1452 The first book is published: The Johann Guttenberg Bible
1630 The first execution in America: J. Billington is hanged in Plymouth, MA
1659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (in the classic story by Defoe)
1659 Peter Stuyvesant of the New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services
1777 The US Congress flees to York, PA as the British forces advance
1791 Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premiers in Vienna
1846 Anesthetic ether is used for first time
1857 The US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland, and Jarvis islands south of Hawaii
1867 The Midway Islands are formally declared a US possession
1877 The first US amateur swim meet is held: New York Athletic Club
1878 The first Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii
1880 Henry Draper takes that first photograph of the Orion Nebula
1885 Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate
1898 The City of New York established
1927 Babe Ruth hits his record setting 60th home run
1934 Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee: he hits 0 for 3
1934 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam)
1935 Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" premiers in Boston
1939 The first televised college football game: Fordham Vs Waynesburg in New York City
1939 Germany and Russia agree to partition Poland
1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yar ravine in the Ukraine
1944 Calais is reoccupied by the Allies
1946 Twenty-two Nazi leaders are found guilty of war crimes at the Nuremberg trials. Von Ribbentrop and Goering are sentenced to death.
1949 Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights
1954 The first atomic-powered vessel, the submarine Nautilus, is launched
1955 James Dean is killed in an auto collision and dies at age 24
1960 The TV series "Flintstones" premiers: it is the first prime time animation show
1960 On Howdy Doody's last show, Clarabelle finally speaks: "Goodbye Kids!"
1962 James Meredith registers for classes at the University of Mississippi
1966 Botswana (Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain
1967 USSR's Kosmos 186 and 188 complete the first automatic space docking
1968 The first Boeing 747 rolls out
1968 The Supremes release "Love Child"
1972 Passenger train derails killing 48 people in South Africa
1975 Five people drown in a flash flood of the sewer and water tunnel in Niagara Falls, New York
1980 Iran rejects a call for truce from the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
1981 Seoul, South Korea is selected to host the 1988 Summer Olympics
1984 Bowie Kuhn ends his career as Baseball Commissioner
1986 The US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
1988 Andrei A. Gromyko retires
1988 IBM announces the shipment of the 3-millionth PS/2 personal computer
1988 Robin Givens and Mike Tyson appear on the Barbara Walters Show
1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii and Ascension
1991 The Haitian President Jean-Bertand Aristide is ousted
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