry Bird of the Celtics begins an NBA free throw streak of 59
1987 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter
1989 Steffi Graf beats Martina Navratalova for the US Open championship
1990 Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
1991 Only 1,695 fans are present to watch the Boston Red Sox play Cleveland
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