422 St. Celestine I begins his reign as the Catholic Pope
1349 The Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
1608 John Smith is elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia
1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer and Nathan Hale volunteers
1813 Commodore Oliver H. Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie
1823 Simon Bolivar is named the president of Peru
1846 Elias Howe patents the sewing machine
1847 The first theater opens in Hawaii
1858 John Holden hits the first recorded homerun in Brooklyn
1869 A visiting Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
1882 The first international conference to promote anti-Semitism meets in Dresden Germany: The Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests
1899 The 2nd earthquake in seven days hits Yakutat Bay, Alaska
1910 The Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
1913 The Lincoln Highway opens as first paved coast-to-coast highway
1919 New York City welcomes home General John J. Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers
1924 Leopold and Loeb are found guilty of murder
1927 France wins its first Davis Cup
1939 Canada declares war on Germany
1945 Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis
1950 Joe DiMaggio becomes first to hit 3 home runs in a game at Griffith Stadium
1953 Swanson sells its first "TV dinner"
1954 A 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville, Algeria
1956 Louisville, Kentucky public schools integrate
1960 While running barefoot, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins the Rome Olympic marathon
1962 Rod Laver wins the Grand Slam of tennis
1963 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama
1967 Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British
1972 US Men's Olympic basketball teams first loss: 51-50 to USSR. It is disputed
1973 Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton
1974 Lou Brock ties (104) and then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark
1974 Teuvo Louhivouri sets a bicycling long distance record of 515.8 miles in 24 hours
1976 Two airliners collide over Yugoslavia and kill all 176 aboard
1979 Three Puerto Rican nationals who attempted to kill President Truman are freed
1984 Sean O'Keefe, age 11, is youngest to cycle across US. It took 24 days
1988 Steffi Graf wins the US Open
1989 East Germans begin their flight to the west (via Hungary and Czech)
1990 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win the US Open
1990 George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki
1990 Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada
1990 Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq
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