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S0101 153 B.C. the Julian calendar begins at Greenwich mean noon.
S01011519 the Swiss Reformation, led by Huldreich Zwingli, begins.
S01011673 the first regular mounted mail service in the U.S. is inaugurated
S01011673Cbetween New York and Boston.
S01011772 the first traveller's checks are issued in London.
S01011776 the first land raising of the Grand Union Flag occurs at Prospect
S01011776CHill in Somerville, Mass, during the American siege of Boston.
S01011785 the first issue of the London Times is published.
S01011801 the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is established.
S01011801 Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the first (and largest) asteroid, later
S01011801Cnamed Ceres.
S01011808 a law making slave importation into the U.S. illegal becomes
S01011808Ceffective.
S01011837 the Distribution Bill takes effect (a measure designed to relieve
S01011837Cthe government of the SURPLUS money collected in the recent
S01011837Cperiod of financial boom).
S01011847 Michigan becomes the first state to abolish capital punishment.
S01011856 the first train in Africa runs between Alexandria and Cairo.
S01011862 the first U.S. income tax (3% of incomes over $600, 5% of incomes
S01011862Cover $10,000) goes into effect (ended in 1872).
S01011863 the Emancipation Proclamation is issued by Lincoln.
S01011876 Cleveland enjoys its warmest New Years Day on record, 69 degrees.
S01011876 the Philadelphia Mummers' parade is organized in its present form
S01011876Cin celebration of the American centennial.
S01011886 the first Tournament of Roses is held in Pasadena, Ca.
S01011892 Brooklyn merges with N.Y. to form the present City of New York.
S01011892 Ellis Island becomes the reception center for new immigrants.
S01011898 a lightship replaces the whistling buoy at the mouth of San
S01011898CFrancisco Bay.
S01011901 the Commonwealth of Australia is established.
S01011902 the first Rose Bowl game is held in Pasadena, California,
S01011902CUniversity of Michigan 49, Stanford 0.
S01011908 the ball announcing the beginning of the New Year is first
S01011908Clowered on the Times Square Building at Times Square.
S01011912 China becomes a republic following the Wuchang Uprising inspired
S01011912Cby Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
S01011912 the first running of S.F.'s famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63
S01011912Cmiles) occurs.
S01011913 the U.S. Post Office begins parcel post deliveries.
S01011917 Victor Herbert's romantic opera "Eileen" premieres in Cleveland.
S01011926 Babies and Childrens, Maternity (now MacDonald House), Lakeside,
S01011926Cand Rainbow Hospitals become official members of Cleveland's
S01011926CUniversity Hospitals.
S01011927 Massachusetts becomes the first state to require auto insurance.
S01011934 Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.
S01011934 the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC), which guarantees U.S.
S01011934Cbanks, becomes effective.
S01011935 Italian colonies Cyrenaica, Tripoli and Fezzan merge under the
S01011935Cname Libya.
S01011936 the first newspaper, N.Y. Herald Tribune, microfilms its current
S01011936Cissues.
S01011942 Manila falls to the Japanese.
S01011942 Durham, N.C. provides the site for the only Rose Bowl football
S01011942Cgame not played on the west coast.
S01011944 a published report identifies DNA as the hereditary agent in a
S01011944Cvirus.
S01011944 Gen. Erwin Rommel assumes command of the German Army in Northern
S01011944CFrance.
S01011954 the Rose and the Cotton Bowls become the first sport colorcasts.
S01011955 foreign aid to South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos begins.
S01011956 Sudan votes for complete independence as a parliamentary
S01011956Cgovernment.
S01011956 Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes," the first song to hit on
S01011956CBillboard's pop, country, and R/B charts (Mar. 10), is released.
S01011957 the International Geophysical Year begins (ends 6/30/1958).
S01011958 the European Economic Community (the Common Market) starts
S01011958Coperation.
S01011959 Fidel Castro seizes power in Cuba.
S01011960 French Cameroon (later Cameroon) gains independence.
S01011962 the Beatles audition at Decca Records.
S01011962 Western Somoa gains independence.
S01011966 France withdraws from integrated NATO command but remains in
S01011966Cthe alliance.
S01011966 "The Sounds of Silence" reaches #1 on Billboards' Hot 100 chart,
S01011966Cthe first of Simon and Garfunkel's 3 singles to top the chart.
S01011967 the nation's first fluoridation law goes into effect in
S01011967CConnecticut.
S01011971 cigarette advertisements are banned from TV and radio in the U.S.
S01011975 Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell are convicted for their roles
S01011975Cin the Watergate cover-up.
S01011975 the U.N. proclaims beginning of Woman's Year.
S01011976 the Liberty Bell is moved to its new home behind Independence
S01011976CHall.
S01011977 the first woman Episcopal priest in the U.S., Jacqueline Means,
S01011977Cis ordained.
S01011977 the first state right-to-die law becomes effective in California.
S01011979 the U.S. and China formally resume relations.
S01011980 the "Far Side" debuts in the San Francisco Chronicle.
S01011982 Cleveland's Michael Stanley Band sets an attendance record at the
S01011982CColiseum, 21,500 (sitting arrangement was change shortly
S01011982Cafterwards)
S01011984 AT & T is broken up into 8 companies.
S01011984 Brunei gains independence from Britain.
S01011986 Aruba becomes an autonomous member of the Netherlands.
S01011990 Maryland becomes the first state to ban cheap pistols.
S01011994 the European Community (EC) adds five more nations, Austria,
S01011994CFinland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, forming the European
S01011994CEconomic Area (EEA) and renamed the European Union (EU).
S01011994 the first cheers erupt at Cleveland's Gateway during its first
S01011994Cpublic affair, "Gateway's New Year's Eve Countdown to '94."
S01011995 postage rates go up to 32 cents.
S0101     The start of a new year... Enjoy the bowl games.
S0101     Feast of the Circumcision.
S0101     St. Basil's Day (Orthodox).
S0101     Birthday of the Virgin Mary - Coptic (Egyptian) and Abyssinian
S0101       Churches.
S0101     Bonza Bottler Day (Number of Day Matches the Number of the
S0101       Month).
R0101    1Universal Week of Prayer begins.
R0101    1Pun Week begins.
R0101    1"Weeks" Week begins.
S0101     Cuba's Liberation Day (independence from Spain in 1899).
S0101     Haiti Independence Day (France 1804) or Heroes' Day.
S0101     Sudan Independence Day (Britain and Eqypt 1956).
S0101     Mummers' Parade in Philadelphia, Pa.
S0101     Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, Calif.
S0101     Founding of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
S0101    2Handsel Monday (Scotland term day).
S0101     Imani (Faith), last day of Kwanzaa (First Harvest) - Swahili
S0101       week-long festival.
S0101     Festival of Juno (Roman festival honoring the supreme goddess).
S0101     Festival of Inanna, Lady of Heaven (Sumerian Queen of Heaven and
S0101       Earth, love, grain, date-palm, sovereignty, oracular, battle,
S0101       weaving and wine goddess).
S0101     Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Botes.
S0102 303 almost the entire population of Lichfield, England is slaughtered
S0102 303Cfor its refusal to give in to Emperor Diocletian's demand that
S0102 303Ccopies of the New Testament be surrendered and destroyed.
S01021776 the first revolutionary flag is displayed.
S01021788 Georgia becomes the 4th state of the original 13 to ratify the
S01021788CConstitution.
S01021882 the Standard Oil Trust is created to circumvent anti-monopoly
S01021882Claws.
S01021890 Alice Sanger becomes the first female White House staffer.
S01021893 the U.S. Post Office issues its first commemorative stamps.
S01021910 America's first junior high schools open (Berkeley, Ca.).
S01021914 the Cleveland Foundation is established.
S01021921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens.
S01021925 the American Psychological Association is instituted.
S01021942 the United Nations Pact is signed.
S01021952 Libya becomes an independent constitutional monarchy.
S01021953 the Agriculture Department sets standards allowing smaller holes
S01021953Cin Swiss cheese.
S01021957 the San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
S01021965 Joe Namath signs his first pro contract - 3 years, $427,000
S01021965Cwith N.Y. Jets.
S01021974 Nixon signs a bill for a 55 mph ceiling on the speed limit.
S01021983 Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive
S01021983Cpasses.
S0102     Betsy Ross Day.
S0102     Feast of St. Macarius, patron saint of confectioners.
S0102     Feast of the Martyrs of the Holy Scriptures.
R0102    1Universal Week of Prayer begins.
R0102    1Pun Week begins.
R0102    1"Weeks" Week begins.
R0102    2It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0102    2It's Pun Week.
R0102    2It's "Weeks" Week.
S0102     Georgia Ratification Day.
S0102     Ancestor's (or Hero's) Day in Haiti.
S0102    2Handsel Monday (Scotland term day).
S0102     Birthday of Inanna (Sumerian).
S0102     Berchtoldstag (Switzerland).
S0102     The Day After (Scotland).
S0102     Earth at perihelion.
S0102     Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Botes.
S01031521 Martin Luther is excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church.
S01031777 Washington defeats the British at the Battle of Princeton (New
S01031777CJersey.)
S01031825 the first secular Utopian society in the U.S., New Harmony,
S01031825CIndiana, is established by Robert Owen.
S01031852 the first Chinese arrive in Hawaii.
S01031870 construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.  It is completed on
S01031870CMay 24, 1883.
S01031871 oleomargarine is patented by Henry W. Bradley.
S01031876 a group in Florence, Mass., opens the first free kindergarten.
S01031888 the first drinking straw is patented by M.C. Stone in Washington,
S01031888CD.C.
S01031912 Southern Pacific RR offers to bring the Liberty Bell to the
S01031912CExposition without charge.
S01031919 Lord Rutherford first splits an atom.
S01031921 the Supreme Court rules that labor unions could be prosecuted for
S01031921Crestraining interstate trade.
S01031938 the March of Dimes is established.
S01031941 ground is broken for the National Advisory Committee for
S01031941CAeronautics (NACA) research laboratory (later became the NASA
S01031941CLewis Research Center in 1958).
S01031943 the first missing persons telecast is broadcasted in N.Y. City.
S01031947 Congress' opening session is televised for the first time.
S01031948 the first color newsreel is released.
S01031957 the first electric watch is introduced in Lancaster, Pa.
S01031958 the USAF announces the formation of 2 missile squadrons armed
S01031958Cwith intermediate range ballistic missiles (IRBM) as part of
S01031958CStrategic Air Command (SAC).
S01031959 Alaska becomes the 49th state.
S01031961 the U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba.
S01031961 an experimental reactor at a federal installation near Idaho
S01031961CFalls, Ind. kills three workers, the only deaths in a U.S.
S01031961Creactor operations.
S01031973 George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million.
S01031977 Apple Computer is incorporated.
S01031980 the FDA authorizes tests of the controversial drug laetrile on
S01031980Chuman cancer patients.
S01031983 Cowboys' Tony Dorsett sets a NFL record for the longest run from
S01031983Cscrimmage with a 99 yard TD against the Vikings.
S01031987 Browns' Bernie Kosar sets a playoff and club record with 489
S01031987Cyards passing; the Browns beat the Jets 23-20 in double overtime.
S01031990 Panama ruler Manuel Noriega surrenders to invading U.S. forces to
S01031990Cstand trial for aiding Medellin drug cartel.
S01031993 the U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign START II, eliminating 2/3 of the long-
S01031993Crange missiles, all multi-warhead weapons and returning stock
S01031993Cpiles to 1968 levels.
S01031993 down by 32 points in the 3rd quarter, Buffalo stages the greatest
S01031993Ccomeback in NFL history, including 4 TDs in the 3rd quarter, in
S01031993CO.T., Buffalo 41, Houston 38.
S01031993 "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" premieres in Chicago.
S01031994 the 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, the trademark of the Indians on top
S01031994Cof the Stadium since 1962, is taken down.
S0103     Congress assembles, according to the 20th Amendment to the
S0103       Constitution.
R0103    1Universal Week of Prayer begins.
R0103    1Pun Week begins.
R0103    1"Weeks" Week begins.
R0103    2It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0103    3It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0103    2It's Pun Week.
R0103    3It's Pun Week.
R0103    2It's "Weeks" Week.
R0103    3It's "Weeks" Week.
S0103     Alaska Admission Day.
S0103     Pueblo Deer Dance.
S0103    2Handsel Monday (Scotland term day).
S0103     Upper Voltan Revolution Day.
S0103     Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Botes.
S01041754 Columbia University opens.
S01041863 four-wheeled roller skates are patented by James Plimpton of N.Y.
S01041885 Dr. W.W. Grant performs the first appendectomy in Davenport,
S01041885CIowa.
S01041890 editor Timothy Smead allegedly nicknames Cleveland the "Forest
S01041890CCity" in the Ohio City Argus.
S01041893 violators of the Anti-polygamy Act of 1882 are granted amnesty,
S01041893Cwith the stipulation that they observe the law henceforth.
S01041896 Utah becomes the 45th state.
S01041902 Carnegie Institute is founded to promote research in the
S01041902Chumanities and sciences.
S01041924 King Tut's stone sarcophagus is discovered.
S01041936 Billboard magazine publishes its first music hit parade.
S01041948 Britain grants independence to Burma (renamed Myanmar).
S01041960 the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is created.
S01041962 the first unmanned subway train controlled automatically is ran
S01041962Cin New York City.
S01041965 President Johnson outlines goals for his "Great Society" in his
S01041965CState of the Union address.
S01041974 Nixon rejects subpoenas for 500 White House tapes and papers.
S01041979 the legal battle over the Kent State shootings ends (the parents
S01041979Cof the 4 killed and the 9 wounded by guardsmen are awarded
S01041979C$675,000).
S01041981 during "The Ice-Bowl," the Cleveland Browns' Super Bowl hopes are
S01041981Cinterrupted by "The Interception," (Raiders 14, Browns 12).
S01041982 the Golden Gate Bridge is closed for the 3rd time by a fierce
S01041982Cstorm.
S01041986 Cleveland Browns' Ernest Byner sets club playoff records with
S01041986C161 yards gained and the longest run from scrimmage (66),
S01041986CMiami 24, Browns 21.
S01041989 two Libyan fighters are shot down by American warplanes from the
S01041989Ccarrier John F. Kennedy in international waters off the Libyan
S01041989Ccoast.
S0104     Feast of St. Elizabeth Bayley Seton.
S0104     Utah Admission Day.
S0104     National Trivia Day.
R0104    1Universal Week of Prayer begins.
R0104    1Pun Week begins.
R0104    1"Weeks" Week begins.
R0104    2It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0104    3It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0104    4It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0104    2It's Pun Week.
R0104    3It's Pun Week.
R0104    4It's Pun Week.
R0104    2It's "Weeks" Week.
R0104    3It's "Weeks" Week.
R0104    4It's "Weeks" Week.
S0104     Burma Independence Day (Britain 1948).
S0104     Zaire Martyrs of Independence Day.
S0104    2Handsel Monday (Scotland term day).
S0104     Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Botes.
S01051778 David Bushnell tests the first naval contact mine.
S01051807 the last division of the Western Reserve lands occurs (Northern
S01051807COhio).
S01051850 the California Exchange opens.
S01051905 C. Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara.
S01051911 San Francisco has it's first air meet.
S01051919 Anton Drexler founds the Nazi Party in Munich.
S01051920 it is officially announced that Babe Ruth is traded from the Red
S01051920CSox to Yankees (transferred Dec. 26, 1919) for $125,000.
S01051923 women bowlers in New York fight agents for the right to keep beer
S01051923Cin a bowling alley.
S01051925 Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming is the first woman governor to
S01051925Ctake office.
S01051927 the Fox Studios exhibits Movietone, a medium which synchronized
S01051927Csound and motion pictures.
S01051933 work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side.
S01051955 no-iron Dacron is put on the market.
S01051956 the U.S. installs the first long-distance Nike missiles in West
S01051956CGermany.
S01051959 Coral Records releases the last Buddy Holly single before his
S01051959Cdeath the following month, "I Guess It Doesn't Matter Anymore."
S01051962 Tony Sheridan & the Beatles produce "My Bonnie" & "The Saints".
S01051970 "All My Children" premiers on ABC.
S01051972 President Nixon orders NASA to begin work on a reusable space
S01051972Cshuttle.
S01051979 the U.S. sues nine of the nation's largest oil companies for
S01051979Cover-pricing in the last five years.
S01051987 President Reagan produces the first trillion-dollar budget.
S01051987 Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, N.J.
S01051993 Mike Ditka is fired after 32 years as a player and coach for the
S01051993Chicago Bears (11 seasons as head coach, 106-62).
S01051993 Reggie Jackson, Mr. October, with 94% of the votes, is inducted
S01051993Cinto Baseball's Hall of Fame.
S0105     Feast of St. Telesphorus, 8th pope (c. 125-c. 136), martyr.
S0105     Feast of St. Simon Stylites.
S0105     Feast of St. John Nepomucene Neumann.
S0105     Feast of Befana (Italian).
S0105     Twelfth Night, end of Christmas season.
R0105    1Universal Week of Prayer begins.
R0105    1Pun Week begins.
R0105    1"Weeks" Week begins.
R0105    5It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0105    4It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0105    3It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0105    2It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0105    5It's Pun Week.
R0105    4It's Pun Week.
R0105    3It's Pun Week.
R0105    2It's Pun Week.
R0105    5It's "Weeks" Week.
R0105    4It's "Weeks" Week.
R0105    3It's "Weeks" Week.
R0105    2It's "Weeks" Week.
S0105     George Washington Carver Day.
S0105    2Handsel Monday (Scotland term day).
S01061681 the first recorded boxing match takes place in England, between
S01061681Cthe Duke of Albemarle's butler and his butcher.
S01061753 Epiphany
S01061831 the Cleveland Advertiser is first published, and is the first
S01061831Cpublication to spell Cleveland (Cleaveland) without the
S01061831Csuperfluous "a".
S01061838 Samuel Morse makes the first public demonstration of the
S01061838Ctelegraph.
S01061912 New Mexico becomes the 47th state.
S01061914 stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch is founded.
S01061930 the first diesel engine automobile trip is completed
S01061934 Chrysler introduces the Airflow at the 34th Annual National
S01061934CAutomobile Show in N.Y.
S01061941 the freedom of speech and religion, and the freedom from want and
S01061941Cfear are the Four Freedoms President Roosevelt terms essential in
S01061941Chis speech to Congress.
S01061964 London and Paris agree to build a rail tunnel under the English
S01061964CChannel.
S01061966 President Johnson receives a scroll representing nearly 500,000
S01061966Cstudents supporting the administration's Vietnam War policy.
S01061968 a California doctor performs the nation's first successful heart
S01061968Ctransplant.
S01061969 the U.S. Presidential salary is raised from $100,000 to $200,000.
S01061971 Berkeley chemists announce the first synthetic production of
S01061971Cgrowth hormones.
S01061974 the Cleveland Clinic performs the first CAT scan in Ohio.
S01061978 the Crown of St. Stephen, prime symbol of the Hungarian nation,
S01061978Cis returned to Hungary by the U.S. (taken custody in July 1945 at
S01061978Cthe end of World War II).
S01061986 a cylinder of nuclear material bursts after being improperly
S01061986Cheated at the Kerr-McGee plant in Gore, Oklahoma, killing 1 and
S01061986Chospitalizing 100.
S01061987 the 100th U.S. Congress convenes.
S01061987 astronomers report sighting a new galaxy 12 billion light-years
S01061987Caway.
S01061992 the FDA halts the sale and implantation of silicone-gel breast
S01061992Cimplants.
S01061993 the U.S. and major U.N. allies give Iraq 48 hours to remove anti-
S01061993Caircraft missiles form the no-fly zone in southern Iraq or face
S01061993Cmilitary action.
S01061994 Olympic skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan is attacked after a
S01061994Cpractice during the U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Detroit.
S01061995 Lenny Wilkins becomes the winningest coach in NBA history with
S01061995Chis 939 win, Atlanta Hawks 112, Washington Bullets 90.
S0106     Epiphany (Twelfth Night in England)
S0106     Old Christmas (decorations not taken down before today will bring
S0106       bad luck).
S0106     Epipany of Kore (Ancient Alexandria - commemorating Kore's return
S0106       to the earth from her Underworld exile - the goddess of
S0106       fertility and grains).
S0106     Three Kings Day.
S0106     Coptic Christmas.
R0106    1Universal Week of Prayer begins.
R0106    1Pun Week begins.
R0106    1"Weeks" Week begins.
R0106    6It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0106    5It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0106    4It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0106    3It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0106    2It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0106    6It's Pun Week.
R0106    5It's Pun Week.
R0106    4It's Pun Week.
R0106    3It's Pun Week.
R0106    2It's Pun Week.
R0106    6It's "Weeks" Week.
R0106    5It's "Weeks" Week.
R0106    4It's "Weeks" Week.
R0106    3It's "Weeks" Week.
R0106    2It's "Weeks" Week.
S0106     Children's Day (Uruguay).
S0106     New Mexico Admission Day.
S0106     Greek Cross Day.
S0106     Iraqi Army Day.
S0106     Haym Salomon Day.
S0106    2Handsel Monday (Scotland term day).
S01071558 Calais, the last English possession in France, is retaken by
S01071558Cthe French.
S01071610 Galileo discovers the first three Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa
S01071610Cand Ganymede.
S01071753 the first Plough Monday is observed (back to the fields).
S01071785 the first balloon flight across the English Channel occurs.
S01071789 the first national presidential election in the U.S. is held.
S01071822 the first printing in Hawaii occurs.
S01071830 the first American railway station begins operations in
S01071830CBaltimore, Maryland.
S01071839 the first silver-mining company in the U.S., the Washington
S01071839CMining Co., is chartered in North Carolina.
S01071842 the Cleveland Plain Dealer is first issued.
S01071896 Fanny Farmer publishes her first cookbook.
S01071913 a patent is issued for the process to convert oil to gasoline.
S01071916 a German note to Washington, D.C., concerning submarine warfare,
S01071916Cdeclares that a strict adherence to international law would
S01071916Chenceforth be followed.
S01071927 the Harlem Globetrotters play their first game in Hinckley, Ill.
S01071929 "Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears.
S01071941 the Office of Production Management (OPM) is created to supervise
S01071941Cdefense production.
S01071941 the "Inner Sanctum Mysteries" debuts on radio.
S01071944 the Air Force announces the production of the first U.S. jet
S01071944Cfighter, Bell P-59 Airacomet.
S01071949 Drs. Daniel Pease and Richard Baker of USC announce the first
S01071949Csuccess in photographing a gene.
S01071955 contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first black to sing at the
S01071955CMet.
S01071962 the AFL West beats the East 47-27 in the first AFL Pro Bowl.
S01071963 first class postage is raised from 4 cents to 5 cents.
S01071967 "The Newlywed Game" premieres.
S01071968 Surveyor VII, part of a U.S. program to develop the technology of
S01071968Csoft landing and provide data about the lunar surface, and last
S01071968Cof the 5 unmanned flights, is launched.
S01071968 first class postage is raised from 5 cents to 6 cents.
S01071972 Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist are sworn in as Supreme Court
S01071972Cjustices.
S01071972 L.A. Lakers chalk up their 33rd consecutive win, a NBA record.
S01071980 a bill authorizing a federal bailout of Chrysler Corporation is
S01071980Csigned by President Carter.
S01071986 economic sanctions against Libya are ordered by President Reagan
S01071986Cin retaliation for alleged Libyan involvement in terrorist
S01071986Cattacks at the Rome and Vienna airports (5 Americans were among
S01071986Cthe victims).
S01071993 "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" premieres in Cleveland.
S01071993 the Cleveland Indians unveil a commemorative logo for the 1993
S01071993Cseason commemorating the 61st and final season at the Stadium.
S0107     Feast of St. Lucian, priest and martyr.
S0107    1Feast of the Holy Family.
S0107     Russian Orthodox Christmas.
S0107     St. John the Baptist Day (Orthodox).
R0107    1Universal Week of Prayer begins.
R0107    1Pun Week begins.
R0107    1"Weeks" Week begins.
R0107    2It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0107    3It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0107    4It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0107    5It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0107    6It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0107    7It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0107    2It's Pun Week.
R0107    3It's Pun Week.
R0107    4It's Pun Week.
R0107    5It's Pun Week.
R0107    6It's Pun Week.
R0107    7It's Pun Week.
R0107    2It's "Weeks" Week.
R0107    3It's "Weeks" Week.
R0107    4It's "Weeks" Week.
R0107    5It's "Weeks" Week.
R0107    6It's "Weeks" Week.
R0107    7It's "Weeks" Week.
S0107    2Handsel Monday (Scotland term day).
S0107     St. Distaff's Day (medieval joke - women are to return to house-
S0107       work after the holiday.
S0107     Pioneer's Day (Liberia).
S0107     Usokae of Bullfinch Exchange Festival (Japan).
S0107     Festival of Izanani (Japanese goddess).
S0107     Bieuwa, the Traditional Day of Offering (Bhutan).
S0107     Sekhmet's Day (Ancient Egyptian festival honoring Sekhmet, the
S0107       lioness-goddess and Eye of Ra).
S0107    2Plough (Plow) Monday.
S01081815 the Battle of New Orleans made a hero out of Andrew Jackson (the
S01081815CWar of 1812 had ended on 12/24/1814, but nobody knew that).
S01081853 the first equestrian bronze casting made in the U.S. (by Clark
S01081853CMills), that of General Andrew Jackson, is dedicated in New
S01081853COrleans.
S01081865 Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make the Marigold
S01081865Cthe national flower.  It doesn't pass.
S01081867 suffrage is given to the blacks by a bill passed over Pres.
S01081867CAndrew Johnson's veto.
S01081880 the passing of Norton I, Emperor of the U.S., Protector of
S01081880CMexico, occurs.
S01081889 Herman Hollerith patents the first data processing computer.
S01081900 the Cleveland Automobile Club is organized, the first AAA club.
S01081902 an initiative for the formation of the United Trades and Labor
S01081902CCouncil of Cuyahoga County is presented at the meeting of the
S01081902CCentral Labor Union.
S01081918 President Wilson's Fourteen Points for peace are delivered to
S01081918CCongress.
S01081932 the U.S. bridge team defeats the English team in the first
S01081932CChampionship Bridge Match (by 8,980 points!).
S01081932 ratification of the present San Francisco City Charter.
S01081933 physicist Dr. Irving Langmius measures the force of a single
S01081933Catom.
S01081935 the spectrophotometer is patented by A.C. Hardy.
S01081942 Navy pilot David F. Mason, noticing a surfaced Japanese sub in
S01081942Cthe South Pacific, drops his depth charges, and radios in the
S01081942Cresult: "Sighted sub, sank same."
S01081954 Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio and records his first
S01081954Ctwo songs, "Casual Love" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way".
S01081954 IBM displays the first use of a machine as a translator.
S01081955 reserpine and thorazine is introduced to aid mental patients.
S01081963 the "Mona Lisa", on loan, is first unveiled in America at the
S01081963CNational Gallery of Art.
S01081964 President Johnson pledges "war on poverty" in his State of the
S01081964CUnion message.
S01081972 the NCAA announces that starting in the fall freshmen would be
S01081972Cpermitted to play on varsity football and basketball teams.
S01081973 the Cleveland Barons play their last game at the Arena before 412
S01081973Cfans.
S01081976 the first National Book Critics Circle Awards are presented.
S01081981 the "New England Journal of Medicine" reports an increase in the
S01081981Crisk of coronary death is linked to consumption of large amounts
S01081981Cof cholesterol
S01081982 AT&T agrees to split up.  The divestiture and break-up into 8
S01081982Ccompanies occurs Dec. 31, 1983.
S01081987 the Dow records its first finish above 2000 (2002.25.)
S01081989 "The Arsenio Hall Show" premieres.
S01081992 the NCAA adopts stricter academic standings for athletes.
S01081993 the Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale.
S0108     Feast of St. Gudula, patron saint of Brussels.
S0108     Feast of St. Severius, Bishop of Naples.
S0108    1Feast of the Holy Family.
S0108     St. Dominique's Day (Orthodox).
S0108     Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans.
S0108    2National Clean-Off-Your-Desk Day.
S0108     Druidic New Year.
S0108     Last day a ball club can re-sign their own free agent until May
S0108       1.
R0108    1Man Watcher's Week begins.
R0108    2It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0108    3It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0108    4It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0108    5It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0108    6It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0108    7It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0108    2It's Pun Week.
R0108    3It's Pun Week.
R0108    4It's Pun Week.
R0108    5It's Pun Week.
R0108    6It's Pun Week.
R0108    7It's Pun Week.
R0108    2It's "Weeks" Week.
R0108    3It's "Weeks" Week.
R0108    4It's "Weeks" Week.
R0108    5It's "Weeks" Week.
R0108    6It's "Weeks" Week.
R0108    7It's "Weeks" Week.
S0108    2Plough (Plow) Monday.
S0108    1Plough (Plow) Sunday.
S0108    1Meitlisunntig (Switzerland).
S01091788 Connecticut becomes the 5th state of the original 13 to ratify
S01091788Cthe Constitution.
S01091793 the first balloon flight in North America occurs in Philadelphia.
S01091799 the first income tax is imposed, in England.
S01091802 Ohio University In Athens, Ohio, receives its charter as American
S01091802CWestern University (renamed Ohio University in 1804).
S01091839 Thomas Henderson measures the first stellar parallax Alpha
S01091839CCentauri.
S01091839 the daguerrotype process is announced at the French Academy of
S01091839CScience.
S01091847 the first San Francisco paper, "California Star," is published.
S01091848 the first commercial bank in San Francisco is established.
S01091861 Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union.
S01091861 the first shot of the Civil War is fired by rebel Charles
S01091861CHaynesworth at the merchant steamer, the "Star of the West,"
S01091861Ccarrying Union recruits to Fort Sumter.
S01091903 two N.Y. businessmen buy a struggling Baltimore baseball
S01091903Cfranchise and move it to N.Y.C.--they become the N.Y. Yankees.
S01091915 the Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium is dedicated in San
S01091915CFrancisco.
S01091929 "The Seeing Eye" dog training school is incorporated.
S01091936 the M1 semi-automatic rifle is adopted by the U.S. army.
S01091945 the invasion of Luzon, the largest land campaign of the Pacific
S01091945Cwar, begins.
S01091955 the AEC announces nuclear power plants will soon be open to
S01091955Cprivate ownership. (The first approved is Con Ed's at Indian
S01091955CPoint, N.Y.)
S01091960 Nixon declares his candidacy in his first presidential race (he
S01091960Closes).
S01091968 U.S. Surveyor 7, last of the 5 unmanned flights to the moon,
S01091968Csoft-lands near the crater Tycho.
S01091969 the Concorde jetliner makes its first test flight (Bristol,
S01091969CEngland).
S01091969 the final scene of "Turnabout Intruder", the 79th and the last
S01091969Cepisode of "Star Trek", is shot.
S01091970 the second deadliest nursing home fire kills 32 in Marietta, Oh.
S01091978 a federal judge in Dayton, Ohio, rules against preventing high-
S01091978Cschool girls from playing on the same sports teams as boys.
S01091982 a 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada occurs (the last one was
S01091982Cin 1855).
S01091987 the House and the Senate form panels to investigate the Iran-
S01091987Ccontra affair.
S01091990 the 33rd Shuttle Mission - Columbia 8 is launched
S0109     Feast of SS. Julian and Basilissa, martyrs.
S0109    1Feast of the Holy Family.
S0109     Connecticut Ratification Day.
S0109    2National Clean-Off-Your-Desk Day.
S0109     Panama's Day of National Mourning.
R0109    1Man Watcher's Week begins.
R0109    2It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0109    3It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0109    4It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0109    5It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0109    6It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0109    7It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0109    3It's Pun Week.
R0109    4It's Pun Week.
R0109    5It's Pun Week.
R0109    6It's Pun Week.
R0109    7It's Pun Week.
R0109    3It's "Weeks" Week.
R0109    4It's "Weeks" Week.
R0109    5It's "Weeks" Week.
R0109    6It's "Weeks" Week.
R0109    7It's "Weeks" Week.
S0109    2Plough (Plow) Monday.
S0109    1Plough (Plow) Sunday.
S0109    1Meitlisunntig (Switzerland).
S0109     Festival for Isis (Ancient Egyptian - Isis is the most complete
S0109       flowering of the Goddess concept in human history.)
S01101498 the first Pharmacopoeia, Nuovo Receptario, is published.
S01101776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published.
S01101840 the Penny Post mail system is started.
S01101847 the U.S. Marines take Los Angeles from Mexico, making California
S01101847Ca part of the U.S. all but by name.
S01101861 Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.
S01101863 the first underground railway opens in London.
S01101870 Standard Oil Company (OHIO) - SOHIO is incorporated.
S01101878 a women's suffrage amendment is introduced by Sen. Aaron A.
S01101878CSargent of California in the exact words of its final form when
S01101878Cadopted in 1922.  (Defeated, the amendment would be introduced in
S01101878Ceach succeeding Congress.)
S01101901 Texas has its first significant oil strike, near Beaumont.
S01101910 the first international air meet is held in Los Angeles.
S01101919 Cleveland voters approve the Ordinance of 1919 which clears the
S01101919Cway for the Terminal Tower Complex project.
S01101920 the League of Nations is established.
S01101926 Fritz Lang's film, "Metropolis", debuts in Berlin.
S01101932 Mickey Mouse and the Silly Symphony comics is syndicated.
S01101944 Philadelphia receives the first mobile electric power plant.
S01101945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.
S01101946 the United Nations General Assembly meets for the first time (in
S01101946CLondon).
S01101946 the U.S.  Army establishes the first radar contact with moon from
S01101946CBelmar, N.J.
S01101947 Stanford University reports isolation of the polio virus.
S01101949 RCA introduces the 45 RPM record.
S01101951 the first jet passenger flight is made.
S01101964 "That Was The Week That Was" premieres.
S01101969 the final issue of the 141-year-old Saturday Evening Post is
S01101969Cprinted.
S01101975 Bernadette Olowo of Urganda becomes the first woman ambassador to
S01101975Cthe Vatican.
S01101981 the Alabama Supreme Court voids the law barring obscene language
S01101981Cin the presence of a woman.
S01101982 San Francisco's Dwight Clark makes his famous catch from Joe
S01101982CMontana in the 49ers' last minute win over Dallas, 28-27, in the
S01101982CNFC Championship game (49ers go on to win Super Bowl XVI, beating
S01101982Cthe Bengals 26-21).
S01101984 the U.S. and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations for
S01101984Cthe first time in 117 years.
S01101993 President Clinton holds the first televised "Presidential Town
S01101993CMeeting," hosted in Detroit, Mich.
S0110     Feast of St. William, Duke of Aquitain, confessor.
S0110    1Feast of the Holy Family.
S0110    2National Clean-Off-Your-Desk Day.
R0110    1Man Watcher's Week begins.
R0110    2It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0110    3It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0110    4It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0110    5It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0110    6It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0110    7It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0110    4It's Pun Week.
R0110    5It's Pun Week.
R0110    6It's Pun Week.
R0110    7It's Pun Week.
R0110    4It's "Weeks" Week.
R0110    5It's "Weeks" Week.
R0110    6It's "Weeks" Week.
R0110    7It's "Weeks" Week.
S0110    2Plough (Plow) Monday.
S0110    1Plough (Plow) Sunday.
R0110     Prithivi Jayanti (Nepal).
S0110    1Meitlisunntig (Switzerland).
S0111 029 BC Octavianus declares peace throughout the Roman world - no
S0111 029Clonger a republic, but an empire.
S01111569 the first lottery is held in England, at St. Paul's Cathedral.
S01111759 the first American life insurance company is incorporated in
S01111759CPhiladelphia.
S01111787 Titania and Oberon, moons of Uranus, are discovered by William
S01111787CHerschel.
S01111805 Michigan Territory is organized.
S01111813 first pineapples planted in Hawaii.
S01111861 Alabama becomes the fourth state to secede from the Union.
S01111880 Leonard Case's trust for the Case School of Applied Sciences is
S01111880Cestablished.
S01111888 the worst blizzard to hit the U.S. since records have been kept
S01111888Cstrikes the Great Plains (hundreds are killed).
S01111892 the Hawaii Historical Society is founded.
S01111927 37 Hollywood bigwigs at a banquet first discuss the presenting of
S01111927CAcademy Awards.
S01111935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California.
S01111955 the play "Inherit the Wind" premieres at Theatre '55 in Dallas,
S01111955CTexas
S01111963 the Beatles' "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why" is released.
S01111964 the Surgeon General names cigarettes a "health hazard."
S01111972 the movie "The Night Stalker" premieres on TV.
S01111973 the American League allows designated hitters to bat for
S01111973Cpitchers.
S01111974 Blue Cross and Blue Shield announce merger plans.
S01111976 the Soviet Olympic team walks off the ice in protest to the rough
S01111976Ctactics of the Philadelphia Flyers.
S01111979 the Surgeon's General's report leaves no doubt smoking causes
S01111979Clung cancer.
S01111980 Honda announces it will build Japan's first U.S. passenger-car
S01111980Cassembly plant on Ohio.
S01111987 the Cleveland Browns' Super Bowl hopes are dashed by "The Drive,"
S01111987CDenver 23, Browns 20.
S01111989 the use of chemical weapons is condemned by representatives of
S01111989C140 nations, including the U.S.
S01111993 the Cosmopolitan girl changes her image after 27 1/2 years.
S0111     Feast of St. Hyginus, 9th pope (c. 136-c. 140), martyr.
S0111    1Feast of the Holy Family.
S0111    2National Clean-Off-Your-Desk Day.
S0111     Festival of Fools (European).
R0111    1Man Watcher's Week begins.
R0111    2It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0111    3It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0111    4It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0111    5It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0111    6It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0111    7It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0111    5It's Pun Week.
R0111    6It's Pun Week.
R0111    7It's Pun Week.
R0111    5It's "Weeks" Week.
R0111    6It's "Weeks" Week.
R0111    7It's "Weeks" Week.
S0111    2Plough (Plow) Monday.
S0111    1Plough (Plow) Sunday.
S0111     Albania Republic Proclamation Day.
S0111     Chad Independence Day (France 1960).
S0111     Nepal National Unity Day.
S0111     DeHosto's Birthday (Puerto Rico).
S0111    1Meitlisunntig (Switzerland).
S0111     Carmenta's Festival (Roman goddess of childbirth and prophesy).
S0111     Festival of Juturna (Roman - a nymph loved by Jupiter, who made
S0111       her a goddess of lakes and springs).
S01121773 the first public museum in American is organized in Charleston,
S01121773CS.C.
S01121777 the Mission Santa Clara de Asis is founded in California.
S01121811 the first steamboat to sail down the Mississippi River, owned by
S01121811CMr. and Mrs. Roosevelt, reaches New Orleans.
S01121820 the Royal Astronomical Society is founded in England.
S01121838 Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, and his followers
S01121838Cleave Kirtland, Ohio.
S01121853 the first west coast university is established (Willamette).
S01121896 Dr. Henry Louis Smith takes the first x-ray photograph.
S01121906 the Dow Jones first closes over 100.
S01121909 Canada and the United States sign the Arbitration Treaty.
S01121915 the U.S. Congress establishes the Rocky Mountain National Park.
S01121922 Mrs. Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the U.S.
S01121922CSenate.
S01121946 the Cleveland Rams announce they are moving to Los Angeles.
S01121955 the U.S. releases its new nuclear policy of "massive
S01121955Cretaliation".
S01121960 Dolph Schayes of Syracuse makes his 15,013 career point, becoming
S01121960Cthe first 15,000-point NBA player.
S01121965 at 10:58 a.m. PST, scientists conduit what they called a
S01121965C"controlled excursion", burning up a nuclear rocket in Nevada and
S01121965Cputting a radioactive cloud over Los Angeles.
S01121967 the Louisville draft refuses exemption for Muhammad Ali.
S01121969 Joe Namath leads the Jets to the first AFL Super Bowl win,
S01121969Cbeating the Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III, one of the most
S01121969Cshocking upsets in professional football history.
S01121971 "All in the Family" premieres on CBS.
S01121975 Chrysler offers first car rebates.
S01121976 the Department of H.E.W. issues its first report on national
S01121976Chealth (Americans were generally healthy).
S01121986 the 24th Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 is launched.
S01121992 the last building in the Gateway area in Cleveland is demolished
S01121992Cso construction can begin for the new sports facility.
S0112     Feast of St. Tutiana, martyr.
S0112    1Feast of the Holy Family.
S0112     Volunteer Fireman Day.
S0112    2National Clean-Off-Your-Desk Day.
S0112     Festival of Saraswati (Hindu).
S0112     Zanzibar Revolution Day (Tanzania).
R0112    1Man Watcher's Week begins.
R0112    5It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0112    4It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0112    3It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0112    2It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0112    6It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0112    7It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0112    6It's Pun Week.
R0112    7It's Pun Week.
R0112    6It's "Weeks" Week.
R0112    7It's "Weeks" Week.
S0112    2Plough (Plow) Monday.
S0112    1Plough (Plow) Sunday.
S0112    1Meitlisunntig (Switzerland).
S01131610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, the 4th satellite of Jupiter.
S01131630 a patent to Plymouth Colony is issued.
S01131752 the 1752 Act changes the British legal year from Mar. 25 to Jan.
S01131752C1.
S01131817 the Village of Cleveland, Ohio purchases its first public
S01131817Cschoolhouse.
S01131854 Anthony Faas patents the accordion.
S01131906 the first "radio set" is advertised (in Scientific American) -
S01131906Cclaimed to receive signals up to ONE MILE. Price: $7.50.
S01131920 a N.Y. Times Editorial reports rockets can never fly.
S01131927 the first woman takes a seat on the N.Y. Stock Exchange.
S01131930 the Mickey Mouse comic strip first appears.
S01131942 Henry Ford patents plastic automobile construction.
S01131955 Chase National and Bank of Manhattan agree to merge to form the
S01131955Csecond largest U.S. bank.
S01131958 Linus Pauling presents the petition of 9,000 scientists to the
S01131958CU.N., asking to halt the testing of nuclear bombs.
S01131966 LBJ selects Robert C. Weaver as Secretary of the newly created
S01131966CDepartment of Housing and Urban Develpment, the first black in a
S01131966Cpresidential cabinet.
S01131969 the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" album is released.
S01131976 Sarah Caldwell becomes the first woman to conduct at the
S01131976CMetropolitan Opera House in N.Y. City.
S01131981 a jet airliner taking off from Washington's National Airport
S01131981Ccrashes into a Potomac River bridge.
S01131983 the AMA calls for the banning of prizefighting, because new
S01131983Cevidence suggests that chronic brain damage is prevalent in
S01131983Cboxers.
S01131992 excavation of the new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) begins.
S01131993 after numerous violations of UN accords by Iraq, including
S01131993Cincursions into Kuwait, at 1:15 p.m. EST, the U.S. and other UN
S01131993Cforces make airstrikes on military targets in southern Iraq.
S01131993 the 53rd Shuttle Mission, the Endeavour 3 is launched.  Its
S01131993Cmission is to release a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite and to
S01131993Ctest a $23 million toilet.
S01131995 the America3 becomes the first all-female crew to win an
S01131995CAmerica's Cup race by defeating by 69 seconds four-time champion
S01131995CDennis Connor and the Stars & Stripes on the first day of the
S01131995Cdefenders trials.
S0113     Commemoration of the Baptism of Jesus.
S0113    1Feast of the Holy Family.
S0113    2National Clean-Off-Your-Desk Day.
S0113     The Plowman's Festival.
S0113     Midvintersblot (Norse).
R0113     It's the Ides of January!
R0113    1Man Watcher's Week begins.
R0113    6It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0113    5It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0113    4It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0113    3It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0113    2It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0113    7It's Universal Week of Prayer.
R0113    7It's Pun Week.
R0113    7It's Pun Week.
R0113    7It's "Weeks" Week.
S0113    2Plough (Plow) Monday.
S0113    1Plough (Plow) Sunday.
S0113    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
R0113     It's Cuckoo Dancing Week (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich).
S0113     Stephen Foster Memorial Day.
S0113     Togo Liberation Day.
S0113    1Meitlisunntig (Switzerland).
S01141493 Columbus's men and an Arawak war party fight a brief skirmish in
S01141493CHaiti, the first battle in the 400-year history of white-Indian
S01141493Cwarfare.
S01141639 the first constitution in the colonies, the Fundamental Orders,
S01141639Cis adopted by representatives from Hartford, Windsor and
S01141639CWethersfield in Connecticut.
S01141690 the clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany.
S01141784 the U.S. treaty with Great Britain is ratified; the Revolutionary
S01141784CWar formally ends.
S01141794 Dr. Jessee Bennet of Edom, Va., performs the first successful
S01141794CCesarean operation.
S01141899 Cleveland's Steam and Hot Water Fitters and Helpers' Local 120
S01141899C(now called the Pipefitters Union) receives its charter.
S01141914 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars.
S01141936 L.M. "Mario" Giannini elected president of Bank of America.
S01141943 the Casablanca conference opens in Morocco, attended by Pres.
S01141943CRoosevelt and other allied officials to plan their military
S01141943Cstrategy.
S01141949 an antitrust suit against American Telephone and Telegraph
S01141949CCompany is filed by the Department of Justice, seeking to
S01141949Cseparate the company from its manufacturing subsidiary, Western
S01141949CElectric, Inc.
S01141952 the "Today Show" with Dave Garroway premieres.
S01141965 the premiers of North Ireland and the Republic of Ireland meet
S01141965Cfor the first time.
S01141968 the Packers win the Super Bowl, the second year in a row. It is
S01141968CVince Lombardi's last game, and the end of the Packer dynasty.
S01141973 the Dolphins win Super Bowl VII to become the first NFL team to
S01141973Cfinish the season undefeated.
S01141975 the Great Lakes Historical Society announces it would develop a
S01141975C$1.2 million marine museum and public park on the East 9th Street
S01141975Cpier called Gateway. (Although it was not built, it led to the
S01141975Ccurrent lakefront development and use of the name for the
S01141975Cdowntown sports complex.)
S01141981 the FCC frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they
S01141981Cwish, and removes any obligation to allocate time for news or
S01141981Cpublic affairs programing.
S01141986 local laws forbidding backyard satellite dish antennas is banned
S01141986Cby the FCC.
S01141990 the Browns are again beaten by Elway at the AFC Championship.
S01141990C(Denver 37, Browns 21.)
S01141993 David Letterman announces he is leaving NBC to go to CBS.
S0114     Feast of St. Hilary, bishop of Poictiers.
S0114     Julian calendar New Year's Day in 20th and 21st centuries.
S0114    3Feast of the Holy Name.
S0114     United States Ratification Day.
S0114    2National Clean-Off-Your-Desk Day.
S0114     Eastern Orthodox New Year's Day.
R0114    1Man Watcher's Week begins.
R0114    2It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0114    3It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0114    4It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0114    5It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0114    6It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0114    7It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0114     It's Cuckoo Dancing Week (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich).
S0114    1Plough (Plow) Sunday.
S0114     Tha Tamil Thai-Pongal Day (Sri Lanka).
S0114    1Meitlisunntig (Switzerland).
S0114     Vinegrower's Day (in Bulgaria).
S01151535 Henry VIII declares himself head of England's Church.
S01151609 the first newspaper is printed - the "Aviso Relation oder
S01151609CZeitung" of Wolfenbuttel, Germany.
S01151759 the British Museum opens.
S01151797 the top hat is first worn (John Etherington, London).
S01151844 the University of Notre Dame is chartered.
S01151852 the first Jewish hospital in the U.S., Jews' Hospital, is
S01151852Cincorporated by Sampson Simson in N.Y. City (later became Mt.
S01151852CSinai Hospital).
S01151861 steam elevator is patented by Elisha Otis, forming base for his
S01151861Celevator company.
S01151865 Fort Fisher, N.C., falls to Union forces under a joint sea and
S01151865Cland assault, closing the last Confederate port, Wilmington.
S01151870 the donkey is first used as the symbol of the Democratic Party,
S01151870Cin Harper's Weekly.
S01151892 the first basketball rule book is published.
S01151908 the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is founded.
S01151919 2.3 million gallons of crude molasses erupt from a breached
S01151919Cstorage tank in a 30-foot-high wave in Boston, killing 21 and
S01151919Cinjuring 150 people.
S01151927 Dunbarton Bridge, the first bridge in the Bay Area, opens.
S01151939 the N.Y. Giants beat the Pro All-Stars 13-10 in the first Pro
S01151939CBowl.
S01151942 FDR writes "The Green Light Letter" to Baseball Commissioner
S01151942CKenesaw Mountain Landis.  ("I honestly feel that it would be best
S01151942Cfor the country to keep baseball going.")
S01151943 the world's largest office building, the Pentagon, is completed.
S01151944 the European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany in to
S01151944Cseveral occupational zones after the war.
S01151945 a nationwide dimout is ordered to conserve diminishing fuel
S01151945Csupplies (lifted May 8).
S01151951 the Supreme Court curbs the freedom of speech, ruling "clear and
S01151951Cpresent danger" of incitement to riot is cause for arrest.
S01151960 the U.S. and Japan sign a mutual cooperation and security treaty
S01151960Cwith provisions for U.S. defense of Japan.
S01151964 "Whiskey-a-Go-Go", the nation's first disco, opens on Sunset
S01151964CStrip in L.A.
S01151967 the Green Bay Packers beat the Chiefs 35-10 in Super Bowl I.
S01151974 experts determine the 18 minute gap on the Watergate tape is due
S01151974Cto five different erasures.
S01151974 "Happy Days" premieres on ABC.
S01151975 Space Mountain opens.
S01151981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres.
S01151986 the Living Seas opens.
S01151993 the Cleveland Cavaliers score 83 point in the second half (a team
S01151993Crecord), beating the Pacers 135 - 120.
S0115     Feast of St. Paul of Thebes, first hermit.
S0115     Feast of the Ass (Roman holiday).
S0115    3Feast of the Holy Name.
S0115    2Martin Luther King Day.
R0115    1Jaycee Week begins.
R0115    2It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0115    3It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0115    4It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0115    5It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0115    6It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0115    7It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0115     It's Cuckoo Dancing Week (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich).
S0115    2Lee-Jackson Day (Virginia).
S0115    2Robert E. Lee's Birthday (celebrated in the South).
S0115     Adults' Day (Japan - for persons attaining the age of 20).
S0115     Arbor Day (Jordan).
S0115     Moliere Day (France).
S0115     Carmenta's Festival (Roman goddess of childbirth and prophesy).
S01161777 Vermont declares its independence from New York.
S01161810 Cuyahoga County is formed.
S01161865 the San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle is started (now S.F.
S01161865CChronicle).
S01161866 Everett Hosmer Barney patents the all-metal screw clamp skate.
S01161868 a patent for a refrigerator car, "ice box on wheels," is granted
S01161868Cto William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit, Mich. (also designed
S01161868Cthe first railroad refrigerated car).
S01161870 Virginia is re-admitted to the U.S. after the Civil War.
S01161883 the Pendleton Act creates the basis of the federal civil service
S01161883Csystem.
S01161887 the Cliff House in S.F. is badly damaged when a cargo of powder
S01161887Con the schooner "Parallel" explodes nearby.
S01161919 the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) is ratified.
S01161933 the electrification of the Pennsylvania Railroad between N.Y.
S01161933CCity and Philadelphia, Pa., is completed.
S01161936 Hialeah Racetrack installs an electric eye camera to record photo
S01161936Cfinishes.
S01161938 Benny Goodman refuses to play at Carnegie Hall when black members
S01161938Cof his band are barred from performing (the Hall relents).
S01161942 actress Carole Lombard becomes Hollywood's first casualty of WWII
S01161942Cwhen she dies in a plane crash returning home from a war bond
S01161942Crally in Indianapolis.
S01161944 Eisenhower assumes supreme command of the Allied Expeditionary
S01161944CForce in Europe.
S01161964 "Hello, Dolly!" opens on Broadway at the St. James Theatre, based
S01161964Con Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker" and starring Carol
S01161964CChanning (closes after 2,844 performances).
S01161967 the first black southern sheriff since Reconstruction, former
S01161967Cparatrooper Lucius Amerson, is sworn in at Tuskegee, Ala.
S01161969 Soviet Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 complete the first docking of two-
S01161969Cmanned spacecrafts and perform the first transfer of crews in
S01161969Cspace.
S01161969 at the Paris peace talks, the U.S. and North Vietnam finally
S01161969Cagree on the shape of the table to be used when South Vietnam and
S01161969Cthe National Liberation Front join the negotiations.
S01161970 Col. Muammar Khadafy becomes premier of Libya.
S01161974 "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published.
S01161975 the U.S. District Court in Washington awards $12 million in
S01161975Cdamages to 1200 protestors arrested in the 1971 May Day anti-war
S01161975Cdemonstration.
S01161979 the Iranian revolution overthrows the shah.
S01161980 scientists in Boston produce interferon, a natural virus-fighting
S01161980Csubstance through genetic engineering.
S01161982 the Vatican and Britain restore ties, broken 450 years ago.
S01161987 a commercial for condoms, a protection against AIDS, first
S01161987Cappears on TV in a major market on KRON in S.F.
S01161988 Jimmy "The Greek" is fired by CBS for racial remarks on T.V.
S01161995 the pilot of "Star Trek: Voyager" (Caretaker) debuts, the
S01161995Ccornerstone series of UPN (the new United Paramount TV Network),
S01161995Con WUAB-TV Channel 43 (NCC-74656).
S0116     Feast of St. Marcellus I, pope (308-09), martyr.
S0116    3Feast of the Holy Name.
S0116    2Martin Luther King Day.
R0116    1Jaycee Week begins.
R0116    2It's Jaycee Week.
R0116    3It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0116    4It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0116    5It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0116    6It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0116    7It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0116     It's Cuckoo Dancing Week (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich).
S0116    2Lee-Jackson Day (Virginia).
S0116    2Robert E. Lee's Birthday (celebrated in the South).
S0116     Benin Martyrs Day.
S0116     National Hat Day.
S0116     National Nothing Day.
S0116     Festival of Concordia (Roman goddess of peace and civic harmony).
S0116     Festival of Ganesha (Hindu).
S0117 355 St. Anthony of Egypt, founder of Christian monasticism, dies.
S01171773 Captain James Cook becomes the first to cross the Antarctic
S01171773CCircle (66 33' S).
S01171781 the Colonial calvary under Daniel Morgan defeat the British
S01171781Ccalvary under Banestre Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens (S.C.).
S01171847 eight survivors of the "Forlorn Hope" from the trapped Donner
S01171847Cparty reach civilization.
S01171861 the flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!!).
S01171871 the first cable car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
S01171893 the Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.
S01171913 J.C. Penney Stores is incorporated.
S01171916 the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) is formed.
S01171917 the U.S. purchase of the West Indies from Denmark for $25
S01171917Cmillion, making it a U.S. territory, is ratified.  The islands
S01171917Care considered important in the protection of the Panama Canal.
S01171928 Anatol M. Josepho patents a fully automatic film developing
S01171928Cmachine.
S01171929 Popeye makes his first appearance, in the comic strip "Thimble
S01171929CTheatre."
S01171943 Tin Can Drive Day is declared.
S01171953 Danish Doctor Tage Ellinger reports the discovery of a pygmy
S01171953Ctribe in Central Luzon.
S01171957 a 9-county commission recommends creation of BART.
S01171961 in his farewell speech, President Eisenhower warns the nation
S01171961Cagainst the growing "military-industrial complex".
S01171966 a U.S. H-bomb is lost in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of
S01171966CSpain after a mid-air collision.  (Found Mar. 17, 1966.)
S01171966 the Cleveland rock 'n roll group Outsiders' first hit, "Time
S01171966CWon't Let Me", is released.
S01171968 the Boston publishing company of Little, Brown and Co. is
S01171968Cacquired by Times, Inc. for $17 million.
S01171972 a report on TV violence by the Surgeon General found little
S01171972Ceffect on children but found it harmful to people predisposed to
S01171972Caggressive behavior.
S01171973 the Public Health Service first links smoking to fetal and infant
S01171973Crisks.
S01171977 the last train leaves from the Cleveland's Union Terminal in the
S01171977CTerminal Tower Complex (Erie Lackawanna Railroad's Cleveland to
S01171977CYoungstown commuter train).
S01171977 Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer in Utah, gets his wish, and
S01171977Cbecomes the first person in 10 years to be executed.
S01171984 the Supreme Court rules it is legal for consumers to use VCR's to
S01171984Ctape television programs for their own use.
S01171988 the Cleveland Browns' Super Bowl hopes are vexed by "The Fumble"
S01171988Cat "Mile-High", Denver 38, Browns 33.
S01171991 a F-117a Stealth fighter delivers the first bomb of the Persian
S01171991CGulf War (Desert Storm.)
S01171993 the U.S. attacks a nuclear arms plant in Iraq with Tomahawk
S01171993Cmissiles after Iraq refuses U.N. inspection.
S0117     Feast of St. Anthony, abbot, patron saint of cenobites and
S0117       domestic animals.
S0117    3Feast of the Holy Name.
S0117    2Martin Luther King Day.
R0117    1Jaycee Week begins.
R0117    2It's Jaycee Week.
R0117    3It's Jaycee Week.
R0117    4It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0117    5It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0117    6It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0117    7It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0117     It's Cuckoo Dancing Week (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich).
S0117    2Lee-Jackson Day (Virginia).
S0117    2Robert E. Lee's Birthday (celebrated in the South).
S0117     Thomas Crapper Day (England).
S0117     Mali's National Holiday.
S0117     Philippines Constitution Day.
S0117     Poland Liberation Day.
S01181535 Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, Peru.
S01181644 the first UFO sighting in America occurs, by perplexed Pilgrims
S01181644Cin Boston.
S01181778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
S01181788 the first load of British convicts are landed at Botany Bay,
S01181788CAustalia.
S01181847 Taylor University is chartered in Fort Wayne, Ind., as Fort Wayne
S01181847CFemale College (renamed in 1893).
S01181861 Vassar Female College is founded and endowed by Matthew Vassar, a
S01181861CPoughkeepsie brewer and philanthropist (renamed Vassar in 1867).
S01181869 the elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.
S01181871 the German Empire is proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I and
S01181871CChancellor Bismarch.
S01181911 the first shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the
S01181911C"U.S.S. Pennsylvania") occurs.
S01181919 the Versailles Peace Conference opens.
S01181943 as part of the war effort, commercial bakeries are ordered to
S01181943Ccease selling sliced bread.
S01181949 W. Dawson, the first black to head a U.S. Congressional Standing
S01181949CCommittee, is selected.
S01181962 the U.S. begins spraying the foliage in Vietnam with pesticide to
S01181962Creveal Viet Cong guerrillas.
S01181966 the first federal performing arts grant (from the National
S01181966CCouncil of the Arts) enables the American Ballet Theatre to open
S01181966Cits season in N.Y. City.
S01181969 expanded four-party Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris.
S01181969 Lionel Rose wins "Australian of the Year", the first Aborigine to
S01181969Cbe honored.
S01181973 Juan J. Corona is convicted of murdering 25 migrant farm laborers
S01181973Cin Fairfield, Ca.
S01181985 USA Today asks readers to vote, at 50 cents a call, on where the
S01181985CRock and Roll Hall of Fame should be built - Cleveland won!
S01181991 Eastern Airlines stops flying.
S01181993 U.S. led Allied forces attack anti-aircraft missiles and radar
S01181993Csite in the northern and southern no-fly zones in Iraq.
S0118     Confession of St. Peter (Anglican).
S0118     Feast of St. Peter's Chair at Rome.
S0118     Feast of St. Priscilla.
S0118    3Feast of the Holy Name.
S0118    2Martin Luther King Day.
S0118    2Lee-Jackson Day (Virginia).
S0118    2Robert E. Lee's Birthday (celebrated in the South).
S0118     Pooh Day (anniversary of A.A. Milne's birthday).
R0118    1Jaycee Week begins.
R0118    2It's Jaycee Week.
R0118    3It's Jaycee Week.
R0118    4It's Jaycee Week.
R0118    5It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0118    6It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0118    7It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0118     It's Cuckoo Dancing Week (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich).
S0118     Women's Festival of Juno (Roman holiday).
S0118     Tunisian Revolution Day.
S01191825 Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett patent the tin can.
S01191861 Georgia becomes the fifth state to secede from the Union.
S01191886 the Aurora Ski Club, first in the U.S., is founded in Minnesota.
S01191903 the first regular transatlantic radio broadcast between the U.S.
S01191903Cand England occurs.
S01191915 a patent is issued to George Claude for a neon tube advertising
S01191915Csign.
S01191922 a geological survey indicates that the America's oil supply will
S01191922Cbe depleted in 20 years.
S01191922 the Hymn Society of America is established.
S01191931 the Wickersham Commission, appointed by Pres. Hoover to look into
S01191931Cthe breakdown in enforcement of the Prohibition laws, notes:
S01191931C"enforcement of antiliquor laws was hindered by the great profits
S01191931Cto earned" and "by the apathy, even hostility, of the general
S01191931Cpublic."
S01191937 Cy Young is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
S01191938 GM begins mass production of diesel engines.
S01191955 President Eisenhower is the first to allow his press conference
S01191955Cto be filmed for TV and newsreels.
S01191955 Selchow and Richter's new game "Scrabble" is now on the market.
S01191955 "The Millionaire" TV program premieres.
S01191965 the unmanned Gemini II is launched.
S01191966 Indira Gandhi, the daughter of Nehru, becomes the P.M. of India.
S01191977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose").
S01191994 at 5:32 a.m., the thermometer plunges to -20 degrees, the coldest
S01191994Ctemperature ever recorded in Cleveland.
S01191994 the U.S. Transportation Department outlaws radar detectors on
S01191994Cbuses, and trucks over 10,000 pounds.
S0119     Feast of SS. Marius, Martha, Audifax and Abachum, martyrs.
S0119     Feast of St. Canute, King of Denmark, martyr.
S0119     Feast of St. Fillan, abbot.
S0119    3Feast of the Holy Name.
S0119    2Martin Luther King Day.
S0119    2Robert E. Lee's Birthday (celebrated in the South).
S0119     Confederate Heroes Day (celebrated in Texas).
S0119    2Lee-Jackson Day (Virginia).
R0119    1Jaycee Week begins.
R0119    5It's Jaycee Week.
R0119    4It's Jaycee Week.
R0119    3It's Jaycee Week.
R0119    2It's Jaycee Week.
R0119    6It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0119    7It's Man Watcher's Week!
R0119     It's Cuckoo Dancing Week (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich).
S0119     Festival of Thor (Norse).
S01201265 the first English Parliament, the Commons (common people) and
S01201265Cthe House of Lords, is called into session by the Earl of
S01201265CLeicester.
S01201795 a French horse cavalry unit captures a Dutch naval fleet off the
S01201795Ccoast of the island of Texel.
S01201834 a residence and store on Superior Street burns ($21,000 loss),
S01201834Cthe first serious fire in the village of Cleveland, Ohio.
S01201872 California Stock Exchange Board is organized.
S01201887 Pearl Harbor obtained by the U.S. from Hawaii for use as a naval
S01201887Cbase.
S01201892 the first modern-rules basketball game is played.
S01201907 Prof. W.I. Thomas of the Univ. of Chicago releases new book, "Sex
S01201907Cand Society" which places women on an intellectual par with
S01201907Csavages.
S01201925 Nome, Alaska alerts the rest of the world by radio of the
S01201925Cdiptheria epidemic that threatens to wipe out its entire
S01201925Cpopulation.
S01201929 the first feature talking motion picture is filmed outdoors, "In
S01201929COld Arizona"
S01201937 Inauguration day, every 4th year, is instituted.
S01201942 a Nazi conference in a Berlin suburb hammers out the details of
S01201942Cthe "final solution" to the Jewish problem.
S01201946 President Truman creates the Central Intelligence Group (later
S01201946Crenamed the CIA.)
S01201953 the first live coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower).
S01201954 the lowest temperature ever recorded in the lower 48 states
S01201954Coccurs at Rogers Pass, Montana, minus 70 degrees.
S01201964 the "Meet The Beatles" album is released in the U.S.
S01201977 after the inaugural ceremony, President Carter and his family
S01201977Cwalk down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House.
S01201980 President Carter announces the U.S. boycott of the Moscow
S01201980COlympics.
S01201981 the 52 American hostages in Iran are released after 444 days.
S01201985 the coldest 24-hour period in Cleveland's history is recorded
S01201985Cwith a high of -5 degrees and a low of -18 (wind chill -69).
S01201986 the national observance of Martin Luther King's Birthday is first
S01201986Cheld.
S01201994 a record 56 consecutive hours below zero temperature is set in
S01201994CCleveland.
S01201994 Shannon Faulkner becomes the first woman to attend classes at
S01201994CThe Citadel, South Carolina's all-male military school, in its
S01201994C151-year history (moves on campus in August, 1995 and quits 6
S01201994Cdays later after being admitted to infirmary the first day of
S01201994C"Hell Week").
S0120     United States Presidential Inauguration Day.
S0120     Feast of St. Fabian, 20th pope (236-50), martyr.
S0120     Feast of St. Sebastian, martyr, patron saint of archers.
S0120    3Feast of the Holy Name.
S0120     St. Agnes Eve (celebrated in England, the shadow of a destined
S0120       bride or bridegroom can be seen in a mirror.)
S0120    2Martin Luther King Day.
R0120    1Jaycee Week begins.
R0120    6It's Jaycee Week.
R0120    5It's Jaycee Week.
R0120    4It's Jaycee Week.
R0120    3It's Jaycee Week.
R0120    2It's Jaycee Week.
R0120    7It's Man Watcher's Week!
S0120    2Lee-Jackson Day (Virginia).
S0120    2Robert E. Lee's Birthday (celebrated in the South).
S0120     Reindeer Day.
S0120     Rio de Janeiro Foundation Day.
S0120     San Sebastian Day (Brazil).
S0120     Feast of the Kitchen God (Chinese).
S0120     Guinea-Bissau National Heroes Day.
S0120     Cape Verde National Heroes Day.
S0120     Nosso Senhor do Bonfirm Festival (Brazil).
S01211506 the Swiss Guard in the Vatican City is founded, the oldest army
S01211506Con record.
S01211789 the first novel is published in the U.S., "The Power of
S01211789CSympathy" (dealt with seduction, sex and suicide).
S01211793 King Louis XVI is beheaded by French revolutionaries.
S01211813 the pineapple is introduced to Hawaii.
S01211861 a Cleveland court returns the last slave to the South under the
S01211861Cfugitive slave law; a young, mulatto girl named Judy.
S01211880 Memphis, Tennessee begins construction of the first independent
S01211880Cmunicipal sewage system in the U.S.
S01211888 the Amateur Athletic Union of the U.S. (AAU) is formed.
S01211905 a protocol with the Dominican Republic is signed, giving the U.S.
S01211905Ccomplete charge of its customs and international debt.
S01211908 a New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke
S01211908Cin public.
S01211915 Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Mich.
S01211942 pinball machines are banned in New York City (law changed in
S01211942C1976).
S01211954 the first nuclear submarine Nautilus is launched at Groton, Conn.
S01211954 the first gas turbine automobile is exhibited in New York City.
S01211957 the first nationally televised videotaped TV broadcast is carried
S01211957Cby NBC (of the presidential inauguration ceremonies).
S01211968 the siege of the U.S. base at Khe Sahn begins.
S01211974 the Supreme Court rules pregnant teachers can not be forced to
S01211974Ctake long leaves.
S01211977 President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders,
S01211977Cnumbering over 10,000.
S01211977 the President urges 65 degrees as the maximum heat in homes to
S01211977Cease the energy crisis.
S0121     Feast of St. Agnes, virgin and martyr.
S0121     Santa Ines' Day (Mexican).
S0121     Feast of Our Lady of Altagracia (Dominican Republic).
S0121    2Martin Luther King Day.
R0121    1Jaycee Week begins.
R0121    2It's Jaycee Week.
R0121    3It's Jaycee Week.
R0121    4It's Jaycee Week.
R0121    5It's Jaycee Week.
R0121    6It's Jaycee Week.
R0121    7It's Jaycee Week.
S0121    2Lee-Jackson Day (Virginia).
S0121    2Robert E. Lee's Birthday (celebrated in the South).
S0121     Lenin Memorial Day (Russia).
S0121     National Hugging Day.
S01221498 Columbus lands on St. Vincent (St. Vincent's Day).
S01221679 Rene-Robert LaSalle begins building the first ship in America,
S01221679Cthe Griffin, to be used to explore the Great Lakes.
S01221840 New Zealand is settled by the British.
S01221850 the Alta California becomes a daily paper, the first such in
S01221850CCalifornia.
S01221857 the National Association of Baseball Players is founded in N.Y.
S01221857C(official formed at its second convention on March 10, 1858).
S01221879 20,000 Zulus attack the British garrison at Isandhlwana (one of
S01221879CBritains most humiliating defeats in their military history).
S01221905 Bloody Sunday - Russian demonstrators are fired on by the tsar's
S01221905Ctroops.
S01221939 Aquatic Park in San Francisco is dedicated.
S01221941 British and Australians capture Tobruk in North Africa.
S01221942 the Navy Finance Center opens in Cleveland.
S01221944 the Battle of Anzio occurs.  The Allies are stopped on the beach.
S01221947 the first commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens in
S01221947CHollywood, Ca.
S01221957 "Truth or Consequences" becomes the first national show to be
S01221957Cvideotaped.
S01221968 Apollo 5 is launched to moon (performed unmanned lunar module
S01221968Ctests).
S01221968 Rowan and Martin's "Laugh-In" premieres.
S01221972 Britain, Ireland, Denmark and Norway join the European Common
S01221972Cmarket.
S01221973 the Supreme Court rules on Roe v. Wade.
S01221974 the Exxon Corporation reports a profit increase of 59% in the 4th
S01221974Cquarter of 1973 (primarily due to the oil embargo).
S01221975 Lansat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, is launched.
S01221985 two days of record-breaking cold, the worst freeze of the
S01221985Ccentury, damages 90% of Florida's orange and grapefruit crop.
S01221987 the longest human-powered (foot-pedaled) flight is completed by a
S01221987CDaedalus 88 (37.2 miles).
S01221992 the 45th Shuttle Mission, Discovery 14 is launched.
S01221993 President Clinton signs five executive orders overturning federal
S01221993Crestrictions on abortions and to review importation ban on RU-
S01221993C486, an abortion pill developed in France.
S0122     Feast of SS. Vincent, patron saint of wine growers, and
S0122       Anastasius, martyrs.
R0122    2It's Jaycee Week.
R0122    3It's Jaycee Week.
R0122    4It's Jaycee Week.
R0122    5It's Jaycee Week.
R0122    6It's Jaycee Week.
R0122    7It's Jaycee Week.
S0122     Discovery Day (St Vincent).
S0122     Wellington Provincial Anniversary (New Zealand).
S0122     Festival of Concordia (Roman goddess of peace and civic harmony).
S01231579 the Union of Utrecht is signed, forming the protestant Dutch
S01231579CRepublic.
S01231797 Charles Phelps Stiles becomes the first child born in Cleveland.
S01231789 Georgetown College is established.
S01231793 the Human Society of Philadelphia is incorporated (the first
S01231793C"First Aid" emergency organization).
S01231845 a uniform election day for presidential elections is established
S01231845by an act of Congress (1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in Nov.)
S01231849 Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman physician in the
S01231849CU.S.
S01231869 the first state bureau of labor in the U.S. is organized in
S01231869CMassachusetts.
S01231933 the 20th Amendment is ratified, changing the date of presidential
S01231933Cinaugurations.
S01231944 the Detroit Red Wings shut out the N.Y. Rangers 15 - 0 (NHL
S01231944Crecord).
S01231953 the Dallas Texans become the Baltimore Colts (now the
S01231953CIndianapolis Colts).
S01231960 the Cleveland News is sold to the Cleveland Press.
S01231960 Piccard and Walsh in the bathyscaphe Trieste reach the bottom of
S01231960Cthe Mariana Trench, 10,900 meters down.
S01231964 the 24th Amendment is ratified, barring poll tax in federal
S01231964Celections.
S01231965 100 cadets are charged in the Air Force Academy cheating scandal.
S01231968 the "U.S.S. Pueblo," a Navy intelligence ship, is seized by North
S01231968CKorea.
S01231971 the record low in the U.S. is recorded at Prospect, Alaska (-80
S01231971Cdegrees.
S01231975 "Barney Miller" debuts on ABC.
S01231977 the mini-series "Roots" premieres.
S01231979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).
S01231983 "The A-Team" with Mr. T premieres.
S01231991 the world's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces
S01231991Cin Kuwait, begins flowing into the Persian Gulf.
S01231993 the May Company store in downtown Cleveland closes.
S01231994 at 7:08 p.m. the NFC Championship Game ends, the last NFL
S01231994Cfootball game shown on CBS after 38 years, Dallas 38, S.F. 21
S01231994C(Fox takes over the following season).  During the same game,
S01231994Cformer Browns' player Bernie Kosar becomes the second quarterback
S01231994Cin NFL history to throw TD passes in both the AFC and NFC
S01231994CChampionship games.  (Craig Morton is the first.)
S01231994 Buffalo sets a NFL record for winning 4 consecutive conference
S01231994Cchampionships (against 4 different teams) by beating K.C. 30-13.
S0123     Feast of St. Raymond of Pegafort, confessor.
S0123     Feast of St. John the Almsgiver.
R0123    3It's Jaycee Week.
R0123    4It's Jaycee Week.
R0123    5It's Jaycee Week.
R0123    6It's Jaycee Week.
R0123    7It's Jaycee Week.
S0123     Palestinian Tree Festival.
S01241639 the Connecticut colony is organized under Fundamental Orders.
S01241824 Kenyon College in Gambler, Ohio, is chartered as the Theological
S01241824CSeminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church (renamed in 1891).
S01241848 James Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma.
S01241881 the federal income tax of 1862 is declared constitutional by the
S01241881CSupreme Court, Springer v. United States.
S01241899 the rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.
S01241903 the boundary between the U.S. and Canada is fixed.
S01241908 Sir Robert Badin-Powell organizes the first Boy Scout troop in
S01241908CEngland.
S01241922 the Eskimo Pie is invented in Iowa by Christian K. Nelson.
S01241925 the first moving picture of a solar eclipse is taken.
S01241927 Lakewood's Taft School opens.
S01241935 the first canned beer is produced, Krueger Cream Ale.
S01241946 the UN establishes the International Atomic Energy Commission.
S01241958 after warming to 100 million degrees, two light atoms are bashed
S01241958Ctogether to create a heavier atom (the first man-made nuclear
S01241958Cfusion).
S01241963 the thermometer plunges to -19 degrees in Cleveland, the second
S01241963Ccoldest temperature ever recorded for the city (the coldest was
S01241963C-20 degrees on Jan. 19, 1994).
S01241971 the NFC wins 27-6 in the first Pro Bowl between the NFC and AFC.
S01241972 one-year residency requirements for welfare aid is ruled
S01241972Cunconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
S01241974 the World Championship Tennis (WTC), the organization of
S01241974Cprofessional tennis players, severs its ties with the U.S. Lawn
S01241974CTennis Association.
S01241982 the San Francisco 49ers win their first Super Bowl, 26-21.
S01241982 in a draft of the U.S. Air Force history, it is reported the U.S.
S01241982Csecretly sprayed herbicides on Laos during the Vietnam War.
S01241984 the Macintosh computer is introduced.
S01241985 the 15th Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 is launched manned by
S01241985CThomas K. Mattingly, Loren J. Shriver, James F. Buchli, Ellison
S01241985CS. Onizuka, Gary E. Payton (the first secret space shuttle flight
S10241985Cdevoted entirely to achieving military objectives).
S01241986 Voyager II flies past Uranus for the first close-up view (50,679
S01241986Cmiles), and finds new moons.
S01241992 Championship Auto Racing Teams, Inc. (CART kna IndyCar) announces
S01241992Cthe Cleveland Budweiser-500 would be put back on the 1992
S01241992Cschedule.
S0124     Feast of St. Timothy, the first archbishop, patron saint of those
S0124       who suffer from stomach trouble, martyr.
S0124     Hawaii Unity Day.
R0124    4It's Jaycee Week.
R0124    5It's Jaycee Week.
R0124    6It's Jaycee Week.
R0124    7It's Jaycee Week.
S0124     Blessing the Candle of the Happy Woman (Hungarian).
S0124     Union Day (Romania).
S0124     Economic Liberation Day (Togo).
S0124     Alacitis Fair (Bolivia).
S01251787 Shay's Rebellion, by debt-ridden farmers in Massachusetts, fails.
S01251799 Eliakim Spooner of Vermont patents a seeding machine.
S01251858 Mendelssohn's Wedding March is first played at the wedding of
S01251858CQueen Victoria's daughter to the Crown Prince of Prussia.
S01251900 in the last case in Congress concerning the Mormon practice of
S01251900Cpolygamy, the House votes to unseat Congressman-elect Brigham
S01251900CRoberts of Utah (had three wives and an undetermined number of
S01251900Cchildren).
S01251905 the world's largest diamond, "The Cullinan" (1 and 1/4 pounds,
S01251905C3,106 metric carats) is discovered in the Premier Mine, Pretoria,
S01251905CSouth Africa.
S01251915 the first transcontinental telephone call is made by the same two
S01251915Cmen who made the original telephone call in 1876.
S01251919 the League of Nations plan is adopted by the Allies in Paris.
S01251924 the Winter Olympics is inaugurated at Chamonix, France.
S01251945 Audie Murphy is awarded the U.S. Medal of Honor.
S01251945 Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes the first U.S. community to
S01251945Cfluoridate water.
S01251949 the first Emmy Awards are given out.
S01251949 the first Israeli elections are held.
S01251950 the highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January
S01251950Coccurs, 73 degrees.
S01251955 Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock accurate
S01251955Cto within one second in 300 years.
S01251956 the record 24-hour rainfall in the U.S., 38 inches, occurs at
S01251956CKilauea Plantation, Hawaii.
S01251959 American Airlines begins the first transcontinental commercial
S01251959Cjet service, N.Y. to L.A., on a Boeing 707 for $301.
S01251961 the first live, nationally televised Presidential news
S01251961Cconference is held (JFK).
S01251961 Walt Disney's "101 Dalmatians" is released.
S01251964 Echo 2, a U.S. communications satellite, is launched.
S01251969 NASA unveils moon landing craft.
S01251971 Maj. Gen. Idi Amin Dada takes control of Uganda.
S01251974 Dr. Christian Barnard transplants the first human heart without
S01251974Cthe removal of the old one.
S01251975 the U.S.S. Cod, a Gato-class submarine, is donated to Cleveland.
S01251981 the Oakland Raiders become the first wild card team to ever
S01251981Cwin the Super Bowl.
S01251993 Sears announces it will close the catalog sales department.
S0125     The start of the Chinese New Year.
S0125     Feast of the Conversion of Paul, patron saint of preachers and
S0125       tentmakers.
S0125     Feast of St. Ananias of Damascus, martyr.
S0125     The closing of the walkway of St. Paul's Chapel in N.Y.C.
R0125    5It's Jaycee Week.
R0125    6It's Jaycee Week.
R0125    7It's Jaycee Week.
S0125     Sao Paulo Foundation Day (Brazil).
S0125     Robert Burns Day (Scotland).
S0125    3Up Helly Aa' (Scotland).
S01261776 Reverend Louis E. Lotbiniere is appointed the first U.S. Army
S01261776Cchaplain.
S01261788 the first settlement is established by the English in Australia
S01261788C(Sydney).
S01261837 Michigan becomes the 26th state.
S01261838 the nation's first prohibition law is passed in Tennessee.
S01261841 Hong Kong is proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain.
S01261861 Louisiana becomes the sixth state to secede from the Union.
S01261871 the first American income tax is repealed.
S01261875 George F. Green patents an electric (battery powered) dental
S01261875Cdrill.
S01261907 a law prohibiting corporate campaign contributions to candidates
S01261907Cfor national office is passed by Congress.
S01261926 the television is first demonstrated by J.L. Baird in London.
S01261942 the American Expeditionary Force, the first U.S. troops to join
S01261942Cthe war in Europe, arrive in Northern Ireland.
S01261950 India becomes a democratic republic.
S01261955 the 69-nation photo exhibit "Family of Man" opens.
S01261960 Pete Rozelle is elected commissioner of the NFL after 23 ballots.
S01261961 J.G. Travell becomes the first woman "personal physician to the
S01261961CPresident".
S01261962 U.S. Ranger III is launched to test structure and composition of
S01261962Cthe moon (misses the moon by about 22,862 miles).
S01261962 Bishop Burke of the Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby
S01261962CChecker's "The Twist" is impure and bans it from all Catholic
S01261962Cschools, parishes and youth events.
S01261971 Charles Manson and three women followers are found guilty of the
S01261971Cslayings of Sharon Tate and six others.
S01261978 the most severe snowstorm in Ohio history hits the entire state
S01261978Cwith fifty to seventy miles-per-hour sustained winds.
S01261984 the world's largest black pearl, .71 inch diameter, is discovered
S01261984Cin Namarai Bay, Fiji Islands.
S01261986 between the pre-game show and the game, ABC inserts 60 seconds of
S01261986Cblank air time (intermission) on Super Bowl XX Sunday.
S01261992 provisions of the federal law, the Americans with Disabilities
S01261992CAct (ADA), to aid the disabled, go into effect.
S01261993 the Allen Theater in downtown Cleveland is saved from the
S01261993Cwrecking ball and scheduled for renovation.
S01261994 "Babylon 5" premieres in Cleveland ("Midnight on the Firing
S01261994CLine"), eleven months after the pilot is broadcasted.
S0126     Feast of St. Polycarp, bishop and martyr.
S0126     Michigan Admission Day.
R0126    6It's Jaycee Week.
R0126    7It's Jaycee Week.
S0126    2Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia.
S0126     Basant Panchimi or India Republic Day.
S0126     Duarte's Day (Dominican Republic - birthday of hero Juan Duarte).
S0126     Feast of Ekeko.
S0126    3Up Helly Aa' (Scotland).
S01271785 the University of Georgia is chartered (the oldest state
S01271785Cuniversity in America).
S01271870 Kappa Alpha Theta, the first sorority, is founded at DePaul
S01271870CUniversity.
S01271880 Thomas Edison is granted a patent for the incandescent lamp.
S01271888 the National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
S01271894 Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park (S.F., Calif.).
S01271908 the Lakewood Hospital Charitable Association is organized.
S01271926 the first public demonstration of television occurs.
S01271945 the Russians liberate the Auschwitz camps.
S01271948 the first tape recorder is sold.
S01271950 the development of terramycin is announced.
S01271959 NASA selects 110 candidates for the first U.S. space flight.
S01271960 a rocket engine enabling satellites to change orbit in space is
S01271960Cdemonstrated.
S01271964 the "Introducing the Beatles" album is released in the U.S.
S01271967 the Apollo 1 flash fire kills astronauts Grissom, White and
S01271967CChaffee during a full-scale simulation at Cape Kennedy.
S01271967 the treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space is
S01271967Csigned by 62 nations.
S01271970 the Senate passes a bill allowing the FBI to enter without
S01271970Cwarning or I.D. during drugs raids.
S01271973 the U.S. and Vietnam sign a cease-fire, ending the longest U.S.
S01271973Cwar.
S01271973 the U.S. ends the military draft.
S01271973 Janet Lynn wins her fifth consecutive national figure skating
S01271973Ctitle.
S01271976 "Laverne & Shirley" debuts on ABC.
S01271977 President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000).
S01271991 Nadine Strossen becomes the first female president of the ACLU in
S01271991Cits 71-year history.
S01271991 Somalia falls into anarchy when rebel forces involving 5 factions
S01271991Cforce dictator Mohammed Siad Barre to flee country, leaving
S01271991CSomalia without a government.
S01271992 R. H. Macy & Company files for bankruptcy.
S0127     Feast of St. John Chrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople.
S0127     Feast of St. Julian of LeMans.
S0127     St. Devote (Monaco).
R0127    1International Clergy Appreciation Week begins.
R0127    7It's Jaycee Week.
S0127    2Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia.
S0127    3Up Helly Aa' (Scotland).
S0127     Roman Seedtime Holiday.
S01281613 Galileo may have unknowingly viewed the undiscovered planet of
S01281613CNeptune.
S01281807 London's Pall Mall is the first street lit by gaslight.
S01281851 Northwestern University is chartered in Evanston, Ill., as North
S01281851CWestern University (North and Western are combined in 1867).
S01281871 the school district of East Rockport is organized (later becomes
S01281871Cthe Lakewood Board of Education.)
S01281878 the Yale Daily News is published, the first college daily
S01281878Cnewspaper.
S01281878 the first telephone exchange is opened in New Haven, Connecticut.
S01281878CGeorge W. Coy is hired as the first full-time telephone operator.
S01281914 Beverly Hills is incorporated.
S01281915 the U.S. Coast Guard is officially named.  Founded in 1790, it
S01281915Coperated under several names.
S01281932 the first U.S. state unemployment insurance act is enacted in
S01281932CWisconsin.
S01281934 the first rope ski tow goes into operation in Woodstock, Vermont.
S01281935 Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion.
S01281942 the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y., opens.
S01281943 the Japanese-American, all-volunteer "Go For Broke" Army unit,
S01281943Cthe 442nd Regimental Combat Team, is organized.
S01281956 Elvis Presley's makes his first TV appearance (the Dorsey
S01281956CBrothers Stage Show).
S01281958 the Thor missile is successfully tested.
S01281960 the first photograph is bounced off moon.
S01281969 Barbara Jo Ruben is the first female jockey to win a race in
S01281969CNorth America.
S01281986 the 25th Shuttle Mission (STS-51L) - on its 9th flight,
S01281986CChallenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing six
S01281986Castronauts (Francis Scobee, Michael Smith, Judith Resnik of
S01281986CAkron, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair and Gregory Jarvis) and
S01281986CChrista McAuliffe, a New Hampshire high school teacher.
S0128     Feast of St. Flavian, martyr.
S0128     Presentation in the Temple.
S0128     St. Charlemagne's Day  (celebrated at French colleges and
S0128       universities).
R0128    1International Clergy Appreciation Week begins.
R0128    2It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
S0128    2Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia.
S0128     National Kazoo Day.
S0128     Democracy Day (Rwanda).
S0128    3Up Helly Aa' (Scotland).
S01291635 the Academie Francaise is founded by Richelieu.
S01291697 Isaac Newton invents calculus of variations.
S01291795 the Naturalization Act is passed, requiring a 5-year residency
S01291795Cand the renouncing of allegiances and titles of nobility.
S01291802 John Beckley is appointed the first Librarian of Congress.
S01291845 Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" is first published in New York.
S01291861 Kansas becomes the 34th state.
S01291886 the first successful gasoline-driven car, the Motorwagen built by
S01291886CKarl-Friedrich Benz, is patented.
S01291896 x-ray treatment for breast cancer is first performed by Emil H.
S01291896CGrube.
S01291904 the first athletic letters are given: to the University of
S01291904CChicago's football team.
S01291920 Walt Disney starts his first job as an artist at $40 a week with
S01291920Cthe K.C. Slide Co.
S01291924 Carl Rutherford Taylor patents an ice cream cone rolling machine.
S01291936 Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Walter Perry Johnson, Christy Mathewson, and
S01291936CHonus Wagner are the first to be inducted into Baseball's Hall of
S01291936CFame.
S01291941 the Office of Civil Defense is established.
S01291942 Ecuador and Peru sign the Rio Protocol, ending their border war.
S01291944 the U.S.S. Missouri is launched.
S01291959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released.
S01291960 an artificial kidney that operates without human monitoring is
S01291960Cannounced.
S01291979 Sweden becomes the first nation to curb aerosol sprays to halt
S01291979Cthe destruction of the ozone.
S01291981 President Reagan orders a 60-day freeze on government
S01291981Cregulations.
S01291983 Greece gives wives equal voice in the home.
S01291994 Brad Daugherty becomes the Cavs all-time leading scorer.
S01291994 opening day tickets for the first Indians game at Gateway (Jacobs
S01291994CField) go on sale at 8 a.m.  (Sold out in a hour and a half.)
S01291995 Steve Young leads San Francisco to a 49-26 win over the Chargers
S01291995Cin Super Bowl XXIX, making the 49ers the first team to win 5
S01291995CSuper Bowls.  Other Super Bowls firsts or records:
S01291995C    Steve Young throws for a record six TDs
S01291995C    the quickest TD scored, 1:24 into the game (Young to Rice)
S01291995C    49ers become the first team to score on their first three
S01291995C      possessions
S01291995C    most TDs scored (lifetime) - 7 (Jerry Rice)
S01291995C    most TD receptions (lifetime) - 7 (Jerry Rice)
S01291995C    most points scored (lifetime) - 42 (Jerry Rice)
S01291995C    most receiving yards (lifetime) - 512 (Jerry Rice)
S01291995C    most combined net yards (lifetime) - 527 (Jerry Rice)
S01291995C    most receptions (game) - 10 for 149 yards (Jerry Rice)
S01291995C    most receptions (lifetime) - 28 (Jerry Rice)
S01291995C    highest punting average - 48.8 (Chargers' Bryan Wagner)
S01291995C    most kickoff returns - 8 (Chargers' Andre Coleman)
S01291995C    most kickoff return yards - 242 (Chargers' Andre Coleman)
S01291995C    most points scored by both teams - 75
S01291995C    most TDs scored by both teams - 10
S01291995C    youngest player ever to score a TD (Chargers' running back
S01291995C      Natrone Means)
S01291995C    first player to play on the winning team in 3 consecutive
S01291995C      years (49ers' linebacker Ken Norton, Jr.)
S01291995C    first 2-point conversion (Chargers' Humphries to Seay)
S0129     Feast of St. Francis of Sales, bishop of Geneva, confessor,
S0129       doctor.
R0129    1International Clergy Appreciation Week begins.
R0129    2It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0129    3It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
S0129     National Puzzle Day.
S0129     Kansas Day.
S0129     Nepal Martyrs' Day.
S0129    2Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia.
S0129     Auckland Provincial Anniversary (New Zealand).
S0129     Northland Provincial Anniversary (New Zealand).
S0129     Peace Festival (Roman celebration).
S0129    3Up Helly Aa' (Scotland).
S01301487 bell chimes are invented.
S01301835 the first attempt on the life of a U.S. president is made upon
S01301835CPresident Andrew Jackson in the rotunda of the Capitol.
S01301847 the town of Yerba Buena is renamed San Francisco.
S01301862 the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", is
S01301862Claunched at Greenpoint, Long Island.
S01301894 Charle Brady King patents the pneumatic hammer.
S01301917 the first jazz record, "Indiana/The Dark Town Strutters Ball", is
S01301917Crecorded in New York City.
S01301922 World Law Day is proclaimed.
S01301933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
S01301933 "The Lone Ranger" debuts on the Detroit radio station WXYZ.
S01301948 Mohandas K. Gandhi, the spiritual leader of Indian independence,
S01301948Cis assassinated in New Delhi, India.
S01301958 the first 2-way moving sidewalk is put in service in Dallas,
S01301958CTexas.
S01301964 Ranger spacecraft is launched to the moon with six TV cameras
S01301964C(crashes three days later on the moon).
S01301968 the Tet Offensive in South Vietnam begins.
S01301969 US/Canada ISIS 1 is launched to study the ionosphere.
S01301973 Liddy and McCord, former Nixon aides, are found guilty in the
S01301973CWatergate break-in trial.
S01301976 the Supreme Court bans spending limits in political campaigns.
S01301978 Thomas Moss, Jr. is shot and killed on picket duty at the Bargar
S01301978CMetal Fabricating Co. in Cleveland by security guards, resulting
S01301978Cin legislation regulating the use of firearms by security guards
S01301978Cduring labor disputes (none of the guards were convicted).
S01301980 the first-ever Chinese Olympic team arrives for the Winter Games.
S01301994 Buffalo and Dallas become the first teams to play each other in
S01301994Cconsecutive Super Bowls, and the Bills set a record never seen in
S01301994Cprofessional sports by losing their 4th consecutive world
S01301994Cchampionship game, Cowboys 30, Bills 13.
S01301995 Cleveland Cavaliers retire Larry Nance's number (22), the fourth
S01301995Cnumber to be retired.
S0130     Feast of St. Martina, virgin and martyr.
S0130     Feast of SS. Basil, Gregory and John Chrysostom (Orthodox).
S0130     St. Charles Day (Anglican).
R0130    1International Clergy Appreciation Week begins.
R0130    2It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0130    3It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0130    4It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
S0130     World Law Day.
S0130     Franklin D. Roosevelt Day (Kentucky).
S0130    2Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia.
S0130     Holiday of Three Hierachs (Eastern Orthodox).
S0130    3Up Helly Aa' (Scotland).
S0130     Festival of Pax (Roman festival honoring Pax, goddess of peace).
S0130     Goddess Baubo Festival (Macedonian).
S01311752 Sister St. Martha Turpin becomes the first American-born nun to
S01311752Cbe professed (Ursuline Convent in New Orleans).
S01311851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, the first in California, is
S01311851Cfounded.
S01311862 telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers the dwarf companion of
S01311862CSirius.
S01311871 birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large
S01311871Cnumbers that they actually darken the sky.
S01311891 the first issue of The Cleveland Citizen appears, established and
S01311891Cpublished by Henry C. Long and Max S. Hayes of the Typographical
S01311891CUnion No. 53.
S01311905 a Napier driven by Arthur MacDonald becomes the first automobile
S01311905Cto exceed 100 mph.
S01311911 Congress passes resolution naming San Francisco as the site
S01311911Cof the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal.
S01311920 Quebec's Joe Malone sets the NHL record for the most goals in a
S01311920Cgame (7).
S01311921 Lakewood's YMCA is founded.
S01311928 scotch tape is first marketed by 3M Company.
S01311934 the Farm Mortgage Refinancing Act is signed into law, creating
S01311934Cthe Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation.
S01311945 Eddie Slovik becomes the first American executed for desertion
S01311945Csince the Civil War.
S01311946 the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
S01311950 President Truman authorizes the production of the H-Bomb.
S01311955 RCA demonstrates the first music synthesizer.
S01311958 the first U.S. satellite is launched, Explorer I, from Cape
S01311958CCanaveral, discovering the radiation belt predicted by James
S01311958CVan Allen.
S01311960 JFK tosses his hat into the ring of presidential hopefuls.
S01311961 Ham the chimp is the first animal sent into space by the U.S. (in
S01311961Ctest of the Mercury space capsule).
S01311968 Nauru becomes an independent republic.
S01311968 record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), is noted  at
S01311968CAgata, U.S.S.R.
S01311971 Apollo 14 is launched with Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Edgar D.
S01311971CMitchell, and Stuart A. Roosa (it becomes the first craft to land
S01311971Cin the lunar highlands).
S01311979 the U.S. and China sign a scientific and cultural exchange
S01311979Caccord, ending nearly three decades of estrangement.
S01311992 TWA files for bankruptcy.
S01311993 the Cowboys cause a record nine turnovers in defeating the
S01311993CBuffalo Bills 52-17 Super Bowl XXVII (most total points in
S01311993CSuper Bowl history).
S0131     Feast of St. John Bosco, confessor.
S0131     Feast of St. Peter Nolasco.
R0131    1International Clergy Appreciation Week begins.
R0131    5It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0131    4It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0131    3It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0131    2It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
S0131     Midwinter Festival (Iroquois).
S0131     National Popcorn Day.
S0131    2Australia Day, celebrated in (where else?) Australia.
S0131    3Up Helly Aa' (Scotland).
S0131     Nauru Independence Day.
R0100     It's National Blood Donor Month.
R0100     It's National Eye Health Care Month.
R0100     It's Wheat Bread Month!
R0100     It's National Egg Month!!
R0100     The garnet and hyacinth are the gems for January.
R0100     The carnation and snowdrop are the flowers of January.
R0100     The sentimental meaning of the garnet is for constancy, and the
R0100       carnation is for friendship.
R0100     January was originally the eleventh month.  Its name comes from
R0100       the Roman two-faced god Janus, protector of Heaven's gate.
R0100     The full moon in January is known as the Wolf Moon.
R01010119 Capricorn is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R01010119   Symbol: The Goat.
R01010119   Ruling Planet: Saturn.
R01010119   Element: Earth.
R01010119   Traits: Ambitious, disciplined, persevering, pessimistic.
R01010119   Body part associated with this sign: The knees.
R01010119   Occupations: Positions of trust, banking, mountain climbing,
R01010119     coaching, engineering.
R01200131 Aquarius is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R01200131   Symbol: The Water Bearer.
R01200131   Ruling Planet: Uranus.
R01200131   Element: Air.
R01200131   Traits: Humanitarian, independent, inventive, aloof.
R01200131   Body part associated with this sign: The legs.
R01200131   Occupations: Teacher, social worker, astronomer, astrologer,
R01200131     scientist, inventor.

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S02011790 the U.S. Supreme Court convenes for the first time (New York
S02011790CCity).
S02011793 the Fugitive Slave Bill is enacted.
S02011820 the first U.S. lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
S02011820Creceives its chartered from England.
S02011861 the Texas Convention votes to secede (ratified by popular vote
S02011861CFeb. 23).
S02011865 the 13th amendment is approved, abolishing slavery (National
S02011865CFreedom Day).
S02011867 bricklayers start working 8-hour days.
S02011892 Mrs. William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her
S02011892Cmansion, thus beginning the use of the "400" to describe the
S02011892Csocially elite.
S02011920 the first armored car is introduced.
S02011940 Captain Marvel first appears in Whiz Comics.
S02011946 the Republic of Hungary is declared.
S02011951 the worst ice storm to hit Ohio covers parts of three states in
S02011951Cfour to five inches of ice.
S02011951 the first telecast of an atomic explosion occurs.
S02011951 the first X-ray moving picture process is demonstrated.
S02011953 20th Century announces it is converting it movie-making
S02011953Coperation to Cinemascope, a wide-screen system.
S02011958 Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
S02011960 four students stage the first civil rights sit-in at a Woolworth
S02011960Clunch counter in Greenboro, N.C. (Woolworth lunch counters are
S02011960Copened to all July 25, 1960).
S02011961 the first Boeing Minuteman ICBM is tested.
S02011964 "I Want To Hold Your Hand" reaches #1 on Billboard's Hot 100
S02011964Cchart, the first of the Beatles' 21 singles to top the chart.
S02011964 Indiana governor Matthew Welsh declares The Kingsmen's "Louie,
S02011964CLouie" is pornographic.
S02011969 the Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge, the first federal refuge
S02011969Ccreated specifically to protect the bald eagle, is established.
S02011972 the first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced.
S02011976 the "Sonny and Cher" show resumes on TV despite real life
S02011976Cdivorce.
S02011979 Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran to establish an Islamic
S02011979CRepublic.
S02011979 Patty Hearst is released from prison by a presidential clemency
S02011979Corder after serving 22 months of a 7 year sentence.
S02011982 "Late Night With David Letterman" premieres on NBC.
S02011994 the cable and broadcast networks agree to police themselves,
S02011994Ceffectively blocking congressional efforts to restrict violence
S02011994Con TV.
S0201     Feast of St. Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, martyr.
S0201     St. Bridget's Day (La Fheile Brid - bride), celebrated in
S0201       Ireland, the second patron saint of Ireland, patron saint of
S0201       poets, blacksmiths, and healers.
S0201     Birthday of the Virgin Mary - Coptic (Egyptian) and Abyssinian
S0201       Churches.
R0201    1International Clergy Appreciation Week begins.
R0201    6It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0201    5It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0201    4It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0201    3It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0201    2It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0201    1National Burn Awareness Week begins.
S0201     National Freedom Day.
S0201     Robinson Crusoe Day.
S0201     Wives' Feast Day (northern England).
S0201     Nelson Provincial Anniversary (New Zealand).
S0201    1Homstrom (Switzerland).
S0201    5No Talk Day.
S0201     Festival of the Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries begins (Ancient
S0201       Greek, honoring Demeter's - Earth-goddess-mother, goddess of
S0201       the fruitful earth - return from the Underworld and the rebirth
S0201       of vegetation).
S0201     Festival of Juno begins (2-day Roman festival honoring the
S0201       supreme goddess).
S02021653 the city of New Amsterdam (now N.Y.C.) is incorporated.
S02021709 Alexander Selkirk (aka Robinson Crusoe) is rescued from Juan
S02021709CFernandez.
S02021753 Candlemas (the first observance).
S02021827 final authority is given to the president to call out the
S02021827Cmilitia (Supreme Court decision in the case of Martin v. Mott).
S02021832 Denison University in Granville, Ohio, is chartered as Granville
S02021832CLiterary and Theological Institute (renamed in 1856).
S02021846 the first contingent of Mormons head west to the Salt Lake Basin.
S02021848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the Mexican-
S02021848CAmerican War.  Mexico sells the U.S. Texas, California, Nevada,
S02021848CUtah, New Mexico, and parts of Arizona, Kansas, Wyoming and
S02021848CColorado for $15 million.
S02021848 the first shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco.
S02021876 the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs is formed
S02021876Cwith eight teams (Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, N.Y.,
S02021876CPhiladelphia, St. Louis, Louisville, and Hartford).
S02021880 S.S. Strathleven arrives in London with the first successful
S02021880Cshipment of frozen mutton from Australia.
S02021882 the Knights of Columbus, the first fraternal benefit society of
S02021882CCatholic men, is founded in New Haven, Conn., by Rev. Michael
S02021882CJoseph McGivney.
S02021888 Punxsutawney, Pa. celebrates its first Groundhog Day.
S02021900 six cities agree to form baseball's American League.
S02021901 the U.S. Army Dental Corps is created by Congress.
S02021901 the Army Nurse Corp is organized.
S02021903 the first Cleveland auto show opens at Gray's Armory.
S02021912 Frederick Rodman Law performs the first movie stunt by
S02021912Cparachuting off the Statue of Liberty.
S02021914 Peter Baden-Powell founds the Cub Scouts in Sussex, England.
S02021921 airmail services opens between New York and San Francisco.
S02021923 ethylized, anti-knock gasoline is sold for the first time, in
S02021923CDayton, Ohio.
S02021924 the International Ski Federation (FIS) is founded.
S02021935 the lie detector is first used in court, Portage, Wi.
S02021944 Roi Island in the Marshall Islands is taken by the 4th Marine
S02021944CDivision (the first time Allied troops set foot on prewar
S02021944CJapanese territory).
S02021951 it is reported that radioactive snow, a result of atomic tests
S02021951Cin Nevada, has been falling in the cities of Rochester and
S02021951CCincinnati, and traces have been found in Quebec, Chicago and
S02021951CBrookhaven, N.Y.
S02021962 8 of the 9 planets aligned for the first time in 400 years.
S02021967 the formation of the American Basketball Association (ABA) is
S02021967Cannounced.
S02021970 the world's first nerve transplant is performed in Munich.
S02021970 during a training mission at Malmstrom AFB, a F-106A Delta Dart
S02021970Call-weather interceptor, equipped with a Hughes MA-1 guidance
S02021970Csystem, goes into a spin and the pilot ejects.  The plane
S02021970Crecovers and lands itself on a farmers field.
S02021981 "Late Night with David Letterman" premieres.
S0202     Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
R0202    1International Clergy Appreciation Week begins.
R0202    2It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0202    3It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0202    4It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0202    5It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0202    6It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0202    7It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0202    1National Burn Awareness Week begins.
R0202    2It's National Burn Awareness Week.
S0202     Groundhog Day.
S0202    5No Talk Day.
S0202     Candlemas or Feast of Presentation (Scottish term day).
S0202     Bonza Bottler Day (Number of Day Matches the Number of the
S0202       Month).
S0202     Dia de la Candelaria (Mexico).
S0202     Porto Alegre (Brazil).
S0202    1Homstrom (Switzerland).
S0202     Brighid Day (Wiccan Sabbat honoring the Celtic Great Mother,
S0202       goddess of fire, inspiration, healing, craftsmanship and
S0202       childbirth.
S0202     Imbolc Sunrise (Wiccan Sabbat - religious festival marking the
S0202       first stirring of Spring - festival of lights to encourage the
S0202       suns return).
S0202     Second day of the Festival of the Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries
S0202       (Ancient Greek, honoring Demeter's -  Earth-goddess-mother,
S0202       goddess of the fruitful earth - return from the Underworld and
S0202       the rebirth of vegetation).
S0202     Festival of Juno ends (2-day Roman festival honoring the
S0202       supreme goddess).
S0202     Festival of Ceres (Roman corn goddess).
S0202     Festival of Sul (Celtic sun goddess and goddess of hot springs).
S0203 993 St. Ulrich, Bishop of Augsburg, becomes the first saint canonized
S0203 993Cby the Roman Catholic Church.
S02031690 the first paper money in America is issued (Massachusetts).
S02031809 the Territory of Illinois is organized.
S02031815 the world's first commercial cheese factory is established in
S02031815CSwitzerland.
S02031865 a secret conference is held between President Lincoln and
S02031865CConfederate V.P. Alexander H. Stephens.
S02031912 new U.S. football rules are set: 100 yard field, 6 points for a
S02031912CTD, 4 downs, and 40 yard kickoff placement.
S02031918 Twin Peaks Tunnel, longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel in
S02031918Cthe world, begins service with the K-Ingleside streetcar.
S02031941 the Supreme Court rules the Fair Labor Standards Act (40-hour
S02031941Cwork week) is constitutional.
S02031943 four chaplains aboard the U.S.S. Dorchester give their
S02031943Clifejackets to some army soldiers and consequently go down with
S02031943Cthe ship.
S02031945 Walt Disney's "The Three Caballeros" is released.
S02031945 at the Yalta Conference, it is agreed that Russia would enter
S02031945CWWII against Japan.
S02031947 the first black news correspondent is admitted to the U.S.
S02031947CCongressional news gallery.
S02031953 Jacques Cousteau's "The Silent World" is published.
S02031959 rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, the "Big Bopper", and Richie
S02031959CValens die in a small plane crash.
S02031964 "Meet the Beatles" goes gold.
S02031965 1,000 black school children are arrested in Alabama in a protest
S02031965Ccampaign.
S02031966 the Soviet Luna 9 is the first spacecraft to soft-land on the
S02031966Cmoon.
S02031969 the Palistine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed with Yasir
S02031969CArafat as its leader.
S02031982 Eastman Kodak introduces a 15-picture film disk, 3 inches wide.
S02031984 the 10th Shuttle Mission (STS- 41C) - Challenger 4 is launched.
S02031984C(On this mission, propelled by jetpacks, Bruce McCandless and
S02031984CRobert L. Stewart become the first untethered human satellites.)
S02031984 the birth of a baby conceived in one woman's womb and brought to
S02031984Cterm by another (surrogate conception) is announced by a team of
S02031984CCalifornia physicians.
S02031991 the first class postal rate increases to 29 cents.
S02031993 Cincinnati Reds' owner Marge Schott is suspended for one year for
S02031993Cusing racial and ethnic slurs.
S02031994 the U.S. lifts its trade embargo of Vietnam.
S02031995 the Shuttle Discovery is launched; piloted by 38-year-old Eileen
S02031995CM. Collins, the first woman to pilot a mission.
S0203     Feast of St. Blaise, bishop of Sebaste, patron saint of diseases
S0203       of the throat and of Armenia, martyr.
S0203     Four Chaplains Memorial Day.
R0203    2It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0203    3It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0203    4It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0203    5It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0203    6It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0203    7It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0203    1National Burn Awareness Week begins.
R0203    2It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0203    3It's National Burn Awareness Week.
S0203     Mozambique Heroes Day.
S0203     San Blas Day (Paraguay).
S0203     Sao Tome and Principe Heroes Day.
S0203    5No Talk Day.
S0203    1Homstrom (Switzerland).
S0203     Setsubun (bean-throwing festival celebrated in Japan).
S0203     Last Day of the Festival of the Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries
S0203       (Ancient Greek, honoring Demeter's -  Earth-goddess-mother,
S0203       goddess of the fruitful earth - return from the Underworld and
S0203       the rebirth of vegetation).
S0203     Father Sky Festival (Hopi).
S02041789 George Washington becomes the first President of the United
S02041789CStates.
S02041824 J.W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to the public.
S02041847 the first U.S. Telegraph Company is established in Maryland.
S02041861 representatives from the seceding Southern states adopt a
S02041861Cprovisional constitution of the Confederate States of America.
S02041865 the Hawaiian Board of Education is formed.
S02041887 the Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of
S02041887Crailroads.
S02041913 the removable automobile wheel is patented.
S02041922 Ford buys the Lincoln Motor Company.
S02041932 the first Winter Olympics are held at Lake Placid, New York.
S02041936 the first radioactive substance is produced synthetically -
S02041936Cradium E.
S02041941 the United Service Organization (USO) is formed.
S02041948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from Britain.
S02041957 the first electric portable typewriter goes on sale in Syracuse,
S02041957CNew York.
S02041967 Lunar Orbiter 3 is launched to take pictures of possible sites
S02041967Cfor manned Apollo landings.
S02041970 an ion propulsion engine is launched into orbit aboard the
S02041970Csatellite SERT  2 (the engine was burned continuously for 6
S02041970Cmonths).
S02041974 Patricia Hearst is kidnapped by members of the Symbionese
S02041974CLiberation Army.
S02041977 8-year old Arthur G. Noske of Cleveland is fatally beaten by his
S02041977Cmother's boyfriend, Stuart S. Kutler (reported missing by his
S02041977Cmother Feb. 8).
S02041985 20 countries (not the U.S.) sign an U.N. treaty outlawing
S02041985Ctorture.
S02041987 the Clean Water Act is passed by Congress over President Reagan's
S02041987Cveto.
S02041987 Dennis Connor's "Stars and Stripes" beats Australia's
S02041987C"Kookaburra III" to bring the America's Cup back to the U.S.
S02041988 federal grand juries in Miami and Tampa indict General Manuel
S02041988CNoriega in aiding the Medellin drug cartel (necessitates his
S02041988Ccapture Jan. 3, 1990).
S02041991 the board of directors of the Baseball Hall of Fame vote to
S02041991Cexclude any player who has been banned from the game.
S0204     Feast of St. Andrew Corsini, bishop of Fiesole, confessor.
R0204    3It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0204    4It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0204    5It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0204    6It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0204    7It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0204    1National Burn Awareness Week begins.
R0204    2It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0204    3It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0204    4It's National Burn Awareness Week.
S0204    5No Talk Day.
S0204     Festival of King Frost (English).
S0204     Alaska Ice Worm Festival.
S0204    1Homstrom (Switzerland).
S0204     Commencement of the Angolan Armed Struggle.
S0204     Sri Lanka Independence Day (Britain 1948).
S02051631 Roger Williams, founder of the Baptist Church in America, arrives
S02051631Cin Massachusetts.
S02051825 Hannah Lord Montague of New York grabs her scissors and creates
S02051825Cthe first detachable collar on one of her husband's shirts, in
S02051825Corder to reduce her laundry load.
S02051847 the first relief party leave Sutter's Fort to rescue the trapped
S02051847CDonner party survivors.
S02051850 DuBois D. Parmelee patents the adding machine with depressible
S02051850Ckeys.
S02051861 Samuel D. Goodale patents the peep show machine.
S02051887 snow falls on San Francisco.
S02051892 the temperature reaches -94 degrees in Siberia.
S02051917 Mexico adopts a new, and its current, constitution, providing
S02051917Cneeded social reform.
S02051921 the Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium.
S02051922 the Reader's Digest is first published.
S02051931 the first concert is held at Cleveland's Severance Hall, led by
S02051931Cits first music director, Nikolas Sokoloff.
S02051962 the most dramatic recorded conjunction of the seven principle
S02051962Cmembers of the solar system occurs when 16 degrees covered all
S02051962Cseven during the eclipse.
S02051963 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars.
S02051971 U.S. Apollo 14, the third manned expedition to moon, lands near
S02051971CFra Mauro.
S02051972 the screening of passengers and their luggage becomes mandatory
S02051972Con all domestic and foreign flights by U.S. airlines.
S02051974 U.S. Mariner 10 returns the first close-up photos of Venus's
S02051974Ccloud structure.
S02051979 according to Census Bureau, U.S. population reaches 200 million.
S02051993 President Clinton signs the Family-Leave Bill into law.
S0205     Feast of St. Agatha, virgin and martyr, patron saint of San
S0205       Marino.
S0205     Feast of St. Peter Baptist and his 25 companions, martyrs of
S0205       Japan.
R0205    4It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0205    5It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0205    6It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0205    7It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0205    1National Burn Awareness Week begins.
R0205    5It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0205    4It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0205    3It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0205    2It's National Burn Awareness Week.
S0205     Founding Day (American Baptists).
S0205     Feast of IA (English).
S0205     Charro Days Fiesta (Brownsville, Texas).
S0205     Weatherman's Day.
S0205     "It's Great to be Alive" Day!
S0205     Mexican Constitution Day.
S0205     Anniversary of Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) and Arusha Declaration
S0205       (Tanzania).
S0205    5No Talk Day.
S0205    1Homstrom (Switzerland).
S0205     Festival for Isis (Ancient Egyptian - Isis is the most complete
S0205       flowering of the Goddess concept in human history.)
S02061778 France signs treaty of aid with the U.S. and sends the fleet to
S02061778Caid in the American Revolution.
S02061788 Massachusetts becomes the 6th state of the original 13 to ratify
S02061788Cthe Constitution.
S02061816 the first U.S. railroad charter is granted to N.J. (but the
S02061816Cproject was never developed).
S02061820 the first organized immigration of blacks to Africa from the U.S.
S02061820Cbegins with a group of 86 sailing from N.Y. City to Sierra Leone.
S02061832 a transcontinental railroad is first suggested in print in the
S02061832CAnn Arbor, Mich., newspaper "Emigrant."
S02061846 the Cleveland Gas Light and Coke Company is organized.
S02061861 English Admiral Robert Ritzroy issues storm warnings for ships
S02061861Cputting out to sea, creating the first "weather forecast."
S02061869 Harper's Weekly publishes a new cartoon version of Uncle Sam -
S02061869Cwith chin whiskers.
S02061893 the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce is formed.
S02061900 the World Court at the Hague is created.
S02061933 the U.S. adopts the 20th Amendment, shortening the "lame duck"
S02061933Cperiod.
S02061951 the worst train accident in U.S. history occurs at Woodbridge,
S02061951CN.J. (84 killed).
S02061952 King George VI of England dies; Elizabeth II becomes queen.
S02061959 the Titan ICBM is first test-fired.
S02061965 "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" by the Righteous Brothers
S02061965Creaches #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
S02061968 former President Dwight Eisenhower shoots a hole in one.
S02061974 an impeachment inquiry against President Nixon by the House
S02061974CJudiciary Committee is approved by the House.
S02061978 the Court adopts a desegregation plan, resulting in crosstown
S02061978Cbusing in Cleveland in 1979.
S02061991 President Bush signs into law a bill extending disability
S02061991Cbenefits to Vietnam War veterans, exposed to Agent Orange,
S02061991Csuffering from the 2 kinds of cancers, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and
S02061991Csoft tissue sarcoma.
S0206     Feast of St. Titus, bishop of Crete, confessor.
S0206     Feast of St. Dorothea, virgin and martyr, patroness of gardeners.
S0206     SS. Amandus' and Vedastus' Day (Anglican).
S0206     Massachusetts Ratification Day.
S0206     Mid-Winter's Day.
R0206    5It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0206    6It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0206    7It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0206    1National Burn Awareness Week begins.
R0206    6It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0206    5It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0206    4It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0206    3It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0206    2It's National Burn Awareness Week.
S0206    1National Crime Prevention Week begins.
S0206     Diasia (Greek).
S0206     Waitangi Day (New Zealand Day), celebrated in (where else?) New
S0206       Zealand.
S0206    5No Talk Day.
S0206    1Homstrom (Switzerland).
S0206     Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga.
S02071821 American sealer John Davis becomes the first man on record to set
S02071821Cfoot on the continent of Antarctica.
S02071826 Western Reserve College (Western Reserve University) is founded
S02071826Cin Hudson, Ohio.
S02071827 Madame Francisquy Hutin introduces ballet to America with "The
S02071827CDeserter" at the Bowery Theatre in N.Y.C.
S02071861 the thermometer plunges 72 degrees (40 to -32) in 18 hours in
S02071861CHanover, N.H., setting the record for the highest drop in
S02071861Ctemperature east of the Mississippi.
S02071889 the Astronomical Society of Pacific holds first meeting in S.F.
S02071891 Halle Brothers Company opens in downtown Cleveland.
S02071914 steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium in S.F.
S02071931 Cleveland's Criminal Courts Building on East 21st Street opens
S02071931C(now replaced by the Justice Center).
S02071936 the U.S.'s V.P.'s flag is adopted by executive order.
S02071940 Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" is released.
S02071943 as part of the war effort, shoe rationing begins, limiting
S02071943Ccivilians to three pairs a year (lifted Oct. 30, 1945).
S02071958 Washington establishes the first U.S. space body, the Advanced
S02071958CResearch Projects Agency.
S02071962 a trade ban with Cuba, ordered by President Kennedy, goes into
S02071962Ceffect.
S02071964 the Beatles arrive at JFK Airport at 1:35 p.m. on their first
S02071964Cvisit to the U.S.
S02071965 WVIZ-TV, Channel 25, Cleveland's PBS station, begins
S02071965Cbroadcasting, the last major city without one.
S02071965 the U.S. begins regular bombing and strafing missions in North
S02071965CVietnam in response to guerrilla attacks on U.S. installations.
S02071969 the first woman jockey to race at a U.S. pari-mutuel track is
S02071969CDiana Crump (finished 10th in a field of 12 at Hialeah, Fla).
S02071970 Japan launches its first satellite, Ohsumi onboard a Lambda 4S-5
S02071970Crocket from Kagoshima, becoming the fourth country in space.
S02071973 "The Hot L Baltimore" opens on Broadway at the Circle Theater,
S02071973Cstarring Judd Hirsch and Trish Hawkins.
S02071974 Grenada, the smallest independent nation in the Western
S02071974CHemisphere, gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S02071976 the world's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation in
S02071976CU.S.S.R.
S02071984 Capt. Bruce McCandless and Lt. Col. Robert Stewart become the
S02071984Cfirst humans to fly free of a spacecraft (Challenger.)
S02071986 Haitians overthrow dictator, "Baby Doc" Duvalier.
S02071991 Lithuania votes to secede from the U.S.S.R.
S02071994 Tess Tracy presents Dick with divorce papers.
S02071994 basketball great Michael Jordan signs a minor league contract
S02071994Cwith the Chicago White Sox.
S02071995 for the first time in its 14-year history, the Cleveland Grand
S02071995CPrix has a new backer, becoming the Medic Drug Grand Prix of
S02071995CCleveland presented by Dairy Mart.
S0207     Feast of St. Romuald, abbot.
S0207    5No Talk Day.
S0207     National Hangover Awareness Day.
R0207    6It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0207    7It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0207    1National Burn Awareness Week begins.
R0207    2It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0207    3It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0207    4It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0207    5It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0207    6It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0207    7It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0207    2It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0207    1National Crime Prevention Week begins.
S0207     Selena's Day (Greek).
S0207    1Homstrom (Switzerland).
S0207     Grenada Independence Day (Britain 1974).
S0207     Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga.
S02081587 Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded.
S02081672 Isaac Newton reads first optics paper before the Royal Society in
S02081672CLondon.
S02081693 King William III and Queen Mary II grant a royal charter founding
S02081693Cthe College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, the
S02081693Csecond college in the U.S.
S02081735 the first opera produced in America performs at the Courtroom in
S02081735CCharleston, S.C. ("Flora").
S02081861 the Confederate States of America is organized in Montgomery,
S02081861CAla.
S02081862 Union forces capture Roanoke Island, N.C.
S02081883 Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen
S02081883C(first called the "endless pen").
S02081898 John Ames Sherman patents an envelope folding and gumming
S02081898Cmachine.
S02081910 the Boy Scouts of America is founded in Washington, D.C.
S02081915 "The Clansman" (later retitled "The Birth of a Nation") premieres
S02081915Cat Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles.
S02081918 the first issue of "Stars and Stripes," the Army newspaper, is
S02081918Cpublished.
S02081919 James B. Herrich publishes the first electrocardiogram of a
S02081919Cheart malfunction.
S02081922 the radio arrives in the White House.
S02081924 the first execution using the gas chamber occurs in Nevada.
S02081926 the Walt Disney Studios is formed.
S02081926 Muyil, a buried Mayan city, is found in Yucatan.
S02081952 Elizabeth II takes the oath of accession to the British throne.
S02081952CThe official coronation is June 2, 1953.
S02081962 the U.S. Military Assistance Command (MACV) is created in South
S02081962CVietnam.
S02081965 Britain bans cigarette ads on TV (U.S. ban comes Jan. 1, 1971).
S02081966 the Declaration of Honolulu is issued by the U.S. and South
S02081966CVietnam (formulated major policy and economic and social reform
S02081966Cfor South Vietnam).
S02081967 Lunar Orbiter 3 enters a near-equatorial lunar orbit to take
S02081967Cpictures of possible sites for manned Apollo landings.
S02081969 the oldest dated meteorites found (4,610 million years old) fall
S02081969Cover Chihuahua, Mexico.
S02081970 the Boeing 747 makes it's first commercial flight.
S02081971 U.S. air and artillery forces aid a 44-day invasion by South
S02081971CVietnamese forces into Laos.
S02081977 an earthquake, at 5.0 the strongest since 1966, hits San
S02081977CFrancisco.
S02081985 the French announce the discovery of a drug, HPA-23, that
S02081985Cinhibits the reproduction of the virus that causes AIDS.
S02081989 the body of Amy Mahaljevic is found 3 and a half months after her
S02081989Cdisappearance.
S0208     Feast of St. John of Matha, confessor.
S0208     Arbor Day (Arizona).
S0208     Boy Scouts' Day.
R0208    7It's International Clergy Appreciation Week.
R0208    1Random Acts of Kindness Week begins.
R0208    2International Forgiveness Week begins.
R0208    2It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0208    3It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0208    4It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0208    5It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0208    6It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0208    7It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0208    2It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0208    3It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0208    1National Crime Prevention Week begins.
S0208     Narvik Sun Pageant Day (Norway).
S0208     Mass for Broken Needles (Japan).
S0208     Founding of the People's Army (North Korea).
S0208     Iraqi Eighth of February Revolution.
S0208     Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga.
S02091861 Jefferson Davis is elected provisional president of the
S02091861CConfederate States of America.
S02091870 the U.S. Weather Bureau is established by Congress (part of the
S02091870CSignal Corp - later became part of the Dept. of Agriculture -
S02091870C1891, then the Commerce Dept. - 1940).
S02091877 the U.S. Weather Service is founded.
S02091885 the first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
S02091889 the Department of Justice is created.
S02091895 volleyball is invented by W.G. Morgan in Massachusetts.
S02091900 the Davis Cup Trophy is donated by Dwight F. Davis.
S02091909 the Davey Tree Expert Company is incorporated in Ohio. (It was
S02091909Cthe first forestry school to offer scientific instruction on the
S02091909Ccare and preservation of trees.)
S02091909 Congress passes an act prohibiting the importation of opium.
S02091926 baseball's American League bans the use of resin by pitchers.
S02091942 "war time" becomes effective throughout the nation (daylight
S02091942Csavings time all year long).
S02091952 John Demjanjuk first enters the U.S.
S02091953 the TV series "Superman" premieres.
S02091961 according to photographic data from Vanguard 1 and 2, the Earth
S02091961Cis a "slightly irregular ellipsoid."
S02091964 the first appearance of the Beatles on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
S02091964Coccurs.
S02091967 the Supreme Court rules plaintiffs can not collect damages for
S02091967Carticles or broadcasts that contain errors unless proven
S02091967Cdeliberate.
S02091976 the first Avery Fisher Prizes for promising young
S02091976Cinstrumentalists are announced.
S02091986 Halley's Comet reaches its perihelion (closest approach to sun).
S02091992 the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus debuts at Severance Hall.
S02091994 NATO issues a ultimatum to Serbs surrounding Sarajevo, Bosnia-
S02091994CHerzegovina that all heavy guns within a 13-mile radius of the
S02091994Ccity must be removed by the 20th or face bombardment.
S0209     Feast of St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop, confessor, doctor.
S0209     Feast of St. Apollonia, virgin and martyr, patroness of toothache
S0209       sufferers.
S0209     Feast of St. Maron (Lebanon).
R0209    1Random Acts of Kindness Week begins.
R0209    2It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0209    2International Forgiveness Week begins.
R0209    3It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0209    3It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0209    4It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0209    5It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0209    6It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0209    7It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0209    1It's National Crime Prevention Week begins.
R0209    2It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0209    3It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0209    4It's National Crime Prevention Week.
S0209     First day of Carnival (Brazil).
S0209     Dakini Day (Tibetian).
S0209     Shree Panchami (Nepal).
S0209     Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga.
S02100060 St. Paul is shipwrecked on the north coast of Malta.
S02101519 Cortes sails from Cuba to explore and conquer Mexico.
S02101720 Edmund Halley is appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England.
S02101763 the Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War (French lose
S02101763CCanada).
S02101807 by an act of legislature, the counties of Potage, Ashtabula and
S02101807CCuyahoga are created.
S02101846 the Mormon migration westward from Nauvoo, Ill., begins.
S02101855 U.S. citizenship laws are amended to provide that all children
S02101855Cborn abroad of U.S. parents are to be granted U.S. citizenship.
S02101855 the world's first women's hospital founded by women, Women's
S02101855CHospital, is founded in N.Y.C.
S02101863 the fire extinguisher is patented by Alanson Crane.
S02101870 the YWCA is founded in New York City.
S02101879 the first electric arc light is used in San Francisco (in the
S02101879CCalifornia Theater).
S02101899 during the coldest winter to hit the U.S. since records have been
S02101899Ckept, the thermometer plunges to -39 degrees F. in Milligan,
S02101899COhio, the lowest temperature ever recorded in the state.
S02101942 automobile assembly lines shut-down for war production.
S02101942 RCA Victor presents the first golden disc for surpassing the
S02101942Cmillion mark to Glenn Miller for his "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
S02101949 Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens on Broadway.
S02101955 Bell Aircraft displays first fixed-wing vertical takeoff plane.
S02101955 Leonard Wibberley's "The Mouse That Roared" is published.
S02101962 U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for a Soviet spy
S02101962CRudolf Abel.
S02101962 Jim Beatty, the first American to break the 4-minute mile
S02101962Cindoors, is clocked at 3:58.9 in Los Angeles.
S02101964 the National Bureau of Standards announces the adoption of the
S02101964CMetric System.
S02101967 the 25th Amendment is ratified, establishing the line of
S02101967Cexecutive succession.
S02101987 ex-National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
S02101987Cover the Iran-contra affair.
S02101994 a cease fire truce is reached in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
S02101994Cafter NATO threatens to bomb Serb mortar and artillery positions.
S0210     Feast of St. Scholastica, virgin.
S0210     Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (Malta).
R0210    1Random Acts of Kindness Week begins.
R0210    2It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0210    3It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0210    2International Forgiveness Week begins.
R0210    3It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0210    4It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0210    4It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0210    5It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0210    6It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0210    7It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0210    1It's National Crime Prevention Week begins.
R0210    5It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0210    4It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0210    3It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0210    2It's National Crime Prevention Week.
S0210     Li Chum (Chinese Spring Festival).
S0210     Oruro (Boliva).
S0210     Second day of Carnival (Brazil).
S0210     Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga.
S0211 660 it is considered the traditional founding of Japan by Emperor
S0211 660CJimmu Tenno.
S02111808 anthracite coal is burned for the first time by Judge Jesse Fell
S02111808Cin Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
S02111836 Mount Holyoke Seminary, the first women's college in America, is
S02111836Cchartered.
S02111854 the major streets are lit by coal gas for first time in S.F.
S02111858 Bernadette Soubirous (St. Bernadette of Lourdes) first sees the
S02111858Cvision of the Virgin Mary ("I am the Immaculate Conception.")
S02111889 the Department of Agriculture is raised to Cabinet status.
S02111920 the first session of the Council of the League of Nations is
S02111920Cheld.
S02111929 the Vatican City (world's smallest country) is made an enclave of
S02111929CRome.
S02111932 the highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February
S02111932Coccurs, 73 degrees.
S02111936 Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" opens in London.
S02111937 General Motors capitulates to workers demands and recognizes the
S02111937CUnited Auto Workers (UAW).
S02111945 San Francisco is selected as the site for the first U.N.
S02111945CConference.
S02111953 Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" premieres.
S02111958 Ruth Carol Taylor becomes the first black stewardess.
S02111960 Jack Paar, protesting NBC censorship of one of his jokes the
S02111960Cnight before, walks off his show.
S02111970 Japan becomes the fourth nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in
S02111970Corbit.
S02111971 the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. sign a treaty banning nuclear weapons
S02111971Con the seabed.
S02111978 China ends a 10-year ban on 70 renowned classical and modern
S02111978Cinternational writers, including Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare,
S02111978CSwift, Dickens, and Twain.
S02111990 black nationalist leader Nelson Mandella is freed from a South
S02111990CAfrican prison after more than 27 years.
S02111993 Nolan Ryan announces he will retire at the end of the 1993
S02111993Cseason, his 27th.
S0211     Feast of the Apparition of the Virgin at Lourdes.
S0211     Feast of SS. Saturninus, and his Companions, martyrs.
R0211    1It's Brotherhood Week!
R0211    1Random Acts of Kindness Week begins.
R0211    2It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0211    3It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0211    4It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0211    2International Forgiveness Week begins.
R0211    3It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0211    4It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0211    5It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0211    1National Crime Prevention Week begins.
R0211    6It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0211    5It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0211    4It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0211    3It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0211    2It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0211    5It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0211    6It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0211    7It's National Burn Awareness Week.
S0211     Observance of Richard Allen's Birthday (African Methodist
S0211       Episcopal Church).
S0211     Anniversary of the Lateranensi Pacts (The Vatican).
S0211     Day of Conciliation (Italy).
S0211     Gyro Night (Scotland).
S0211     White Shirt Day.
S0211     Empire Day or Founding of the Nation (Japan - 660 B.C.).
S0211     Iranian Revolution Day (overthrow of shah - 1979).
S0211     Liberian Armed Forces Day.
S0211     Youth Day (Cameroon).
S02121733 Georgia is founded by James Oglethorpe.
S02121825 the Creek Indian treaty is signed (Indians turn over all lands in
S02121825CGeorgia and promise to migrate west by Sept. 1, 1826).
S02121866 the first formal observance of Lincoln's birthday is held in
S02121866CWashington, D.C.
S02121877 Alexander Graham Bell first publicly demonstrates the telephone
S02121877C(between Boston & Salem, MA).
S02121878 Frederick W. Thayer patents the baseball catcher's mask.
S02121892 Illinois becomes the first to make the anniversary of Lincoln's
S02121892Cbirthday a legal holiday.
S02121898 Henry Lindfield crashes his car in England and later dies,
S02121898Cbecoming the first automobile fatality.
S02121908 the first New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia)
S02121908Cbegins.  George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel.
S02121915 the cornerstone is laid for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington,
S02121915CDC.
S02121924 George Gershwin's"Rhapsody In Blue" premieres in Carnegie Hall.
S02121924 Howard Carter finds the Pharaoh Tutankhamen inside his stone
S02121924Csarcophagus.
S02121925 a federal arbitration law is enacted.
S02121931 Japan's first television broadcast is a baseball game.
S02121940 the "Superman" serial debuts on the radio.
S02121941 the first clinical trial of penicillin is given by Howard Florey
S02121941Cand Ernest Chain.
S02121941 Gen. Erwin Rommel assumes command of the Axis forces in North
S02121941CAfrica.
S02121947 a daytime fireball and meteorite fall is seen in eastern Siberia.
S02121955 the U.S. agrees to help train the South Vietnamese Army.
S02121967 General de Brigade Jean du Boucher's party leaves Bechar to
S02121967Cbecome the first to cross the Sahara on sand flyers.
S02121976 the FDA bans the production of Red Dye #2.
S0212     Abraham Lincoln's Birthday.
S0212     Feast of St. Meltius, Bishop of Antioch, confessor.
S0212     Feast of Founders of the Servite Order.
R0212    1It's Brotherhood Week!
R0212    2It's Brotherhood Week!
R0212    1Random Acts of Kindness Week begins.
R0212    2It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0212    3It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0212    4It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0212    5It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0212    2International Forgiveness Week begins.
R0212    3It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0212    4It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0212    5It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0212    6It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0212    6It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0212    7It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0212    2It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0212    3It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0212    4It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0212    5It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0212    6It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0212    7It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0212    1National Crime Prevention Week begins.
S0212     Kosciuszko Day.
S0212     Festival of Diana (Roman holiday).
S0212     Artemis's Festival (Ancient Greek Nature and Moon goddess).
S0212     Third day of Carnival (Brazil).
S0212     Burmese Union Day.
S0212     Georgia or Oglethorpe Day.
S02131635 the oldest public school in the U.S. is founded (Boston Latin
S02131635CSchool).
S02131678 Tycho Brahe first sketches the "Tychonic system" idea of the
S02131678Csolar system.
S02131689 Parliament proclaims William and Mary to be King and Queen of
S02131689CEngland.
S02131741 the first magazine is published in America (The American
S02131741CMagazine).
S02131795 the University of North Carolina opens.
S02131826 the first national temperance organization, The American
S02131826CTemperance Society, is founded.
S02131849 Otterbein College, founded in 1847, is chartered in Westerville,
S02131849COhio, as Otterbein University (renamed in 1917).
S02131851 Heidelberg College, founded in 1850, is chartered in Tiffin,
S02131851COhio.
S02131861 the action that led to the awarding of the first U.S. Medal of
S02131861CHonor takes place at Apache Pass, Ariz., where Col. Bernard John
S02131861CDowling Irwin leads his troops to victory over hostile Chiricahua
S02131861CApache Indians (awarded Jan. 24, 1894).
S02131865 National City Bank of Cleveland opens.
S02131867 "Blue Danube Waltz" is first performed by composer Johann
S02131867CStrauss.
S02131879 the last public hanging in Cuyahoga County (Charles R. McGills)
S02131879Ctakes place near the County Courthouse (thereafter conducted in
S02131879Cfront of the Statehouse in Columbus).
S02131914 the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
S02131914Cis founded.
S02131935 Dr. Claude Schaeffer Beck performs the first heart operation to
S02131935Crelieve angina pectoris.
S02131936 the first social security checks are mailed.
S02131937 the Cleveland Rams (later the Los Angeles Rams) are formed.
S02131937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail
S02131937Cand fine detail drawing.  Thanks Hal.
S02131943 the U.S. Marine Corps adds a women's unit.
S02131945 the fire-bombing of Dresden begins.
S02131955 Israel acquires 4 of the 7 dead sea scrolls
S02131964 the Treasury Department announces that the U.S. would borrow from
S02131964Cthe International Monetary Fund for the first time.
S02131970 General Motors reports redesigning autos to run on unleaded fuel.
S02131971 Vice-President Spiro Agnew hits three spectators with his first 2
S02131971Cshots at the Bob Hope Golf Classic.
S02131974 Soviet author Aleksandr Solhenitsyn is expelled from Russia.
S02131976 Dorothy Hamill wins gold at the Innsbruck Winter Olympics.
S02131984 the first heart and liver transplant is performed on a 6-year-old
S02131984CTexas girl, Stormie Jones.
S0213     Feast of St. Catherine de Ricciis, virgin.
S0213     Feast of St. Martinian the Hermit.
R0213     It's the Ides of February!
R0213    1It's Brotherhood Week!
R0213    2It's Brotherhood Week!
R0213    3It's Brotherhood Week!
R0213    1It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0213    2It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0213    3It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0213    4It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0213    5It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0213    6It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0213    3It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0213    4It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0213    5It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0213    6It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0213    7It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0213    7It's National Burn Awareness Week.
R0213    2International Forgiveness Week begins.
R0213    2It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0213    3It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0213    4It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0213    5It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0213    6It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0213    7It's National Crime Prevention Week.
S0213     Gutor (Tibet).
S0213     Festival of Vesta (Roman festival honoring Vesta, goddess of
S0213       fire, the home and cooking, patron goddess of women).
S0213    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S02141753 Valentine's Day.
S02141764 James Davenport patents the spinning and carding machinery.
S02141778 the French ship "Admiral La-Motte Picquet" fires a volley in
S02141778Cresponse to a 13-gun salute by the "Ranger", commanded by John
S02141778CPaul Jones (the first salute to the Stars and Stripes).
S02141780 James Watt patents the duplicating machine.
S02141803 Moses Coats patents the apple parer.
S02141835 Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio, is chartered.
S02141859 Oregon becomes the 33rd state.
S02141862 the first sea-going iron-clad warship, the Galena, is launched
S02141862Cfrom Mystic, Conn.
S02141876 Alexander Graham Bell files an application for a patent on the
S02141876Ctelephone
S02141883 New Jersey legalizes labor union organizing activities.
S02141889 First trainload of oranges leaves Los Angeles for the east.
S02141899 Congress authorizes voting machines for federal elections if
S02141899Cdesired by the individual states.
S02141903 Congress creates the Dept. of Commerce and Labor.
S02141912 Arizona becomes the 48th state.
S02141918 George Gershwins's "Swanee", his first popular song, is sung in
S02141918Cthe revue "Sinbad."
S02141918 the U.S.S.R. adopts the New Style (Gregorian) calendar.
S02141919 United Parcel Service (UPS) is incorporated in Oakland, Ca.
S02141920 the National League of Voters is founded.
S02141924 Thomas Watson founds the International Business Machines Corp.
S02141921 the Ohio Theater opens as a theater for stage plays.
S02141929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre occurs in Chicago; 7 gangsters are
S02141929Ckilled.
S02141944 arms are dropped to the French resistance for the first time.
S02141954 Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press".
S02141961 Element 103, lawrencium, is first produced in Berkeley
S02141961CCalifornia.
S02141962 Mrs. Kennedy gives TV audience a tour of the White House.
S02141962 JFK announces U.S. military advisers in Vietnam would fire if
S02141962Cfired upon.
S02141972 the first nuclear-powered heart pump keeps a calf's heart beating
S02141972Cfor 5 hours at Boston City Hospital.
S02141973 the first 20 Vietnam P.O.W.'s return home.
S02141973 Cleveland's WMMS-FM radio hires Lawrence James Travagliente (Kid
S02141973CLeo).
S02141975 the Northern Marianas Islands are made a U.S. Commonwealth, the
S02141975Cfirst territorial acquisition since the West Indies in 1917.
S02141978 the first "micro on a chip" is patented by Texas Instruments.
S02141980 the U.S. launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study
S02141980Csolar flares.
S0214     St. Valentine's Day.
S0214     Feast of St. Valentine, priest and martyr.
R0214    1It's Brotherhood Week!
R0214    2It's Brotherhood Week!
R0214    3It's Brotherhood Week!
R0214    4It's Brotherhood Week!
R0214    1Random Acts of Kindness Week begins.
R0214    2It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0214    3It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0214    4It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0214    5It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0214    6It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0214    7It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0214    2International Forgiveness Week begins.
R0214    3It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0214    4It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0214    5It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0214    6It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0214    7It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0214    1It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0214    3It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0214    4It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0214    5It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0214    6It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0214    7It's National Crime Prevention Week.
S0214     Viticulturists' Day in Bulgaria, derived from cult of Dionysus.
S0214     Race Relations Day.
S0214     Literacy Day.
S0214     Arizona Admission Day.
S0214     Oregon Admission Day.
S02151764 Auguste Chouteau establishes St. Louis.
S02151768 Benjamin Jackson begins manufacturing mustard in Philadelphia.
S02151804 New Jersey becomes the last Northern state to abolish slavery.
S02151812 William Hunt arrives in Astoria, Oregon, the first man to cross
S02151812Cthe unexplored territory west of the Mississippi alone (wanted
S02151812Cto establish a fur-trading route).
S02151845 William Parsons, the Earl of Rosse, first uses a 72-inch
S02151845Creflector (telescope).
S02151861 President-elect Abraham Lincoln visits Cleveland on his way to
S02151861Chis inauguration.
S02151861 Fort Point in San Francisco is completed and garrisoned (but has
S02151861Cnever fired it's cannon in anger).
S02151876 the historic elm in Boston (the Liberty Tree) is blown down.
S02151879 women attorneys win the right to argue cases before the U.S.
S02151879CSupreme Court by an act of Congress.
S02151898 U.S.S. Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown.
S02151903 the first Teddy Bear is introduced in America, made by Morris and
S02151903CRose Michtom, Russian immigrants.
S02151917 San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch at Civic Center)
S02151917Cdedicated.
S02151923 the War Department issues a circular on the rules of the U.S.
S02151923Cflag usage.
S02151924 Alexandra Kollantai becomes the world's first woman ambassador.
S02151932 the first regular radio broadcast of "Burns and Allen" airs.
S02151933 President-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination
S02151933Cattempt.
S02151946 ENIAC, the electronic numerical integrator and computer (the
S02151946Cfirst electronic digital computer), is dedicated at the Moore
S02151946CSchool of Electrical Engineering in Philadelphia.
S02151950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" is released.
S02151954 the first bevatron is in operation at Berkeley, California.
S02151955 production is announced at the first pilot plant to produce man-
S02151955Cmade diamonds.
S02151960 "Mayberry, U.S.A." with Andy Griffith debuts on the Danny Thomas
S02151960C"Make Room for Daddy" show.
S02151961 eighteen members of the U.S. figure-skating team are lost in an
S02151961Cair crash in Belgium.
S02151968 Henry Lewis becomes the first black to head a symphony orchestra
S02151968Cin the U.S.
S02151971 Great Britain changes the pound (money) to the decimal system.
S02151973 the U.S. and Cuba sign a pact to curb hijacking.
S02151983 Tokyo University's Institute of Solid State Physics announces
S02151983Creaching a temperature within .00003 of a degree of absolute zero
S02151983C(at which molecular motion ceases).
S02151989 the Soviets withdraw the last of their troops from Afghanistan.
S02151990 unable to agree on a contract, baseball owners institute the
S02151990Csecond spring training lockout, lasting 32 days (the first
S02151990Clockout in 1976).
S02151994 Viacom Inc. merges with Paramount Communications Inc.
S0215     Feast of SS. Faustinus and Jovitia, martyrs.
S0215    2President's Day, a legal holiday.
S0215     Susan B. Anthony Day.
R0215    1It's Brotherhood Week!
R0215    5It's Brotherhood Week!
R0215    4It's Brotherhood Week!
R0215    3It's Brotherhood Week!
R0215    2It's Brotherhood Week!
R0215    2It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0215    3It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0215    4It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0215    5It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0215    6It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0215    7It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0215    3It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0215    4It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0215    5It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0215    6It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0215    7It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0215    1It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0215    4It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0215    5It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0215    6It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0215    7It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0215    7National Future Farmer of America Week begins.
S0215     U.S.S. Maine Memorial Day.
S0215     Menendez Day (St. Augustine, Florida).
S0215     Lupercalia, ancient Roman fertility (and blind date) festival.
S0215     Sigfrid's Day (Norse).
S02161600 Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory and plurality
S02161600Cof worlds, is burned at the stake by the Inquisition in Rome.
S02161857 the National Deaf Mute College is incorporated.
S02161880 the American Protective Order of Elks is organized.
S02161883 Ladies Home Journal begins publication.
S02161905 the Esperanto Association is organized.
S02161914 the first airplane flight to Los Angeles from San Francisco
S02161914Coccurs.
S02161918 Lithuania declares independence from Germany
S02161932 James Markham patents a new strain of peach tree.
S02161933 the Post Office, part of the Terminal Tower Complex, opens.
S02161937 Du Pont obtains a patent for nylon.
S02161959 Fidel Castor becomes premier of Cuba.
S02161961 the first all solid propellant rocket is put in orbit from
S02161961CWallops Island, Va.
S02161964 the Beatles appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show" for the second time.
S02161965 the first Pegasus satellite is launched to study meteoroids and
S02161965Cother conditions important to the soon to follow Apollo missions.
S02161968 occupational and graduate-student draft deferments is cut back
S02161968Csharply.
S02161975 Jimmy Connors wins the National Indoor Tennis tournament,
S02161975Cbecoming the first to win the event 3 consecutive times.
S02161987 John Demjanjuk, of Seven Hills, Ohio, goes on trial in Israel for
S02161987CNazi war crimes (ends Feb. 18, 1988).
S02161990 Galileo, on a roundabout trip to Jupiter, flies by Venus to pick
S02161990Cup gravitational acceleration.
S0216     Feast of St. Onesimus, Bishop of Ephesus, martyr.
S0216    2President's Day, a legal holiday.
R0216    1It's Brotherhood Week!
R0216    6It's Brotherhood Week!
R0216    5It's Brotherhood Week!
R0216    4It's Brotherhood Week!
R0216    3It's Brotherhood Week!
R0216    2It's Brotherhood Week!
R0216    3It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0216    4It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0216    5It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0216    6It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0216    7It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0216    4It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0216    5It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0216    6It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0216    7It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0216    1It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0216    5It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0216    6It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0216    7It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0216    7National Future Farmer of America Week begins.
R0216    1It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0216    1National Engineers Week begins.
S0216     Lithuanian Independence Day.
S0216     Celebration of Victoria (Roman holiday).
S02171600 Giordano Bruno, advocate of the Copernican theory and the
S02171600Cplurality of worlds, is burned at the stake by the Inquisition
S02171600Cin Rome as a heretic.
S02171776 the United States Marines see action for the first time
S02171776C(Bahamas).
S02171801 because of the only tie in U.S. history, Thomas Jefferson becomes
S02171801Cthe first President elected by the House of Representatives.
S02171809 Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, is chartered.
S02171863 the International Red Cross is founded in Geneva.
S02171864 the Confederate's "Hunley" becomes the first submarine to
S02171864Csuccessfully sink a ship, the federal sloop Housatonic (it also
S02171864Cwas lost with 17 men).
S02171869 the Cleveland School Library is opened to the public (later
S02171869Cbecame the Cleveland Public Library.
S02171870 Mississippi is re-admitted to the U.S. after the Civil War.
S02171876 sardines are first canned, in Eastport, Maine.
S02171897 the National Congress of Mothers (later the P.T.A.) is organized
S02171897Cin Washington, D.C.
S02171911 the City of Lakewood, Ohio is incorporated (pop. 15,000.)
S02171913 Macel Duchamp's painting, "Nude Descending a Staircase", is first
S02171913Cdisplayed in the U.S. in the International Exhibition of Modern
S02171913CArt in N.Y. City.
S02171929 the first in-flight movie is reported shown on a Universal Air
S02171929CLine flight.
S02171945 U.S. forces land on Corregidor, and complete conquest by March 3.
S02171959 the U.S. launches the first weather satellite, Vanguard II.
S02171964 the Supreme Court orders that congressional districts have equal
S02171964Cpopulations.
S02171965 Ranger 9 is launched, and takes 5814 photos of the moon's surface
S02171965Cbefore crashing into Alphosus crater (last in the Ranger series).
S02171974 a crazed (?) Army Private steals a Army helicopter and lands 100
S02171974Cyards from the White House.
S02171980 Israeli diplomats arrive in Cairo to open embassy, the first in
S02171980Cthe Arab world.
S02171986 Johnson and Johnson discontinue over-the-counter capsules as
S02171986CTylenol deaths reappear.
S02171994 convoys of Bosnian Serb artillery withdraw from the hills around
S02171994CSarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina in compliance with a NATO ultimatum
S02171994Cto pull back or be bombed.
S02171994 Tommy Moe becomes the first American to win a second medal
S02171994C(Silver) during the Winter Olympics.
S0217     Feast of St. Theodulus, martyr.
S0217    2President's Day, a legal holiday.
S0217     George Washington's Birthday.
S0217     P.T.A. Founders Day.
S0217     Frances E. Willard Memorial Day.
R0217    1It's Brotherhood Week!
R0217    2It's Brotherhood Week!
R0217    3It's Brotherhood Week!
R0217    4It's Brotherhood Week!
R0217    5It's Brotherhood Week!
R0217    6It's Brotherhood Week!
R0217    7It's Brotherhood Week!
R0217    4It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0217    5It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0217    6It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0217    7It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0217    5It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0217    6It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0217    7It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0217    1It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0217    6It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0217    7It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0217    7National Future Farmer of America Week begins.
R0217    1It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0217    2It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0217    1National Engineers Week begins.
R0217    2It's National Engineers Week.
S0217     Flight into Egypt.
S0217     Lossar or New Year's Day (Bhutan).
S0217     Fornacalia (Roman holiday).
S02181849 the first regular steamboat service to California starts with the
S02181849Carrival of the "California".
S02181850 California legislature creates the 9 Bay Area counties.
S02181859 the "Temporary Insanity" defense is first used in America (Dan
S02181859CSickles).
S02181861 Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as President of the Confederate
S02181861CStates of America (the first time).
S02181899 San Francisco is named as a port of dispatch for Army transports.
S02181908 postage stamps are first issued in coils.
S02181930 the planet Pluto is first discovered on photographic plates.
S02181930 a cow is flown (and milked in flight) for the first time.  Her
S02181930Cmilk is sealed in paper containers and dropped by parachute over
S02181930CSt. Louis, MO.  I knew you'd want to know ...
S02181939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
S02181939C(built for the occasion) in San Francisco Bay.
S02181948 the play "Mister Roberts", starring Henry Fonda, opens on
S02181948CBroadway at the Alvin Theatre.
S02181952 Goodyear becomes the first rubber company to exceed $1 billion
S02181952Cin annual sales.
S02181953 the first 3-D movie, "Bwana Devil", opens in New York City.
S02181961 Discoverer 21 is launched into orbit by a Thor-Agena-B rocket
S02181961C(first to have a control mechanism that enabled the rocket to be
S02181961Crestarted while in orbit).
S02181965 Gambia gains independence.
S02181970 the Chicago Seven are acquitted of conspiracy to incite riots
S02181970Cduring the 1968 Democratic Convention.  However, 5 of the 7 are
S02181970Cfound guilty of crossing states lines with the intent to incite
S02181970Criots.  (Verdict is overturned May 1972.)
S02181972 the California Supreme Court voids the death penalty (the U.S.
S02181972CSupreme Court finds the death penalty unconstitutional June 29,
S02181972C1972).
S02181977 the  Space Shuttle makes its first flight atop a Boeing 747 jumbo
S02181977Cjet.
S02181988 John Demjanjuk's trial in Israel for war crimes ends (acquitted
S02181988Cin 1993).
S02181994 Cleveland's Bicentenial Logo is unveiled.
S0218     Feast of St. Simeon, Bishop of Jerusalem, martyr.
S0218    2President's Day, a legal holiday.
R0218    2It's Brotherhood Week!
R0218    3It's Brotherhood Week!
R0218    4It's Brotherhood Week!
R0218    5It's Brotherhood Week!
R0218    6It's Brotherhood Week!
R0218    7It's Brotherhood Week!
R0218    5It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0218    6It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0218    7It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0218    6It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0218    7It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0218    1It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0218    7It's National Crime Prevention Week.
R0218    7National Future Farmer of America Week begins.
R0218    1It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0218    2It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0218    3It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0218    2It's National Engineers Week.
R0218    3It's National Engineers Week.
R0218    1National Engineers Week begins.
S0218     National Bun Day -- Iceland.
S0218     Gambia Independence Day (Britain 1965).
S0218     Tribhuvan Jayanti (King Tribhavan's Birthday) or Democracy Day
S0218       (Nepal).
S0218     The first day of Parentalia - Feast of the Dead (Roman festival).
S0218     Spenta Armaiti (Persian).
S02191803 Congress declares eastern portion of the Northwest Territory,
S02191803Csouth of Lake Erie, the State of Ohio (the Ohio General Assembly
S02191803Clater rules Mar. 1 the official date).
S02191831 Phineas Davis tests the first practical American made coal
S02191831Cburning locomotive.
S02191847 the first relief party arrives at Truckee (now Donner) Lake to
S02191847Cfind 48 survivors of the trapped Donner party (17 were able to
S02191847Cleave Feb.22).
S02191856 Hamilton Lamphere Smith patents the tin-type camera.
S02191862 construction of the U.S.S. Monitor is completed.
S02191864 the Knights of Pythias' first lodge is formed in Washington D.C.
S02191878 a patent is granted to Mr. Edison for the phonograph, a wax
S02191878Ccylinder machine.
S02191886 Cleveland's Local 19 of the Bakery, Confectionery and Tobacco
S02191886CWorkers' International Union is chartered.
S02191942 the detention of Japanese-Americans is legalized.
S02191945 three U.S. marine divisions, Task Force 52, the largest
S02191945Cdeployment of U.S. marines in history, land on Iwo Jima.
S02191949 the first Bollingen Prize for poetry is awarded to Ezra Pound for
S02191949Chis 1948 collection "The Pisan Cantos."
S02191957 the S.S. Tropicana, the first ship to carry a cargo of fresh
S02191957Corange juice in stainless steel tanks, arrives in Whitestone,
S02191957CN.Y.
S02191968 the first statewide teachers' strike in U.S. history begins in
S02191968CFlorida.
S02191971 Cleveland Cavaliers' Walt Wesley sets a club record for the most
S02191971Cpoints scored (50 points against Cincinnati).
S02191977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album is released.
S02191978 15 Egyptian commandos are killed by Cypriot forces in freeing
S02191978Chostages on a jet in Cyprus.
S02191982 the DeLorean auto company goes into receivership.
S02191986 a U.N. treaty outlawing genocide is ratified by the Senate (U.S.
S02191986Csigned the treaty in 1948, but the Senate never acted).
S0219     Feast of St. Mansuetus, Bishop of Milan.
S0219    2President's Day, a legal holiday.
R0219    3It's Brotherhood Week!
R0219    4It's Brotherhood Week!
R0219    5It's Brotherhood Week!
R0219    6It's Brotherhood Week!
R0219    7It's Brotherhood Week!
R0219    6It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0219    7It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0219    7It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0219    1It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0219    7National Future Farmer of America Week begins.
R0219    1It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0219    2It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0219    3It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0219    4It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0219    2It's National Engineers Week.
R0219    3It's National Engineers Week.
R0219    4It's National Engineers Week.
R0219    1National Engineers Week begins.
S0219     The second day of Parentalia - Feast of the Dead (Roman
S0219       festival).
S0219     Makha Bucha Day (Thailand).
S02201673 the first recorded wine auction is held in London.
S02201725 the first known instance of scalping by Europeans occurs New
S02201725CHampshire (100 per scalp was paid in Boston).
S02201768 the first American fire insurance company receives its charter.
S02201839 dueling in the District of Columbia is prohibited by an act of
S02201839CCongress.
S02201864 Union forces under General Seymour are badly defeated by General
S02201864CFinegan at the Battle of Olustee (Fla.).
S02201865 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is established.
S02201872 Cyrus W. Baldwin patents his version of the elevator.
S02201873 the University of California gets its first Medical School
S02201873C(UC/SF).
S02201901 the first territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes.
S02201902 heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths.
S02201915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco.
S02201931 Congress allows California to build the Oakland-Bay Bridge.
S02201932 Ray Miller becomes Cleveland's first elected mayor of the city
S02201932C(changes from city manager system to a mayoral one).
S02201935 the first woman sets foot on Antarctica (Mrs. Karoline
S02201935CMikkelson).
S02201942 FDR authorizes the internment of Japanese-Americans on the West
S02201942CCoast.
S02201943 U.S. forces are driven back by Gen. Irwin Rommel's Afrika Korps
S02201943Cat Kasserine Pass, Tunisia (they take it 5 days later).
S02201959 the FCC applies the equal time rule to TV newscasts of
S02201959Cpolitical candidates.
S02201962 John Glenn, in Friendship 7, becomes the first American to orbit
S02201962Cthe Earth.  (He does it three times.)
S02201965 Ranger 8 hits the moon and begins to send 7,000 photos to the
S02201965CU.S.
S02201971 a false nuclear alert is broadcast by radio and TV across the
S02201971Ccountry when an operator at the National Emergency Warning Center
S02201971Cin Colorado runs the wrong tape (took 40 minutes to cancel the
S02201971Calert).
S02201977 the U.S. unveils six windmills at Rocky Flats, Colorado in test
S02201977Cas a source of power for farms.
S02201986 Britain and France announce plans for a rail tunnel beneath the
S02201986CEnglish Channel.
S0220     Feast of St. Eucherius, Bishop and confessor.
S0220    2President's Day, a legal holiday.
R0220    4It's Brotherhood Week!
R0220    5It's Brotherhood Week!
R0220    6It's Brotherhood Week!
R0220    7It's Brotherhood Week!
R0220    7It's Random Acts of Kindness Week.
R0220    1It's International Forgiveness Week!
R0220    7National Future Farmer of America Week begins.
R0220    1It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0220    2It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0220    3It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0220    4It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0220    5It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0220    5It's National Engineers Week.
R0220    4It's National Engineers Week.
R0220    3It's National Engineers Week.
R0220    2It's National Engineers Week.
R0220    1National Engineers Week begins.
S0220     Frederick Douglass Day.
S0220     John Glenn Day.
S0220     The third day of Parentalia - Feast of the Dead (Roman festival).
S0220     Festival for Isis (Ancient Egyptian - Isis is the most complete
S0220       flowering of the Goddess concept in human history.)
S0220     First Day of Seminole Powwow.
S02211804 the first self-propelled locomotive on rails is demonstrated, in
S02211804CWales.
S02211828 the first newspaper for Indians in the U.S., "The Cherokee
S02211828CPhoenix," begins publishing in Echota, Ga.
S02211842 John James Greenough patents his sewing machine.
S02211851 the first Columbus-to-Cleveland rail line opens.
S02211853 the Coinage Act of 1853 reduces the silver content of all coins
S02211853Cexcept the silver dollar and provides for the minting of $3 gold
S02211853Cpieces.
S02211857 an act of Congress declares foreign coins no longer legal
S02211857Ctender.
S02211858 the first electric burglar alarm is installed in Boston, Mass.
S02211874 the Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication.
S02211878 the first telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn.
S02211885 the Washington Monument is dedicated.
S02211904 the National Ski Association is formed at Ishpeming, Mich.
S02121909 the Great White Fleet, a squadron of 16 battleships, returns to
S02121909CHampton Roads, Va., after its world tour, having convinced the
S02121909Cworld the U.S. was a major naval power.
S02211910 a regular fire department is established in Lakewood, Ohio.
S02211921 the Cleveland Clinic incorporates.
S02211921 William Devoe Coney makes the first one day trans-United States
S02211921Cflight from San Diego to Jacksonville.
S02211925 the first issue of the "New Yorker" goes on sale.
S02211940 the Nazis begin constructing Auschwitz.
S02211965 Malcolm X is assassinated.
S02211972 Nixon visits China, a "journey for peace".
S02211991 Croatia passes legislation asserting veto power over all
S02211991CYugoslavian laws applying to Croatia.
S02211994 Aldrich H. Ames, a former CIA official, is arrested (did more
S02211994Cdamage to U.S. national security than any spy in CIA history).
S0221     Feast of St. Severian, Bishop and martyr.
S0221     Feast of Blessed Robert Southwell, martyr.
S0221    2President's Day, a legal holiday.
R0221    5It's Brotherhood Week!
R0221    6It's Brotherhood Week!
R0221    7It's Brotherhood Week!
R0221    7National Future Farmer of America Week begins.
R0221    1It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0221    2It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0221    3It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0221    4It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0221    5It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0221    6It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0221    6It's National Engineers Week.
R0221    5It's National Engineers Week.
R0221    4It's National Engineers Week.
R0221    3It's National Engineers Week.
R0221    2It's National Engineers Week.
R0221    1National Engineers Week begins.
S0221     The last day of Parentalia (Feast of the Dead) called Feast of
S0221       Love and Peace (Roman festival devoted to forgiveness and the
S0221       restoration of friendships).
S0221     Shaheed Day (Bangladesh).
S0221     Shivarati (Hindu).
S02221630 popcorn is introduced by an Indian named Quadequina to the
S02221630CEnglish colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner.
S02221716 Lord Nithsdale successfully escapes from the Tower of London.
S02221770 eleven year old Christopher Snider is killed in Boston by
S02221770CEbenezer Richardson, becoming the first patriot to die in the
S02221770CAmerican Revolution.
S02221775 the first joint stock manufacturing company in America, the
S02221775CAmerican Manufactory of Woolens, Linens and Cottons, is
S02221775Cestablished.
S02221819 Spain cedes Florida to the United States for $5 million (the
S02221819CFlorida Purchase Treaty).
S02221837 the Cleveland City Guard is formed (later renamed the Cleveland
S02221837CGrays).
S02221856 the Republican Party holds its first national meeting in
S02221856CPittsburgh, Pa.
S02221862 Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as President of the Confederate
S02221862CStates of America (the second time).
S02221877 Congress approves the use of Bedloe's Island as the site of
S02221877CStatue of Liberty.
S02221879 F.W. Woolworth opens his first "5 & 10", in Utica, N.Y.
S02221900 Hawaii becomes a U.S. Territory.
S02221902 Major Walter Reed and Dr. James Carroll report that the virus
S02221902Cthat causes Yellow Fever is carried by mosquitos.
S02221923 America's first chinchilla farm is established in L.A.
S02221935 plane flights are barred from flying over the White House for
S02221935Cdisturbing FDR's sleep.
S02221944 Parry Island falls to U.S. Marines, bringing all the Marshall
S02221944CIslands under Allied control.
S02221955 a prototype of a guided missile with an atomic warhead is
S02221955Cexploded.
S02221959 the first Daytona 500 is raced (won by Lee Petty).
S02221963 the French-patented steel frame tennis racquet arrives in the
S02221963CU.S.
S02221967 a report from Africa indicates the world's first white gorilla is
S02221967Cfound.
S02221969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes the first woman jockey to win a race in
S02221969Cthe United States at Charles Town, W. Va.
S02221977 the Boy Scouts, concerned about their image with females and
S02221977Cminorities, changes its name to Scouting/U.S.A.
S02221979 the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate and Cat Building is
S02221979Cdedicated.
S02221979 Saint Lucia gains independence.
S02221980 the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeats the Russian squad at the
S02221980CLake Placid Winter Olympics in one of Olympic history's greatest
S02221980Cupsets (they go on to win the gold).
S02221994 the Church of England, with an amendment to ecclesiastical law,
S02221994Cofficially announces it will ordain women as priests.
S0222     George Washington's Birthday.
S0222     Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, at Antioch.
S0222     Feast of St. Joseph of Arimatherea.
R0222    6It's Brotherhood Week!
R0222    7It's Brotherhood Week!
R0222    1It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0222    2It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0222    3It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0222    4It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0222    5It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0222    6It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0222    1National Engineers Week begins.
R0222    2It's National Engineers Week.
R0222    3It's National Engineers Week.
R0222    4It's National Engineers Week.
R0222    5It's National Engineers Week.
R0222    6It's National Engineers Week.
R0222    7It's National Engineers Week.
S0222     Saint Lucia Independence Day (Britain 1979).
S0222     Last Day of Seminole Powwow.
S02231540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado's expedition sets out in search of
S02231540Cthe Seven Cities of Gold (explores much of the southwest U.S.).
S02231836 the siege of the Alamo begins (lasts until Mar. 6).
S02231861 Texas becomes the 7th state to secede from the Union.
S02231883 Alabama enacts America's first anti-trust law.
S02231886 Charles Martin Hall invents a process for the commercial
S02231886Cproduction of aluminium.
S02231887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco.
S02231900 steamer "Rio de Janiero" sinks in San Francisco Bay.
S02231905 the Rotary Club is founded by four men in Chicago.
S02231917 the Federal Board for Vocational Education is created by the
S02231917CSmith-Hughes Act.
S02231917 the American Society of Orthodontists is incorporated.
S02231943 a federal judge in Spokane, Wash., confiscates all land in
S02231943CRichland and neighboring farm settlements of Hanford and White
S02231943CBluffs, Wash., allowing residents 30 days to move, in order to
S02231943Cbuild a secret factory to make plutonium for the first "A" bomb.
S02231945 the American flag is raised on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima.
S02231954 Salk's polio vaccine is first given to children, in Pittsburgh.
S02231955 eight nations meet in Bangkok for the first SEATO council.
S02231958 last Municipal arc light, over intersection of Mission and 25th
S02231958CStreet in San Francisco, is removed (it was installed in 1913).
S02231960 the tearing down of Brooklyn's Ebbets Field begins.
S02231976 baseball owners institute a spring training lockout that lasts
S02231976Cuntil March 19, when Commissioner Kuhn orders all camps opened.
S02231977 the EPA is held by the Supreme Court to have authority to
S02231977Cestablish industry-wide standards to control discharge of
S02231977Cpollutants into waterways.
S02231980 Eric Heiden wins the 10,000 meter speed skating event at the
S02231980CLake Placid Olympics to sweep all five speed skating medals.
S02231987 President Reagan tells the Tower Commission he can't remember
S02231987Capproving the arms sale to Iran.
S02231987 the most recent supernova (-69,202) occurs in the Large
S02231987CMagellanic Cloud.
S02231994 Bonny Blair becomes the most decorated U.S. athlete in Winter
S02231994COlympics, and the most decorated woman in Olympic history, with
S02231994Cher sixth medal for speed skating (5 gold, 1 silver).
S02231994 it is announced that Indians owner Richard Jacobs has agreed to
S02231994Cpay $10 million for the right to name the new baseball field
S02231994C(Jacobs Field) at Gateway (becomes official 3/23).
S02231994 the Olympic telecast on CBS of the Figure Skating Technical
S02231994CRound, featuring the performance of Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya
S02231994CHarding, becomes the 6th highest rated event in TV history.
S02231995 the Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 4,000 for the first time
S02231995C(4,003.33).
S0223     Feast of St. Polycarp, priest and martyr.
R0223    7It's Brotherhood Week!
R0223    2It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0223    3It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0223    4It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0223    5It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0223    6It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0223    2It's National Engineers Week.
R0223    3It's National Engineers Week.
R0223    4It's National Engineers Week.
R0223    5It's National Engineers Week.
R0223    6It's National Engineers Week.
R0223    7It's National Engineers Week.
S0223     Guyanese Republic Day.
S0223     Brunei Independence Day (Britain 1984).
S0223     Ramadan (Moslem).
S02241582 Pope Gregory XIII issues a papal bull establishing the Gregorian
S02241582Ccalendar, effective October 4, 1582.
S02241803 the Supreme Court, in Marbury v. Madison, overturns a U.S. law
S02241803Cfor the first time.
S02241819 area now known as Lakewood, Ohio becomes part of Rockport
S02241819CTownship.
S02241821 Mexico announces the Plan of Iguala, proclaiming its independence
S02241821Cfrom Spain.
S02241839 William S. Otis patents the steam shovel.
S02241845 the Ohio legislature passes an act incorporating the State Bank
S02241845Cof Ohio.
S02241855 an act creating the first U.S. Court of Claims is signed by
S02241855CPresident Franklin Pierce.
S02241857 Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized.
S02241863 Arizona Territory is established.
S02241868 President Andrew Johnson is impeached, but is later acquitted.
S02241877 Leonard Case executes a trust deed which set aside property for a
S02241877Cscience college in Cleveland.
S02241892 Local 16 of the National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is
S02241892Cformed in Cleveland, Ohio (now defunct).
S02241895 the revolt of Cuba against Spain breaks out.
S02241938 tooth brushes, the first nylon-base product, are marketed in N.J.
S02241942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German).
S02241946 Juan Peron becomes president of Argentina.
S02241949 the first multi-stage rocket is fired at White Sands Proving
S02241949CGround in New Mexico.
S02241956 the Cleveland Police Department seeks to reenforce a 1931
S02241956Cordinance prohibiting youngsters under 18 from dancing in public
S02241956Cwithout a parent present to stop rock and roll "jam sessions" at
S02241956Clocal clubs.
S02241961 the Leakeys unearth the bones of the earliest human,
S02241961CAustralopithecus.
S02241968 three U.S. Marine battalions and South Vietnamese troops liberate
S02241968CHue.
S02241971 the Supreme Court rules that illegally obtained evidence,
S02241971Cgenerally inadmissible in a criminal trial, could be used to
S02241971Ccontradict a defendant's voluntary testimony.
S02241980 the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeats Finland for the gold medal.
S02241982 Wayne Gretzky scores his 78th goal of the season to break Phil
S02241982CEsposito's single-season NHL scoring record.
S02241983 a congressional committee concludes the internment of 140,000
S02241983CJapanese-Americans during World War II was a grave injustice.
S02241987 a 50,000-year-old supernova is sighted.
S02241988 the right to criticize public figures is endorsed by the Supreme
S02241988CCourt (Rev. Jerry Falwell v. "Hustler" magazine).
S02241991 the ground war starts at 0400 hours in the Persian Gulf War.
S02241993 with 21 inches of snow on the ground, Cleveland records it
S02241993Cheaviest accumulation in the city's history.
S02241994 a date is set to end court mandated busing in Cleveland,
S02241994Cproviding certain requirements are met (July 1, 1997).
S02241994 the scoreboard is unveiled at the new Indians park (Jacobs Field)
S02241994Cat Gateway.
S0224     Feast of St. Matthias, who took the place of Judas, martyr,
S0224       (Protestant).
R0224    3It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0224    4It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0224    5It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0224    6It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0224    3It's National Engineers Week.
R0224    4It's National Engineers Week.
R0224    5It's National Engineers Week.
R0224    6It's National Engineers Week.
R0224    7It's National Engineers Week.
S0224     Flag Day (Mexico).
S0224     Proclamation of Baire (Cuba).
S0224     Estonia Independence Day.
S02251791 the Bank of the United States (the national bank system) is
S02251791Ccreated.
S02251836 the revolving barrel six shooter is patented by Samuel Colt.
S02251837 Thomas Davenport of Rutland, Vermont patents the electric
S02251837Cprinting press.
S02251838 a London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward and 20 miles forward
S02251838Cin 8 hours.
S02251863 Congress passes the National Banking Act, providing for a system
S02251863Cof national banks.
S02251867 a survey for a canal at Darien, Panama, to connect the Atlantic
S02251867Cand Pacific oceans is provided for by a Congressional resolution.
S02251870 Hiram R. Revels (R) becomes the first black senator in the U.S.
S02251870CSenate (Mississippi).
S02251885 fencing on public lands in the West is prohibited by an act of
S02251885CCongress.
S02251919 Oregon is the first state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon).
S02251913 the 16th Amendment is adopted, setting the legal basis for an
S02251913Cincome tax.
S02251925 the last relay of dog teams at last reach Nome, Alaska, with
S02251925Cantidiphtheria serum.  (Gunner Kasson, who made the final lap,
S02251925Carrived blind and nearly dead from cold.)
S02251933 the "U.S.S. Ranger," the first U.S. aircraft carrier, is
S02251933Claunched.
S02251940 the first telecast of a professional hockey game is aired, the
S02251940CNew York Rangers vs. Montreal Canadians.
S02251951 the first Pan-American Games begin, held in Buenos Aires,
S02251951CArgentina (the U.S. finished second, behind Argentina).
S02251956 closed-circuit TV for instruction purposes is first installed
S02251956Cin a Schenectady public school.
S02251961 President Kennedy names Kissinger National Security Advisor.
S02251964 Cassius Clay, a 7-1 underdog, stops champion Sonny Liston in the
S02251964C7th round to win the world heavyweight title.
S02251969 Mariner 6 is launched toward Mars.
S02251969 a boycott of spring training by baseball players ends with the
S02251969Csigning of a 3-year pact.
S02251976 the Soviets admit, after 15 years, they have transmitted
S02251976Cmicrowaves at the American Embassy in Moscow to disrupt U.S.
S02251976Ceavesdroping equipment.
S02251977 Pete Maravich sets an NBA record for a guard by scoring 68 points
S02251977Cin a game against the New York Nicks.
S02251986 Ferninand Marcos flees the Philippines, defeated at the polls by
S02251986CCory Aquino.
S02251987 the Supreme Court upholds racial quotas for job promotions.
S02251987 Fawn Hill admits destroying papers for her boss, Lt. Col. Oliver
S02251987CNorth.
S02251989 the new owner of the Dallas Cowboys fires coach Tom Landry after
S02251989Ca 29-year career.
S02251993 in an NFL strategy to offset the vagaries created by free agency,
S02251993Cten teams designate their "franchise players."
S0225     Feast of St. Felix, Pope and confessor.
S0225     Feast of St. Walpurgis, abbess.
R0225    4It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0225    5It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0225    6It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0225    4It's National Engineers Week.
R0225    5It's National Engineers Week.
R0225    6It's National Engineers Week.
R0225    7It's National Engineers Week.
S0225     Kuwait's National Day.
S0225     Time of the Old Woman (Moroccan).
S02261732 the only Roman Catholic Church built and maintained in America
S02261732Cuntil the Revolutionary War holds its first mass in Philadelphia
S02261847 the first act of cannibalism by the starving survivors of the
S02261847CDonner party at Truckee (now Donner) Lake occurs.
S02261863 President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act.
S02261881 the S.S. Ceylon begins the first round-the-world cruise from
S02261881CLiverpool.
S02261885 under pressure from labor groups, Congress passes the Contract
S02261885CLabor Law, or the Foran Act, to further restrict immigration.
S02261891 the first buffalo is purchased for Golden Gate Park in S.F.
S02261895 Michael Joseph Owens patents a glass blowing machine.
S02261914 the first long-distance phone conversation via underground cable
S02261914Coccurs.
S02261914 the Museum of Peaceful Arts (now the N.Y. Museum of Science and
S02261914CIndustry) is established.
S02261921 the Cleveland Clinic formally opens its doors.
S02261933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony is held at Crissy
S02261933CField.
S02261935 Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrates radar.
S02261936 the Volkswagen (the People's car in German) built by Ferdinand
S02261936CPorsch makes its debut.
S02261945 a midnight curfew is ordered on all places of amusement (lifted
S02261945CMay 9).
S02261954 Michigan representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation
S02261954Cthat would ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy"
S02261954Cphonograph (rock and roll) records.
S02261966 the first Apollo test flight is successfully completed.
S02261970 the Army announces it would discontinue surveillance of civilian
S02261970Cdemonstrations and maintenance of files on civilians who might be
S02261970Cinvolved in civil disturbances.
S02261986 Robert Penn Warren becomes the first U.S. poet laureate.
S02261987 the Tower Commission's report on the Iran-Contra affair is
S02261987Ccritical of Pres. Reagan's actions and judgment, and said Reagan
S02261987Cmust take responsibility for the policy which caused U.S.
S02261987Cembarrassment abroad.
S02261993 the worst U.S. terrorist bombing occurs at N.Y.'s World Trade
S02261993CTower South.
S02261994 the U.S. wins a silver medal in the men's Short Track 5,000
S02261994CRelay, setting a record for the number of medals won by the U.S.
S02261994Cin a Winter Olympics - 13 (6 gold, 5 silver, 2 bronze).
S0226     Feast of St. Alexander, Bishop of Alexandria.
R0226    5It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0226    6It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0226    5It's National Engineers Week.
R0226    6It's National Engineers Week.
R0226    7It's National Engineers Week.
S0226     Day of Mihr (Armenian).
S02271189 Richard the Lion Hearted ascends the throne of England.
S02271776 North Carolina patriots and Loyalists fight at Moore's Creek
S02271776CBridge, one of the first crucial actions of the war.
S02271813 steamboat mail delivery is authorized by the U.S. government.
S02271844 Dominican Republic gains it's independence.
S02271879 Constantine Fahlberg and Ira Remsen announce the discovery of
S02271879Csaccharin.
S02271883 Oscar Hammerstein patents the first cigar-rolling machine.
S02271910 using an x-ray machine for the first time in an operating
S02271910Ctheater, doctors locate and remove a nail from a boy's lung.
S02271919 the American Association for the Hard of Hearing is formed.
S02271922 Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover calls a conference where a
S02271922Csystem for allocating radio wavelengths is agreed on.
S02271927 South Carolina officials for the second Sunday in a row enforce
S02271927Cthat state's century-old law against violating the Sabbath by
S02271927Carresting golfers in the act of teeing off.
S02271939 the sit-down strike is declared illegal by the U.S. Supreme
S02271939CCourt.
S02271951 the 22nd Amendment, limiting the president to 2 terms, is
S02271951Cratified.
S02271956 Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel", his second record and his
S02271956Cfirst #1 hit, is released.
S02271962 two South Vietnamese planes bomb the presidential palace in
S02271962CSaigon.
S02271966 Peggy Fleming wins gold in the world championship figure skating.
S02271977 Eric Heiden becomes the first American to win three gold speed
S02271977Cskating titles in one year.
S02271979 Barbara Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize historian, is elected the first
S02271979Cwoman president of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and
S02271979CLetters.
S02271983 Eammon Coghlan sets the indoor mile record, 3:49:78.
S02271984 U.S. Marines, part of the U.N. Peacekeeping Force, leave Beirut,
S02271984Cand are placed on U.S. ships offshore.
S02271987 the Tower Commission, investigating the Iran-contra affair, state
S02271987Cin their report that President Reagan was confused and
S02271987Cuninformed, and faulted several members of his staff.
S02271991 the Senate Ethics Committee finds evidence of misconduct by
S02271991CSenator Cranston, and reprimands four others (including Ohio
S02271991CSenator John Glenn), in the Keating Five investigation.
S02271993 the "Babylon 5" pilot is shown on WUAB Channel 43 (the show
S02271993Cpremieres 11 months later).
S02271994 the Hubble Space Telescope photographs a massive black hole in
S02271994Cthe M87 galaxy, the largest ever discovered.
S0227     Feast of St. Leander, Bishop of Seville, confessor.
S0227     Feast of St. Gabriel Possenti.
R0227    6It's National Future Farmer of America Week.
R0227    6It's National Engineers Week.
R0227    7It's National Engineers Week.
S0227     Dominican Republic Independence Day (Haiti 1844).
S0227     Statehood Day (West Indies Associated States).
S0227     Day of Selene (Moon Goddess).
S02281665 Duke's Laws, sponsored by James, Duke of York, officially
S02281665Crecognizes all Protestant sects in New York.
S02281692 the Salem witch hunt begins.
S02281810 the American Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia is organized.
S02281827 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (B.& O.) is incorporated.
S02281849 the first steamship enters San Francisco Bay.
S02281854 the Republican Party is organized, in Ripon, Wisconsin (hold
S02281854Ctheir first convention July 6).
S02281861 Colorado Territory is established.
S02281871 the second Force Act is passed by Congress, bringing State and
S02281871Ccongressional elections under Federal supervision.
S02281883 the first vaudeville theater opens.
S02281893 Edward Goodrich Acheson receives a patent for carborundum.
S02281914 construction begins on the Tower of Jewels for the Exposition in
S02281914CSan Francisco.
S02281931 Cleveland records the least amount of snowfall for the month of
S02281931CFebruary (1/2 inch!).
S02281940 college basketball is televised for the first time, Fordham
S02281940CUniversity vs. the University of Pittsburgh from Madison Square
S02281940CGarden.
S02281956 Forrester is issued a patent for the computer core memory.
S02281959 Discoverer 1, the first satellite in the Discoverer military
S02281959Cresearch program, is launched from Vandenberg AFB, Ca.
S02291960 the publishing firm of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. is
S02291960Cestablished with the merger of Henry Holt & Co. with Rinehart &
S02291960CCo. and the John C. Winston Company.
S02281967 Wilt Chamberlain establishes an NBA record with his 37th
S02281967Cconsecutive field goal.
S02281970 bicycles are now permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge.
S02281973 about 250 members of the American Indian Movement seize a trading
S02281973Cpost and church at Wounded Knee, S.D., demanding the Senate start
S02281973Ca inquiry into government treatment of Indians (occupation ends
S02281973CMay 8).
S02281977 the coldest winter on record ends with an average temperature of
S02281977C19.8 degrees, 8.2 degrees below normal.  (The National Weather
S02281977CService figures average winter temperatures from Dec. 1 to Feb.
S02281977C28).
S02281983 the "M*A*S*H" series finale is broadcasted.
S02281986 John Demjanjuk is extradited to Israel.
S02281990 the 34th Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 6 is launched.
S02281991 the Persian Gulf War ends.
S02281992 the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian places on
S02281992Cexhibit more than 80 costumes, props and models from the TV show
S02281992C"Star Trek" (including Spock's ears, Kirk's uniform and the
S02281992Cmodel of the "Enterprise").
S02281993 Cleveland records the snowiest February ever with 39.1 inches of
S02281993Csnow.
S02281993 the U.S. begins airdropping food and medical supplies to war-torn
S02281993CBosnia.
S02281993 75 ATF agents stage a poorly planned and executed raid on the
S02281993CBranch Davidians compound in Waco, Texas and are repulsed, 4
S02281993Ckilled, 15 wounded, at least 6 cult members killed.
S02281994 in the first military clash in NATO's history, at 12:45 EST, U.S.
S02281994CF-16 fighters shoot down 4 Serbian warplanes in the no-fly zone
S02281994Cover Bosnia after the Serbian jets bomb a munitions plant.
S02281994 the Brady Law takes effect, requiring handgun buyers to submit to
S02281994Ca five day waiting period and a criminal background check.
S0228     Feast of St. Romanus, abbot.
R0228    7It's National Engineers Week.
S0228     Buddha's Conception (celebrated in Tibet).
S0228     Action Line Day.
S0228     Bachelors Day (in non-leap years).
S02291804 the Democratic-Republican Party holds the first open
S02291804Ccongressional caucus in Washington, D.C. (nominates Thomas
S02291804CJefferson for president).
S02291892 Great Britain and the U.S. concludes a treaty on seal hunting in
S02291892Cthe Bering Sea.
S02291904 President Theodore Roosevelt appoints the Panama Canal Commission
S02291894Cto oversee the construction of the canal.
S02291940 Hattie McDaniel becomes the first black woman to win an Oscar
S02291940C(best supporting actress in "Gone With the  Wind").
S02291952 President Truman signs a bill designating September 17 as annual
S02291952CCitizenship Day.
S02291956 Pakistan proclaims itself an Islamic republic effective March 23.
S02291968 the first discovery of a "pulsar" is announced (Jocelyn Burnell).
S02291968 the President's Commission on Civil Disorders issues a report
S02291968Cthat found white racism to be major cause of black violence in
S02291968Cthe U.S.
S02291972 Hank Aaron signs a contract with the Atlanta Braves to become the
S02291972Cfirst major leaguer to earn $200,000 a year.
S02291972 Cesar Chevez signs Florida's first contract for migrant farm
S02291972Cworkers.
S02291976 "The Sound of Music" is first shown on TV.
S02291980 Gordie Howe become the first NHL player to score 800 career
S02291980Cgoals.
S02291992 Muslim-led Bosnia-Herzegovina votes in favor of independence from
S02291992CYugoslavia.
S0229     A LEAP Year!
S0229     Leap Year Day - when women in Britain can propose marriage (until
S0229       the 19th century in Britain, a man was obliged to give a woman
S0229       a silk gown whose marriage proposal he refused during leap
S0229       year).
S0229     Bachelors Day.
R0200     It's American History Month.
R0200     It's Black History Month.
R0200     It's Boy Scouts of America Anniversary Month.
R0200     It's National Children's Dental Health Month.
R0200     It's Creative Romance Month!
R0200     It's National Cherry Month!
R0200     It's National Potato-Lovers Month!
R0200     It's Canned Food Month!
R0200     It's Return Shopping Carts Month!!
R0200     February comes from the Latin word "to purify".  Called
R0200       Febraulia, it was originally the last of the 12 months, when
R0200       temples and cities were purified for the coming new-year.
R0200     The amethyst is the birthstone for this month.
R0200     The primrose and violet are the flowers of February.
R0200     The sentimental meaning of the amethyst is for sincerity, and the
R0200       primrose and violet are for modesty.
R0200     The full moon in February is known as the Snow Moon, the Storm
R0200       Moon, and the Moon of Hungar.
R02010219 Aquarius is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R02010219   Symbol: The Water Bearer.
R02010219   Ruling Planet: Uranus.
R02010219   Element: Air.
R02010219   Traits: Humanitarian, independent, inventive, aloof.
R02010219   Body part associated with this sign: The legs.
R02010219   Occupations: Teacher, social worker, astronomer, astrologer,
R02010219     scientist, inventor.
R02200229 Pisces is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R02200229   Symbol: The Fishes.
R02200229   Ruling Planet: Neptune.
R02200229   Element: Water.
R02200229   Traits: Sympathetic, sensitive, emotional, imaginative.
R02200229   Body part associated with this sign: The feet.
R02200229   Occupations: Medicine, teacher, fisherman, dancing and the
R02200229     arts, clergy.

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S03011642 Georgeana, Maine becomes the first city to be incorporated in
S03011642CNorth America.
S03011753 St. David's Day is first celebrated.
S03011780 Pennsylvania becomes the first state to abolish slavery (Vermont
S03011780Chad not yet joined the Union).
S03011781 the Articles of Confederation are ratified (Maryland is the last
S03011781Cto ratify).
S03011790 the first U.S. census is authorized.
S03011803 Ohio becomes the 17th state, and the General Assembly of Ohio is
S03011803Corganized and holds its first meeting at the state capitol in
S03011803CChillicothe (the unofficial date is Feb. 19).
S03011809 the Embargo Act is repealed, and President Jefferson signs the
S03011809CNon-Intercourse Act in retaliation for English and French
S03011809Cinterference in American shipping.
S03011859 the present seal of San Francisco is adopted (2nd seal for city).
S03011864 a patent is issued for taking and projecting motion pictures to
S03011864CLouis Ducos du Hauron (he never built such a machine, though).
S03011864 Rebecca Lee becomes the first black woman doctor in the U.S.
S03011867 Nebraska becomes the 37th state.
S03011872 Yellowstone becomes the world's first national park.
S03011879 Library of Hawaii is founded.
S03011893 the Diplomatic Appropriation Act is passed by Congress,
S03011893Cauthorizing the rank of ambassador (up until then, the highest
S03011893Cdiplomatic title was minister).
S03011912 the first successful in-flight parachute jump is completed.
S03011913 the Webb-Kenyon Interstate Liquor Act is passed over Pres.
S03011913CTaft's veto, stating that no liquor could be shipped into dry
S03011913Cstates.
S03011927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank.
S03011932 Charles Lindbergh, Jr. is kidnapped (found dead May 12).
S03011933 bank holidays are declared in six states, effectively preventing
S03011933Cruns on bank assets by worried depositors.
S03011937 the first permanent automobile license plates are issued in
S03011937CConnecticut.
S03011941 "Captain America" first appears in a comic book.
S03011942 the 3-day Battle of the Java Sea ends as a major U.S. naval
S03011942Cdefeat.
S03011950 Chiang Kai-shek resumes the presidency of National China (on
S03011950CFormosa).
S03011952 a moral code is adopted by the television industry.
S03011954 five congressman are shot by Puerto Rican nationalists in the
S03011954CHouse of Representatives.
S03011961 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps (formally
S03011961Cestablished Sept. 22, 1961).
S03011962 Uganda becomes a self governing country.
S03011962 in the biggest antitrust  case in U.S. history, E.I. du Pont de
S03011962CNemours & Company is ordered by a federal court to divest itself
S03011962Cof 63 million shares of G.M. stock.
S03011966 the Soviet Venera 3 becomes the first manmade object to impact on
S03011966Ca planet (Venus).
S03011969 the Doors' Jim Morrison is arrested for exposing his private
S03011969Cparts during a concert in Miami.
S03011970 the U.S. ends commercial whale hunting.
S03011971 a bomb explodes in the Senate wing of the Capitol in protest of
S03011971CU.S. military action in Laos.
S03011971 the licensing of commercial whale hunters is ordered halted by
S03011971CSecretary of Commerce Maurice Stans.
S03011973 Robyn Smith becomes the first woman jockey to win a stakes race,
S03011973Con "North Sea" in the Paumonok Handicap at Aqueduct Raceway.
S03011974 a grand jury indicts seven Nixon aides for conspiracy in the
S03011974CWatergate cover-up.
S03011975 "Best of My Love" reaches #1 on Billboards' Hot 100 chart, the
S03011975Cfirst of the Eagles' 5 singles to top the chart.
S03011977 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards.
S03011977 the U.S. extends its fishing limits to 200 miles.
S03011982 the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art in Malibu, Ca., receives $1.1
S03011982Ctrillion from his estate.
S03011985 the Pentagon accepts the theory that an atomic war would cause a
S03011985Cnuclear winter.
S03011993 the new expansion NHL team owned by Disney is named the Mighty
S03011993CDucks.
S0301     Feast of St. David, patron saint of Wales.
S0301     Feast of St. Albinus, Bishop and confessor.
S0301     Birthday of the Virgin Mary - Coptic (Egyptian) and Abyssinian
S0301       Churches.
S0301    3Town Meeting Day (Vermont).
R0301    1Girl Scout Week begins.
R0301    1Save Your Vision Week begins.
R0301    1American Camping Week begins.
R0301    1National Aardvark Week begins.
R0301    1Return the Borrow Book Week begins.
R0301    1National Procrastination Week begins.
S0301     National Pig Day.
S0301     International Day of the Seal.
R0301    7Iditarod Race begins.
S0301     Korea Independence Movement Day (South Korea).
S0301     Heroes Day (Paraguay).
S0301     Panamanian Constitution Day.
S0301     Omizutori or Water-Drawing Festival begins (2 weeks in Japan).
S0301     Eight Hour Day (Tasmania).
S0301     Commemoration of the Arrival of Martin Pinzon (Bayona, Spain).
S0301     Whuppity Scoorie (Scotland).
S0301     Matronalia (Roman festival honoring Juno, the supreme goddess,
S0301       when patrician women held feasts for their slaves).
S0301     Festival of Vesta (Roman festival honoring Vesta, goddess of
S0301       fire, the home and cooking, patron goddess of women).
S03021717 the first ballet is performed in London.
S03021789 a Pennsylvania law prohibiting theatrical performances is
S03021789Crepealed.
S03021807 an act of Congress making slave importation into the U.S. illegal
S03021807Cis passed (effective 1/1/1808).
S03021819 Arkansas Territory is organized.
S03021819 the U.S. passes its first immigration law.
S03021824 interstate commerce comes under federal control as a result of
S03021824Cthe steamboat case, Gibbons v. Ogden.
S03021829 the New England Asylum for the Blind, the first U.S. school for
S03021829Cthe blind, is founded in Boston by John Dix Fisher.
S03021833 the Force Bill becomes law, giving the president the right to use
S03021833Cfederal troops to collect custom duties in North Carolina.
S03021833 Congress establishes the first U.S. Dragoons (Calvary).
S03021836 Texas declares independence from Mexico.
S03021853 Washington Territory is organized after separation from the
S03021853COregon Territory.
S03021858 Frederick Cook patents the cotton-bale metallic tie.
S03021861 Congress creates the Dakota and Nevada territories.
S03021863 Congress authorizes a track width of 4' 8 1/2" as the standard
S03021863Cfor the Union Pacific Railroad (becomes the accepted width for
S03021863Cmost of the world).
S03021867 Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act over President
S03021867CJohnson's veto .
S03021871 Lakewood's Board Of Education holds its first meeting.
S03021874 Cleveland's 3 Mile Crib begins operations.
S03021901 first telegraph company in Hawaii opens.
S03021917 Congress passes the Jones Act, making Puerto Rico a U.S.
S03021917Cterritory and its inhabitants U.S. citizens.
S03021925 the U.S. adopts a national road numbering system.
S03021929 the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals is created by
S03021929CCongress.
S03021933 the most powerful earthquake in the last 180 years strikes Japan
S03021933C(8.9 on the Richter scale).
S03021944 Gen. MacArthur returns to his headquarters on Leyte.
S03021946 Ho Chi Minh is elected president of the Democratic Republic of
S03021946C(North) Vietnam.
S03021949 the first automatic street light is put in use (New Milford, Ct).
S03021949 the first non-stop round-the-world flight is completed by the
S03021949CUSAF Boeing B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II.
S03021956 Morocco gains independence from France.
S03021958 the first surface crossing of the Antarctic continent is
S03021958Ccompleted (99 days).
S03021962 Wilt Chamberlain scores the most points in a professional game,
S03021962C100, against the Knicks.
S03021964 filming begins on the Beatles "A Hard Day's Night".
S03021969 the Concorde makes its maiden flight.
S03021970 the Supreme Court rules draft evaders can not be penalized after
S03021970Cfive years.
S03021970 Timothy Leary, former Harvard psychology professor and LSD
S03021970Cadvocate, is given 10 years for smuggling marijuana.
S03021970 American Airlines' first flight of Boeing 747 occurs.
S03021974 a grand jury concludes President Nixon was involved in the
S03021974CWatergate cover-up.
S03021974 first class postage is raised to 10 cents from 8 cents.
S03021976 Walt Disney World's 50-millionth guest visits.
S03021977 film star Bette Davis becomes the first woman to receive the Life
S03021977CAchievement Award of the American Film Institute.
S0302     Feast of St. Simplicius, Pope and confessor.
S0302     Texas Independence Day.
R0302    1Girl Scout Week begins.
R0302    1Save Your Vision Week begins.
R0302    1American Camping Week begins.
R0302    1National Aardvark Week begins.
R0302    1Return the Borrow Book Week begins.
R0302    1National Procrastination Week begins.
R0302    2It's Girl Scout Week.
R0302    2It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0302    2It's American Camping Week.
R0302    2It's National Aardvark Week.
R0302    2It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0302    2It's National Procrastination Week.
R0302    7Iditarod Race begins.
R0302    1It's Iditarod Race Week.
S0302    3Town Meeting Day (Vermont).
S0302     Old Stuff Day.
S0302     Ceadda's Day (Ireland).
S0302     Guam Discovery Day.
S0302     Morocco Independence Day.
S0302     Peasants Day (Burma).
S0302     Victory of Adwa Commemoration Day (Ethiopia).
S03031634 the first tavern in Boston is opened.
S03031791 Congress passes a resolution ordering the U.S. Mint to be
S03031791Cestablished.
S03031791 the first internal revenue law is passed (a tax of 20 to 30 cents
S03031791Ca gallon is put on distilled spirits).
S03031803 Edward Tiffin, Ohio's first governor, takes the oath of office.
S03031805 Louisiana-Missouri Territory is established.
S03031812 Congress passes the first foreign aid bill.
S03031815 the U.S. declares war on Algiers for taking Americans prisoners
S03031815Cand demanding tribute.
S03031817 the Mississippi Territory is divided into the Alabama Territory
S03031817Cand the state of Mississippi.
S03031820 the Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri
S03031820C(repealed 1854).
S03031834 the Cleveland and Newburgh Railroad Company is incorporated,
S03031834CCleveland's first railroad (horse drawn).
S03031836 the first city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio City, is incorporated
S03031836C(now Cleveland's West Side.)
S03031837 the Supreme Court membership is increased from seven to nine by
S03031837Can act of Congress.
S03031842 Massachusetts passes a law stating that no child under twelve
S03031842Cyears of age could work more than ten hours a day.
S03031845 Florida becomes the 27th state.
S03031849 the Department of the Interior is created.
S03031849 Minnesota Territory is organized.
S03031849 the Gold Coinage Act is passed, allowing gold coins to be minted.
S03031851 Congress authorizes the smallest U.S. silver coin, the 3-cent
S03031851Cpiece.
S03031853 a transcontinental railroad survey, to find the most practical
S03031853Croute across the country, is authorized by Congress.
S03031863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for the National Academy of
S03031863CSciences.
S03031863 the first national draft law is passed (for $300, or buying a
S03031863Csubstitute, one could evade it).
S03031863 Idaho Territory is established.
S03031865 the Freedmen's Bureau is created by Congress to help destitute
S03031865Cbut free blacks of the South.
S03031871 an act is passed changing the status of Indian tribes from
S03031871Cindependent powers to dependents, so they can be handled easier
S03031871C(no treaties are therefore necessary).
S03031873 an act prohibiting the mailing of obscene literature is passed by
S03031873CCongress.
S03031875 a 20-cent coin is authorized by Congress. (It only lasts 3
S03031875Cyears.)
S03031875 the first organized hockey match is played (Montreal).
S03031879 the U.S. Geological Survey is created within the Department of
S03031879Cthe Interior, combining 4 independent but government-subsidized
S03031879Csurveys.
S03031883 the rebuilding of the U.S. Navy begins with appropriation by
S03031883CCongress of funds for the first steel vessels, 3 cruisers and a
S03031883Cdispatch boat.
S03031885 American Telephone and Telegraph is incorporated.
S03031887 Annie Sullivan begins teaching Helen Keller.
S03031891 the U.S. Courts of Appeal are created by an act of Congress.
S03031891 the Forest Reserve Act is signed, permitting the closing of
S03031891Cpublic forest land to settlement to establish national parks.
S03031895 Munich, Germany begins giving driving tests for bicycle riders.
S03031900 the United States Steel Corporation is formally organized.
S03031915 "The Birth of a Nation" has its first public opening in N.Y.C.
S03031917 Congress approves the first excess profits tax (superseded by the
S03031917CRevenue Act of 1917).
S03031923 Time magazine publishes their first issue.
S03031931 President Hoover signs a bill making "The Star Spangled Banner"
S03031931Cthe National Anthem.
S03031934 John Dillinger breaks jail using a wooden pistol.
S03031939 John Ford's "Stagecoach", starring John Wayne, premieres.
S03031953 a Canadian Pacific Comet jet crashes at Karachi, Pakistan,
S03031953Cbecoming the first commercial jet to be involved in a crash
S03031953Cresulting in fatalities.
S03031956 Morocco proclaims its independence from France (National Day).
S03031965 "My Girl" reaches #1 on Billboards' Hot 100 chart, the first of
S03031965Cthe Temptations' 4 singles to top the pop chart.
S03031966 the Buffalo Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al).
S03031969 Apollo 9 is launched in the first test of the lunar module.
S03031972 Pioneer 10 is launched toward Jupiter, the first man-made craft
S03031972Cto the giant planet.
S03031972 the sculptured mounted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee,
S03031972Cand Stonewall Jackson on Stone Mountain near Atlanta, Georgia
S03031972Cis completed.
S03031985 "Moonlighting" premieres.
S03031985 Willie Shoemaker becomes the first jockey to win $100 million in
S03031985Ccareer purse money, riding "Lord of War" in the Santa Anna
S03031985CHandicap in Arcadia, Ca.
S03031991 members of the L.A. police are videotaped beating Rodney Glenn
S03031991CKing.
S0303     Feast of St. Cunegundis, Pope and confessor.
S0303     Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival or Peach Blossom Festival),
S0303       celebrated in Japan.
S0303     Independence Day or Feast of the Throne (Morocco).
S0303     Florida Admission Day.
S0303     Bonza Bottler Day (Number of Day Matches the Number of the
S0303       Month).
R0303    1Save Your Vision Week begins.
R0303    1Girl Scout Week begins.
R0303    1American Camping Week begins.
R0303    1National Aardvark Week begins.
R0303    1Return the Borrow Book Week begins.
R0303    1National Procrastination Week begins.
R0303    2It's Girl Scout Week.
R0303    3It's Girl Scout Week.
R0303    2It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0303    3It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0303    2It's American Camping Week.
R0303    3It's American Camping Week.
R0303    2It's National Aardvark Week.
R0303    3It's National Aardvark Week.
R0303    2It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0303    3It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0303    2It's National Procrastination Week.
R0303    3It's National Procrastination Week.
R0303    7Iditarod Race begins.
R0303    1It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0303    2It's Iditarod Race Week.
S0303    3Town Meeting Day (Vermont).
S0303     Thanks to the Maple (Iroquois).
S0303     Malawi Martyr's Day.
S0303     National Anthem Day.
S0303     Sudanese Unity Day.
S0303     Bulgaria Liberation Day.
S0303     Festival of Idun (Teutonic goddess, born of flowers, possessed
S0303       apples that, by eating, the gods never got old).
S03041675 John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of Great
S03041675CBritain.
S03041681 King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for
S03041681CPennsylvania.
S03041712 the last witchcraft trial in England begins.
S03041774 the first recorded observation of the Orion Nebula is made by
S03041774CWilliam Herschel.
S03041789 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect.
S03041791 Vermont becomes the 14th state.
S03041792 oranges are introduced to Hawaii.
S03041793 Washington's second inauguration has the shortest speech (133
S03041793Cwords).
S03041801 the first presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. is
S03041801Cperformed (Thomas Jefferson).
S03041826 the first operational railroad in the U.S. is chartered, the
S03041826CGranite Railway in Quincy, Mass.
S03041833 the First Regiment of Dragoons is organized at Fort Jefferson,
S03041833CMo. under the command of Col. Henry Dodge (authorized Mar. 2).
S03041841 the longest presidential inauguration speech (8443 words) is
S03041841Crecited by William Henry Harrison.  (He catches pneumonia and
S03041841Cdies a month later.)
S03041845 Cleveland bans baseball from "any public place or square".
S03041849 David Rice Atchison, president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate,
S03041849Cbecomes president of the U.S. for a single day.
S03041861 Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated president of the United States.
S03041861 the Confederate States of America adopt the "Stars & Bars" as its
S03041861Cflag.
S03041863 Idaho Territory is established.
S03041881 James Garfield becomes the first president to use a telephone.
S03041891 the International Copyright Act is passed by Congress to halt
S03041891Cthe piracy of British, Belgium, French, and Swiss books by U.S.
S03041891Cpublishers.
S03041908 one of the the deadliest U.S. school fires claims 174 at Lakeview
S03041908CElementary in the Collinwood area of Cleveland, Ohio.
S03041913 the Departments of Commerce and Labor are created and the U.S.
S03041913CBoard of Mediation and Conciliation is established to settle
S03041913Clabor disputes.
S03041914 the first successful separation of Siamese twins is performed.
S03041930 Coolidge Dam in Arizona is dedicated.
S03041930 Mrs. Charles Fahning of Buffalo, New York, becomes the first
S03041930Cwoman to bowl a perfect game under sanctioned competition rules.
S03041933 at the first presidential inauguration broadcasted on radio,
S03041933CRoosevelt says, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself".
S03041933 Frances Perkins becomes the Secretary of Labor, the first woman
S03041933Cto hold a cabinet-level position.
S03041934 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson is dedicated.
S03041943 the 3-day Battle of the Bismarch Sea ends as a major U.S. victory
S03041943Cin the Pacific, sinking a convoy of 22 Japanese ships.
S03041955 the first radio facsimile transmission is sent across the
S03041955Ccontinent.
S03041958 the first addition of the Cleveland Museum of Art is completed.
S03041959 Pioneer IV makes the first U.S. lunar flyby.
S03041962 the Atomic Energy Commission announces that the first atomic
S03041962Cpower plant in Antarctica is in operations at McMurdo Sound.
S03041973 scientists report the rings of Saturn are composed of large
S03041973Cchunks of solid matter.
S03041973 the International Track Association launches its first season of
S03041973Cprofessional meets.
S03041974 People magazine first hits the newstands.
S03041975 Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
S03041976 Pan Am becomes the first airline charged with criminal negligence
S03041976Cin a crash.
S03041977 the first CRAY 1 supercomputer is shipped to Los Alamos
S03041977CLaboratories, NM.
S03041979 U.S. Voyager I photos reveal Jupiter's rings.
S03041984 the Television Academy Hall of Fame is established (first
S03041984Cinductees: Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Paddy Chayefsky, Norman
S03041984CLear, Edward R. Murrow, William S. Paley, and David Sarnoff).
S03041985 a virtual ban on leaded gasoline is ordered by the EPA, requiring
S03041985Cthe removal of 90% of the lead from gas by the end of the year.
S0304     Feast of St. Casimir, confessor.
S0304     Vermont Admission Day.
R0304    1Save Your Vision Week begins.
R0304    1Girl Scout Week begins.
R0304    1American Camping Week begins.
R0304    1National Aardvark Week begins.
R0304    1Return the Borrow Book Week begins.
R0304    1National Procrastination Week begins.
R0304    2It's Girl Scout Week.
R0304    3It's Girl Scout Week.
R0304    4It's Girl Scout Week.
R0304    2It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0304    3It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0304    4It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0304    2It's American Camping Week.
R0304    3It's American Camping Week.
R0304    4It's American Camping Week.
R0304    2It's National Aardvark Week.
R0304    3It's National Aardvark Week.
R0304    4It's National Aardvark Week.
R0304    2It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0304    3It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0304    4It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0304    2It's National Procrastination Week.
R0304    3It's National Procrastination Week.
R0304    4It's National Procrastination Week.
R0304    7Iditarod Race begins.
R0304    1It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0304    2It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0304    3It's Iditarod Race Week.
S0304    3Town Meeting Day (Vermont).
S0304     Mothering Day (England).
S0304     Maha Sivarathri Day.
S0304     Mahashiva Ratri (Nepal).
S03051496 King Henry VII grants John Cabot a charter to explore new lands
S03051496Cnorth, west and east of England.
S03051521 Megellan arrives in the Marianas.
S03051623 Virginia enacts North America's first temperance law.
S03051770 the infamous Boston Massacre occurs.
S03051836 the City of Cleveland is incorporated.
S03051845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western U.S.
S03051868 the stapler is patented in Birmingham, England by C.H. Gould.
S03051872 George Westinghouse patents the triple air brake.
S03051894 Cleveland annexes West Cleveland.
S03051900 the American Hall of Fame is founded.
S03051912 the Italians are the first to use dirigibles for military
S03051912Cpurposes (reconnaissance.)
S03051922 WHK is the first radio station in Cleveland, and one of the first
S03051922C6 stations in the country.
S03051922 Murnau's "Nosferatu", the first Dracula movie, premieres in
S03051922CGermany.
S03051922 Montana and Nevada pass the nation's first old-age pension grants
S03051922C($25 per month.)
S03051929 the first musical comedy movie, "Broadway Melodies", is released
S03051929Cin the United States.
S03051933 a week-long national bank holiday is approved on this day,
S03051933CSunday, by a special session of Congress (begins the next day).
S03051940 Stalin orders the execution of 25,700 Polish officers and other
S03051940Cnotables whose bodies are later found in the Katyn Forrest.
S03051956 "King Kong" is first televised.
S03051962 the Supreme Court rules airports must compensate neighbors for
S03051962Cnoise and vibrations.
S03051963 country singer Patsy Cline dies in an airplane crash.
S03051966 baseball's N.L. Players Association appoints Marvin Miller as
S03051966Ctheir labor negotiator.
S03051979 Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter occurs (172,000 miles).
S03051979 alimony laws requiring payments by divorced husbands but not by
S03051979Cdivorced wives are ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
S03051980 a large burst of gamma rays is recorded by earth satellites
S03051980Ccoming from the remnant of supernova N-49 in the Large Magellanic
S03051980CCloud.
S03051984 the Supreme Court rules cities may display the Nativity scene as
S03051984Cpart of the Christmas display.
S0305     Feast of St. Phocus, martyr.
S0305     Crispus Attucks Day (victim of the Boston Massacre).
R0305    1Save Your Vision Week begins.
R0305    1Girl Scout Week begins.
R0305    1American Camping Week begins.
R0305    1National Aardvark Week begins.
R0305    1Return the Borrow Book Week begins.
R0305    1National Procrastination Week begins.
R0305    5It's Girl Scout Week.
R0305    4It's Girl Scout Week.
R0305    3It's Girl Scout Week.
R0305    2It's Girl Scout Week.
R0305    5It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0305    4It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0305    3It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0305    2It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0305    5It's American Camping Week.
R0305    4It's American Camping Week.
R0305    3It's American Camping Week.
R0305    2It's American Camping Week.
R0305    5It's National Aardvark Week.
R0305    4It's National Aardvark Week.
R0305    3It's National Aardvark Week.
R0305    2It's National Aardvark Week.
R0305    5It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0305    4It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0305    3It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0305    2It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0305    5It's National Procrastination Week.
R0305    4It's National Procrastination Week.
R0305    3It's National Procrastination Week.
R0305    2It's National Procrastination Week.
R0305    7Iditarod Race begins.
R0305    1It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0305    2It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0305    3It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0305    4It's Iditarod Race Week.
S0305    3Town Meeting Day (Vermont).
S0305     Equatorial Guinean National Holiday.
S0305     Gospel Arrival in Polynesia.
S0305     Labour Day (Western Australia).
S0305     Celebration of Isis (North African).
S03061665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" is first
S03061665Cpublished, and is still published today.
S03061820 the Missouri Enabling Act is passed, authorizing the people of
S03061820CMissouri to draft a constitution and form a state government.
S03061831 Edgar Allen Poe is expelled from West Point.
S03061836 the Alamo falls.  Remember it!
S03061853 "La Traviata" is performed for the first time.
S03061857 the Dred Scott decision is held by the Supreme Court (Dred Scott
S03061857Cv Sandford), allowing that no black - slave or free - could be a
S03061857Ccitizen of the U.S.
S03061858 Father Isaac Hecker founds the Missionary Society of St. Paul the
S03061858CApostle (Paulists) in New York City.
S03061869 the first international cycle race is held in England.
S03061886 America's first alternating current power plant goes into
S03061886Coperation in Great Barrington, Mass.
S03061902 a permanent office of the Bureau of Census is established.
S03061902 at a convention in Cleveland, the United Trades and Labor Council
S03061902Cof Cuyahoga County is formed.
S03061906 Nora Blatch becomes the first woman elected to American Society
S03061906Cof Civil Engineers.
S03061921 the police of Sunbury, Pa. issue an edict requiring women to wear
S03061921Cskirts at least four inches below the knee.
S03061921 the National Assn. of Moving Picture Industry announces plan for
S03061921Cthe censorship of U.S. movies.
S03061930 Clarence Birdseye puts the first individually packaged frozen
S03061930Cfoods on sale, in Springfield, Mass.
S03061944 Berlin is bombed by 800 U.S. Flying Fortresses.
S03061957 Ghana gains independence.
S03061964 Cassius Clay changes his name to Cassius X. Clay.
S03061980 the French Academy elects novelist Marguerita Youcenar, the first
S03061980Cwoman honored since its founding in 1635.
S03061981 Walter Cronkite's makes his final CBS anchor appearance.
S03061983 the FDA approves the new sponge contraceptive.
S03061983 the new United States Football League (USFL) begins its first
S03061983Cseason (12 teams are scheduled to play an 18-game spring
S03061983Cschedule).
S03061986 Soviet Vega 1 probe passes within 5,500 miles of Halley's comet,
S03061986Csending back first pictures of its icy core.
S0306     Feast of St. Victor, martyr.
S0306     Feast of SS. Perpetua and Felicitas, martyrs. (Mar. 7 for
S0306       Anglicans).
S0306     Alamo Day (Texas).
S0306     International Day of the Seal.
R0306    1Save Your Vision Week begins.
R0306    1Girl Scout Week begins.
R0306    1American Camping Week begins.
R0306    1National Aardvark Week begins.
R0306    1Return the Borrow Book Week begins.
R0306    1National Procrastination Week begins.
R0306    6It's Girl Scout Week.
R0306    5It's Girl Scout Week.
R0306    4It's Girl Scout Week.
R0306    3It's Girl Scout Week.
R0306    2It's Girl Scout Week.
R0306    6It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0306    5It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0306    4It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0306    3It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0306    2It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0306    6It's American Camping Week.
R0306    5It's American Camping Week.
R0306    4It's American Camping Week.
R0306    3It's American Camping Week.
R0306    2It's American Camping Week.
R0306    6It's National Aardvark Week.
R0306    5It's National Aardvark Week.
R0306    4It's National Aardvark Week.
R0306    3It's National Aardvark Week.
R0306    2It's National Aardvark Week.
R0306    6It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0306    5It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0306    4It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0306    3It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0306    2It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0306    6It's National Procrastination Week.
R0306    5It's National Procrastination Week.
R0306    4It's National Procrastination Week.
R0306    3It's National Procrastination Week.
R0306    2It's National Procrastination Week.
R0306    7Iditarod Race begins.
R0306    1It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0306    2It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0306    3It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0306    4It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0306    5It's Iditarod Race Week.
S0306    3Town Meeting Day (Vermont).
S0306     Ghana Independence Day (Britain 1957).
S0306     King's Birthday (Cambodia or Kampuchea).
S0306     Magellan Day (Guam).
S0306     Start of Flowering Time (Celtic).
S03071583 the day is proclaimed Thomas Aquinas Day.
S03071778 Capt. James Cook first sights the Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay.
S03071804 Great Britain's Royal Horticultural Society is founded by John
S03071804CWedgwood.
S03071842 Ohio Wesleyan University is chartered in Delaware, Ohio.
S03071845 Chagrin Falls Township (Ohio) is founded by residents of Orange
S03071845Cand Solon townships and Chagrin Falls village.
S03071848 in Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed.
S03071854 Charles Miller patents a sewing machine that makes button holes.
S03071862 the 2-day Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., is fought (last reserves
S03071862Cprevented a Union disaster).
S03071867 the Order of the Knights of St. Crispin is founded to halt the
S03071867Crising unemployment in the U.S. shoe industry (protection of
S03071867Cseniority rights) - ends in 1878.
S03071869 the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first pro baseball team,
S03071869Cbegins an 8 month tour of the Midwest and the East.
S03071876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone (three days before
S03071876Cit actually works).
S03071894 the first dog-licensing law is enacted in the U.S.
S03071897 Johannes Brahms' Fourth Symphony is first performed (in Vienne).
S03071911 Willis S. Farnsworth patents the coin operated locker.
S03071917 the first jazz record, "The Dixie Jass Band One-Step", is
S03071917Creleased.
S03071918 the U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal is authorized by
S03071918CPresident Wilson.
S03071933 the game "Monopoly" is invented.
S03071936 Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles and sends troops into the
S03071936CRhineland.
S03071945 U.S. forces first cross the Rhine at Remagen using the Ludendorff
S03071945CRailway Bridge.  (Germany falls 2 months later.)
S03071955 Mary Martin as Peter Pan is first televised.
S03071962 the U.S. Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO I) is launched to begin
S03071962Cthe first comprehensive study of the sun from a satellite.
S03071967 Jimmy Hoffa, teamster president, begins eight-year jail sentence
S03071967Cfor defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec. 23,
S03071967C1971).
S03071973 the comet (Lubos) Kohoutek is discovered at Hamburg Observatory.
S03071977 the wrecking ball begins tearing down the Cleveland Arena.
S0307     Feast of St. Thomas of Aquin, confessor and doctor.
S0307     Feast of SS. Perpetua and Felicitas, martyrs (observed by
S0307       Anglicans).
R0307    1Save Your Vision Week begins
R0307    1Girl Scout Week begins.
R0307    1American Camping Week begins.
R0307    1National Aardvark Week begins.
R0307    1Return the Borrow Book Week begins.
R0307    1National Procrastination Week begins.
R0307    2It's Girl Scout Week.
R0307    3It's Girl Scout Week.
R0307    4It's Girl Scout Week.
R0307    5It's Girl Scout Week.
R0307    6It's Girl Scout Week.
R0307    7It's Girl Scout Week.
R0307    2It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0307    3It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0307    4It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0307    5It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0307    6It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0307    7It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0307    2It's American Camping Week.
R0307    3It's American Camping Week.
R0307    4It's American Camping Week.
R0307    5It's American Camping Week.
R0307    6It's American Camping Week.
R0307    7It's American Camping Week.
R0307    2It's National Aardvark Week.
R0307    3It's National Aardvark Week.
R0307    4It's National Aardvark Week.
R0307    5It's National Aardvark Week.
R0307    6It's National Aardvark Week.
R0307    7It's National Aardvark Week.
R0307    2It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0307    3It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0307    4It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0307    5It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0307    6It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0307    7It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0307    2It's National Procrastination Week.
R0307    3It's National Procrastination Week.
R0307    4It's National Procrastination Week.
R0307    5It's National Procrastination Week.
R0307    6It's National Procrastination Week.
R0307    7It's National Procrastination Week.
R0307    7Iditarod Race begins.
R0307    1It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0307    2It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0307    3It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0307    4It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0307    5It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0307    6It's Iditarod Race Week.
S0307    3Town Meeting Day (Vermont).
S0307     Luther Burbank Day.
S0307     Junonalia (Roman festival honoring Juno, the supreme goddess).
S03081855 the Niagara Falls railroad suspension bridge opens.
S03081862 the Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" is launched.
S03081887 Everett Horton patents the telescoping steel tube fishing rod.
S03081910 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris becomes first licensed
S03081910Cfemale pilot.
S03081927 Pan American Airlines is incorporated.
S03081934 an Edwin Hubble photograph shows as many galaxies as Milky Way
S03081934Cstars.
S03081945 the day is proclaimed International Women's Day.
S03081945 Phyllis M. Daley becomes the first black nurse to be sworn in as
S03081945Can ensign in the U.S. Navy.
S03081948 the Supreme Court rules religious instructions in public schools
S03081948Cis unconstitutional.
S03081950 the first woman medical officer is assigned to a naval vessel,
S03081950CB.R. Walters.
S03081952 a mechanical heart is used for the first time in a human being
S03081952Cat the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia.
S03081959 Groucho, Chico and Harpo's final TV appearance together airs.
S03081965 the first U.S. combat forces arrive in Vietnam.
S03081968 six-year-old Tommy Moore scores a hole-in-one in golf in
S03081968CHagerstown, Maryland.
S03081972 new guidelines for the classification of documents is announced
S03081972Cby President Nixon.
S03081977 the U.S. Army announces it has conducted 239 open-air tests of
S03081977Cgerm warfare.
S03081982 the U.S. accuses the Soviets of killing 3,000 Afghans with poison
S03081982Cgas.
S03081994 the N.Y. City Division of Schools Facilities attach doors to the
S03081994Cstalls in the girls' restroom at P.S. 206 in Brooklyn
S03081994C(requisitioned on May 25, 1989 - 1,747 days earlier).
S0308     Feast of St. John of God, confessor, patron saint of nurses.
S0308     International Women's Day.
S0308    3Town Meeting Day (New Hampshire).
R0308    1National Tornado and Flood Safety Week begins.
R0308    2It's Girl Scout Week.
R0308    3It's Girl Scout Week.
R0308    4It's Girl Scout Week.
R0308    5It's Girl Scout Week.
R0308    6It's Girl Scout Week.
R0308    7It's Girl Scout Week.
R0308    2It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0308    3It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0308    4It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0308    5It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0308    6It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0308    7It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0308    1Daffodil Days begins.
R0308    2It's American Camping Week.
R0308    3It's American Camping Week.
R0308    4It's American Camping Week.
R0308    5It's American Camping Week.
R0308    6It's American Camping Week.
R0308    7It's American Camping Week.
R0308    2It's National Aardvark Week.
R0308    3It's National Aardvark Week.
R0308    4It's National Aardvark Week.
R0308    5It's National Aardvark Week.
R0308    6It's National Aardvark Week.
R0308    7It's National Aardvark Week.
R0308    2It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0308    3It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0308    4It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0308    5It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0308    6It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0308    7It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0308    2It's National Procrastination Week.
R0308    3It's National Procrastination Week.
R0308    4It's National Procrastination Week.
R0308    5It's National Procrastination Week.
R0308    6It's National Procrastination Week.
R0308    7It's National Procrastination Week.
R0308    1It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0308    2It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0308    3It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0308    4It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0308    5It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0308    6It's Iditarod Race Week.
S0308     Be Nast-y Day.
S0308     Syrian Revolution Day (1963).
S03091497 Nicolaus Copernicus' first recorded astronomical observation
S03091497Coccurs.
S03091796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais.
S03091804 the U.S. buys the Louisiana Territory from France.
S03091822 the U.S. grants a patent for the first artificial teeth to
S03091822CCharles Graham.
S03091856 Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the largest U.S. fraternity, is founded.
S03091858 Albert Potts patents the mail box.
S03091862 the ironclads Monitor (Union) and Merrimack (Rebel) battle
S03091862Cin Hampton Roads.  It is a standoff, but Merrimack withdraws.
S03091864 General Grant becomes commander-in-chief of the Union Armies.
S03091916 Pancho Villa crosses the border and attacks Columbus, N.M.
S03091916C(General Pershing is soon sent into Mexico in pursuit).
S03091932 Eamon De Valera is elected president of the Irish Free State.
S03091937 Earthquake Anna strikes Shelby County, the most severe in Ohio's
S03091937Chistory.
S03091942 the construction of the Alaska Highway begins.  It is completed 8
S03091942Cmonths, 1523 miles, 233 bridges, 5 mountain ranges, and $115
S03091942Cmillion later by 18,000 workers.
S03091954 Edward R. Murrow criticizes Senator McCarthy on "See it Now".
S03091959 the first known radar contact is made with Venus.
S03091961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (a dog) into orbit.
S03091967 Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defects to the West.
S03091974 the last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in the
S03091974CPhilippines, surrenders, 29 years after WW II.
S03091975 the construction of the Alaskan oil pipeline begins at Sheep
S03091975CCreek Camp (completed June 20, 1977).
S03091975 the first International Women's Art Festival opens in N.Y. City.
S03091979 the first extraterrestrial volcano is discovered on Jupiter's
S03091979Csatellite, Io, by Linda Morabito at J.P.L.
S03091984 the record for the lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland
S03091984Cin March is tied, -5 degrees (first set in 1948).
S03091987 NASA, at the Ames Research Center in California, inaugurates the
S03091987CCray-2 supercomputer.
S03091993 the Indians play their exhibition season home opener against the
S03091993CWhite Sox at their new spring training facility, Chain O'Lakes
S03091993CStadium (1600 seats) in Winter Haven, Fla.
S0309     Feast of St. Frances of Rome, patron saint of motorists and
S0309       housewives.
S0309    3Town Meeting Day (New Hampshire).
S0309     Amerigo Vespucci Day.
R0309    1National Tornado and Flood Safety Week begins.
R0309    2It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0309    3It's Girl Scout Week.
R0309    4It's Girl Scout Week.
R0309    5It's Girl Scout Week.
R0309    6It's Girl Scout Week.
R0309    7It's Girl Scout Week.
R0309    1Daffodil Days begins.
R0309    2It's Daffodil Days.
R0309    3It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0309    4It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0309    5It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0309    6It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0309    7It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0309    3It's American Camping Week.
R0309    4It's American Camping Week.
R0309    5It's American Camping Week.
R0309    6It's American Camping Week.
R0309    7It's American Camping Week.
R0309    3It's National Aardvark Week.
R0309    4It's National Aardvark Week.
R0309    5It's National Aardvark Week.
R0309    6It's National Aardvark Week.
R0309    7It's National Aardvark Week.
R0309    3It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0309    4It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0309    5It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0309    6It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0309    7It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0309    3It's National Procrastination Week.
R0309    4It's National Procrastination Week.
R0309    5It's National Procrastination Week.
R0309    6It's National Procrastination Week.
R0309    7It's National Procrastination Week.
R0309    2It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0309    3It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0309    4It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0309    5It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0309    6It's Iditarod Race Week.
S0309     Commonwealth Day (British Virgin Islands).
S0309     Celebration of Aphrodite and Adonis (Greek).
S0309     Baron Bliss Day (Belize).
S0309     Commonwealth Day (British Virgin Islands).
S0310 241 BC, the Roman fleet defeats the Carthaginians, ending the First
S0310 241CPunic War.
S03101775 Daniel Boone begins blazing the Wilderness Road.
S03101791 John Stone patents the pile driver.
S03101847 the first money minted in Hawaii occurs.
S03101848 the Villanova University is chartered in Villanova, Pa.  (It was
S03101848Cfounded in 1842 as Augustinian College of Villanova by the Order
S03101848Cof St. Augustinian.)
S03101849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent (the only U.S. president to
S03101849Cdo so).
S03101858 baseball's first league, the National Association of Baseball
S03101858CPlayers, is officially formed at its second convention.
S03101874 Ohio's Humane Society is organized.
S03101876 the first telephone call is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
S03101877 the Granite Cutters' National Union is founded at Rockland, Me.
S03101880 the first eight members of the Salvation Army, sent from England,
S03101880Cland in New York City and begin welfare and religious activity.
S03101884 the first attempt to forecast a tornado occurs (it fails).
S03101933 a big earthquake in Long Beach occurs.  (W.C. Fields was making a
S03101933Cmovie when it struck and the cameras kept running).
S03101933 Nevada becomes the first state to adopt narcotics regulations.
S03101945 the first major employment of napalm is carried out by American
S03101945CB-29's on Tokyo.
S03101948 the first civilian, H.H. Houver, exceeds the speed of sound at
S03101948CEdwards AFB, Ca.
S03101952 Fulgencio Batista overthrows the Cuban government.
S03101956 Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes," the first song to hit on
S03101956CBillboard's pop, country, and R/B charts, first makes the top 40
S03101956Cand R&B charts.
S03101966 a Green Beret camp is overran by North Vietnamese troops.
S03101969 James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King,
S03101969CJr., is sentenced to 99 years in prison.
S03101970 Captain Medina is accused of murder in the Mylai Massacre.  (He
S03101970Cis cleared Sept. 22, 1971.)
S03101977 the rings of Uranus are discovered during the occultation of SAO.
S03101977 the United Farm Workers join the Teamsters.
S03101987 the Vatican condemns surrogate parenting, test-tube and
S03101987Cartificial insemination.
S0310     Feast of the 40 Holy Martyrs of Sebaste.
S0310     World Culture Day.
R0310    1National Tornado and Flood Safety Week begins.
R0310    2It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0310    3It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0310    4It's Girl Scout Week.
R0310    5It's Girl Scout Week.
R0310    6It's Girl Scout Week.
R0310    7It's Girl Scout Week.
R0310    1Daffodil Days begins.
R0310    2It's Daffodil Days.
R0310    3It's Daffodil Days.
R0310    4It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0310    5It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0310    6It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0310    7It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0310    4It's American Camping Week.
R0310    5It's American Camping Week.
R0310    6It's American Camping Week.
R0310    7It's American Camping Week.
R0310    4It's National Aardvark Week.
R0310    5It's National Aardvark Week.
R0310    6It's National Aardvark Week.
R0310    7It's National Aardvark Week.
R0310    4It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0310    5It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0310    6It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0310    7It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0310    4It's National Procrastination Week.
R0310    5It's National Procrastination Week.
R0310    6It's National Procrastination Week.
R0310    7It's National Procrastination Week.
R0310    3It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0310    4It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0310    5It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0310    6It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0310    3Town Meeting Day (New Hampshire).
S0310     Harriet Tubman Day.
S0310     Commonwealth Day (Swaziland).
S0310     Holi (Indian Spring Fire Festival).
S0310     Day of Venus (early Roman holiday - before 200 BC - goddess of
S0310       Spring and protectress of vegetation and gardens).
S0310     Festival of Ishtar (major Assyro-Babylonian mother goddess).
S03111302 according to Shakespeare, this is Romeo and Juliet's wedding day.
S03111779 the Army Corps of Engineers is established.
S03111810 Emperor Napoleon is married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise.
S03111845 Wittenberg College is chartered in Springfield, Ohio.
S03111850 the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, the first medical
S03111850Cschool entirely for women, is incorporated.
S03111861 the constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
S03111868 Congress passes the fourth Reconstruction Act over President
S03111868CJohnson's veto .
S03111867 Great Mauna Loa erupts (volcano in Hawaii).
S03111888 the most destructive snowstorm to hit the U.S. since records have
S03111888Cbeen kept, the Great East Coast Blizzard, begins (100 or more are
S03111888Ckilled during the four-day storm).
S03111892 the first public game of basketball occurs in Springfield, Mass.
S03111932 the last heath hen dies.
S03111941 FDR signs the Lend-Lease Act, authorizing war supplies to the
S03111941CAllies.
S03111953 the first woman army doctor is commissioned, F.M. Adams.
S03111954 the U.S. admits the Marshall Islands hydrogen bomb test exposed
S03111954C264 natives and 28 Americans to radiation.
S03111959 "A Raisin in the Sun" opens on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore
S03111959CTheatre, starring Sidney Poitier and Claudia McNeil.
S03111960 Pioneer 5 is launched to explore the solar system.
S03111964 Gene Roddenberry first proposes a series to MGM Studios with
S03111964Cintergalactic aspects ("Star Trek") as "Wagon Train" to the
S03111964Cstars.
S03111972 the first electrocardiography by telephone is performed (the
S03111972Cpatient was in California and the doctor was in the Philippines).
S03111974 "Candide," based on the satire by Voltaire, opens on Broadway at
S03111974Cthe Broadway Theater.
S03111975 fossil hunters in Texas find the wing of a reptile pterosaur
S03111975Cbelieved to be 60 million years old.
S03111976 President Nixon testifies he ordered the CIA to foil the election
S03111976Cof Allende in Chile.
S03111985 Mikhail S. Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as the premier
S03111985Cof Russia.
S0311     Feast of St. Eulogius, priest and martyr.
S0311     Johnny Appleseed Day.
R0311    1National Tornado and Flood Safety Week begins.
R0311    2It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0311    3It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0311    4It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0311    5It's Girl Scout Week.
R0311    6It's Girl Scout Week.
R0311    7It's Girl Scout Week.
R0311    1Daffodil Days begins.
R0311    2It's Daffodil Days.
R0311    3It's Daffodil Days.
R0311    4It's Daffodil Days.
R0311    5It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0311    6It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0311    7It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0311    5It's American Camping Week.
R0311    6It's American Camping Week.
R0311    7It's American Camping Week.
R0311    5It's National Aardvark Week.
R0311    6It's National Aardvark Week.
R0311    7It's National Aardvark Week.
R0311    5It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0311    6It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0311    7It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0311    5It's National Procrastination Week.
R0311    6It's National Procrastination Week.
R0311    7It's National Procrastination Week.
R0311    4It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0311    5It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0311    6It's Iditarod Race Week.
S0311    3Town Meeting Day (New Hampshire).
S0311     Start of Marbles Season (British).
S0311     Decorations Day (Liberia).
S0311     Zeta Botid meteor shower, radiant in Botes.
S03121664 New Jersey becomes a British colony.
S03121832 the ballet tutu is presented for the first time.
S03121836 the town of Akron, Ohio is incorporated.
S03121850 the first $20 Gold piece is issued.
S03121868 Congress abolishes manufactures tax.
S03121894 Coca-Cola is first sold in bottles.
S03121912 Juliette "Daisy" Gordon organizes the American Girl Guides in
S03121912CSavannah, Ga. (the name is changed in 1913 to the Girl Scouts of
S03121912CAmerica).
S03121933 President Franklin Roosevelt holds his first "Fireside Chat."
S03121938 Germany invades Austria.
S03121939 the Coronation of Pope Pius XII occurs.
S03121942 General MacArthur vows, "I shall return".
S03121945 the day is proclaimed British Empire Day.
S03121948 the lowest temperature ever experienced in Cleveland in the month
S03121948Cof March occurs, -5 degrees.
S03121956 the Dow Jones first closes above 500.
S03121958 the day is proclaimed Commonwealth Day.
S03121966 Bobby Hull of the Chicago Black Hawks becomes the first player to
S03121966Cscore more than 50 goals in a season (finished with 54).
S03121966 Johnny Longden, 59, retires after 40 years of racing and after
S03121966Cwinning his 6,032nd race - the winningest jockey ever - in the
S03121966CSan Juan Capistrano Handicap at Santa Anita.
S03121968 the Island of Mauritius gains independence from Britain.
S03121969 Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman in London.
S03121972 author Clifford Irving confesses in a N.Y. court that his Howard
S03121972CHughes autobiography is a phony.
S03121984 the British ice dancing team, Torvill and Dean, become the first
S03121984Cskaters to receive nine perfect 6.0s in world championships.
S03121986 Susan Butcher wins the 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
S03121993 Janet Reno becomes the first woman U.S. Attorney General.
S03121993 Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
S03121993C(effective August 2).
S03121993 the Blizzard of '93, the worst storm of the century, hits the
S03121993Csouth with snow and tornadoes.
S03121995 6,758-cubic-yards of concrete is poured for the Cleveland Public
S03121995CLibrary's East Wing foundation, the largest single pour in the
S03121995Ccity's history.
S0312     Feast of St. Gregory I the Great, pope (590-604), confessor,
S0312       doctor.
S0312     Girl Scouts' Day.
S0312     Jane Delano Day.
R0312    1National Tornado and Flood Safety Week begins.
R0312    5It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0312    4It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0312    3It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0312    2It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0312    6It's Girl Scout Week.
R0312    7It's Girl Scout Week.
R0312    6It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0312    7It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0312    6It's American Camping Week.
R0312    7It's American Camping Week.
R0312    1Daffodil Days begins.
R0312    2It's Daffodil Days.
R0312    3It's Daffodil Days.
R0312    4It's Daffodil Days.
R0312    5It's Daffodil Days.
R0312    6It's National Aardvark Week.
R0312    7It's National Aardvark Week.
R0312    6It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0312    7It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0312    6It's National Procrastination Week.
R0312    7It's National Procrastination Week.
R0312    5It's Iditarod Race Week.
R0312    6It's Iditarod Race Week.
S0312     Commonwealth Day (formerly British Empire Day).
S0312    3Town Meeting Day (New Hampshire).
S0312     Anniversary of Renewal (Gabon Republic).
S0312     King's Birthday (Libya).
S0312     Mauritius Independence Day (Britain 1968).
S0312     Mshweshwe's Day (Lesotho).
S0312     Feast of Marduk (Mesopotamian).
S0312     Zeta Botid meteor shower, radiant in Botes.
S03131677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000.
S03131781 Sir William Herschel sees a "comet" (really discovers Uranus).
S03131852 the New York Lantern publishes the first cartoon showing the
S03131852Ccharacter "Uncle Sam," based on a real U.S. officer who served
S03131852Cin the War of 1812, Samuel Wilson.
S03131865 President Jefferson Davis signs a bill stating that slaves are
S03131865Csubject to military duty in the Confederate Army.
S03131868 Senate begins President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial.
S03131877 Chester Greenwood of Farmington, Maine patents the ear muffler.
S03131894 the strip tease is introduced in Paris.
S03131913 Kansas approves the creation of the first state motion picture
S03131913Ccensorship board.
S03131925 Tennessee passes a law prohibiting the teaching of evolution.
S03131930 scientists report the discovery of a ninth planet. The planet is
S03131930Cgiven the name Pluto on May 24, 1930.
S03131935 3,000-year-old archives are found in Jerusalem, confirming
S03131935Cbiblical history.
S03131943 Hitler escapes an assignation attempt when a parcel bomb on the
S03131943Cplanes he is flying in fails to detonate.
S03131950 the largest corporate income ever reported is announced by
S03131950CGeneral Motors: net earnings in 1949, $656,434,232.
S03131954 the North Vietnamese begin the Siege of Dien Bien Phu.
S03131964 Kitty Genovese is stabbed to death in Queens, while 40 witnesses
S03131964Cignore pleas for help.
S03131967 General de Brigade Jean du Boucher's party reaches the Atlanta
S03131967COcean at Nouamrkar, becoming the first to cross the Sahara on
S03131967Csand flyers.
S03131968 it is announced that nerve gas testing by the Army at Dugway
S03131968CProving Grounds in Utah might have caused the deaths of some 6400
S03131968Csheep in the area.
S03131970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer.
S03131974 the Republic of Ireland (South) acknowledges Northern Ireland as
S03131974Ca province under British control.
S03131980 the Ford Motor Co. is found not guilty in Winimac, Ind. of
S03131980Creckless homicide in the 1978 deaths of 3 women killed in a Ford
S03131980CPinto (the first criminal trial of a U.S. corporation in a
S03131980Cproduct defect case).
S03131980 Henry Ford III resigns as chairman, leaving Ford without a family
S03131980Cmember at the helm.
S03131989 the 28th Shuttle Mission, Discovery 8 is launched.
S03131991 the McLean Deluxe, a new low-fat hamburger, is announced by
S03131991CMcDonald's.
S03131993 the Blizzard of '93, the worst storm of the century, rolls up the
S03131993Ceast coast, killing 212 people, and dumping 1 foot to more than
S03131993C4 feet of snow with 15-foot drifts, from Alabama to Maine.
S0313     Feast of St. Euphrasia, virgin.
S0313     Saint Nikephoros' Day.
S0313    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
R0313    1National Tornado and Flood Safety Week begins.
R0313    6It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0313    5It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0313    4It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0313    3It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0313    2It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0313    7It's Girl Scout Week.
R0313    7It's Save Your Vision Week.
R0313    7It's American Camping Week.
R0313    1Daffodil Days begins.
R0313    2It's Daffodil Days.
R0313    3It's Daffodil Days.
R0313    4It's Daffodil Days.
R0313    5It's Daffodil Days.
R0313    6It's Daffodil Days.
R0313    7It's National Aardvark Week.
R0313    7It's Return the Borrow Book Week.
R0313    7It's National Procrastination Week.
S0313    3Town Meeting Day (New Hampshire).
R0313    6It's Iditarod Race Week.
S0313     Grenadian Revolution Day.
S0313     Purification Feast (Balin).
S03141629 a royal charter establishes the Massachusetts Bay colony.
S03141644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now R.I.).
S03141743 America's first town meeting is held in Boston (Faneuil Hall).
S03141794 Eli Whitney receives a patent for his cotton gin.
S03141812 the U.S. first authorizes the sale of the first war bonds.
S03141870 legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible.
S03141871 the common council of Cincinnati passes an ordinance establishing
S03141871Cthe University of Cincinnati.
S03141900 U.S. currency goes on gold standard.
S03141903 President Teddy Roosevelt establishes the first nature refuge,
S03141903Ca bird sanctuary at Pelican Island, Sebastian, Fla.
S03141907 the Inland Waterways Commission is appointed.
S03141931 the first theatre is built for rear movie projection (N.Y.C.).
S03141935 the 36-Folsom in San Francisco becomes the first line to use one-
S03141935Cman streetcars.
S03141938 Hitler announces the union (Anachluss) of Austria with Germany.
S03141940 Mae West and W.C. Fields make their first joint appearance in "My
S03141940CLittle Chickadee".
S03141940 Ronald Reagan is casted as George Gipp for "Knute Rockne - All
S03141940CAmerican."
S03141958 the Recording Industry Association of American is created to
S03141958Ccertify audited gold, platinum and multiplatinum record sales.
S03141964 a Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of the Lee Harvey Oswald
S03141964Cmurder.
S03141965 the Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West
S03141965CGermany.
S03141983 OPEC cuts oil prices for the first time in 23 years.
S03141986 the European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (540
S03141986Ckm).
S03141988 the U.S. becomes the first major user and producer of
S03141988Cchlorofluorocarbons to approve an international agreement to
S03141988Crollback the use of such chemicals.
S03141989 a ban on the importation of semiautomatic rifles is announced by
S03141989Cthe Bush administration (previously opposed such a ban).
S03141994 Apple introduces the Power Macintosh.
S03141994 Lakewood's old Fire Station #1 on Warren Road is razed.
S03141995 Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to be
S03141995Claunched on a Russian space mission (broke U.S. space endurance
S03141995Crecord - 84 days - June 6).
S03141995 Doug Swingley, a Montana rancher, becomes the first non-Alaskan
S03141995Cto win the Iditarod in its 23-year history (record-breaking time
S03141995Cof 10 days, 13 hours, 2 minutes, and 39 seconds).
S0314     Feast of St. Matilda, widow.
R0314    1National Tornado and Flood Safety Week begins.
R0314    2It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0314    3It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0314    4It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0314    5It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0314    6It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0314    7It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0314    1Daffodil Days begins.
R0314    2It's Daffodil Days.
R0314    3It's Daffodil Days.
R0314    4It's Daffodil Days.
R0314    5It's Daffodil Days.
R0314    6It's Daffodil Days.
S0314    3Town Meeting Day (New Hampshire).
S0314     Old Mars (Roman festival which replaced the worn-out deity of
S0314       vegetation with a fresh new god).
S0314     Ward Off Poverty Festival (Egypt).
S0315 044 BC, the Ides of March, Julius Ceasar is assassinated.
S03151493 Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New
S03151493CWorld.
S03151729 Sister St. Stanislaus Hachard becomes the first Catholic nun to
S03151729Cbe professed in America (Ursuline Convent in New Orleans).
S03151781 the Colonists beat the British at Guilford Courthouse, N.C.
S03151820 Maine becomes the 23rd state.
S03151869 the Cincinnati Red Stockings becomes the first professional
S03151869Cbaseball team organized (regular payments to players).
S03151875 the first American cardinal, Archbishop John McGloskey of New
S03151875CYork City, is invested at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
S03151887 Michigan hires the first fish and game warden.
S03151892 N.Y. State unveals the Automatic Ballot Cabinet (the voting
S03151892Cmachine).
S03151892 a patent for an escalator is granted to Jesse Reno.
S03151897 the first indoor flycasting tournament is held.
S03151907 Finland becomes the first European country to give women the
S03151907Cright to vote.
S03151913 Woodrow Wilson holds the first Presidential Press Conference.
S03151916 U.S. troops enter Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa.
S03151917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates.
S03151919 the American Legion is formed in Paris.
S03151937 Bernard Fantus opens the nations first blood bank at Cook County
S03151937CHospital, Chicago.
S03151937 the first state contraceptive clinic opens, Raleigh, N.C.
S03151945 Billboard publishes its first album chart (#1 is King Cole Trio
S03151945Cfeaturing Nat "King" Cole.)
S03151955 the U.S. Air Force unveils a self-guided missile.
S03151955 the Cleveland Transit System's (now RTA) east side rapid transit
S03151955Cline opens.
S03151956 the Lerner and Loewe musical, "My Fair Lady", opens on
S03151956CBroadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre (2717 performances),
S03151956Cstarring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.
S03151960 the Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve is established, becoming the
S03151960Cfirst underwater park.
S03151961 South Africa withdraws from the British Commonwealth.
S03151962 Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first and only player in NBA history
S03151962Cto score over 4,000 points in a season.
S03151963 Bushmaster Fuller gets patent on underwater submarine bases.
S03151965 the last person to die in the electric chair in Ohio is executed.
S03151968 the U.S. Mint stops buying and selling gold.
S03151968 the Diocese of Rome announces that while it "deplored the
S03151968Cconcept," it would not prohibit rock and roll masses at the
S03151968CChurch of San Lessio Falconieri.
S03151978 Israel invades Lebanon to rid area of Palestine guerrillas.
S03151985 the Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan becomes the first sitting-
S03151985CCabinet member ever to be indicted.
S03151986 the AMA rules euthanasia is ethical in coma patients.
S03151989 the Department of Veterans Affairs, formerly the Veterans
S03151989CAdministration, is officially established as a Cabinet position.
S03151994 experts from the A.L. certify the Indians new ballpark at Gateway
S03151994C(Jacobs Field) is properly illuminated.
S03151999 Pluto again becomes the outermost planet.
S0315     The day the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio.
R0315     Beware the Ides of March!
S0315     Feast of St. Louise de Marillac, widow.
S0315     Feast of St. Longinus, martyr.
S0315    1Buzzard Day (Hinckley, Ohio).
R0315    1National Poison Prevention Week begins.
R0315    2It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0315    3It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0315    4It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0315    5It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0315    6It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0315    7It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0315    1National Wildlife Week begins.
R0315    2It's Daffodil Days.
R0315    3It's Daffodil Days.
R0315    4It's Daffodil Days.
R0315    5It's Daffodil Days.
R0315    6It's Daffodil Days.
S0315     Maine Admission Day.
S0315     Andrew Jackson Day (celebrated in Tennessee).
S0315     DeSoto Celebration Day (Bradenton, Florida).
S0315     J.J. Roberts Day (Liberia).
S0315     Hungary National Day (uprising of 1848).
S0315     Festival of Anna Perenna (Roman goddess of new beginnings,
S0315       vegetation and fertility - the name means "return yearly").
S0315     Festival of Cybele (Ancient Greek, goddess of bees, of caverns,
S0315       and of the Earth in its primitive state).
S03161521 the Philippines are discovered by Magellan.
S03161668 the first horse race in America takes place.
S03161802 the U.S. Military Academy at West Point is esablished by an act
S03161802Cof Congress (originally intended for the U.S. Corps of
S03161802CEngineers) .
S03161827 the first U.S. black newspaper, Freedom's Journal (N.Y.C.)
S03161827Cbegins.
S03161830 the slowest trading day on the N.Y. Stock Exchange occurs (31
S03161830Cshares).
S03161882 the U.S. is accepted as a member of the International Red Cross.
S03161882 the Geneva Convention of 1864 for the care of wounded war
S03161882Cpersonnel is ratified by the Senate.
S03161891 Cleveland's municipal government changes to the more efficient
S03161891CFederal Plan authorized by the Ohio Legislature.
S03161915 the Federal Trade Commission is organized.
S03161916 the U.S. and Canada sign a migratory bird treaty.
S03161926 the first liquid-fueled rocket is launched by Dr. Robert Goddard
S03161926Con his Aunt Effie's farm in Alburn, Michigan.  It lifted to an
S03161926Caltitude of 41 feet and traveled a distance of 184 feet.
S03161927 the cornerstone is laid for Cleveland's Terminal Tower.
S03161930 the newly restored U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides) is floated
S03161930Cout of drydock to become a national shrine (permanently berthed
S03161930CMay 7, 1934).
S03161930 radio station WEAF in New York City broadcasts the first opera
S03161930Cdirectly from a stage in Europe (Dresden, Germany), Beethoven's
S03161930C"Fidelio."
S03161935 Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty.
S03161947 Detroit's Billy Taylor is the first to get 7 assists in a game
S03161947C(NHL record).
S03161950 the first annual National Book Awards are awarded:
S03161950C  fiction, "The Man With the Golden Arm" by Nelson Algren
S03161950C  poetry, William Carlos for his "Paterson" poems
S03161950C  biography, "The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson" by Dr. Ralph L.
S03161950C    Rusk
S03161952 1.87m of rain falls at Cilaos, La Runion in 24 hours (world
S03161952Crecord).
S03161954 CBS introduces "The Morning Show" with Walter Cronkite to
S03161954Ccompete with NBC's "The Today Show".
S03161955 the use of atomic weapons in case of war is upheld in a statement
S03161955Cmade by President Eisenhower.
S03161961 "The Agony and the Ecstasy", by Irving Stone is published.
S03161962 Titan 2, the most powerful U.S. ICBM, is launched successfully on
S03161962Cits maiden flight.
S03161966 Gemini 8 is launched with Neil A. Armstrong and David R. Scott to
S03161966Clater dock in orbit with a Titan II rocket (first U.S. docking in
S03161966Cspace).
S03161968 the My-Lai massacre of 567 civilians by a U.S. Army unit occurs.
S03161968 Robert F. Kennedy joins the Presidential race.
S03161975 the U.S. Mariner 10 makes its third and final fly-by of Mercury.
S03161988 Vice Adm. John Poindexter and Lt. Col. Oliver North are indicted
S03161988Con charges of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by illegally
S03161988Cproviding Nicaraguan rebels with profits from the sale of weapons
S03161988Cto Iran.
S03161991 Lorain's Terry Anderson is taken hostage by terrorists in
S03161991CLebanon.
S03161991 three American women (Kristi Yamaguchi, Tonya Harding, and Nancy
S03161991CKerrigan) set a figure skating record (skaters from the same
S03161991Ccountry) by finishing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in world championships.
S0316     Feast of St. Urho, patron saint of Finland.
S0316     Feast of St. Abraham, hermit.
S0316    1Buzzard Day (Hinckley, Ohio).
S0316     Goodard's Day.
R0316    1National Poison Prevention Week begins.
R0316    3It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0316    4It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0316    5It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0316    6It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0316    7It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0316    2It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0316    2It's National Wildlife Week.
R0316    1National Wildlife Week begins.
R0316    3It's Daffodil Days.
R0316    4It's Daffodil Days.
R0316    5It's Daffodil Days.
R0316    6It's Daffodil Days.
S0316     Return of long-billed curlews to Umatilla, Ore.
S0316     Festival of Dionysus (Greek).
S03171737 the first celebration of St. Patrick's Day outside the confines
S03171737Cof the Catholic Church is held in Boston by the Charitable Irish
S03171737CSociety.
S03171756 St. Patrick's Day is first celebrated publicly in the U.S. in New
S03171756CYork City, at the Crown and Thistle Tavern.
S03171776 the British flee Boston, threatened by the Colonists' cannons on
S03171776CDorchester Heights.
S03171784 the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in New York City organize the
S03171784Cfirst St. Patrick's Day parade.
S03171842 the last Indian land in Ohio, a 12 square mile area in Upper
S03171842CSandusky, is ceded to the U.S. by a treaty with the Wyandots.
S03171845 the rubber band is patented by Stephen Perry of London.
S03171860 Japanese Embassy arrives aboard the "Candinmarruh" <sic>.
S03171871 the first professional baseball association, the National
S03171871CAssociation of Professional Baseball Players, is organized,
S03171871Creplacing the amateur National Association.
S03171876 Marshall Jones Brooks breaks the 6 feet high-jump mark.
S03171884 John J. Montgomery of Otay, California makes the first glider
S03171884Cflight.
S03171897 the first boxing match photographed by a motion picture camera
S03171897Coccurs, Bob Fitzsimmons defeats "Gentleman Jim" Corbett in a 14-
S03171897Cround bout at Carson City, Nev.
S03171900 the coldest St. Patrick's Day ever in Cleveland is celebrated, 0
S03171900Cdegrees.
S03171910 the Camp Fire Girls is founded in Casco, Maine.
S03171912 the Camp Fire Girls becomes a public organization.
S03171941 the National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C.
S03171949 the AIA Gold Medal for architecture is awarded to Frank Lloyd
S03171949CWright.
S03171950 Californium, the heaviest known element to date, is discovered.
S03171958 Vanguard 1 is launched by the U.S. Navy (measures shape of
S03171958CEarth).
S03171963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of N.Y. is beatified (sainted in 1975).
S03171966 two U.S. spacecrafts achieve the first docking in space.  Gemini
S03171966C8 with Neil A. Armstrong and David R. Scott dock with a Titan II
S03171966Crocket.  (Mission is terminated early when the crafts begin to
S03171966Ctumble.)
S03171966 an U.S. sub locates a missing hydrogen bomb near Spain in the
S03171966CAtlantic Ocean.
S03171968 a two-tiered gold price system is negotiated in Washington, D.C.,
S03171968Cby the U.S. and 6 European nations ($35 an ounce between
S03171968Cgovernments, but the private market would be allowed to
S03171968Cfluctuate).
S03171969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's Premier.
S03171970 the U.S. casts its first U.N. Security Council veto (support
S03171970CEngland).
S03171973 the "Hanoi Hilton" is cleared of POW's for the first time in
S03171973Ceight years.
S03171975 the first major doctor's strike in U.S. history begins in N.Y.
S03171975CCity.
S03171991 9 of 15 Soviet republics officially approve the new union treaty,
S03171991Cforming a democratic state of equal republics.
S03171994 it is announced there is no smoking in the Indians new ballpark
S03171994C(Jacobs Field) at Gateway except in designated areas outside the
S03171994Cseating areas.
S03171995 the FDA approves the use of the first chickenpox vaccine, Merck &
S03171995CCo.'s Varivax.
S0317     St. Patrick's Day, Irish National Day!
S0317     Feast of St. Patrick, Bishop, Apostle of Ireland, patron saint of
S0317       Ireland.
S0317     St. Gertrude's Day (Germany - help against plagues of mice and
S0317       rats).
S0317    1Buzzard Day (Hinckley, Ohio).
R0317    1National Poison Prevention Week begins.
R0317    4It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0317    5It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0317    6It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0317    7It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0317    2It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0317    3It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0317    2It's National Wildlife Week.
R0317    3It's National Wildlife Week.
R0317    1National Wildlife Week begins.
R0317    4It's Daffodil Days.
R0317    5It's Daffodil Days.
R0317    6It's Daffodil Days.
S0317     Campfire Boys and Girls Founders Day.
S0317     Evacuation Day (celebrated in Boston).
S0317     World Maritime Day.
S0317     Canberra Day (Australian Capital Territory).
S0317     Liberalia (Roman festival honoring Libera, goddess of wine and
S0317       fertility, and Bacchus, god of grape-growing and wine, when
S0317       slaves were permitted to speak with freedom).
S0318 978 St. Edward the Martyr, king of Anglo-Saxons (975-78) dies.
S03181314 Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of the Order of Knights
S03181314CTemplar, is burned at the stake in Paris.
S03181662 the first public buses in Europe begin operating in Paris.
S03181766 yielding to pressure from the colonies, Britain repeals the Stamp
S03181766CAct.  Parliament then passes the Declaration Act, stating that
S03181766CEngland had the power to pass laws binding the colonies.
S03181834 the first American railroad tunnel is completed in Pennsylvania.
S03181834CThe Allegheny Portage Railroad opens the first track of the 37-
S03181834Cmile, hemp cable drawn railroad.
S03181850 American Express is founded.
S03181865 the Congress of the Confederate States of American adjourns for
S03181865Cthe last time.
S03181881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison
S03181881CSquare Garden in New York City.
S03181892 Lord Stanley proposes a silver cup challenge for hockey.
S03181892 jockeys are prohibited from using anything but a whip and a spur
S03181892Con a horse during a race.
S03181895 the first petrol driven motor bus begins operations.
S03181900 John Luther Jones (later immortalized as Casey Jones) stays at
S03181900Cthe throttle of his runaway train in an effort to stop it, and
S03181900Cdies in the crash.
S03181909 Einar Dessau of Denmark makes the first ham radio broadcast.
S03181919 The Order of DeMolay is established in Kansas City.
S03181922 British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to six years
S03181922Cin prison for his acts of civil disobedience.
S03181925 a tornado, with a track of 219 miles (the longest on record),
S03181925Cplows from Redford, Missouri, to Princeton, Indiana (695 killed).
S03181931 the first electric razor is marketed by Schick.
S03181937 the worst school fire in U.S. history kills 294 in New London,
S03181937CTex.
S03181949 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is formed.
S03181952 the first plastic lens for cataract patients are fitted in
S03181952CPhiladelphia, Pa.
S03181953 the Boston Braves baseball club announces moving the team to
S03181953CMilwaukee.
S03181962 France and the Algerian nationalists agree to a truce ending
S03181962Cthe Algeria War.  Algeria becomes independent July 3, 1962.
S03181963 the Supreme Court rules on Gideon v. Wainwright, holding states
S03181963Cmust supply free legal council to all poor persons facing
S03181963Ccriminal charges.
S03181965 Soviet cosmonaut Aliksei A. Leonov becomes the first man to walk
S03181965Cin space.
S03181966 the Pope cancels the excommunication of Catholics wed by non-
S03181966CCatholics.
S03181968 Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve against U.S.
S03181968Cnotes.
S03181970 mail service is paralyzed by the first major postal strike.
S03181974 the Arab oil producing nations end embargo on sales to the U.S.
S03181980 an additional 20 schools and 22,500 pupils are desegregated
S03181980C(crosstown busing) in Cleveland in the second of three phases.
S03181985 Capital Cities Communications, Inc. acquires ABC.
S03181986 Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money.
S03181992 the NFL abandons the instant replay for the 1992 season.
S0318     Feast of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop, confessor, doctor.
S0318     Feast of St. Edward, King of England, martyr.
S0318    1Buzzard Day (Hinckley, Ohio).
S0318     Devotion Day (Order of De Molay).
R0318    1National Poison Prevention Week begins.
R0318    5It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0318    6It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0318    7It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0318    2It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0318    3It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0318    4It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0318    2It's National Wildlife Week.
R0318    3It's National Wildlife Week.
R0318    4It's National Wildlife Week.
R0318    1National Wildlife Week begins.
R0318    5It's Daffodil Days.
R0318    6It's Daffodil Days.
S0318     Sheela's Day (Ireland - the shamrock worn the day before is to be
S0318       drowned in the last glass of the evening).
S0318     Aruba Flag Day (National Holiday).
S0318     Day of the Supreme Sacrifice (People's Republic of the Congo).
S03191831 the first recorded U.S. bank robbery is pulled by Edward Smith at
S03191831Cthe City Bank in N.Y. City ($245,000).
S03191859 "Faust" by Charles Gounod premieres in Paris.
S03191895 Los Angeles Railway is established to provide streetcar service.
S03191918 Congress authorizes time zones and approves daylight savings
S03191918Ctime.
S03191920 the Senate refuses to ratify the League of Nations Covenant.
S03191927 Balto and his teammates (Fox, Sye, Billie, Tillie, Old Moctoc
S03191927Cand Alaska Slim), heroes of the 1925 Nome Epidemic, are presented
S03191927Cto Cleveland after a local fund set up by Clevelanders saved
S03191927Cthem.
S03191928 "Amos and Andy" debuts on radio.
S03191931 Nevada legalized gambling.
S03191941 the National Defense Mediation Board (NDMB) is established to
S03191941Csettle all labor disputes in defense industries.
S03191945 800 are killed as Kamikazes attack the U.S.S. Franklin ("Big
S03191945CBen") off Japan, detonating bombs and ammunition stored on board.
S03191945C(Heavily damaged, "The Ship That Wouldn't Sink" makes the 12,000-
S03191945Cmile trip home to Brooklyn.)
S03191949 the first museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy opens in
S03191949COak Ridge, Tennessee (the American Museum of Atomic Energy).
S03191951 Herman Wouk's "The Caine Mutiny" is first published.
S03191953 the Academy Awards ceremony is first telecasted.
S03191954 the first rocket-driven sled on rails is tested in Alamogordo,
S03191954CNew Mexico.
S03191954 the Joe Giardello-Willie Troy prize fight becomes the first fight
S03191954Ctelecasted in color (Madison Square Garden).
S03191970 the Cavaliers' owner Nick Mileti announces the team's first coach
S03191970Cis Bill Fitch.
S03191972 the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW)
S03191972Cholds its first collegiate basketball championship (Immaculate
S03191972CCollege defeats West Chester State 52 - 48).
S03191976 Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn orders, after 24 days of spring
S03191976Ctraining lockout by owners, orders all camps open by the earliest
S03191976Cpossible time.
S03191979 the House of Representatives begins day-to-day TV broadcasts.
S03191984 "Kate & Allie" premieres.
S03191987 Jimmy Bakker, facing charges of sexual misconduct and mishandling
S03191987Cof ministry funds, resigns as head of the PTL.
S03191995 Michael Jordan ends his retirement and returns to the NBA
S03191995C(Chicago) wearing #45 instead of his retired #23 - scored 19
S03191995Cpoints in the Bulls 103-96 loss to Indiana.
S0319     Feast of St. Joseph, stepfather of Jesus.
S0319     The day the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano.
S0319    1Buzzard Day (Hinckley, Ohio).
S0319     Observance of Doctor David Livingstone's Birthday (Protestant).
R0319    1National Poison Prevention Week begins.
R0319    6It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0319    7It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0319    2It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0319    3It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0319    4It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0319    5It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0319    2It's National Wildlife Week.
R0319    3It's National Wildlife Week.
R0319    4It's National Wildlife Week.
R0319    5It's National Wildlife Week.
R0319    1National Wildlife Week begins.
R0319    6It's Daffodil Days.
S0319     Canberra Day in Australia.
S0319     Day of Aganyu (Santeria/Yoruba).
S0319     First day of the Lesser Panathenaea Festival (Ancient Greek
S0319       5-day festival honoring Athena, the warrior goddess).
S03201815 Napoleon enters Paris, beginning 100-day rule.
S03201848 the Rockport Plank Road Company is incorporated in Lakewood,
S03201848COhio.  It is responsible for building the Rockport Plank Road
S03201848C(now Detroit Ave.) from W 25 St. to 5 miles beyond Rocky River.
S03201852 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.
S03201886 the first A.C. commercial power plant begins operation.
S03201899 the first woman is executed by electrocution (M.M. Place, N.Y.).
S03201900 ground is broken for the New York subway.
S03201933 it is reported that political opponents of the Nazis are being
S03201933Csent to the newly opened Dachau, the first concentration camp
S03201933Cbuilt to relieve the bursting jails.
S03201934 the first test of a practical radar apparatus is made in Germany.
S03201948 the first live televised musical, "Eugene Ormandy" on CBS, is
S03201948Cfollowed 90 minutes later by the second live televised musical,
S03201948C"Arturo Toscvanni", on NBC.
S03201955 "Blackboard Jungle" with Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier opens.
S03201956 Tunisia wins independence from France.
S03201963 the first "Pop Art" exhibition opens in New York City.
S03201969 Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.
S03201973 Britain releases a White Paper advocating pro-Catholic reforms in
S03201973CNorth Ireland.
S03201976 Patricia Hearst is convicted of armed robbery.
S03201980 the U.S. appeals to International Court on the hostages in Iran.
S03201981 Jean Harris is sentenced 15 years to life for the slaying of the
S03201981CScarsdale Diet doctor.
S03201985 Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 17 day, 1,135-
S03201985Cmile Idilarod Trail Dog Sled Race in Alaska.
S03201987 the U.S. approves AZT, a drug known to slow the progress of AIDS.
S03201990 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's number 33 is retired by the Lakers.
S03201991 the Supreme Court rules that employers may not exclude women from
S03201991Cjobs that might expose a fetus to toxic substances.
S03201995 a Beatles song, "Baby It's You," with the late John Lennon as
S03201995Clead singer, is released, the first Fab Four single in more than
S03201995C30 years.
S0320     Feast of St. Cuthbert, Bishop and confessor.
S0320     Feast of St. Joachim, father of Mary, confessor.
S0320     Spring Equinox, or Ostara (Wiccan Sabbat - religious festival
S0320       marking the beginning of the return of evident fertility to the
S0320       Earth).
S0320     Vernal Equinox.
S0320    1Buzzard Day (Hinckley, Ohio).
R0320    1National Poison Prevention Week begins.
R0320    7It's National Tornado and Flood Safety Week.
R0320    2It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0320    3It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0320    4It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0320    5It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0320    6It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0320    2It's National Wildlife Week.
R0320    3It's National Wildlife Week.
R0320    4It's National Wildlife Week.
R0320    5It's National Wildlife Week.
R0320    6It's National Wildlife Week.
R0320    1National Wildlife Week begins.
S0320     Tunisia Independence Day.
S0320     Falgun Purnima (Nepal).
S0320     Oil Day (Iran).
S0320     Second day of the Lesser Panathenaea Festival (Ancient Greek
S0320       5-day festival honoring Athena, the warrior goddess).
S03211791 Captain Hopley Yeaton becomes the first commissioned U.S. Naval
S03211791Cofficer.
S03211804 the French civil Code of Napoleon is adopted.
S03211844 Bah' New Year is first celebrated.
S03211844 the Adventist William Miller predicted the second coming of
S03211844CChrist would occur on this date.  (When nothing happened, he
S03211844Crevised the date to Oct. 22 - many Adventists returned to more
S03211844Cconservative folds).
S03211851 Yosemite Valley is discovered in California.
S03211868 Sorosis, the first professional club for women, is founded in
S03211868CN.Y.C. by Jane Cunningham "Jennie June" Croly.
S03211885 Cleveland's temperature plunges to -4 degrees, the latest the
S03211885Ctemperature ever reached below zero.
S03211891 a Hatfield marries a McCoy, ending a long feud in W.VA.
S03211902 nine auto clubs unite to create the AAA.
S03211906 Ohio passes a law banning hazing after two fatalities.
S03211935 Persia is officially renamed Iran.
S03211943 the U.S.S. Cod, the Gato-class submarine now on display in
S03211943CCleveland, is launched at Groton, Conn.  (The sub was on patrol
S03211943Cin the Pacific by October 1943.)
S03211945 the slinky is invented.
S03211946 the U.N. sets up a temporary headquarters at Hunter College
S03211946C(Bronx).
S03211952 Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball at the old
S03211952CCleveland Arena, the first rock and roll concert ever (70 police
S03211952Cofficers and firemen were needed to break up the ensuing riot).
S03211961 Art Modell purchases the Cleveland Browns for a record (at that
S03211961Ctime) $3.925 million.
S03211963 Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay is closed.
S03211965 Martin Luther King, Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery.
S03211965 U.S. Ranger 9 is launched (takes 5,814 pictures before lunar
S03211965Cimpact).
S03211966 the Supreme Court reverses a Massachusetts ruling that the
S03211966Ceighteen-century novel "Fanny Hill" was obscene (it had
S03211966C"redeeming social value").
S03211990 Namibia becomes an independent nation.
S03211991 Congress approves a $78 billion package to help bail out
S03211991Cinsolvent savings and loans associations.
S03211994 the Grateful Dead with Jerry Garcia performs their last Cleveland
S03211994CConcert at the Richfield Coliseum.
S0321     The First Day of Spring... Tra-la Tra-la.
S0321     Vernal Equinox.
S0321     Earth Day.
S0321     Feast of St. Benedict, abbot.
S0321    1Buzzard Day (Hinckley, Ohio).
R0321    1National Poison Prevention Week begins.
R0321    2It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0321    3It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0321    4It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0321    5It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0321    6It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0321    7It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0321    2It's National Wildlife Week.
R0321    3It's National Wildlife Week.
R0321    4It's National Wildlife Week.
R0321    5It's National Wildlife Week.
R0321    6It's National Wildlife Week.
R0321    7It's National Wildlife Week.
R0321    1National Wildlife Week begins.
S0321     National Agriculture Day.
S0321     National Teen-Agers Day.
S0321     International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
S0321     Be Kind to Your Astrologer Day.
S0321     Bird Day.
S0321     Start of Persian and Bah' New Years.
S0321     Egyptian Spring Harvest Festival.
S0321     Day of the Indian Children (Mexico).
S0321     Juarez' Birthday (Mexico).
S0321     No Ruz or New Year (Iran).
S0321     Namibia Independence Day (from South Africa).
S0321     Vernal Equinox Day (Japan).
S0321     Third day of the Lesser Panathenaea Festival (Ancient Greek
S0321       5-day festival honoring Athena, the warrior goddess).
S0321     Festival of Idun (Teutonic goddess, born of flowers, possessed
S0321       apples that, by eating, the gods never got old).
R0321    7Western Europe Daylight Savings Time starts tomorrow.
S03221621 Massasoit and Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth).
S03221733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water.
S03221765 Britain passes the Stamp Act.
S03221832 the earliest possible Easter occurs (this will not happen again
S03221832Cuntil 2285).
S03221872 Illinois passes a women's equal employment law.
S03221873 the Cleveland Bar Association is founded.
S03221874 the first Young Men's Hebrew Association in the U.S. is organized
S03221874Cin N.Y. City.
S03221882 the Edmunds Act is adopted by the U.S. to suppress polygamy in
S03221882Cthe territories.
S03221895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere project the first "moving picture" film
S03221895Cto a private audience in Paris.
S03221933 FDR signs bill legalizing beer and wine only. (Prohibition ends
S03221933CDec. 5, 1933.)
S03221935 the use of blood tests as evidence in court cases is first
S03221935Cauthorized in New York.
S03221935 Persia is renamed Iran.
S03221941 the Grand Coulee Dam opens in Washington state.
S03221945 the League of Arab States (The Arab League) is created.
S03221946 the first U.S.-built rocket to leave the earth's atmosphere
S03221946Creaches a height of 50 miles.
S03221946 Jordan (then Transjordan) gains independence from Britain.
S03221947 President Truman signs an executive order calling for loyalty
S03221947Cinvestigations of all Federal employees.
S03221957 the first report to state that smoking promotes cancer beyond a
S03221957Creasonable doubt is released.
S03221960 Al Schawlow and C. H. Townes obtain patent for the laser.
S03221963 the Beatles'first album, "Please, Please Me", is released.
S03221965 the U.S. confirms that its troops have used chemical warfare
S03221965Cagainst the Vietcong.
S03221966 the president of G.M. apologizes to Ralph Nader for a company-
S03221966Cordered investigation of his private life.
S03221968 President Johnson names Gen. Westmoreland Army Chief of Staff.
S03221968 President Johnson's daughter, Lynda, is ordered off a Cable Car
S03221968Cbecause she was eating an ice cream cone (no food on cars!).
S03221972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified).
S03221972 the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse urges an end
S03221972Cto criminal penalties for the private possession and use of
S03221972Cmarijuana.
S03221975 a technician looking for air leaks with a lighted candle causes a
S03221975C$100 million fire at the Brown's Ferry reactor in Decatur, Ala.
S03221975 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens.
S03221977 Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India.
S03221979 the Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt.
S03221981 first class postage is raised to 18 cents from 15 cents.
S03221982 the third Space Shuttle Mission, Columbia 3, is launched.
S03221988 Congress passes the Civil Rights Restoration Act over President
S03221988CReagan's veto.
S03221993 Indians' pitchers Steve Olin and Tim Crews are killed, and Bob
S03221993COjeda is injured, in a boating accident near the teams' spring
S03221993Ctraining camp in Florida.
S03221993 Intel Corporation formerly unveils its new microprocessor, the
S03221993CPentium.
S03221994 NFL owners adopt the 2 point conversion.
S03221994 Cleveland Cavaliers beat Indiana 93-61, a team record for least
S03221994Cpoints scored by an opponent.
S0322     Feast of St. Isidore the Farm-Laborer, confessor.
S0322     Feast of St. Basil, priest and martyr.
S0322     Diabetes Awareness Day.
S0322     National Goof-off Day.
R0322    2It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0322    3It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0322    4It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0322    5It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0322    6It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0322    7It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0322    2It's National Wildlife Week.
R0322    3It's National Wildlife Week.
R0322    4It's National Wildlife Week.
R0322    5It's National Wildlife Week.
R0322    6It's National Wildlife Week.
R0322    7It's National Wildlife Week.
S0322     Arab League Day (Jordan and Syria).
S0322     Emancipation Day (Puerto Rico).
S0322     Fourth day of the Lesser Panathenaea Festival (Ancient Greek
S0322       5-day festival honoring Athena, the warrior goddess).
S0322     Festival of Cybele begins (Ancient Greek 6-day festival honoring
S0322       the goddess of bees, of caverns, and of the Earth in its
S0322       primitive state).
R0322    7Western Europe Daylight Savings Time starts tomorrow.
S03231743 George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London.
S03231775 Patrick Henry asks "for Liberty or Death" at a Virginia
S03231775Cassembly.
S03231794 Josiah Gilbert Pierson patents the rivet.
S03231806 Lewis and Clark leave on their homeward trek to St. Louis from
S03231806CFort Clatsop on the Pacific coast .
S03231810 Napolean signs his Rambouillet Decree, ordering seizure and
S03231810Cconfiscation of all American shipping in any French port.
S03231839 the first recorded use of the term "O.K." appears in the Boston
S03231839C"Morning Post" as the initials of the jocular misspelled phrase
S03231839C"oll korrect."
S03231840 the first photo of the moon is taken.
S03231857 Elisha Graves Otis installs the first passenger elevator in New
S03231857CYork City.
S03231858 Eleazer A. Gardner of Philadelphia patents the first plans for a
S03231858Ccable car system.
S03231867 Congress passes the second Reconstruction Act over President
S03231867CJohnson's veto.
S03231901 Dame Nellie Melba, an Australian opera singer, reveals secret
S03231901Cof her now famous toast.
S03231919 Benito Mussolini founds the Fascist movement in Milan Italy.
S03231925 Tennessee enacts legislation that makes it unlawful to teach
S03231925Cchildren about the theory of evolution.
S03231929 the first telephone is installed in the White House.
S03231932 the Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Junction Act is signed into law,
S03231932Cprohibiting injunctions to maintain anti-union employment
S03231932Ccontracts or to inhibit strikes, picketing and boycotts.
S03231933 German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.
S03231937 Los Angeles Railway Co. starts using PCC streetcars.
S03231942 the U.S. begins moving Japanese-Americans to detention centers.
S03231945 in the largest single operation in the Pacific war, 1,500 Navy
S03231945Cships, with British support, begin bombarding Okinawa in
S03231945Cpreparation for the U.S. invasion 9 days later.
S03231950 U.N. World Meteorological Organization is established.
S03231957 the last U.S. Army homing pigeons are sold off.
S03231965 Gemini 3 is launched, the first U.S. 2-man space flight (Virgil
S03231965CI. Grissom and John W. Young).
S03231976 the International Bill of Rights goes into effect, 35 nations
S03231976Cratifying.
S03231981 the Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime for
S03231981Cmen, but not for women.
S03231983 President Reagan proposes the Star Wars defense plan in a
S03231983Ctelevised address.
S03231987 Florida millionaire gives Oral Roberts $1.3 million after the
S03231987Cevangelist said he would die if fund-raising goals were not met.
S03231989 a 1000-foot diameter asteroid misses the Earth by only six hours.
S03231989C(Astronomers did not see it until it passed.)
S03231991 President Reagan signs legislation giving the Resolution Trust
S03231991CCorporation (RTC), the organization created in 1989 to handle the
S03231991CS & L bailout, $30 billion to cover S & L losses.
S03231991 the World League of American Football begins its first season,
S03231991Crepresenting 3 European and 7 North American cities.
S03231993 NFL owners decide to add 2 franchises, allow teams to carry 53
S03231993Cplayers and play 45, and cut the time between plays from 45 to 40
S03231993Cseconds.
S03231994 NASA releases pictures of the first discovered moon circling an
S03231994Casteroid (Ida).
S03231994 Richard Jacobs buys the naming rights to the Indians new ball
S03231994Cpark at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field).
S03231994 Magic Johnson is named head coach of the L.A. Lakers (effective
S03231994C3/28).
S0323     Feast of St. Taribius, Bishop of Lima.
S0323     World Meteorological Day.
S0323     Liberty Day.
R0323    3It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0323    4It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0323    5It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0323    6It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0323    7It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0323    3It's National Wildlife Week.
R0323    4It's National Wildlife Week.
R0323    5It's National Wildlife Week.
R0323    6It's National Wildlife Week.
R0323    7It's National Wildlife Week.
S0323     National Tree Planting Day (Lesotho).
S0323     Otago Provincial Anniversary (New Zealand).
S0323     Southland Provincial Anniversary (New Zealand).
S0323     Pakistan Day.
S0323     Summer Finding (Norse).
S0323     Last day of the Lesser Panathenaea Festival (Ancient Greek
S0323       5-day festival honoring Athena, the warrior goddess).
S0323     Festival of Cybele (Ancient Greek 6-day festival honoring the
S0323       goddess of bees, of caverns, and of the Earth in its primitive
S0323       state).
S0323     Festival of Mars and Nerio (Roman festival honoring Mars, god of
S0323       war, and his wife Nerio).
R0323    7Western Europe Daylight Savings Time starts tomorrow.
S03241765 Britain enacts the Quartering Act.
S03241857 after 5 years of petitions and public discussions, residents
S03241857Cliving in the area of Cleveland's Public Square, who wanted a
S03241857Ccentral park there, entirely enclose the Square with a fence,
S03241857Cunder the cover of darkness to circumvent any court injunction.
S03241857CTen years later the court ordered the fences to be taken down.
S03241860 the Clipper "Andrew Jackson" arrives in S.F., 89 days out of N.Y.
S03241877 Ohioan Rutherford B. Hayes is inaugurated as the 19th President
S03241877Cof the United States.
S03241882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus is the cause of
S03241882CTB.
S03241883 the first telephone service between N.Y. and Chicago begins.
S03241898 Alexander Winton sells his first automobile that he built in
S03241898CCleveland to mining engineer Robert Allison for $1000.
S03241906 it is announced the report "Census of the British Empire" shows
S03241906Cthat England rules 1/5 of the globe. ("The sun never sets....")
S03241910 the warmest temperature ever experienced in Cleveland in March
S03241910Coccurs, 83 degrees (tied in 1945 and 1938).
S03241926 Safeway Stores is incorporated by M.B. Skaggs.
S03241930 the recently discovered ninth planet is given the name Pluto.
S03241937 the National Gallery of Art is established by Congress (opens
S03241937CMarch 17, 1941).
S03241941 the play "The Watch on the Rhine" opens at the Ford Theatre in
S03241941CBaltimore, Md.
S03241944 the greatest mass escape of WW II occurs at Stalag Luft III when
S03241944C76 allied airmen tunneled out (only 3 made it home).
S03241945 600 transports and 1300 gliders stretching for over 300 miles
S03241945Ccarry the First Allied Airborne Army, comprised of 40,000 British
S03241945Cand American paratroopers (17th Airborne Div.), across the Rhine
S03241945Cnear Wesel, Germany in Operation Varsity, the largest one-day
S03241945Cairborne drop in history.
S03241947 John D. Rockefeller, Jr. donates the East River site in N.Y. to
S03241947Cthe United Nations.
S03241947 Congress proposes limitation of the presidency to two terms.
S03241949 Walter Huston and son John become first father-and-son team
S03241949Cto win Oscars as actor and director of "Treasure of Sierra
S03241949CMadre."
S03241955 Tennessee William's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" premieres on
S03241955CBroadway .
S03241955 the first oil drill seagoing rig is placed in service.
S03241958 Elvis Presley trades his rock and roll crown for army fatigues
S03241958C(serial number 53310761).
S03241965 U.S. Ranger 9 strikes the moon 10 miles NE of crater Alphonsus.
S03241965 the Reverend Dr. King leads freedom marchers on a 50-mile walk
S03241965Cfrom Selma to Montgomery.
S03241966 the Selective Service announces college deferments based on
S03241966Cperformance.
S03241972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over North Ireland to stop the
S03241972Csectarian violence.
S03241976 Argentine president Isabel Peron is deposed by country's
S03241976Cmilitary.
S03241981 "Nightline" with Ted Koppel premieres.
S03241986 the U.S. and Libya clash in the Gulf of Sidra.
S03241989 the largest oil spill in U.S. history occurs (Exxon Valdez).
S03241992 the 46th Shuttle Mission, Atlantis 11 is launched.
S03241992 the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Everywoman debuts.
S03241994 the last U.S. troops, part of the U.N. rescue mission, withdraw
S03241994Cfrom Somalia.
S0324     Feast of St. Gabriel, patron saint of postmen and telephone
S0324       workers.
S0324     Feast of St. Simeon, martyr.
S0324     Britannia's Day (England).
R0324    4It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0324    5It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0324    6It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0324    7It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0324    4It's National Wildlife Week.
R0324    5It's National Wildlife Week.
R0324    6It's National Wildlife Week.
R0324    7It's National Wildlife Week.
S0324     Festival of Cybele (Ancient Greek 6-day festival honoring the
S0324       goddess of bees, of caverns, and of the Earth in its primitive
S0234       state).
S0324     Dies Sanguines, the Day of Blood (Roman festival for Bellona,
S0324       the battle goddess).
R0324    7Western Europe Daylight Savings Time starts tomorrow.
S03251634 Maryland is founded as a Catholic colony.
S03251655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, Saturn's largest satellite.
S03251774 the Boston Port Bill, the first bill of the Intolerable Acts
S03251774C(called by the Colonists) is passed by Parliament, closing Boston
S03251774Charbor until restitution for the destroyed tea is made (effective
S03251774CJune 1, 1774).
S03251807 the first railway passenger service begins in England.
S03251821 Greece begins its war of independence from Turkey (National Day).
S03251857 Frederick Laggenheim takes the first photograph of a solar
S03251857Ceclipse.
S03251858 the Miracle at Lourdes occurs.
S03251863 the first Army Medal of Honor is awarded.
S03251894 Coxey's Army, a band of over a hundred unemployed workers
S03251894Cgathered by Jacob S. Coxey, and led by a six-piece band, set out
S03251894Cfor Washington, D.C. from Massilon, Ohio.
S03251900 the Socialist Party in formed in Indianapolis, Indiana.
S03251911 175 immigrant women are killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company
S03251911Cfire in N.Y.
S03251913 New York City's famed Palace Theatre opens its doors for the
S03251913Cfirst time.
S03251913 the worst Ohio flood disaster strikes Dayton, Ohio, deluging the
S03251913Ccity with 1.5 million gallons of water per second.
S03251918 a perfected version of the .30 caliber rifle is demonstrated.
S03251920 the day is proclaimed Greek Independence Day.
S03251931 the nine Scottsboro Boys are arrested.
S03251934 the first annual Masters golf tournament, held in Augusta, Ga.,
S03251934Cis won by Horton Smith, who defeated Craig Wood by one stroke.
S03251944 RAF Sgt. Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his burning
S03251944CLancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute.
S03251945 the record for the warmest temperature ever experienced in
S03251945CCleveland in March is tied, 83 degrees.
S03251951 Edward Mills Purcell and H.I. Ewen at the Harvard physics lab
S03251951Cdetect 21-cm radiation in outer space.
S03251954 RCA begins mass producing color TV's for under $1,000.
S03251954C(Westinghouse introduced more expensive sets earlier in the
S03251954Cmonth.)
S03251955 East Germany is granted full sovereignty by its occupying power,
S03251955CU.S.S.R.
S03251957 the Treaty of Rome establishes the European Economic Community
S03251957C(Common Market).
S03251960 a guided missile is launched from a nuclear powered submarine for
S03251960Cthe first time.
S03251960 "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D.H. Lawrence is ruled not obscene
S03251960Cby the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York.
S03251966 the first day of the International Days of Protest (Mar. 25-27)
S03251966Cis held in 7 U.S. and 7 foreign cities (the Vietnam War).
S03251966 Cleveland's largest temperature drop in a 24-hour period is
S03251966Crecorded, 77 degrees to 19 degrees.
S03251987 the Supreme Court rules women and minorities may get jobs over
S03251987Cbetter qualified men and whites.
S03251994 the first American Heritage Folk Art Faire debuts in Stark
S03251994CCounty, Ohio.
S0325     Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
S0325     Maryland Day.
R0325    5It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0325    6It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0325    7It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0325    5It's National Wildlife Week.
R0325    6It's National Wildlife Week.
R0325    7It's National Wildlife Week.
S0325     Greece Independence Day (from Ottoman Empire).
S0325     Cyprus Independence Day (from Ottoman Empire).
S0325     Annunciation Day (Lady Day), quarter day in medieval England and
S0325       Scotland.
S0325    7Isaac Mayer Wise Sabbath (Reform Jews of America).
S0325     Global Understanding Day.
S0325     New Year's Day observed in England, 1155-1752.
S0325     Feast of Young Mothers - Waffle Day (Sweden).
S0325     Festival of Cybele (Ancient Greek 6-day festival honoring the
S0325       goddess of bees, of caverns, and of the Earth in its primitive
S0325       state).
R0325    7Western Europe Daylight Savings Time starts tomorrow.
S03261790 the Naturalization Act is passed, requiring a 2-year residency.
S03261804 the Orleans Territory and the Territory of Louisiana is
S03261804Cestablished.
S03261845 a patent is awarded for an adhesive medicated plaster, precursor
S03261845Cof the bandaid.
S03261848 Dr. John Parker Maynard announces his invention of the plaster
S03261848Ccast for treating bone fractures.
S03261878 Hastings College of Law is founded.
S03261885 Eastman Film Company manufactures first commercial motion picture
S03261885Cfilm.
S03261937 Crystal City, Texas, unveils a Popeye statue in Popeye Park
S03261937Cduring the Second Annual Spinach Festival.
S03261943 2nd Lieutenant Elsie S. Ott becomes the first woman to receive
S03261943Cthe Air Medal.
S03261945 Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima.
S03261951 the U.S. Air Force flag is approved.
S03261953 Dr. Jonas Salk announces a new vaccine against polio.
S03261953 Football Hall of Famer Mike McCormack and four other players from
S03261953CBaltimore are traded to the Cleveland Browns for ten players,
S03261953Cincluding defensive back Don Shula.
S03261958 the U.S. Army launches the nation's third successful satellite,
S03261958CExplorer III.
S03261962 the Supreme Court backs one-man one-vote apportionment of seats
S03261962Cin state legislatures.
S03261966 the second day of the International Days of Protest (Mar. 25-27)
S03261966Cis held in 7 U.S. and 7 foreign cities (the Vietnam War).
S03261970 S.F.'s Golden Gate Park Conservatory is made a City Landmark.
S03261971 East Pakistan proclaims its independence, taking the name
S03261971CBangladesh.
S03261979 the Camp David peace treaty is signed by Israel and Egypt, ending
S03261979C30 years of war.
S03261982 groundbreaking in Washington, D.C. for the Vietnam Vet Memorial
S03261982Coccurs.
S0326     Feast of St. Ludger, Bishop and confessor.
S0326    7Isaac Mayer Wise Sabbath (Reform Jews of America).
S0326     Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
S0326     Seward's Day (Alaska).
R0326    6It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0326    7It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0326    6It's National Wildlife Week.
R0326    7It's National Wildlife Week.
S0326     Plowing Day (Slavic).
S0326     Bangladesh Independence Day.
S0326     Festival of Cybele (Ancient Greek 6-day festival honoring the
S0326       goddess of bees, of caverns, and of the Earth in its primitive
S0326       state).
R0326    7Western Europe Daylight Savings Time starts tomorrow.
S03271794 after disappearing when the last ship is sold in 1785, the U.S.
S03271794CNavy is established by an Act of Congress.  The U.S.S.
S03271794CConstitution (Old Ironsides) and five other frigates are
S03271794Cauthorized.
S03271802 Pallas (asteroid) is discovered by Heinrich Olbers.
S03271814 Andrew Jackson leads 2,000 Tennessee Volunteers to victory
S03271814Cagainst 800 Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
S03271836 the first Mormon temple in the U.S. is dedicated in Kirtland,
S03271836COhio.
S03271855 Abraham Gesner receives a patent for kerosene.
S03271860 M.L. Byrn patents the corkscrew in New York.
S03271873 the Cleveland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is
S03271873Cformed (later renamed the Humane Society).
S03271912 the first Japanese cherry trees are planted in Washington, D.C.
S03271912Cby the First Lady Helen Taft of Cincinnati, Ohio.
S03271917 the Seattle Metropolitans are the first U.S. team to win the
S03271917CStanley Cup (beating the Canadiens).
S03271927 the cornerstone for the Hathaway Brown School for Girls in Shaker
S03271927CHeights, Ohio is laid.
S03271942 free mail privileges is granted to members of the U.S. armed
S03271942Cforces.
S03271945 the last German V-2 rocket is fired, less than 2 months before
S03271945CGermany surrenders.
S03271955 the first coast to coast color TV broadcast occurs.
S03271958 Khrushchev becomes the Soviet premier and remains the First
S03271958CSecretary of the Communist Party.
S03271964 an earthquake strikes Alaska, measuring 8.4 on the Richter scale
S03271964Cand killing 100 people.
S03271966 the last day of the International Days of Protest (Mar. 25-27)
S03271966Cis held in 7 U.S. and 7 foreign cities (the Vietnam War).
S03271969 Mariner 7 is launched toward Mars.
S03271969 the Black Academy of Arts and Letters is formally established.
S03271972 the "Funky Winkerbean" comic strip, created by Tom Batiuk of
S03271972CMedina, Ohio, debuts.
S03271977 582 die in aviation's worst disaster when a KLM 747 and a Pan Am
S03271977C747 crash on the runway in the Canary Islands.
S03271980 Mount St. Helens becomes active after 123 years.
S03271985 the Supreme Court rules that police could not shoot fleeing
S03271985Ccriminal suspects who are unarmed and not considered dangerous.
S03271986 the Disney-MGM Studio Tour groundbreaking occurs.
S0327     Feast of St. John Damascene, confessor, doctor.
S0327    7Isaac Mayer Wise Sabbath (Reform Jews of America).
R0327    7It's National Poison Prevention Week.
R0327    7It's National Wildlife Week.
S0327     Resistance Day (Burma).
S0327     Youth Day (Eastern Nigeria).
S0327     Day of Gauri (Hindu goddess, the Harvest Bride).
S0327     Festival of Cybele ends (Ancient Greek 6-day festival honoring
S0327       the goddess of bees, of caverns, and of the Earth in its
S0327       primitive state).
R0327    7Western Europe Daylight Savings Time starts tomorrow.
S03281796 the Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia becomes the
S03281796Cfirst African church established in the U.S.
S03281797 Nathan Briggs gets a patent for the washing machine.
S03281806 the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the first art organization
S03281806Cin the U.S., is incorporated.
S03281834 the Senate censures President Jackson for taking federal deposits
S03281834Cfrom Bank of the U.S.
S03281848 a Pennsylvania law decrees that no child under twelve could
S03281848Cengage in commercial labor.
S03281854 the Crimean War begins.
S03281930 Constantinople and Angora change names to Istanbul and Ankara.
S03281939 the Spanish Civil War ends, and Francisco Franco is named leader
S03281939Cof the nation.
S03281942 British commandos raid the Nazi occupied French port of St.
S03281942CNazaire.
S03281942 French resistance leaders found Francs-tireurs and Partisans
S03281942C(FTP).
S03281956 the Post Office installs electric stamp sellers.
S03281978 the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant first sustains a
S03281978Cnuclear reaction.
S03281979 a major nuclear accident occurs at Reactor #2 on Three Mile
S03281979CIsland.
S03281988 the taping of the first episode of "Empty Nest" begins.
S03281993 the U.S. becomes the first Davis Cup defender to lose in the
S03281993Cfirst round when Australia beats the U.S. 4-1.
S0328     Feast of St. John of Capistrano, confessor.
S0328     Feast of St. Guntram, King and confessor.
S0328    7Isaac Mayer Wise Sabbath (Reform Jews of America).
S0328     Teacher's Day (in Czechoslovakia).
S0328     Birthday of Kwan Yin (China).
S0328     Libya Evacuation Day (British Troops).
S03291597 "Dafne," the first opera, is performed in Florence.
S03291626 the Plymouth Colony enacts forestry legislation requiring
S03291626Capproval for the exportation of lumber.
S03291728 the Edinburgh Music Society is founded.
S03291807 the 4th asteroid Vesta, the only asteriod seen with the human
S03291807Ceye, is discovered by Dr. Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers.
S03291848 Niagara Falls stops flowing --for 1 day --because of an ice jam.
S03291852 Ohio makes it illegal for "children under eighteen, and women" to
S03291852Cwork over ten hours a day.
S03291853 lightening train service between Cleveland and Cincinnati is
S03291853Cannounced (unprecedented eight hours).
S03291853 the Cleveland Iron Mining Company is organized, the first in the
S03291853Ccity.
S03291867 the British North American Act establishes the Dominion of
S03291867CCanada, uniting Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
S03291867C(effective July 1).
S03291882 the Knights of Columbus is chartered.
S03291886 Dr. John Pemberton, introduces Coca-Cola as an "esteemed brain
S03291886Ctonic and intellectual beverage" (with cocaine?).
S03291921 the Hanna Theater opens in Cleveland's Playhouse Square.
S03291923 the Lakewood Post, grandmother to the Great Cleveland Sun
S03291923CNewspapers, is first published.
S03291927 Major Henry O. de Hane becomes the first person to drive a car
S03291927Cover 200 mile per hour.
S03291932 Jack Benny debuts on radio.
S03291950 RCA demonstrates two color picture tubes, one using a single
S03291950Celectronic gun and the other three guns to produce color images.
S03291951 Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "The King and I" opens on
S03291951CBroadway at the St. James Theatre, starring Yul Brynner.
S03291961 the 23rd Amendment is ratified, allowing D.C. residents to vote
S03291961Cin presidential elections.
S03291965 the Supreme Court rules businesses can shut down to avoid
S03291965Cunionism.
S03291971 Lt. Calley is found guilty of the murder of 22 civilians at
S03291971CMylai, South Vietnam (sentenced to life Mar. 31, reduced to 20
S03291971Cyears Aug. 20).
S03291971 the development of an apparently effective serum hepatitis
S03291971Cvaccine for children is announced.
S03291973 the last U.S. troops leave Vietnam.
S03291974 Mariner 10's takes first close-up photos of Mercury.
S03291976 the Supreme Court rules states may prosecute people for
S03291976Chomosexual acts.
S03291990 the grand opening of Tower City, the renovated Terminal Tower, is
S03291990Cstaged.
S03291994 "Major League II" has its world debut at Cleveland's Palace
S03291994CTheatre.
S0329     Feast of St. Cyrillus, deacon and martyr.
S0329    7Isaac Mayer Wise Sabbath (Reform Jews of America).
S0329     Delaware Swedish Colony Day.
S0329     Ishtar's Festival (Babylon - greatest of the Middle Eastern
S0329       Eastern goddesses, goddess of love and benevolence).
S0329     Anniversary of President Boganda's Death (Central African
S0329       Republic.
S0329     Martyrs' Day/Youth Day (Republic of China-Taiwan).
S0329     Memorial Day (Madagascar).
S0329     Blind Days (Devonshire, England - it is unlucky to sow seed
S0329       during the last 3 days of March).
S03301822 Florida Territory is established.
S03301842 an anesthetic is first used for (minor) surgery.  Dr. Crawford
S03301842CW. Long of Jefferson, Ga., uses ethyl ether while removing a
S03301842Ctumor from a patient's neck.
S03301843 Napoleon E. Guerin patents the egg incubator.
S03301856 the Treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War.
S03301858 Hyman Lipman of Philadelphia patents a pencil with an attached
S03301858Ceraser.
S03301867 the U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (Seward's
S03301867CFolly).
S03301870 the 15th Amendment passes, guaranteeing right to vote regardless
S03301870Cof race.
S03301870 Texas is readmitted to the Union.
S03301901 daily trading volume on the NYSE reaches 3 million shares for the
S03301901Cfirst time.
S03301930 the first transcontinental glider flight is begun by Capt. Frank
S03301930CM. Hawks, from San Diego, Ca. (reaches N.Y. City April 6).
S03301932 Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the
S03301932CAtlantic.
S03301950 the invention of the phototransistor is announced by Murray
S03301950CHill.
S03301959 "double jeopardy" is upheld in 2 U.S. Supreme Court decisions
S03301959Cstating that a person could be tried for the same offense in both
S03301959Cfederal and state courts.
S03301962 Edward Kennedy admits ouster by Harvard for cheating on exams.
S03301972 North Vietnamese forces launch the largest attack in four years
S03301972Cacross the DMZ (demilitarized zone).
S03301972 the nude ballet "Mutations" is given its U.S. premiere at the
S03301972CBrooklyn Academy of Music in N.Y. City.
S03301981 President Reagan is shot and wounded by John W. Hinckley, Jr.
S03301982 the Space Shuttle Columbus lands at White Plains Missile Range to
S03301982Cavoid the rain at Edwards AFB, the first alternate landing by a
S03301982Cspace shuttle.
S03301983 the first California condor chick born in captivity hatches at
S03301983Cthe San Diego Zoo.
S0330     Feast of St. John Climacus, abbot.
S0330     Feast of St. Zosimus.
S0330    7Isaac Mayer Wise Sabbath (Reform Jews of America).
S0330     Doctor's Day.
S0330     Blind Days (Devonshire, England - it is unlucky to sow seed
S0330       during the last 3 days of March).
S0330     Festival of Concordia (Roman goddess of peace and civic harmony).
S0330     Day of Bau (Babylon).
S03311814 forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris.
S03311814 John Lineback patents a cottonseed hulling machine.
S03311831 Quebec and Montreal are incorporated.
S03311840 a 10-hour workday is established for federal public works
S03311840Cemployees.
S03311854 Commodore Perry negotiates the opening of Japanese ports to
S03311854Cforeign trade (Treaty of Kanagawa).
S03311868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard the steamship "China".
S03311870 Thomas Peterson-Mundy becomes the first black to vote in the U.S.
S03311870Cin Perth Amboy, N.J.
S03311880 Wabash, Indiana becomes the first town to have a complete
S03311880Celectric street lighting system.
S03311882 a pension for widows of presidents is passed by Congress.
S03311889 the Eiffel Tower officially opens.
S03311923 Alma Cummings, in New York City, sets the record of 27 hours in
S03311923Cthe first dance marathon held.
S03311932 Ford Motor Company publicly unveils its V-8 engine.
S03311933 Congress authorized the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to
S03311933Crelieve the rampant unemployment.
S03311933 the first newspaper is published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton
S03311933CNews" (Ga).
S03311943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, "Oklahoma!", opens on Broadway.
S03311946 transcontinental Pullman sleeping car service is inaugurated.
S03311949 Newfoundland becomes the 10th Canadian province.
S03311951 President Truman signs an executive order establishing draft
S03311951Cdeferment for college students with superior scholastic
S03311951Cstandings.
S03311954 a new Leica 35-mm camera of radically different design is
S03311954Cintroduced (interchangeable lenses, faster, one-dial shutter
S03311954Cspeeds, and a winding lever).
S03311958 the U.S. Navy forms the atomic sub division.
S03311958 the U.S.S.R. announces unilateral suspension of nuclear weapons
S03311958Ctests, and urges the U.S. and Great Britain to do the same.
S03311963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after nearly 90 years.
S03311965 the U.S. orders the first commitment of combat troops to Vietnam
S03311965Cto protect Danang Air Base.
S03311966 the U.S.S.R. launches Luna 10, the first spacecraft to orbit the
S03311966Cmoon.
S03311968 LBJ announces he would not seek re-election.
S03311980 President Carter deregulates the banking industry.
S03311987 a New Jersey court awards custody of Baby M to her biological
S03311987Cfather.
S03311987 the second heaviest snowfall in a 24-hour period covers Cleveland
S03311987Cin 16.4 inches of snow.
S03311991 Albania voters chose the Communist Party in the first multiparty
S03311991Celection since WW II.
S03311994 the walkway from Cleveland's Tower City to Gateway (Jacobs Field)
S03311994Cofficially opens.
S03311995 after the N.L.R.B. charges that M.L. baseball owners were guilty
S03311995Cof unfair labor practices, U.S. District Judge Sonia Sotomayor
S03311995Cissues an injunction, restoring free agency, salary arbitration,
S03311995Cand anticollusion provisions of the players' expired collective
S03311995Cbargaining agreement (2 days later professional sports' longest
S03311995Cstrike ends).
S03311996 the earliest baseball Opening Day occurs, so that the World
S03311996CSeries will not stretch into November.
S0331     Feast of St. Balbina, virgin.
S0331     Seward's Day (celebrated in Alaska).
S0331    7Isaac Mayer Wise Sabbath (Reform Jews of America).
S0331     Malta Republic Day (National Day).
S0331     Jum il-Helsien (Malta).
S0331     Taranaki Provincial Anniversary (New Zealand).
S0331     Blind Days (Devonshire, England -  it is unlucky to sow seed
S0331       during the last 3 days of March).
S0331     Virgin Islands Transfer Day.
S0331     Feast of Luna (Roman holiday).
R0331    7Set clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts tomorrow!!
R0300     It's International Red Cross Month.
R0300     It's Women's History Month.
R0300     It's Youth Art Month.
R0300     It's Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Awareness
R0300       Month.
R0300     It's National Poetry Month.
R0300     It's Cataract Awareness Month.
R0300     It's Foot Health Month.
R0300     It's Philatelic Literature Month.
R0300     It's Civilized and Polite Behavior Among Citizens Month in China.
R0300     It's International Hamburger Month!
R0300     It's International Pickle Month!!
R0300     It's National Frozen Food Month!!
R0300     It's National Peanut Month!!
R0300     It's National Nutrition Month!!!
R0300     The bloodstone, jasper and aquamarine are the gems of March.
R0300     The daffodil and jonquil are the flowers of March.
R0300     The sentimental meaning of the aquamarine is for courage, and the
R0300       jonquil and the daffodil are for the breath of spring.
R0300     March was the first month of the ancient world, named after the
R0300       god of war, Mars.
R0300     The full moon in March is known as the Crow Moon, the Chaste
R0300       Moon, and among some Indian tribes, the Awakening, the Deer and
R0300       the Worm Moon.
R03010320 Pisces is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R03010320   Symbol: The Fishes.
R03010320   Ruling Planet: Neptune.
R03010320   Element: Water.
R03010320   Traits: Sympathetic, sensitive, emotional, imaginative.
R03010320   Body part associated with this sign: The feet.
R03010320   Occupations: Medicine, teacher, fisherman, dancing and the
R03010320     arts, clergy.
R03210331 Aries is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R03210331   Symbol: The Ram.
R03210331   Ruling Planet: Mars.
R03210331   Element: Fire.
R03210331   Traits: Energetic, assertive, impulsive.
R03210331   Body part associated with this sign: The head.
R03210331   Occupations: Exploration, the military, entrepreneur, outdoor
R03210331     engineering, fireman.
 
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S04011621 colonists at Plymouth conclude an alliance with Massasoit, war
S04011621Cchief of the Wampanoags (the first treaty between the white
S04011621CEuropeans and the Indians).
S04011775 pioneers led by Daniel Boone reach Otter Creek, completing the
S04011775CWilderness Trail.
S04011778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$".
S04011824 by annexing an area of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Lorain County is
S04011824Cofficially organized.
S04011826 Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
S04011838 the College of Charleston, the first community college to operate
S04011838Cunder municipal control, opens.
S04011853 Ohio Wesleyan Female College is chartered in Delaware, Ohio
S04011853C(combined with Ohio Wesleyan University in 1877).
S04011853 Cincinnati became the first U.S. city to pay firefighters a
S04011853Cregular salary.
S04011856 Western Union Telegraph Company is organized.
S04011856 the first public high school building built in Cleveland is
S04011856Cdedicated.
S04011863 the first wartime conscription law in the U.S. goes into effect.
S04011864 the first accident insurance policy is printed (Hartford).
S04011865 at the Battle of Five Forks, a strategic crossroads outside
S04011865CPetersburg, Gen. Sheridan routes Confederates under Gen. Pickett.
S04011889 the first dishwashing machine is marketed in Chicago.
S04011904 Henry Royce tests his first handmade automobile.
S04011909 the federal law prohibiting the importation of opium goes into
S04011909Ceffect.
S04011918 daylight savings time is established to conserve fuel for U.S.
S04011918Cbusiness concerns.
S04011918 the Royal Air Force is established.
S04011921 the Allen Theater opens in Cleveland's Playhouse Square.
S04011929 Louis Marx begins marketing the yo-yo.
S04011933 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish
S04011933Cbusinesses.
S04011935 the first radio tube made of metal is announced. (Schenectady,
S04011935CN.Y.)
S04011938 the Baseball Hall of Fame is established in Cooperstown, New
S04011938CYork.
S04011941 Navy takes over San Francisco Bay's Treasure Island.
S04011945 U.S. forces invade Okinawa, the last major battle of the Pacific
S04011945Cwar.
S04011948 U.S.S.R. begins a land blockade of West Berlin.
S04011948 the U.S. begins flying supplies to West Berlin.
S04011949 the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis complete their
S04011949Cfirst film, "My Friend Irma".
S04011952 the Big Bang theory is proposed in the PHYSICAL REVIEW by Alpher,
S04011952CBethe and Gamow.
S04011953 Congress creates the Department of Health, Education and
S04011953CWelfare.
S04011954 the first H-bomb blast is shown on TV.
S04011954 President Eisenhower establishes the U.S. Air Force Academy
S04011954Cin Colorado.
S04011954 the first army helicopter battalion is formed, at Fort Bragg, NC.
S04011960 TIROS I (Television and Infra-Red Observation Satellite) is
S04011960Claunched to improve weather prediction.
S04011964 the lowest temperature ever experienced in Cleveland in the month
S04011964Cof April is recorded, 10 degrees.
S04011970 a bill banning cigarette advertising on radio and television,
S04011970Ceffective Jan. 1, is signed by President Nixon.
S04011970 Nippon Steel, the world's largest steel company, is organized.
S04011971 U.S./Canada ISIS II is launched to make the first infra-red map
S04011971Cof the galaxy.
S04011972 M.L. baseball's first player's strike begins, lasting 13 days
S04011972C(over pension increase).
S04011973 the FDA decides to recall diet drugs containing amphetamine.
S04011975 the Freedom Train, a traveling historical museum of Americana,
S04011975Cmakes its first stop in Stanton, Delaware.
S04011980 baseball players walk out of spring training, beginning M.L.
S04011980Cbaseball's second strike.
S04011987 Steve Newman, of Bethel, Ohio, completes a four-year, 22,000 mile
S04011987Cwalk around the world.
S04011990 the population of the U.S. is 249,632,692 (according to a U.S.
S04011990CCensus released in December).
S04011994 the Bob Feller Statue on Indians Plaza at Cleveland's Jacobs
S04011994CField (Gateway) is dedicated.
S04011994 the taping of the series finale of "Star Trek: The Next
S04011994CGeneration" is completed, ending the Paramount production after 7
S04011994Cseasons and 177 episodes.
S04011994 Ohio joins 35 other states in adopting the new form of business
S04011994Corganization called a limited liability company.  (Orbital
S04011994CCapital, Ltd., an affiliate of Clarion Capital Corp. becomes the
S04011994Cfirst company formed - July 1.)
S0401     Feast of St. Lasarus.
S0401     Feast of St. Hugh, Bishop of Grenoble.
S0401     April Fool's Day.
S0401     Birthday of the Virgin Mary - Coptic (Egyptian) and Abyssinian
S0401       Churches.
S0401     Hebrew University Day.
R0401    1Week of the Young Child begins.
R0401    1National Drafting Week begins.
R0401    1Publicity Stunt Week begins.
R0401     It's National Laugh Week.
S0401    6Student Government Day (Massachusetts).
S0401     Saint Stupid's Day (a San Francisco tradition since 1980).
S0401     Intolerance Day.
S0401     Iranian Islamic Republic Day.
S0401    5Nafels Pilgrimage (Switzerland).
S0401     Youth Day (Benin).
S0401     Day of Venus (early Roman holiday - before 200 BC - goddess of
S0401       Spring and protectress of vegetation and gardens).
S0401     Festival of Concordia (Roman goddess of peace and civic harmony).
S0401     Festival of Ceres (Roman corn goddess).
R0401    7Set clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time begins tomorrow!!
S04021792 Congress creates the U.S. Mint.
S04021799 New York State grants a charter to the Manhattan Company (now
S04021799Cknown as Chase Manhattan Bank) to supply water to N.Y. City,
S04021799Cindirectly permitting it to start a bank (the oldest bank
S04021799Coperating under its original charter).
S04021807 the townships surveyed west of the Cuyahoga River are divided
S04021807Camong the members of the Connecticut Land Co. (Township 7, which
S04021807Cincluded Lakewood, Rocky River and Fairview Park, was one of
S04021807Cthem.)
S04021819 the first successful agricultural journal in the U.S., "American
S04021819CFarmer," is founded in Baltimore.
S04021845 H.L. Fizeau and J. Leon Foucault take the first photo of the sun.
S04021865 at the urging of Gen. Lee, President Davis leaves Richmond.
S04021876 the first official National League baseball game is played,
S04021876CBoston beats Philadelphia 6-5, with Jim O'Rourke getting the
S04021876Cfirst hit.
S04021877 the first Easter Egg Roll is held on the White House lawn --
S04021877CRutherford B. Hayes was president.
S04021889 Charles Martin Hull patents aluminum.
S04021902 the first motion-picture theatre in the U.S. opens in L.A.
S04021917 President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany.
S04021935 Watson Watt is granted a patent for RADAR.
S04021956 "As the World Turns" and "The Edge of Night" premieres.
S04021958 Wind speed reaches 450 kph in a tornado at Wichita Falls, TX
S04021958C(record).
S04021972 the TV show "Dallas" premieres.
S04021979 Prime Minister Begin becomes the first Israeli PM to visit Egypt.
S04021980 the U.S. Windfall Profits Tax is imposed on the oil industry.
S04021982 Argentina troops overrun 84 British marines, seizing the Falkland
S04021982C(Malvinas) Islands.
S04021984 the baseball season has its earliest Opening Day (until 1996).
S04021986 the 3-point field goal in men's basketball, minimum distance of
S04021986C16 ft., 9 in., is adopted by the NCAA.
S04021993 Cleveland Cavalier Mark Price hits seven straight free throws,
S04021993Ctieing the NBA record of 78 consecutive free throws, then misses
S04021993Chis next shot which would have set a new record.  (A new record
S04021993Cis set by Minnesota's Michael Williams on Apr. 25, 1984.)
S04021993 the expansion team Colorado Rockies play their first game.
S04021994 the Indians lose to the Pirates 6-4 in 10 innings in an
S04021994Cexhibition game, the first game played at Jacobs Field.  Some of
S04021994Cthe firsts at Jacobs Field (although regular season play started
S04021994C4/4/1994) were:
S04021994C      first pitch - a strike
S04021994C      first strike out pitcher - (Indians) Charles Nagy
S04021994C      first pitcher to walk in a run - Charles Nagy
S04021994C      first hit - (Indians) Omar Vizquel
S04021994C      first stolen base - Omar Vizquel
S04021994C      first walk - (Pirates) Jay Bell
S04021994C      first double - (Pirates) Brian Hunter
S04021994C      first triple - (Pirates) Al Martin
S04021994C      first RBI - (Pirates) Kevin Young
S04021994C      first Indians' strike out - Albert Belle
S04021994C      first Indians' player walked - Albert Belle
S04021994C      first Indians' double - Paul Sorrento
S04021994C      first Indians' RBI - Paul Sorrento
S04021994C      first double play - (Indians) Vizquel-Baerga-Sorrento
S04021995 M.L. owners accept the baseball players union's unconditional
S04021995Coffer to return, ending the longest strike in professional
S04021995Csports' history.
S0402     International Children's Book Day
S0402     Feast of St. Francis of Paula, confessor
S0402    6Student Government Day (Massachusetts).
S0402     Pascua Florida Day.
S0402     International Children's Book Day.
R0402    1Week of the Young Child begins.
R0402    1National Drafting Week begins.
R0402    1Publicity Stunt Week begins.
R0402    2It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0402    2It's National Drafting Week.
R0402    2It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0402     It's National Laugh Week.
S0402     Flower Day (France).
S0402    5Nafels Pilgrimage (Switzerland).
S0402     Iranian Revolution Day.
R0402    7Set clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time begins tomorrow!!
S04031451 Johann Gutenberg uses movable type for the first time in Europe
S04031451Cto produce "Donatus Latin Grammer."
S04031773 the first circus performance is held in Philadelphia, Pa.
S04031776 Washington receives a honorary doctor of laws degree from Harvard
S04031776CCollege.
S04031829 James Carrington patents the coffee mill.
S04031848 Thomas Douglas becomes first San Francisco public teacher.
S04031854 Cleveland and Ohio City vote to merge.
S04031860 Pony Express begins service between St. Joseph, Missouri and
S04031860CSacramento, California.  Service ends Oct. 24, 1861.
S04031863 the first Navy Medal of Honors are awarded to sailors and
S04031863Cmarines.
S04031865 Union forces occupy the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va.
S04031865 Union forces occupy Petersburg, Va., one day after the
S04031865CConfederate evacuation.
S04031866 Rudolph Eickemeyer patents a hat blocking and shaping machine.
S04031882 Robert Ford shoots Jesse James (?) in the back in St. Joseph,
S04031882CMo. to collect a $10,000 reward.
S04031893 the first U.S. ambassador is Thomas Francis Bayard, to the Court
S04031893Cof St. James (up until then, the highest diplomatic title was
S04031893Cminister).
S04031918 the American Creed is accepted by Congress on behalf of the
S04031918CAmerican people.
S04031948 Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan (Aid to Europe).
S04031948 the first U.S. figure skating championships are held.
S04031962 the Air Force announces the first satellite TV broadcast.
S04031962 Eddie Arcaro, winner of 4,777 horse races including 2 Triple
S04031962CCrowns, retires.
S04031969 U.S. combat deaths in Vietnam since Jan. 1, 1961, reaches 33,641,
S04031969Ctopping the 33,629 killed in the Korean War.
S04031972 Charlie Chaplin returns to the U.S. after a 20-year absence.
S04031974 a tornado roars for 35 minutes in Xenia, Ohio.  (148 tornadoes
S04031974Coccur in a two-day period - April 3-4 - the largest outbreak in
S04031974CU.S. history.)
S04031975 Bobby Fischer is stripped of his world chess title after failing
S04031975Cto accept a match with U.S.S.R. challenger Anatoly Karpov.
S04031977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has first meeting with President
S04031977CJimmy Carter on Mideast peace terms.
S04031979 Jane Byrne becomes Chicago's first woman mayor.
S04031995 Justice Sandra Day O'Connor presides over a Supreme Court session
S04031995C(lasting 20 minutes), the first time in history a woman has
S04031995Cpresided.
S0403     Feast of St. Richard of Chichester, Bishop.
S0403    6Student Government Day (Massachusetts).
R0403    1Week of the Young Child begins.
R0403    1National Drafting Week begins.
R0403    1Publicity Stunt Week begins.
R0403    2It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0403    3It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0403    2It's National Drafting Week.
R0403    3It's National Drafting Week.
R0403    2It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0403    3It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0403     It's National Laugh Week.
S0403    5Nafels Pilgrimage (Switzerland).
S0403     Celebration of the Second Republic (Guinea).
R0403    7Set clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time begins tomorrow!!
S04041692 the first post office is established for the American colonies.
S04041753 John Napier Day is first celebrated.
S04041807 Rockport (now Lakewood, Ohio) is purchased by the Connecticut
S04041807CLand Co.
S04041818 Congress decides the U.S. flag is to have 13 red and white
S04041818Cstripes, and 20 stars after July 4, 1818.
S04041841 William Henry Harrison becomes the first president to die in
S04041841Coffice.  (He catches pneumonia reciting the longest presidential
S04041841Cinauguaration speech, 8443 words, a month earlier.)
S04041850 the City of Los Angeles is incorporated.
S04041859 "I Wish I Was In Dixie's Land" is first performed publicly at
S04041859CMechanics' Hall on Broadway.
S04041870 Golden Gate Park is established by City Order #800.
S04041887 Susan Salter of Argonia, Kansas, becomes the first U.S. woman
S04041887Cmayor.
S04041891 the American Academy of Political and Social Science is
S04041891Cincorporated.
S04041902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund is established with $10 million.
S04041914 the movie "The Perils of Pauline" is shown for the first time,
S04041914Cin Los Angeles.
S04041917 the U.S. becomes the 13th country to declare war on Germany.
S04041932 chemist C.C. King isolates vitamin C.
S04041947 the International Civil Aviation Org., an U.N. agency, is formed.
S04041949 the U.S. ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
S04041960 Project Ozma begins at Green Bank National Radio Astronomy.
S04041964 the home TV recorder is first demonstrated.
S04041965 two Hanoi MIG's down two U.S. jets in the first air clash of the
S04041965CVietnam War.
S04041967 military authorities announce that the 500th U.S. plane had been
S04041967Cshot down over North Vietnam since bombing began in 1964.
S04041968 Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis.
S04041968 the unmanned Apollo VI is launched in the second and last test of
S04041968Cthe Saturn V booster rocket prior to manned flight.
S04041969 Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary, totally
S04041969Cartificial heart in Houston, Texas (patient died 4 days later).
S04041969 CBS cancels "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" because it is too
S04041969Ccontroversial.
S04041972 Soviets refuse to give a Swede a visa to give Alexandr
S04041972CSolzhenilsyn his Nobel Prize.
S04041974 Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home run record by hitting his 714th.
S04041974 148 tornadoes occur in a two-day period, the largest outbreak in
S04041974CU.S. history.
S04041979 given home rule by Denmark, Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) elects a
S04041979Csocialist dominated legislature.
S04041981 Susan Brown becomes the first woman to take part in the Oxford-
S04041981CCambridge boat race, and is on the winning team.
S04041983 the 6th Space Shuttle Mission (STS-6) - the second U.S. space
S04041983Cshuttle, the Challenger, makes its maiden voyage with Paul Weitz,
S04041983CDonald Peterson, Karol Bobko, and Story Musgrave.
S04041984 Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary.
S04041987 the U.S. charges the Soviets of wiretapping the U.S. Embassy in
S04041987CMoscow.
S04041987 a revised New Testament is introduced by the nation's Roman
S04041987CCatholic bishops, avoiding the use of "man" when referring to men
S04041987Cand women.
S04041987 Akron-Canton sets a city record for the most snowfall in a 24-
S04041987Chour period, 20.6 inches.
S04041988 Toronto's George Bell becomes the first to hit 3 homers in a game
S04041988Copener (in K.C.).
S04041994 President Clinton throws out the opening day ball in the
S04041994CCleveland Indians Inaugural Game at Jacobs Field (in Gateway).
S04041994CThe Tribe beats the Seattle Mariners 4-3 in 11 innings.  Firsts
S04041994Cat Jacobs Field:
S04041994C  first regular season game
S04041994C  first M.L. record set - Eddie Murray's 2,403rd start at 1st
S04041994C    base (all-time leader)
S04041994C  first starting Indians pitcher - Dennis Martinez
S04041994C  first pitch - a strike by Dennis Martinez to Rich Amaral
S04041994C  first out - Rich Amaral (grounding out)
S04041994C  first strikeout - (Seattle) K. Griffey, Jr. by Martinez in 3rd
S04041994C  first player hit by a pitch - Edgar Martinez by Martinez in 1st
S04041994C  first player walked - Ken Griffey, Jr. by Martinez in the 1st
S04041994C  first Indians' player walked - Kenny Lofton by Randy Johnson in
S04041994C    the 1st
S04041994C  first hit - (Seattle) Eric Anthony (HR) in the 3rd
S04041994C  first home run - Eric Anthony
S04041994C  first game-winning RBI - (Indians) Wayne Kirby
S04041994C  first RBI - Eric Anthony (1) in the 1st (sacrifice fly)
S04041994C  first run - Edgar Martinez on Anthony's SF in the 1st
S04041994C  first Indians' RBI - Manny Ramirez (2 RBI) in the 8th
S04041994C  first Tribe run - Candy Maldonado in the 8th on Ramirez double
S04041994C  first sacrifice fly - Eric Anthony in the 1st
S04041994C  first single - (Seattle) Mike Blowers in the 5th
S04041994C  first Indians' on base - Albert Belle (error) in the 4th
S04041994C  first Indians' hit - Sandy Alamar, Jr. (single in the 8th)
S04041994C  first double - Manny Ramirez in the 8th
S04041994C  first player caught stealing - Kenny Lofton in the 1st
S04041994C  first player picked off - Manny Ramirez in the 8th
S04041994C  first time the bases are loaded - 1st inning (Seattle)
S04041994C  first error - (Indians) Eddie Murray in the 4th
S04041994C  first player to reach base on an error - (Seattle) Felix Fermin
S04041994C  first wild pitch - (Seattle) Randy Johnson to M. Ramirez in 8th
S04041994C  first double play - (Seattle) Fermin to Tino Martinez in 4th
S04041994C  first pinch hitter - (Indians) Paul Sorrento in the 9th
S04041994C  first winning pitcher - (Indians) RHP Eric Plunk
S04041994C  first losing pitcher - (Seattle) LHP Kevin King
S04041994C  first extra inning game - 11 innings
S04041994C  first extra inning win
S04041994C  first standing "O" - when 41,459 stood at the unveiling of the
S04041994C    jerseys of Feller, Harder, Averill, and Boudreau.
S04041994 Indians' Eddie Murray becomes the all-time leader in games played
S04041994Cat 1st base (2,403) and the all-time leader in assists at 1st
S04041994Cbase (1,842).
S04041994 Cubs' Karl Rhodes becomes the first rookie to homer in his first
S04041994Cthree at bats, and the second player in history to do it in an
S04041994Copener (Mets win 12-8).
S0404     Feast of St. Isidore, archbishop of Seville, confessor, doctor.
S0404     St. Ambrose Day (Anglican).
S0404    6Student Government Day (Massachusetts).
S0404     Bonza Bottler Day (Number of Day Matches the Number of the
S0404       Month).
R0404    1Week of the Young Child begins.
R0404    1National Drafting Week begins.
R0404    1Publicity Stunt Week begins.
R0404    2It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0404    3It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0404    4It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0404    2It's National Drafting Week.
R0404    3It's National Drafting Week.
R0404    4It's National Drafting Week.
R0404    2It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0404    3It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0404    4It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0404     It's National Laugh Week.
R0404     It's Hate Week.
S0404     Anniversary of the Liberation of Hungary (1945).
S0404     Senegal Independence Day.
S0404     Festival of the Great Mother (Roman holiday).
S0404    5Nafels Pilgrimage (Switzerland).
S0404     Festival of Cybele begins (Ancient Greek week-long festival
S0404       honoring the goddess of bees, of caverns, and of the Earth in
S0404       its primitive state).
R0404    7Set clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time begins tomorrow!!
S04051614 Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
S04051621 the Mayflower leaves on the return trip to England.
S04051653 the use of postage stamps is initiated in Paris.
S04051792 George Washington casts the first Presidential veto.
S04051802 the first town meeting of the Township of Cleveland, Ohio, is
S04051802Cheld at James Kingsbury's log cabin, and the first town officials
S04051802Care elected.
S04051806 Isaac Quintard patents the cider mill.
S04051842 Akron, Ohio, wins its name when nearly 3,000 voters choose Akron
S04051842Crather than Cuyahoga Falls (1,400 votes) and Summit City (100).
S04051843 the mechanics and laborers of Cleveland hold a wage protest
S04051843Cdemonstration, the city's first labor protest.
S04051859 the Oberlin-Wellington rescue cases first come to trial in
S04051859CCleveland.
S04051887 Helen Keller first discovers "finger talk" are words.
S04051893 Cleveland passes the Park Act, providing the founding of the
S04051893CBoard of Park Commissioners (forerunner of the Metroparks).
S04051903 a new ruling at Yale allows freshman to chose their own course of
S04051903Cstudy.
S04051923 Firestone produces the first balloon tires.
S04051927 Johnny Weissmuller sets three world records.
S04051943 Poon Lim, a Chinese seaman, is rescued after 133 days alone on a
S04051943Craft in the South Atlantic.
S04051963 the U.S.S.R. approves the Washington/Moscow hot line.
S04051968 Operation Pegasus breaks the 76-day Viet Cong siege of the U.S.
S04051968Cbase at Khe Sanh.
S04051971 the Supreme Court upholds the federal law against possession of
S04051971Can unregistered gun.
S04051984 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career
S04051984Cscoring record of 31,419 points.
S04051986 a bombing in a West Berlin discotheque kills a U.S. soldier and
S04051986Cwounds 60 others (U.S., backed with firm evidence, responds with
S04051986Cair strikes on Libya).
S04051991 the 39th Shuttle mission, the Atlantis 8 is launched.
S04051993 the Indians play their last opening-day game at the Stadium,
S04051993CYankees 9, Cleveland 1.
S04051993 the first construction effort begins on Cleveland's Rock and Roll
S04051993CHall of Fame.
S0405     Feast of St. Vincent Ferrer, confessor.
S0405    6Student Government Day (Massachusetts).
S0405     Rosa Parks Day (New York).
R0405    1Week of the Young Child begins.
R0405    1National Drafting Week begins.
R0405    1Publicity Stunt Week begins.
R0405    5It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0405    4It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0405    3It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0405    2It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0405    5It's National Drafting Week.
R0405    4It's National Drafting Week.
R0405    3It's National Drafting Week.
R0405    2It's National Drafting Week.
R0405    5It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0405    4It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0405    3It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0405    2It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0405     It's National Laugh Week.
R0405     It's Hate Week.
S0405    5Nafels Pilgrimage (Switzerland).
S0405     Arbor Day (Korea).
S0405     Ching Ming Festival (China - for sweeping tombs and honoring the
S0405       dead).
S0405     Festival of Cybele (Ancient Greek week-long festival honoring the
S0405       goddess of bees, of caverns, and of the Earth in its primitive
S0405       state).
S0405     Fortuna (Roman holiday).
R0405    7Set clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time begins tomorrow!!
S0406 648 BC the earliest total solar eclipse chronicled by the Greeks is
S0406 648Cobserved.
S04061663 Kings Charles II signs the Carolina Charter.
S04061789 regular sessions of the First Congress begins at Federal Hall in
S04061789CN.Y. City.
S04061804 during the state's first attempt to organize the militia of
S04061804CNortheastern Ohio, the Township of Cleveland forms the fourth
S04061804Ccompany district, in the second brigade, of the fourth division
S04061804Cof the Ohio Militia.
S04061829 Mexico forbids further colonization of Texas by Americans, and
S04061829Cabolishes slavery.
S04061830 Joseph Smith organizes the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
S04061830CSaints (Mormon Church) in Fayette, N.Y.
S04061852 the word "telegram" is first used in an article in the Albany
S04061852C"Evening Journal."
S04061862 the Battle of Shiloh begins; the North claims victory.
S04061868 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife.
S04061880 the Case School of Applied Science is incorporated in Cleveland.
S04061893 the longest boxing match ever fought takes place in New Orleans.
S04061893CAfter 110 rounds in over 7 hours, Andy Bowens and Jack Burke
S04061893Crefuse to come out of their corners, and the bout is ruled "no
S04061893Ccontest".
S04061896 the first modern Olympic Games are opened in Greece.
S04061896 American James Connolly wins the first Olympic gold medal.
S04061906 the first animated cartoon is copyrighted.
S04061909 Commander Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North
S04061909CPole.
S04061909 the first credit union is established in the U.S.
S04061917 America enters World War I.
S04061917 George M. Cohan writes "Over There."
S04061926 4 planes take off on first successful around-the-world flight.
S04061930 Capt. Frank M. Hawks completes the first transcontinental glider
S04061930Cflight (8 days from San Diego, Ca. to N.Y. City).
S04061941 Hitler invades Yugoslavia.
S04061954 Swanson's Salisbury Steak TV Dinner is first sold.
S04061957 New York City ends trolley car service.
S04061960 the California Legislature approves the nation's first state
S04061960Csmog-control bill.
S04061965 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird"), the first commercial geosynchronous
S04061965Ccommunications satellite, is launched.
S04061966 Cesar Chevez's National Farm Workers Union scores its first
S04061966Cvictory when it is recognized as the bargaining agent for farm
S04061966Cworkers of Schenley Industries.
S04061973 Pioneer 11 is launched to explore Jupiter and beyond.
S04061973 Yankees' Ron Blomberg becomes the first designated hitter (he
S04061973Cwalked!).
S04061982 the last of 107.5 inches of snow falls, ending Cleveland's
S04061982Csnowiest winter.
S04061984 the 11th Space Shuttle Mission (STS-41C) - Challenger 5 is
S04061984Claunched (Crippen, Scobee, Nelson, Hart, Van Hoften) to retrieve,
S04061984Crepair and redeploy a malfunctioning satellite.
S04061992 the European Community and the U.S. recognize the new nation of
S04061992CBosnia-Herzegovina; Bosnian Serbs begin shelling Sarajevo with
S04061992heavy artillery.
S04061992 Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens with Baltimore beating the
S04061992CCleveland Indians 2-0.
S04061993 Queen Elizabeth begins paying taxes.
S04061994 the first scheduled Indians night game at Jacobs Field is
S04061994Ccancelled because of rain (15 minutes after the announcement, it
S04061994Cbegins to snow).  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S04061994C  first game postponed
S0406     Feast of St. Celestin I, Pope and confessor.
S0406     Founding Day (Mormons).
S0406    6Student Government Day (Massachusetts).
S0406     Plan Your Epitaph Day.
R0406    1Week of the Young Child begins.
R0406    1National Drafting Week begins.
R0406    1Publicity Stunt Week begins.
R0406    6It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0406    5It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0406    4It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0406    3It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0406    2It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0406    6It's National Drafting Week.
R0406    5It's National Drafting Week.
R0406    4It's National Drafting Week.
R0406    3It's National Drafting Week.
R0406    2It's National Drafting Week.
R0406    6It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0406    5It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0406    4It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0406    3It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0406    2It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0406     It's National Laugh Week.
R0406     It's Hate Week.
S0406    5Nafels Pilgrimage (Switzerland).
S0406     Chakri Day (Thailand - founding of the present King Rama I
S0406       Dynasty).
S0406     Patriots' Victory Day (Ethiopia).
S0406     Van Riebeeck Day (Founders' Day in South Africa).
S0406     Festival of Cybele (Ancient Greek week-long festival honoring the
S0406       goddess of bees, of caverns, and of the Earth in its primitive
S0406       state).
R0406    7Set clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time begins tomorrow!!
S0407 030 scholars' reckon Jesus is crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem.
S04071788 the first settlement in Ohio, at Marietta, is founded.
S04071798 the Mississippi Territory is organized.
S04071840 Jabez Stone sells his soul to the Devil (Scratch) for Hessian
S04071840Cgold - Daniel Webster defends him seven years later (according to
S04071840CStephen Vincent Bent).
S04071853 Dr. John Snow administers chloroform to Queen Victoria during
S04071853Cchildbirth, winning the battle for the use of analgesics in
S04071853Cobstetrics.
S04071862 Union forces under General Grant defeat the Confederates at
S04071862CShiloh.
S04071906 it is announced the first successful transatlantic wireless
S04071906Ctransmission occurred from Manhatten Beach, N.Y. to Dr. Lee De
S04071906CForest in Ireland.
S04071919 the first parcel of land is purchased for the Cleveland
S04071919CMetroparks.
S04071921 Plymouth Rock is moved to a brick building for safe-keeping.
S04071927 the first successful demonstration of TV occurs (N.Y to
S04071927CWashington, D.C.).
S04071931 Seals Stadium in San Francisco opens.
S04071945 American MPs discover a mine near Merkers, Germany, filled with
S04071945C100 tons of gold bullion, millions in international currency, and
S04071945Cpiles of precious paintings, statues and relics - the cache of
S04071945Cthe Third Reich.
S04071945 the Japanese battleship Yamato, one of the 2 largest battleships
S04071945Cever commissioned (sister-ship Musaski), is sunk.
S04071947 the first annual Antoinette Perry, of Tony, Awards are presented:
S04071947C  Jos Ferrer  "Cyrano de Bergerac
S04071947C  Fredric March "Years Ago"
S04071947C  Helen Hayes "Happy Birthday"
S04071947C  Ingrid Bergman "Joan of Lorraine
S04071947C  Patricia Neal "Another Part of the Forest"
S04071948 the World Health Organization is established.
S04071949 "South Pacific" opens on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre,
S04071949Cstarring Mary Martin.
S04071959 NASA selects the first astronauts.
S04071959 radar is first bounced off the sun, from Stanford, Calif.
S04071959 a committee to study statehood for New York City is authorized by
S04071959Ca resolution of the N.Y. City Council.
S04071959 prohibition in Oklahoma is repealed after 51 years, leaving
S04071959CMississippi the only dry state in the Union.
S04071964 Rev. Bruce Klunder is crushed by a bulldozer during a
S04071964Cdemonstration in Cleveland.
S04071967 Tom Donahue, a S.F. disc jockey, begins a new radio format on
S04071967CFrisco station KMPX-FM, the progressive form or free form of
S04071967Cradio (copied by WMMS).
S04071969 obscenity laws prohibiting the private possession of obscene
S04071969Cmaterials are ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
S04071972 the Federal Election Campaign Act goes into effect.
S04071973 the Cleveland Indians' fans set club and major league attendance
S04071973Crecords for an opening day game, 74,420 (vs Detroit).
S04071977 the Consumer Product Safety Commission bans "TRIS" flame-
S04071977Cretardant.
S04071977 Baltimore's rookie Eddie Murray hits his first of over 3,000
S04071977Ccareer hits off Rangers' Bert Blyleven.
S04071987 Texaco pays Pennzoil $10.1 billion plus interest as a
S04071987Csettlement for having interfered with the latter's attempt to
S04071987Ctake over Getty Oil Co.
S04071987 the National Museum of Women in the Arts opens in Washington,
S04071987CD.C.
S04071989 the New York Supreme Court takes the America's Cup away from
S04071989Cthe San Diego Yacht Club for using a catamaran in the race
S04071989Cagainst New Zealand.  An appeals court overrules the decision.
S04071990 indictments for obscenity are lodged against the Contemporary Art
S04071990CCenter, Cincinnati, Ohio, and its director (photographic exhibit
S04071990Cwith a homoerotica theme by Robert M. Mapplethorpe), the first
S04071990Ctime obscenity charges are brought against a museum (later
S04071990Cacquitted).
S04071994 the first night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field is played (game
S04071994Ctime temperature - 35 degrees), Indians 6, Seattle Mariners 2.
S04071994CFirsts at Jacobs Field:
S04071994C  first night game
S04071994C  first base stolen - (Indians) Omar Vizquel (2nd base)
S04071994C  first triple - (Seattle) Ken Griffey, Jr.
S04071994C  first Indians' home run - Eddie Murray (over the left field
S04071994C    wall)
S04071994C  first Indians' double play - Paul Sorrento (tags first and tags
S04071994C    runner in run down)
S0407     Feast of St. Hegesippus, confessor.
S0407     World Health Day.
S0407    6Student Government Day (Massachusetts).
R0407    1Week of the Young Child begins.
R0407    1National Drafting Week begins.
R0407    1Publicity Stunt Week begins.
R0407    2It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0407    3It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0407    4It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0407    5It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0407    6It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0407    7It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0407    2It's National Drafting Week.
R0407    3It's National Drafting Week.
R0407    4It's National Drafting Week.
R0407    5It's National Drafting Week.
R0407    6It's National Drafting Week.
R0407    7It's National Drafting Week.
R0407    2It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0407    3It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0407    4It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0407    5It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0407    6It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0407    7It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0407     It's National Laugh Week.
R0407     It's Hate Week.
S0407     Feast of Blajini (celebrated in Romania).
S0407     Verrazano Day (observed by New York to commemorate discovery of
S0407       New York Harbor by Giovanni da Verrazano).
S0407    5Nafels Pilgrimage (Switzerland).
S0407     Mozambican Women's Day.
S0407     Festival of Cybele (Ancient Greek week-long festival honoring the
S0407       goddess of bees, of caverns, and of the Earth in its primitive
S0407       state).
S04081730 the first Jewish congregation in the U.S. consecrates their
S04081730Csynagogue.
S04081766 the first patent is granted for a fire escape ... a wicker
S04081766Cbasket on a pulley and a chain, designed by a London watchmaker.
S04081854 the U.S. introduces a registered letter system.
S04081873 Alfred Paraf patents a process for the manufacturing of
S04081873Coleomargarine.
S04081879 Echo Farms Dairy introduces the glass milk bottle.
S04081913 the 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators,
S04081913Cis ratified.
S04081935 the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act is passed which
S04081935Cauthorized such programs as the Works Progress (Project)
S04081935CAdministration (WPA) which is abolished in 1942.
S04081935 the Lakewood Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post #387, is reorganized.
S04081939 the Cleveland Barons win the A.H.L. Championship and Calder
S04081939CTrophy.
S04081947 the largest recorded sunspot is observed.
S04081950 the first NBA championship begins.
S04081952 the nation's steel mills are seized by presidential order to
S04081952Cprevent a shutdown by strikers. (The steel strike is ended May 2
S04081952Cby the steelworkers' union at presidential request.)
S04081953 the first major 3D movie is released ("Man in the Dark").
S04081954 construction of an early warning radar net stretching 3,000 miles
S04081954Cacross the Canadian far north is announced by the U.S. and
S04081954CCanada.
S04081960 the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC) is
S04081960Cestablished to guide anti-segregation efforts.
S04081964 the unmanned Gemini 1 is launched (orbits the earth three times).
S04081971 the first legal off-track betting (OTB) system in the U.S. begins
S04081971Coperating in N.Y. City.
S04081974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits his 715th home run, beating Babe Ruth's
S04081974Crecord.
S04081975 Frank Robinson, baseball's first black manager, hits an Opening
S04081975CDay home run in his first game as Indians' player/manager.
S04081986 Clint Eastwood is elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
S04081993 Indians' Carlos Baerga sets a major league record by hitting home
S04081993Cruns from both sides of the plate in one inning, Cleveland 15,
S04081993CYankees 5.
S04081993 Miami Heats' Brian Shaw sets the NBA record for the most 3 point
S04081993Cfield goals in one game (10) against Milwaukee.
S04081994 basketball great Michael Jordan goes 0-3 with 2 strikeouts in his
S04081994Cpro baseball debut for the Class AA Birmingham Barons (White
S04081994CSox).
S0408     Feast of Blessed Julia Billiart, virgin.
S0408     Feast of St. Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth.
S0408     Holocaust Remembrance Day.
S0408     Kambutsue, celebration of Buddha's birthday in Japan.
R0408    1National Library Week begins.
R0408    2It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0408    3It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0408    4It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0408    5It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0408    6It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0408    7It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0408    2It's National Drafting Week.
R0408    3It's National Drafting Week.
R0408    4It's National Drafting Week.
R0408    5It's National Drafting Week.
R0408    6It's National Drafting Week.
R0408    7It's National Drafting Week.
R0408    2It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0408    3It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0408    4It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0408    5It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0408    6It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0408    7It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0408     It's Hate Week.
S0408     Budda Day (Hawaii).
S0408     Hana Maturi or Flower Festival (Japan).
S0408     Festival of Cybele (Ancient Greek week-long festival honoring the
S0408       goddess of bees, of caverns, and of the Earth in its primitive
S0408       state).
S04091667 the first public art exhibition opens at the Palaise-Royale in
S04091667CParis.
S04091682 Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claims the lower Mississippi
S04091682CRiver country for France, calling it Louisiana.
S04091833 the first tax-supported public library is established at
S04091833CPeterborough, N.H.
S04091846 the first classes are held at Baldwin Institute (later Baldwin-
S04091846CWallace College).
S04091865 Lee surrenders at Appomattox.
S04091866 Congress passes the Civil Rights Act over President Johnson's
S04091866Cveto, making citizens of all native-born Americans except
S04091866CIndians.
S04091867 the Ohio Common School Act is enacted, allotting three schools to
S04091867Cthe Lakewood area of Rockport. Later, it becomes East Rockport
S04091867CDistrict.
S04091872 Samuel R. Percy patents dried milk.
S04091913 the first ball game in Brooklyn's Ebbets Field is played.
S04091924 the Dawes Plan is proposed for the reconstruction of German
S04091924Cfinances after World War I (V.P. Charles Dawes wins the 1925
S04091924CNobel Peace Prize).
S04091928 Mae West makes her New York City debut in a daring new play,
S04091928C"Diamond Lil."
S04091941 the "Road to Zanzibar", starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and
S04091941CDorothy Lamour, opens.
S04091942 Allied forces are beaten by the Japanese on Bataan.
S04091950 Bob Hope makes his first TV appearance.
S04091953 "TV Guide" (then called "TV Digest") publishes their first issue.
S04091955 the United Nations Charter hearing begins.
S04091955 the Civil Defense Coordinating Board, to coordinate the defense
S04091955Cof all federal bureaus, is formed.
S04091957 the Italian Fiat enters the American market.
S04091958 the Celtics are the first to ever sweep the NBA championship.
S04091959 the first 7 U.S. astronauts selected are presented publicly.
S04091963 Winston Churchill becomes the first honorary U.S. citizen
S04091963C(posthumously).
S04091965 the first game at the Astrodome is played. The Houston Colt 45s,
S04091965Cunder their new name the Astros, beat the Yankees 2-1 in
S04091965Cexhibition.
S04091966 the Vatican abolishes the index of banned books.
S04091967 the first Boeing 737 is manufactured.
S04091975 responding to a FCC mandate, the National Association of
S04091975CBroadcasters designate 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. as "family time" (family
S04091975Chour).
S04091986 it is announced that Patrick Duffy, who had been shot and killed
S04091986Cearlier in the series, would be back on "Dallas."
S04091991 the Republic of Georgia declares its independence from the
S04091991CU.S.S.R.
S04091992 former military ruler of Panama, Manuel Noriega, is found guilty
S04091992Cof racketeering, drug trafficking and money laundering.
S0409     Feast of St. Mary of Cleophus, sister of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
R0409    1National Library Week begins.
R0409    2It's National Library Week.
R0409    3It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0409    4It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0409    5It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0409    6It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0409    7It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0409    3It's National Drafting Week.
R0409    4It's National Drafting Week.
R0409    5It's National Drafting Week.
R0409    6It's National Drafting Week.
R0409    7It's National Drafting Week.
R0409    3It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0409    4It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0409    5It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0409    6It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0409    7It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0409     It's Hate Week.
S0409     Appomattox Day.
S0409     Tunisia Martyrs' Day.
S0409     Bolivia's National Day (celebrating revolution of 1952).
S0409     Dakini Day (celebrated in Tibet).
S0409     Festival of Cybele (Ancient Greek week-long festival honoring the
S0409       goddess of bees, of caverns, and of the Earth in its primitive
S0409       state).
S04101790 the U.S. Patent system is established.
S04101790 the first circumnavigation of the globe by an American ship is
S04101790Caccomplished ("Columbia," captained by Robert Gray).
S04101825 the first hotel in Hawaii opens.
S04101841 the "New York Tribune" begins publication.
S04101849 the safety pin is patented by Walter Hunt of New York City.  He
S04101849Cimmediately sold the patent rights for $100.
S04101862 the Johnson's Island prison for Confederate officers in Sandusky
S04101862CBay, Ohio opens.
S04101866 the ASPCA is organized.
S04101871 William Hammond Hall's maps and surveys of Golden Gate Park
S04101871Cis officially accepted.
S04101872 Arbor Day is first observed in Nebraska.
S04101877 Nathanael G. Herreshoff of Providence, R.I. patents his
S04101877Ccatamaran.
S04101878 California Street Cable Car Railroad Company starts service.
S04101882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco and Hawaii).
S04101912 the RMS Titanic sets sail for its first and last voyage.
S04101916 the first game under the auspices of the PGA, held at the Siwanoy
S04101916CGolf Course in Bronxville, N.Y., is won by James M. Barnes.
S04101922 St. Luke's Parish of Lakewood, Ohio is established.
S04101930 synthetic rubber is first produced.
S04101941 the Bataan Death March begins.
S04101941 the Cleveland Barons win the A.H.L. Championship and Calder
S04101941CTrophy.
S04101942 the Bataan Death March begins at dawn (85 miles in six days,
S04101942C5,200 Americans and many more Filipinos die).
S04101944 quinine, used to ward off malaria, is synthesized by Robert
S04101944CWoodward and William Doering.
S04101945 the first Nazi concentration camp discovered by the Americans,
S04101945CBuchenwald, near Jena, Germany, is liberated.
S04101945 Jewish Martyrs Day is first observed.
S04101945 the Cleveland Barons win the A.H.L. Championship and Calder
S04101945CTrophy.
S04101953 House of Wax, the first 3-D movie, is released in New York.
S04101963 the U.S. nuclear sub "Thresher" goes down 220 miles east of
S04101963CBoston.
S04101968 President Johnson names Gen. Creighton Abrams commander of the
S04101968CU.S. forces in Vietnam.
S04101970 Paul McCartney announces he is leaving the Beatles, thereby
S04101970Cdisbanding the group.
S04101971 the U.S. table tennis team arrives in China, the first Americans
S04101971Cto visit since the mid-50's.
S04101972 over 120 nations sign a pact banning biological weapons.
S04101977 the Cleveland Indians set a club record for the longest, nine
S04101977Cinning game, 3 hour, 17 minutes in Boston.  (Broken in 1994.)
S04101978 the first American-made Volkswagen rolls off the assembly line in
S04101978CPennsylvania.
S04101983 Baltimore's Eddie Murray hits his 1,000 career hit off Indians'
S04101983CLarry Sorensen.
S04101992 the first professional hockey strike in the history of the NHL, a
S04101992Cten-day walkout, ends.
S04101993 Ohio's worst prison riot begins at Lucasville, becoming the
S04101993Clongest prison standoff in U.S. history.
S04101994 two U.S. F-16 jets bomb Bosnian Serb targets after Serb tanks
S04101994Cfired on the city of Gorozde in Bosnia-Herzegovina, one of six
S04101994CU.N. Safe-Areas (first NATO attack on ground positions in its
S04101994C44-year history).
S0410     Feast of St. Macarius, Bishop of Antioch.
S0410     Commodore Matthew C. Perry Day.
S0410     National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day.
R0410    1National Library Week begins.
R0410    2It's National Library Week.
R0410    3It's National Library Week.
R0410    4It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0410    5It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0410    6It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0410    7It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0410    4It's National Drafting Week.
R0410    5It's National Drafting Week.
R0410    6It's National Drafting Week.
R0410    7It's National Drafting Week.
R0410    4It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0410    5It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0410    6It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0410    7It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0410     It's Hate Week.
S0410     Founder's Day (Salvation Army).
S0410     Liberia's National Fast and Prayer Day.
S0410     Festival of Cybele ends (Ancient Greek week-long festival
S0410       honoring the goddess of bees, of caverns, and of the Earth in
S0410       its primitive state).
S04111513 Ponce de Leon discovers what he thinks is an island; calls it
S04111513C"La Florida".
S04111713 Queen Anne's War (1702-1713) ends with the Treaty of Utrecht.
S04111803 John Stevens patents the twin screw steamboat.
S04111836 the City of Cleveland elects its first officials; John W. Willey
S04111836Cbecomes the city's first mayor.
S04111861 South Carolina authorities demand Maj. Robert Andersen to
S04111861Csurrender Fort Sumter.
S04111876 the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
S04111876 John C. Zachos patents the stenotype.
S04111895 Anaheim completes it's new electric light system.
S04111899 the peace treaty ending the Spanish-American War is exchanged.
S04111914 George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion" premieres.
S04111920 the Shaker Heights Rapid Transit (now the Shaker and Van Akens
S04111920CLines of the RTA) begins operations.
S04111921 Iowa imposes the first state cigarette tax.
S04111941 the Ford Motor Company signs is first contract with a labor
S04111941Cunion.
S04111943 Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his first (single-rotor)
S04111943Ccraft.
S04111947 Jackie Robinson becomes the first black in major league baseball.
S04111948 the Cleveland Barons win the A.H.L. Championship and Calder
S04111948CTrophy.
S04111951 President Truman removes Gen. MacArthur from his Far East
S04111951CCommands for publicly challenging the administration's foreign
S04111951Cpolicies.
S04111953 Oveta Culp Hobby becomes the first Secretary of the Department of
S04111953CHealth, Education, and Welfare.
S04111958 the first test-firing of a Polaris missile from a submerged sub
S04111958Coccurs.
S04111961 Adolf Eichmann goes on trial in Jerusalem for WW II war crimes
S04111961Cagainst the Jews.
S04111966 Jack Nicklaus becomes the first to win two consecutive Masters.
S04111968 President Johnson signs the 1968 Civil Rights Act, making it
S04111968Cillegal to discriminate in the rental or sale of property.
S04111970 the Apollo 13, the third manned mission to the moon, is launched
S04111970C(unable to land because of an oxygen leak, the crew - James
S04111970CLovell, Jr., John Swigert, Jr., and Fred Haise, Jr. - return in 6
S04111970Cdays aboard the lunar lander).
S04111974 a judiciary committee subpoenas Nixon to produce White House
S04111974Ctapes for impeachment inquiry.
S04111980 regulations prohibiting sexual harassment of women by their
S04111980Csuperiors in government or business are issued by the Equal
S04111980COpportunity Commission.
S04111986 Halley's Comet is closest to earth.
S04111986 Dodge Morgan becomes the first American to solo nonstop
S04111986Caround the world (in 150 days, setting a sailing record).
S04111990 round and tubenose gobies from the Black and Caspian Seas are
S04111990Cfirst documented in the Great Lakes.
S04111992 the Indians set a team record for the longest game, 6 and a half
S04111992Chours, in their 19-inning opening day loss, Boston 7, Cleveland
S04111992C5.
S04111994 the Texas Rangers' Arlington Stadium opens.
S04111995 the 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo sign, removed from the Stadium when
S04111995Cthe Indians moved to Jacobs Field, is installed in the Reinberger
S04111995CGallery at the Western Reserve Historical Society.
S0411     Feast of St. Leo I, Pope (440-61), doctor.
S0411     Barber Shop Quartet Day.
S0411     International Resistance Movement Day.
R0411    1National Library Week begins.
R0411    5It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0411    6It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0411    7It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0411    2It's National Library Week.
R0411    3It's National Library Week.
R0411    4It's National Library Week.
R0411    5It's National Drafting Week.
R0411    6It's National Drafting Week.
R0411    7It's National Drafting Week.
R0411    5It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0411    6It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0411    7It's Publicity Stunt Week.
S0411     Day of Dedication (celebrated in Liberia).
S0411     Cost Rica National Heroes' Day.
S0411     Uganda Liberation Day.
S0411     Cerealia begins (Roman week-long festival honoring Ceres, the
S0411       corn goddess).
S04121204 the 4th Crusade sacks Constantinople.
S04121606 England adopts the Union Jack as its flag.
S04121633 Galileo goes on trial for heresy before the Inquisition in Rome.
S04121770 the Townshend Acts, requiring the colonies to pay an import duty
S04121770Con tea, glass, paints, oil, lead and paper, are repealed (except
S04121770Cfor tea).
S04121776 North Carolina becomes the first colony to formally propose
S04121776Cindependence.
S04121820 the term "doughface" is popularized by Rep. John Randolph of
S04121820CRoanoke, Va. (northern congressman who voted with southern
S04121820Cslaveholding interests).
S04121842 the first mutual life insurance company in the U.S., the Mutual
S04121842CLife Insurance Company of New York, is granted a charter.
S04121844 the Texas Annexation Treaty is signed, providing for the
S04121844Cadmission of Texas as a state in 1845.
S04121858 the first U.S. billiard championship is held at Fireman's Hall,
S04121858CDetroit, Mich. (Michael J. Phelan wins).
S04121861 Fort Sumter, S.C., at 4:30 a.m., is shelled by the Confederacy,
S04121861Cstarting the Civil War.
S04121861 Abner Doubleday, the man who invented baseball, fires the first
S04121861CUnion shot in defense of Fort Sumter.
S04121861 the New York Stock & Exchange Board suspends trading of
S04121861Csecurities of seceding states.
S04121862 James Andrews steals the Confederate train General at Kennesaw,
S04121862CGa.
S04121864 the Fort Pillow massacre of black Union troops follows the
S04121864Ccapture of the Union-held fort on the Mississippi River by Gen.
S04121864CForrest's troops.
S04121877 the catcher's mask is first used in a baseball game.
S04121898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island to the Navy.
S04121915 Noah Young, who weighs 198 pounds, runs a mile in 8 minutes, 30
S04121915Cseconds in Melbourne, Australia (carrying a 150-pound man on his
S04121915Cback).
S04121918 the First Aero Squadron of the U.S. Army sees its first combat
S04121918Caction.
S04121933 Moffatt Field is commissioned.
S04121934 the highest velocity wind ever is recorded on Mt. Washington,
S04121934CN.H., 231 mph.
S04121937 the first U.S. nation-wide student strike against war takes
S04121937Cplace.
S04121938 the first U.S. law requiring medical tests for a marriage
S04121938Clicense is passed in New York.
S04121954 Bill Haley and the Comets record "Rock Around the Clock" (entered
S04121954Cthe Top 40 charts on May 14, 1955).
S04121955 tests at Ann Arbor show that Salk polio vaccine is safe and
S04121955Ceffective (four billion dimes march).
S04121961 Yuri A. Gagarin becomes the first man to orbit the Earth.
S04121962 San Mateo County withdraws from BART district.
S04121966 B-52 bombers are used for the first time on targets in North
S04121966CVietnam.
S04121981 the maiden voyage of the Space Transit System-space shuttle
S04121981C(STS-1) Columbia begins (John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen).
S04121985 at President Carter's request, the U.S. Olympic Committee
S04121985Cendorses a boycott of the Moscow games in protest of the Soviets
S04121985Cinvasion of Afghanistan..
S04121985 the 16th Shuttle Mission, Discovery 4 is launched with Senator
S04121985CJake Garn on board.
S04121987 Texaco Inc., files for bankruptcy.
S04121987 Larry Mize's 50-yard wedge shot ends the Masters 3-way tie.
S04121988 the world's first patent for a higher form of life, a mouse, is
S04121988Cissued to Harvard University (genetically altered mice).
S04121993 at 1400 hours U.S. jets began enforcing the U.N. sanctioned no-
S04121993Cfly zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
S04121993 the first structural beams are erected for Cleveland's Gateway
S04121993CArena (Gund Arena).
S04121994 concrete is poured over 11.5 miles of coolant pipe for the hockey
S04121994Crink at Cleveland's Gateway Arena (Gund Arena).
S04121995 the NFL owners reverse their decision and approve the Rams move
S04121995Cfrom L.A. to St. Louis.
S0412     Feast of St. Victor, martyr.
S0412     Halifax Independence Day (North Carolina).
R0412    1National Library Week begins.
R0412    6It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0412    7It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0412    5It's National Library Week.
R0412    4It's National Library Week.
R0412    3It's National Library Week.
R0412    2It's National Library Week.
R0412    6It's National Drafting Week.
R0412    7It's National Drafting Week.
R0412    6It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0412    7It's Publicity Stunt Week.
S0412     Cosmonautics Day (U.S.S.R.).
S0412     Ram Navami (Nepal).
S0412     Cerealia (Roman week-long festival honoring Ceres, the corn
S0412       goddess).
S04131788 the Doctors' Mob in N.Y. begins, the first riot in America.
S04131796 the first elephant arrives in the U.S. from Bengal, India.
S04131814 Napoleon consents to his first abdication and is exiled to Elba.
S04131829 the English Parliament grants freedom of religion to Catholics.
S04131842 Lord Rosse successfully casts a 72" mirror for a telescope.
S04131846 the Pennsylvania Railroad is chartered.
S04131849 the Hungarian Republic is proclaimed.
S04131863 the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled, America's first
S04131863Corthopedic hospital, is incorporated in N.Y. City.
S04131943 the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. is dedicated.
S04131958 American Van Cliburn, 18, wins the Soviet Union's international
S04131958CTchaikovsky piano competition.
S04131959 Discoverer 2, a military research satellite, is launched from
S04131959CVandenberg AFB, Ca.
S04131960 an experimental satellite, Transit 1-B, is put into an elliptical
S04131960Corbit 500 miles high.
S04131961 the U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid.
S04131963 Pete Rose triples for his first major league base hit.
S04131964 Sidney Poitier becomes the first black man to win an Oscar for
S04131964CBest Actor in the film "Lillies of the Field".
S04131965 Lawrence Bradford, Jr., 16, of N.Y. City becomes the first black
S04131965Ccongressional page.
S04131970 Apollo 13's Beech-built oxygen tank leaks, forcing the astronauts
S04131970Cto abandon ship and return in the lunar module.
S04131972 the first mass strike in major league baseball is settled after
S04131972Ctwo weeks.
S04131976 the $2 bill is re-introduced as United States currency.
S04131977 an antipornography rally at N.Y. City's Times Square is joined by
S04131977Cthe casts of over 25 Broadway shows.
S04131984 Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally shoots
S04131984Chimself in a struggle with authorities.
S04131986 Pope John Paul II, in an unprecedented visit, speaks in Rome's
S04131986Ccentral synagogue.
S04131991 the Main Avenue Bridge closes for an 18-month overhaul (reopens
S04131991COct. 16, 1992).
S04131992 excavation begins on Cleveland's Gateway Arena (Gund Arena).
S04131992 water from the Chicago River breaks through a known crack in the
S04131992Ccity's tunnel system and closes Chicago's central business
S04131992Cdistrict.
S04131994 the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments
S04131994Cgives formal approval to female Alter servers (for years some
S04131994Cchurches had allowed girls to serve Mass).
S0413     Feast of St. Hermenegild, martyr.
R0413     It's the Ides of April!
S0413     Huguenot Day.
R0413    7It's the Week of the Young Child.
R0413    7It's National Drafting Week.
R0413    7It's Publicity Stunt Week.
R0413    1National Library Week begins.
R0413    6It's National Library Week.
R0413    5It's National Library Week.
R0413    4It's National Library Week.
R0413    3It's National Library Week.
R0413    2It's National Library Week.
S0413     Chad National Day.
S0413     Vaisakhi (Hindu New Year).
S0413     Cerealia (Roman week-long festival honoring Ceres, the corn
S0413       goddess).
S0413    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S04141611 the word "telescope" is first used by Prince Federico Cesi.
S04141775 the first abolition society in America, The Society for the
S04141775CRelief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, is organized
S04141775Cby Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia.
S04141804 the Township of Cleveland enacts its first town tax, $10.
S04141815 the first American school for the deaf is established by
S04141815CThomas Gallaudet in Hartford, Conn.
S04141818 the U.S. Army medical corps is organized.
S04141828 the first edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.
S04141860 the first Pony Express rider arrives in S.F. from St. Joseph, Mo.
S04141861 Fort Sumter falls to the Confederacy.
S04141863 a continuous-roll printing press is patented by William Bullock.
S04141865 Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theater.
S04141890 Pan American Day is proclaimed in honor of the First
S04141890CInternational Conference of American States.
S04141902 J.C. (James "Cash") Penney, with two partners, opens his first
S04141902Cstore, the Golden Rule dry goods store, in Kemmerer, Wyo.
S04141910 President Taft begins the tradition of throwing out the first
S04141910Cbaseball on opening day.
S04141914 the nonskid tire pattern is patented by Stacy G. Carkhuff in
S04141914CAkron, Ohio.
S04141916 the Shakespeare Garden, forerunner of the Cleveland Cultural
S04141916CGardens, is dedicated.
S04141918 Lt. Douglas Campbell becomes the America's first air ace when he
S04141918Cshoots down his fifth German aircraft.
S04141928 regular air passenger flights between San Francisco and
S04141928CLos Angeles is started by Maddux Air Lines.
S04141929 the first Grand Prix at Monaco is raced.
S04141931 Spain becomes a republic with the overthrow of King Alfonso XIII.
S04141937 Rodgers and Hart's musical "Babes in Arms" opens.
S04141946 Chow En-lai, Communist liaison to the Nationalists, declares an
S04141946Call-out war in China.
S04141956 the Ampex Corporation demonstrates the first commercial
S04141956Cvideotape recorder.
S04141957 "Twelve Angry Men" with Henry Fonda premieres in the U.S.
S04141957 "The Adventures of Johnny McQueen", the first television series
S04141957Cproduced in Cleveland, is produced by and premieres on WEWS
S04141957CChannel 5.
S04141960 a Polaris missile is fired from underwater off San Clemente
S04141960CIsland, Ca. for the first time.
S04141965 the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the JFK Space Center is
S04141965Ctopped out.
S04141969 the discovery of the chemical structure of an antibody is
S04141969Cannounced by Dr. Gerald Edelman at Rockefeller University.
S04141971 President Nixon lifts the trade embargo with China (existed for
S04141971C20 years).
S04141971 Fort Point is dedicated as the first National Park in the Bay
S04141971CArea.
S04141986 the U.S. bombs military targets in Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya,
S04141986Cin response to a deadly bombing of a discotheque in West Berlin
S04141986Cpopular with American G.I.'s (early morning of 4/15 Libya-time).
S04141988 an U.N. mediated agreement is signed providing for the
S04141988Cwithdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan (completed by Feb.
S04141988C15, 1989).
S0414     Feast of St. Justin, philosopher, martyr.
S0414     Feast of SS. Tiburtius, Valerian and Maximus, martyrs.
S0414     Thomas Jefferson's Birthday (celebrated in Alabama).
R0414    1National Library Week begins.
R0414    2It's National Library Week.
R0414    3It's National Library Week.
R0414    4It's National Library Week.
R0414    5It's National Library Week.
R0414    6It's National Library Week.
R0414    7It's National Library Week.
S0414     Pan American Day.
S0414     Dia de las Americas (Guatemala and Honduras).
S0414     Bengali New Year's Day (Bangladesh).
S0414     Chad Independence Day.
S0414     Maryamma Festival (Hindu).
S0414     Cerealia (Roman week-long festival honoring Ceres, the corn
S0414       goddess).
S0415 073 960 Jewish freedom fighters, the Sicarii, commit mass suicide at
S0415 073CMasada rather than be captured by the Romans.
S04151790 the first U.S. patent law is passed.
S04151836 the first meeting of the first City Council of Cleveland is held.
S04151850 the City of San Francisco is incorporated.
S04151861 President Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers for 3 months to put
S04151861Cdown the rebellion in the Deep South.
S04151865 President Lincoln dies at 7:22 a.m.
S04151904 a hero fund, amounting to $5 million, is established by Andrew
S04151904CCarnegie for those who risked their lives to rescue others, and
S04151904Cthe survivors of those who lost their lives in attempting rescue.
S04151912 the Titanic sinks at 2:20 a.m.
S04151921 the heaviest snowfall in a 24-hour period is recorded in Silver
S04151921CLake, Colorado (76 inches).
S04151923 insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.
S04151925 Ohio's Lucille Atcherson goes to legation at Bern, Switzerland,
S04151925Cbecoming the first U.S. woman to fill a diplomatic post.
S04151928 Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf opens for business.
S04151941 the first helicopter flight of one hour duration occurs in
S04151941CStratford, Ct.
S04151945 British troops liberate the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen,
S04151945CAuschwitz, Poland; American troops liberate the Nordhausen slave
S04151945Ccamp.
S04151947 Jackie Robinson plays his first major league baseball game for
S04151947Cthe Dodgers (Ebbets Field, Brooklyn).
S04151948 Merck and Company announces isolation of vitamin B-12.
S04151952 the first B-52 prototype is test flown.
S04151955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants in
S04151955CDes Plaines, Ill.
S04151966 Paul Parkman and Harry Myer develop the rubella vaccine.
S04151967 Richard Speck is found guilty of murdering eight student nurses.
S04151972 President Nixon and Canadian PM Trudeau sign a pact to clean-up
S04151972Cthe Great Lakes.
S04151972 the U.S., responding to a large scale North Vietnamese attack
S04151972Cacross the DMZ, resume bombing Hanoi and Haiphong after a 4-year
S04151972Clull.
S04151976 Yankee stadium is reopened.
S04151981 Janet Cooke of the Washington Post admits the Pulitzer Prize 8-
S04151981Cyear-old heroin addict story is a lie and returns the award.
S04151983 Tokyo Disneyland opens.
S04151987 Amy Carter, the ex-President's daughter, is acquitted of civil
S04151987Cdisobedience charges for a CIA protest.
S04151987 Mbongeni Ngema's "Asinamali!" opens on Broadway, the first black
S04151987CSouth African play to do so.
S04151994 WMMS-FM's Jeff and Flash, and the entire station staff, are
S04151994Cfired by the new owners.
S04151994 the Tribe loses its first game at Jacobs Field during the first
S04151994Cfireworks game (second night game and third home game) played at
S04151994CJacobs Field, K.C. 2, Indians 1.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S04151994C  first Indians lose
S04151994C  first fireworks game
S04151994C  first save - (Royals) RHP Hipolito Richardo
S0415     Feast of SS. Basilissa and Anastasia, martyrs.
S0415    2Patriots' Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today.
S0415     National Hostility Day.
R0415     Income Taxes are due today.  Keep the IRS happy...
R0415    1Bike Safety Week begins.
R0415    1Week of the Young begins.
R0415    1National Coin Week begins.
R0415    2It's National Library Week.
R0415    3It's National Library Week.
R0415    4It's National Library Week.
R0415    5It's National Library Week.
R0415    6It's National Library Week.
R0415    7It's National Library Week.
S0415     African Freedom Day.
S0415     Kalachakra New Year (Tibet).
S0415     Assumption of Power of CMS (Niger).
S0415     Railway Men's Day (Yugoslavia).
S0415     Sanno Festival (Shinto - honoring mountain god Sanno).
S0415     Day of Venus (early Roman holiday - before 200 BC - goddess of
S0415       Spring and protectress of vegetation and gardens).
S0415     Cerealia (Roman week-long festival honoring Ceres, the corn
S0415       goddess).
S0415     Festival of Tellus Mater (Roman festival honoring Tellus Mater,
S0415       goddess of fecundity).
S0415    4AT & T Annual Shareholder meeting.
S04161705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College.
S04161746 the Battle of Culloden marks the end of Scottish resistance to
S04161746CBritish rule.
S04161818 Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot amendment (an unarmed U.S.-Canada
S04161818Cborder).
S04161846 the Donner and Reed families leave Springfield, Illinois for
S04161846CIndependence, Missouri, the starting point for their ill-fated
S04161846Cwagon train journey to California.
S04161847 the first telegraph company, the Magnetic Telegraph Company, is
S04161847Cgiven the experimental Baltimore to Washington, D.C., line.
S04161861 the Cleveland Grays form as Company D, first Ohio Volunteer
S04161861CInfantry.
S04161862 the District of Columbia outlaws slavery.
S04161866 nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo & Co. office in S.F. explodes.
S04161900 postage stamps are first issued in books.
S04161902 the first meeting of the United Trades and Labor Council of
S04161902CCuyahoga County is held.
S04161912 the first woman flies across the English Channel (Harriet
S04161912CQuimby.)
S04161917 Lenin returns to Russia to start the Bolshevik Revolution.
S04161922 Annie Oakley shoots 100 clay targets in a row, a women's record.
S04161926 the "Book-of-the-Month" Club opens for business.
S04161929 Indians' all-time home run champ Earl Averill (226 HRs), on his
S04161929Cfirst appearance at the plate, hits a home run.
S04161929 the American Engineering Council announces plans for uniform
S04161929Ctraffic signals across the nation.
S04161929 the Yankees become the first team to use numbers on their
S04161929Cuniforms.
S04161935 Pan Am launches air service to the Orient.
S04161935 the first broadcast of "Fibber McGee and Molly" airs on radio.
S04161937 the Flying Fortress, B-17, debuts.
S04161940 Indians' Bob Feller tosses his first no-hitter - baseball's only
S04161940Copening day no-hitter, Cleveland 1, Chicago 0.
S04161947 the zoom lens is first demonstrated in New York City.
S04161956 the first solar powered radios go on sale (in Chicago).
S04161962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS news.
S04161964 Geraldine Mock of Germany becomes the first woman to solo
S04161964Ccircumnavigate the world.
S04161965 the Saturn S-1C rocket, to be the first stage for the Apollo
S04161965Clunar flights and the largest U.S. booster ever, is successfully
S04161965Cfired at Cape Kennedy, Fla.
S04161972 Apollo 16 is launched, manned by John W. Young, Charles M. Duke,
S04161972Cand Thomas K. Mattingly, and the 6th lunar landing occurs at
S04161972Cthe Decartes Highlands.
S04161976 the research spacecraft, Helios B, comes within 27 million miles
S04161976Cof the sun, the closest approach ever made by a man-made craft.
S04161977 Alex Haley discovers his "Roots" in Juffure, Gambia.
S04161979 Sam Shepard wins the Pulitzer for "Buried Child".
S04161980 Alaska ends state income tax.
S04161986 the first surrogate birth of a test-tube baby, a girl, is
S04161986Cannounced by spokesmen at Mount Sinai Hospital in Cleveland, Oh.
S04161987 the Patent Office allows patenting of new animals created by
S04161987Cgenetic engineering.
S04161992 sharp restrictions on the use of silicon gel breast implants
S04161992Cis ordered by the FDA.
S04161992 the first concrete is poured at the new ballpark at Gateway
S04161992C(Jacobs Field).
S04161993 Cavaliers' Lenny Wilkens becomes the second-winningest coach in
S04161993CNBA history with victory 865.
S04161994 the Indians lose 9-12 to K.C. in the 4th game at Cleveland's
S04161994CJacobs Field.  Indians' Golden Glove Omar Vizquel makes three
S04161994Cerrors (two on consecutive plays).  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S04161994C  first team to bat around - K.C.
S04161994C  first team to bat around in consecutive innings - K.C.
S04161994C  first Indians' triple - Kenny Lofton (stand-up)
S04161994C  first errors on consecutive plays - (Indians) Omar Vizquel
S0416     Feast of St. Bernadette of Lourdes.
S0416     Feast of St. Lambert, martyr.
S0416     Yom Ha'atzma'ut (Hebrew).
S0416    2Patriots' Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today.
R0416    1Bike Safety Week begins.
R0416    1Week of the Young begins.
R0416    1National Coin Week begins.
R0416    3It's National Library Week.
R0416    4It's National Library Week.
R0416    5It's National Library Week.
R0416    6It's National Library Week.
R0416    7It's National Library Week.
R0416    2It's the Week of the Young.
R0416    2It's Bike Safety Week.
R0416    2It's National Coin Week.
S0416     DeDiego's Birthday (Puerto Rico).
S0416     Queen Margrethe's Birthday (Denmark).
S0416     Cerealia (Roman week-long festival honoring Ceres, the corn
S0416       goddess).
S0416    4AT & T Annual Shareholder meeting.
S04171492 Queen Isabbella signs an agreement to support Columbus's voyage.
S04171524 New York Harbor is discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.
S04171808 the French seizure of American shipping is authorized by
S04171808CNapolean's Bayonne Decree.
S04171824 the 54 degree 40' parallel is agreed on as the dividing line
S04171824Cseparating Russia and U.S. claims in the Pacific Northwest.
S04171853 the U.S. Marine Hospital at the Presidio is established.
S04171861 Virginia Convention votes to secede from the Union (ratified
S04171861Cby popular vote May 23).
S04171864 the exchange of prisoners of war is discontinued by Gen. Grant
S04171864C(he felt the practice served to prolong the conflict).
S04171869 the first pro baseball game is played (Cinn. Reds 24,
S04171869CCinn. Amateurs 15).
S04171875 the game of "snooker" -- a variation of pool -- is invented
S04171875Cby Sir Neville Chamberlain, while on duty in India.
S04171892 the first Sunday game in N.L. history is played, Cincinnati 5,
S04171892CSt. Louis 1.
S04171895 the Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed, ending first Sino-Japanese
S04171895CWar (1894-95).
S04171919 the United Artist Corporation is founded by Charlie Chapman, D.W.
S04171919CGriffith, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
S04171920 the American Professional Football Association is founded.
S04171924 the Metro-Goldwyn Corp. and the Louis B. Mayer Co. merge.  The
S04171924Croaring lion trademark and motto, "Ars Gratia Artis", owned by
S04171924CGoldwyn, joins the new company of MGM.
S04171929 Indians' all-time home run champ Earl Averill (226 HRs) sets a
S04171929Cclub record with home runs in his first two major league games.
S04171935 "Light Out" debuts on the NBC Red network.
S04171941 the Office of Price Administration is established (handled
S04171941Crationing during WW II).
S04171946 Syria gains independence from France.
S04171949 the Republic of Ireland (South) is born.
S04171953 Mickey Mantle's home run at Griffith Stadium is the longest
S04171953C"measured" home run (565 feet).
S04171960 the Cleveland Indians trade Rocky Colavito to the Tigers for
S04171960CHarvey Kuenn.
S04171961 U.S.-backed Cuban exiles invade Cuba's Bay of Pigs.
S04171963 Alex Karras and Paul Hornung are suspended indefinitely for
S04171963Cbetting on NFL games.
S04171964 Ford Motor Company introduces the Mustang at the N.Y World's
S04171964CFair.
S04171964 Shea Stadium in New York opens.
S04171967 Surveyor 3 is launched to scoop and test lunar soil.
S04171969 Bernadette Devlin, a 21-year-old student activist, is elected to
S04171969Cthe British House of Commons.
S04171970 Paul McCartney's first solo album "McCartney" is released.
S04171975 Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia, ending a five-year
S04171975Ccivil war (Kampuchea National Day).
S04171976 Mike Schmidt of Chicago hits four home runs in one game.
S04171986 IBM announces the manufacturing of the first computers using the
S04171986Cmegabit memory chip.
S04171991 the Dow Jones closes at 3004.46, the first time above 3,000.
S04171994 the Indians are swept by K.C. in their first three-game lose,
S04171994CRoyals 8, Cleveland 3.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S04171994C  first 2 run homer - (Indians) Albert Belle
S04171994C  first three-game sweep - Royals
S04171995 President Clinton issues an executive order automatically
S04171995Cdeclassifying documents 25 years old or older.
S0417     Feast of St. Anicetus, Pope (150-66), martyr.
S0417    2Patriots' Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today.
R0417    1Bike Safety Week begins.
R0417    1Week of the Young begins.
R0417    1National Coin Week begins.
R0417    4It's National Library Week.
R0417    5It's National Library Week.
R0417    6It's National Library Week.
R0417    7It's National Library Week.
R0417    2It's the Week of the Young.
R0417    3It's the Week of the Young.
R0417    2It's Bike Safety Week.
R0417    3It's Bike Safety Week.
R0417    2It's National Coin Week.
R0417    3It's National Coin Week.
S0417     American Samoan Flag Day.
S0417     End of Marbles Season (England).
S0417     Kampuchea Independence Day.
S0417     Syrian Arab Republic Independence Day (France 1946).
S0417     Verrazano Day.
S0417     Cerealia (Roman week-long festival honoring Ceres, the corn
S0417       goddess).
S0417    4AT & T Annual Shareholder meeting.
S04181521 Martin Luther is called before the Diet of Worms.
S04181775 Paul Revere and William Dawes ride to alert patriots the British
S04181775Care on the way to Concord to destroy arms.
S04181836 the Columbus Street Bridge, the first permanent bridge over the
S04181836CCuyahoga River, is given to Cleveland.
S04181846 Royal E. House patents a telegraph ticker that prints letters of
S04181846Cthe alphabet.
S04181853 the first train in Asia, the Great Indian Peninsula Railway,
S04181853Cbegins operation, going from Bombay to Tanna, 22 miles.
S04181861 the Cleveland Grays becomes the first Cleveland company to leave
S04181861Cfor the front in the Civil War.
S04181868 the San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is
S04181868Cformed.
S04181869 the First International Cricket Match is held in San Francisco
S04181869C(won by California).
S04181883 the Cleveland School Library becomes the Cleveland Public
S04181883CLibrary.
S04181906 the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire kills 700.
S04181913 G.E. moves its Cleveland facilities to NELA Park, called "the
S04181913CUniversity of Light," because of its emphasis on R&D and its
S04181913Ccampuslike design.  It is the nation's first industrial park.
S04181913 German Professor Behring announces discovery of a new diphtheria
S04181913Cserum.
S04181923 74,000 are on hand for the opening of Yankee Stadium (62,281
S04181923Cpaid).  Babe Ruth leads the Yankees to a victory over the Red Sox
S04181923Cwith a home run.
S04181934 the first "Washateria" (laundromat) is opened, in Fort Worth, Tx.
S04181936 Pan Am's "Clipper" starts providing regular passenger flights
S04181936Cfrom San Francisco to Honolulu.
S04181942 Gen. James Doolittle's B-25 bombers' first strike Japan.
S04181942 the Stars and Stripes newspaper is started for the U.S. Armed
S04181942CForces.
S04181943 Admiral Yamamoto, commander of Japanese Combined Fleet and the
S04181943Carchitect of the Pearl Harbor attack, is shot down and killed by
S04181943CU.S. fighters.
S04181946 Jackie Robinson goes 4 for 5 in his first game for the Montreal
S04181946CRoyals, the farm club for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
S04181950 the first opening-night game is played (St. Louis), Cardinals 4,
S04181950CPirates 2.
S04181951 N.Y. holds a ticker tape parade for retiring General MacArthur.
S04181954 oil companies introduce premium grade gas.
S04181957 the Cleveland Zoological Society is formed.
S04181966 Bill Russell becomes the first black coach in NBA history
S04181966C(Celtics).
S04181968 the Bell Telephone System is struck for the first time in its
S04181968Chistory.
S04181977 Alex Haley gets a special Pulitzer for "Roots".
S04181978 the U.S. Senate approves transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama.
S04181979 the TV show "Real People" premieres.
S04181980 Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) attains independence from Britain
S04181980Cafter a fifteen year struggle.
S04181981 environmentalists join together to fight President Reagan's
S04181981Cweakened EPA plans.
S04181984 daredevils Mike MacCarthy and Amanda Tucker safely parachute from
S04181984Cthe Eiffel Tower.
S04181987 during a parachute jump, Gregory Robertson saves Debbie Williams
S04181987Cwhen she is knocked unconscious at 9,000 feet.  Pursuing her in a
S04181987Cpower dive, he pulls her ripcord at 3,500 feet, 10 seconds
S04181987Cbefore impact (the lowest mid-air parachute rescue).
S04181988 a three-judge Israeli panel rules John Demjanjuk is Ivan the
S04181988CTerrible, the Treblinka death camp gas chamber operator
S04181988C(acquitted in 1993).
S04181991 the new Comiskey Park opens in Chicago.
S04181995 Joe Montana officially announces his retirement in S.F., where he
S04181995Cplayed for 14 seasons and lead the 49ers to 4 Super Bowl
S04181995CChampionships.
S0418     Feast of St. Perfectus, priest and martyr.
S0418     Paul Revere Day.
S0418    2Patriots' Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today.
R0418    1Bike Safety Week begins.
R0418    1National Childhood Immunization Week begins.
R0418    1Week of the Young begins.
R0418    1National YWCA Week begins.
R0418    1National Secretaries Week begins.
R0418    1National Coin Week begins.
R0418    5It's National Library Week.
R0418    6It's National Library Week.
R0418    7It's National Library Week.
R0418    2It's the Week of the Young.
R0418    3It's the Week of the Young.
R0418    4It's the Week of the Young.
R0418    2It's Bike Safety Week.
R0418    3It's Bike Safety Week.
R0418    4It's Bike Safety Week.
R0418    2It's National Coin Week.
R0418    3It's National Coin Week.
R0418    4It's National Coin Week.
R0418    2National Lingerie Week begins!
S0418    4AT & T Annual Shareholder meeting.
S0418     Zimbabwe Independence Day (from white minority rule 1980).
S0418     Rava-Navami (India).
S0418     Cerealia (Roman week-long festival honoring Ceres, the corn
S0418       goddess).
S04191775 at Lexington Common, the shot "heard round the world" is fired.
S04191839 the kingdoms of Netherlands and Belgium ratify by treaty the
S04191839Cformation of Belgium.
S04191850 the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty is signed.  (The U.S. and Britain agree
S04191850Cto the neutrality of a canal to be built across Central America.)
S04191850 dedicated Ohio feminists meet in Salem, Ohio for the first Ohio
S04191850CSuffrage Convention.
S04191852 California Historical Society is founded.
S04191861 President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports.
S04191874 the barracks on Alcatraz Island is destroyed in a fire.
S04191887 Catholic University in Washington, D.C., is chartered by
S04191887CCongress.
S04191892 Charles Duryea takes the first American-made auto out for a spin.
S04191897 the Boston Marathon is first run.
S04191898 Congress adopts a joint resolution on Cuba, stating that the U.S.
S04191898Chad no plans for Cuban annexation, demanded Spain's withdrawal,
S04191898Cand authorized the president to use military force.
S04191901 the greatest April snowfall in Ohio begins, and over three days,
S04191901Cdrops 15-36 inches in the north-central parts of the state.
S04191905 an anti-smoking law is enforced in Indiana.  A youth pays $35 for
S04191905Cpossession of rolling papers.
S04191917 the U.S. Navy takes its first shot in World War I (sinks a German
S04191917Csub).
S04191927 a New York court closes the Broadway production "Sex", written
S04191927Cand starring Mae West, for lewd improvisations.
S04191933 the U.S. leaves the gold standard.
S04191934 Shirley Temple appears in her first movie, "Stand Up and Cheer".
S04191934 the Loch Ness monster, Nessie, is photographed by Robert Wilson
S04191934C(in 1993, the last surviving conspirator admits it was a hoax).
S04191939 Connecticut approves the Bill of Rights (only 148 years late).
S04191943 50,000 Jews remaining in the Warsaw Ghetto begin uprising against
S04191943Cthe Nazi occupational forces.
S04191943 Dr. Albert Hoffmann first produces the hallucinogen LSD-25.
S04191945 Rogers and Hammerstein's musical, "Carousel," opens on Broadway.
S04191948 Associated Press is 100-years-old.
S04191951 Kiki Haakonson wins the first "Miss World" title.
S04191956 American actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III.
S04191960 in the Cleveland opener, two days after the trade, Detroit's
S04191960CRocky Colavito goes 0-for-6, Tigers 4, Indians 2.
S04191960 the AFL-CIO pledges support to Negro boycotts.
S04191962 Skybolt, the first U.S. airborne ballistic missile, is launched
S04191962Cfrom a B-52  bomber at Cape Canaveral, Fla. (it second stage
S04191962Cfailed to fire and the missile fell short of its target).
S04191967 Surveyor III, part of a U.S. program to develop the technology of
S04191967Csoft landing and provide data about the lunar surface, lands on
S04191967Cthe moon, and soon begins making its first chemical analysis of
S04191967Clunar material.
S04191971 the Soviets' Salyut 1 is launched, becoming the first manned lab
S04191971Cin orbit.
S04191971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic (National Day).
S04191978 the first black woman pilot for a major U.S. airline, Jill E.
S04191978CBrown, 27, from Baltimore, Md., begins working for Texas
S04191978CInternational Airlines.
S04191979 "The Elephant Man" opens on Broadway at the Booth Theater.
S04191982 Sally Ride is announced as the first woman astronaut.
S04191982 Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, is arrested for forgery.
S04191987 the Milwaukee Brewers set an A.L. record with their 12th
S04191987Cstraight victory to start a season, beating the Rangers 6-4.
S04191989 an explosion aboard the battleship "Iowa" in one of its 16-inch
S04191989Cgun turrets occurs at sea.
S04191993 after a 51-day standoff with FBI and ATF agents, David Koresh
S04191993C(Vernon Howe) and 86 members of the Branch Davidian, including 24
S04191993Cchildren, die in an inferno set by cult members.
S04191995 a 4,800-pound car bomb destroys the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
S04191995CBuilding and damages surrounding buildings in Oklahoma City, 168
S04191995Ckilled including 19 children, and over 500 injured (the worst
S04191995Cbombing in U.S. history).
S0419     Feast of St. Timon, deacon and martyr.
S0419     St. Alphege's Day (bishop, martyr) (Anglican).
S0419     Patriots' Day (Massachusetts).
S0419    2Patriots' Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today.
R0419    1National Childhood Immunization Week begins.
R0419    2It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0419    1National YWCA Week begins.
R0419    1Week of the Young begins.
R0419    1Bike Safety Week begins.
R0419    1National Secretaries Week begins.
R0419    1National Coin Week begins.
R0419    6It's National Library Week.
R0419    7It's National Library Week.
R0419    2It's the Week of the Young.
R0419    3It's the Week of the Young.
R0419    4It's the Week of the Young.
R0419    5It's the Week of the Young.
R0419    2It's National YWCA Week.
R0419    2It's National Secretaries Week.
R0419    2It's Bike Safety Week.
R0419    3It's Bike Safety Week.
R0419    4It's Bike Safety Week.
R0419    5It's Bike Safety Week.
R0419    2National Lingerie Week begins!
R0419    3It's National Lingerie Week!
R0419    2It's National Coin Week.
R0419    3It's National Coin Week.
R0419    4It's National Coin Week.
R0419    5It's National Coin Week.
S0419    5National Youth Service Day.
S0419     Landing of the 33 Immortals (Uruguay - independence from Brazil).
S0419     Sierra Leonean Republic Anniversary Day.
S0419     Venezuela Declaration of Independence Day and Day of the Indian.
S0419     Cerealia ends (Roman week-long festival honoring Ceres, the corn
S0419       goddess).
S0419    4AT & T Annual Shareholder meeting.
S0419     Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules.
S04201775 the British begin siege of Boston.
S04201836 the Wisconsin Territory is established by Congress.
S04201837 the first state board of education is created in Massachusetts.
S04201841 the first detective story, Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue
S04201841CMorgue, is published.
S04201871 the third Force Act is passed (known as the Ku Klux Klan Act) to
S04201871Callowing suspension of habeas corpus in order to stamp out
S04201871Cterrorism.
S04201879 the first "mobile home" (horse drawn) is used for a journey
S04201879Cbetween London and Cyprus.
S04201902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the element Radium.
S04201912 Fenway Park in Boston opens; the Red Sox beat the N.Y.
S04201912CHighlanders 7-6 in 11 innings.
S04201912 Tiger Stadium opens with the Tigers defeating Cleveland 6-5.
S04201916 Weeghman Park in Chicago opens (in 1926 renamed Wrigley Field)
S04201916Cwith the Cubs beating the Reds 7-6 in 11 innings.
S04201939 Ted Williams first hit is a double, off of Yankee's Red Ruffing.
S04201940 the first electron microscope is demonstrated RCA laboratory in
S04201940CCamden, N.J.
S04201945 the Cleveland Browns organization is founded by Arthur "Mickey"
S04201945CMcBride.
S04201949 scientists discover method to produce cortisone in commercial
S04201949Cquanities.
S04201953 the U.S. Communist Party is ordered to register with the Justice
S04201953CDepartment as an organization controlled and directed by the
S04201953CU.S.S.R.
S04201961 the rebel invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba ends in failure.
S04201961 American Harold Graham makes the first rocket belt flight.
S04201964 the Cleveland school boycott gets the participation of 86% of the
S04201964Cblack students.
S04201967 Surveyor III, part of a U.S. program to develop the technology of
S04201967Csoft landing and provide data about the lunar surface, extends
S04201967Cits metal claw and makes the first hardness test of the lunar
S04201967Csurface.
S04201971 the Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial
S04201971Cdesegregation (Swann vs. Charlotte-Mechlenburg, N.C. Board of
S04201971CEducation).
S04201977 Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres.
S04201982 biologists find life flourishing in volcanic energy 8,600 feet
S04201982Cunder the sea off the California coast.
S04201983 the Supreme Court rules that states are free to ban nuclear power
S04201983Cplants.
S04201988 TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart is defrocked as a minister of the
S04201988CAssemblies of God after rejecting punishment ordered by the
S04201988Cchurch.
S04201990 the largest fine in NBA history, $163,500, is levied after a
S04201990Cfight during a game (principals were 76ers' Charles Barkley and
S04201990CPistons' Bill Laimbeer).
S04201993 the 20th Anniversary issue of "Playgirl" hits the stands.
S04201995 the 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo sign, removed from the Stadium when
S04201995Cthe Indians moved to Jacobs Field, is officially unveiled in the
S04201995CReinberger Gallery at the Western Reserve Historical Society.
S0420     Feast of St. Agnus, virgin.
S0420     Yaqui Pageant (Native American).
S0420    2Patriots' Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today.
R0420    1National Childhood Immunization Week begins.
R0420    2It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0420    3It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0420    1National YWCA Week begins.
R0420    1Week of the Young begins.
R0420    1Bike Safety Week begins.
R0420    1National Coin Week begins.
R0420    1National Secretaries Week begins.
R0420    7It's National Library Week.
R0420    2It's the Week of the Young.
R0420    3It's the Week of the Young.
R0420    4It's the Week of the Young.
R0420    5It's the Week of the Young.
R0420    6It's the Week of the Young.
R0420    2It's National YWCA Week.
R0420    3It's National YWCA Week.
R0420    2It's National Secretaries Week.
R0420    3It's National Secretaries Week.
R0420    2It's Bike Safety Week.
R0420    3It's Bike Safety Week.
R0420    4It's Bike Safety Week.
R0420    5It's Bike Safety Week.
R0420    6It's Bike Safety Week.
R0420    2National Lingerie Week begins!
R0420    3It's National Lingerie Week!
R0420    4It's National Lingerie Week!
R0420    2It's National Coin Week.
R0420    3It's National Coin Week.
R0420    4It's National Coin Week.
R0420    5It's National Coin Week.
R0420    6It's National Coin Week.
S0420     Family Day (South Africa).
S0420    4AT & T Annual Shareholder meeting.
S0420     Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules.
S0421 753 B.C., according to legend, Rome is founded by Romulus and Remus.
S04211649 the Maryland Toleration Act is passed, allowing all freedom of
S04211649Cworship.
S04211789 John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. Vice President.
S04211836 Texans led by Sam Houston defeat the Mexicans at San Jacinto.
S04211847 the last relief party leaves Truckee (now Donner) Lake with the
S04211847Cremaining survivors of the Donner Party.
S04211855 the first train crosses the Mississippi on the river's first
S04211855Cbridge, Rock Island, Ill-Davenport, Ia.
S04211857 Alexander Douglas patents the bustle.
S04211862 Congress establishes the U.S. Mint in Denver, Colorado.
S04211865 Colonel John S. Mosby disbands his command, Mosby's Rangers,
S04211865C(the 43rd Virginia Battalion) at Salem, Virginia twelve days
S04211865Cafter Lee surrenders, to avoid surrendering to the North.
S04211892 San Francisco's Golden Gate Park has its first buffalo birth.
S04211898 Philadelphia pitcher, Bill Duggleby, becomes the first and only
S04211898Cplayer to hit a grand slam home run in his first time at bat in
S04211898Cthe major leagues.
S04211901 the greatest April snowfall in Ohio ends (began 4/19), leaving
S04211901C15-36 inches in the north-central parts of the state.
S04211904 the New York Polo Grounds open.
S04211910 the first game is played at Cleveland's rebuilt League Park,
S04211910CDetroit 5, Cleveland Naps 0.
S04211910 Halley's Comet passes last perihelion at a distance of 54.6
S04211910Cmillion miles.
S04211918 Capt. Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, the Red Baron of Germany,
S04211918C(80 kills) is shot down and killed in an air battle (by RCAF
S04211918Cpilot Roy Brown).
S04211922 Lee De Forest announces the invention of a motion picture device
S04211922Cwith photoplay and voice on the same film.
S04211940 the quiz show "Take It or Leave It" first asks the $64 question
S04211940Con CBS.
S04211945 Soviet artillery shells begin falling on Berlin - Russian troops
S04211945Center the city the next day.
S04211945 the American 8th Air Force launches its last high-level, daylight
S04211945Cattack against Germany (a bridge), but the mission is aborted.
S04211945C(The B-24 named "Black Cat" becomes the last U.S. bomber shot
S04211945Cdown over Germany).
S04211956 Elvis Presley's first hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel", becomes #1.
S04211959 a 1211 kg (2670 lbs) great white shark becomes the largest fish
S04211959Cever caught on a rod.
S04211960 Congress passes landmark voting rights act.
S04211961 the Peace Corps, in their first project, help local Tanganyiki
S04211961Ctechnicians develop roads.
S04211966 the first artificial pump is implanted in the human heart.
S04211967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalin's daughter) defects in N.Y. City.
S04211967 after 737 consecutive games, the Dodgers are rained out for the
S04211967Cfirst time at home since moving to L.A.
S04211968 the Olympic Committee in reversal, votes to bar South Africa from
S04211968Cthe games because of its apartheid policy.
S04211972 Apollo 16's John Young and Charles Duke walk on the moon's
S04211972Csurface.
S04211972 the Orbiting Astronomical Observer 4 (Copernicus) is launched.
S04211975 South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years.
S04211976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic flu, enters testing.
S04211976 the production of convertibles by the U.S. auto industry is
S04211976Chalted as GM rolls the last of its Cadillac Eldorado convertibles
S04211976Coff the assembly line.
S04211977 Billy Martin pulls Yankee line-up out of a hat, beating Toronto
S04211977C8-6.
S04211977 the Broadway play "Annie" opens, first of 2377 performances.
S04211982 the Atlanta Braves set a N.L. record with their 13th straight
S04211982Cvictory from the start of the season, beating Cincinnati 4-3.
S04211984 it is announce French doctors have found the AIDS virus.
S04211994 Cleveland's Eddie Murray sets a M.L. record for hitting HR's from
S04211994Cboth sides of the plate in the same game for the 11th time (in
S04211994CMinn.), Indians 10, Twins 6.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S04211994C  first M.L. batting record set since moving to Jacobs Field
S04211994 the Crunch lose their worst game in the highest scoring game in
S04211994Ca NPSL Championship series, St. Louis Ambush 26, Cleveland 6.
S04211994 Sesame Street's Big Bird gets his own star on Hollywood's Walk of
S04211994CFame.
S04211995 the last regular season NBA game is played at Boston Gardens,
S04211995CKnicks 99, Celtics 92.
S0421     Feast of St. Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, confessor, doctor.
S0421    2Patriots Day in Boston - Boston Marathon run today.
S0421     Patriots' Day (celebrated in Maine).
S0421    4National Secretaries Day.
S0421     San Jacinto Day - St. Hyacinth Day (celebrated in Texas).
R0421    1National Childhood Immunization Week begins.
R0421    2It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0421    3It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0421    4It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0421    1National YWCA Week begins.
R0421    1Week of the Young begins.
R0421    1Bike Safety Week begins.
R0421    1National Coin Week begins.
R0421    1Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week begins.
R0421    1National Secretaries Week begins.
R0421    2It's the Week of the Young.
R0421    3It's the Week of the Young.
R0421    4It's the Week of the Young.
R0421    5It's the Week of the Young.
R0421    6It's the Week of the Young.
R0421    7It's the Week of the Young.
R0421    2It's National YWCA Week.
R0421    3It's National YWCA Week.
R0421    4It's National YWCA Week.
R0421    2It's National Secretaries Week.
R0421    3It's National Secretaries Week.
R0421    4It's National Secretaries Week.
R0421    2It's Bike Safety Week.
R0421    3It's Bike Safety Week.
R0421    4It's Bike Safety Week.
R0421    5It's Bike Safety Week.
R0421    6It's Bike Safety Week.
R0421    7It's Bike Safety Week.
R0421    2National Lingerie Week begins!
R0421    3It's National Lingerie Week!
R0421    4It's National Lingerie Week!
R0421    5It's National Lingerie Week!
R0421    2It's National Coin Week.
R0421    3It's National Coin Week.
R0421    4It's National Coin Week.
R0421    5It's National Coin Week.
R0421    6It's National Coin Week.
R0421    7It's National Coin Week.
S0421     Kartini Day (Indonesia).
S0421     Tiradentes Day (Brazil).
S0421     Day of Venus (early Roman holiday - before 200 BC - goddess of
S0421       Spring and protectress of vegetation and gardens).
S0421     Palilia (Roman festival honoring Pales, the goddess of flocks and
S0421       their fecundity - to purify sheep and cattle - traditional date
S0421       of the founding of Rome).
S0421    4AT & T Annual Shareholder meeting.
S0421     Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules .
S04221370 construction begins on the Bastille in Paris.
S04221500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil, and mistakes it for an
S04221500Cisland.
S04221509 Henry VIII ascends the throne of England.
S04221529 Spain and Portugal divide the eastern hemisphere in the Treaty of
S04221529CSaragossa.
S04221769 Madame Du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress.
S04221823 R.J. Tyers obtains a patent for his roller skates.
S04221864 the U.S. Congress authorizes "In God We Trust" on coinage.
S04221876 the first baseball game in National League history is played in
S04221876CPhiladelphia, Boston 6, Philadelphia 5.
S04221889 the Oklahoma land rush officially starts (some were Sooner).
S04221890 the trustees of the hamlet of Lakewood pass the motion to have a
S04221890Clock-up built to replace the 2 steel cages in a barn at Warren
S04221890Cand Detroit.
S04221898 the Spanish ship "Buena Ventura" is captured by the U.S. gunboat
S04221898C"Nashville", the first prize of the Spanish-American War.
S04221898 the Volunteer Army Act is passed by Congress, authorizing the
S04221898Corganization of the First Volunteer Calvary, or Rough Riders.
S04221903 the American Power Boat Association is formed.
S04221903 the NYSE moves to its new quarters at 18 Broad Street.
S04221904 the Panama Canal property is transferred to the U.S.
S04221915 the first use of a poison gas (chlorine) occurs in WW I by
S04221915CGermany.
S04221915 the Yankees don pinstripes and hat-in-the-ring logo for the
S04221915Cfirst time.
S04221917 United States Day is celebrated in France.
S04221931 Egypt signs a treaty of friendship with Iran, the first between
S04221931CEgypt and an Arab state.
S04221945 Soviet troops enter Berlin.
S04221952 one million people see an A-bomb test on KTLA-TV.
S04221954 the televised hearings led by Sen. Joseph McGarthy into alleged
S04221954CCommunist influence in the U.S. Army begins.
S04221954 Hudson and Nash-Galvinator approve merger to become American
S04221954CMotors.
S04221964 the Ford Mustang is first seen by the public at the N.Y. World's
S04221964CFair.
S04221969 doctors in Houston perform the first transplant of a human eye.
S04221970 the first Earth Day is celebrated in America.
S04221972 John Fairfax and Sylvia Cook of England complete their 8,000-mile
S04221972Ctrip across the Pacific from S.F. to Australia in a rowboat.
S04221975 the first South Vietnamese refugees arrive in the U.S.
S04221976 Barbara Walters becomes the first female nightly network news
S04221976Canchor.
S04221976 Volkswagen announces plan to built a plant in the U.S. (the first
S04221976Ccar rolls off the assembly line in Pennsylvania on April 10,
S04221976C1978).
S04221982 Cincinnati stops the Braves' M.L. record for the fastest start at
S04221982C13 straight victories, Reds 2, Atlanta 1.
S04221986 the first genetically altered virus to be released into the
S04221986Cenvironment is approved by the Department of Agriculture (to
S04221986Cfight a form of herpes affecting swine).
S04221987 the American Physical Society says "Star Wars" defense is "highly
S04221987Cquestionable", and will take 10 years to research.
S04221988 Indians' Cory Snyder and Joe Carter each hit a grand slam at
S04221988CMinnesota, setting a club record and tieing a M.L. record.
S04221993 the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington is dedicated.
S04221994 Borge Ousland becomes the first person to reach the North Pole
S04221994Calone and unaided (620-mile journey).
S04221994 Isabelle Autissier completes her voyage in her 60-foot light
S04221994Cmonohull, Ecureuil Poitou-Charentes 2, from N.Y. to S.F. around
S04221994Cthe 13,945-mile Cape Horn route in 66 days, 5 hr., 55 min.
S04221994C(beating the old by 14 days).
S0422     Earth Day.
S0422    1EarthFest Sunday.
S0422     Arbor Day.
S0422     Feast of SS. Soter, pope (166-175) and Caius, pope (283-296),
S0422       martyrs.
S0422     Oklahoma Day.
S0422    1Fast Day (New Hampshire).
S0422    4National Secretaries Day.
R0422    1National Childhood Immunization Week begins.
R0422    5It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0422    4It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0422    3It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0422    2It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0422    1National YWCA Week begins.
R0422    2It's the Week of the Young.
R0422    3It's the Week of the Young.
R0422    4It's the Week of the Young.
R0422    5It's the Week of the Young.
R0422    6It's the Week of the Young.
R0422    7It's the Week of the Young.
R0422    5It's National YWCA Week.
R0422    4It's National YWCA Week.
R0422    3It's National YWCA Week.
R0422    2It's National YWCA Week.
R0422    1National Secretaries Week begins.
R0422    5It's National Secretaries Week.
R0422    4It's National Secretaries Week.
R0422    3It's National Secretaries Week.
R0422    2It's National Secretaries Week.
R0422    2It's Bike Safety Week.
R0422    3It's Bike Safety Week.
R0422    4It's Bike Safety Week.
R0422    5It's Bike Safety Week.
R0422    6It's Bike Safety Week.
R0422    7It's Bike Safety Week.
R0422    2National Lingerie Week begins!
R0422    3It's National Lingerie Week!
R0422    4It's National Lingerie Week!
R0422    5It's National Lingerie Week!
R0422    6It's National Lingerie Week!
R0422    2It's National Coin Week.
R0422    3It's National Coin Week.
R0422    4It's National Coin Week.
R0422    5It's National Coin Week.
R0422    6It's National Coin Week.
R0422    7It's National Coin Week.
R0422    1Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week begins.
R0422    2It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0422    2National Turn Off Your TV Week begins!
S0422     Independence Day (celebrated in Israel).
S0422     Discovery of Brazil Day.
S0422     Lenin's Birthday (U.S.S.R.).
S0422     Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules.
S04231347 the Order of the Garter is founded, the oldest order of
S04231347Cknighthood.
S04231616 William Shakespeare expires on his 52 birthday.  He bequests that
S04231616Chis wife receives his "second best bed."
S04231662 Charles II, King of England, grants the Connecticut Colony the
S04231662Cterritory in Ohio and Penn., north of the 41st parallel (the
S04231662CConnecticut Western Reserve).
S04231750 Dr. Thomas Walker and his party settle on the site of
S04231750CBarbourville, Kentucky, the first civilian settlement west of the
S04231750CAllegheny mountains.
S04231753 St. George's Day is proclaimed.
S04231789 Vice-President John Adams opens the first meeting of the U.S.
S04231789CSenate.
S04231789 the first Catholic newspaper in the U.S., the "Courrier de
S04231789CBoston," begins publication.
S04231838 the first transatlantic steamship service begins (Great Britain
S04231838Cto New York).
S04231847 Pope Pius IX officially establishes the Diocese of Cleveland.
S04231871 Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blows up.
S04231896 the first "moving pictures" (Edison's Vitascope) are shown on a
S04231896Cpublic screen at Koster and Beals Music Hall in N.Y.C.
S04231904 the American Academy of Arts and Letters is founded.
S04231915 the A.C.A. becomes the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics
S04231915C(N.A.C.A.) - later becomes N.A.S.A.
S04231949 the first courtesy mail boxes for motorists are introduced in San
S04231949CFrancisco.
S04231950 the first NBA (National Basketball Association) basketball
S04231950Cchampionship is won by the Minneapolis Lakers, beating the
S04231950CSyracuse Nationals 4 games to 2.
S04231954 the Army-McCarthy hearings begins.
S04231954 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits the first of his 755 homers.
S04231956 the Supreme Court upholds ban on interstate bus segregation.
S04231962 Ranger IV is launched to test structure and composition of the
S04231962Cmoon (crashes 64 hours later on the dark side of the moon,
S04231962Cbecoming the first U.S. spacecraft to make contact with the
S04231962Cmoon).
S04231964 Ken Johnson becomes the first pitcher to lose a no-hitter.
S04231966 North Vietnamese aircraft, for the first time, attack U.S.
S04231966Caircraft flying over North Vietnam.
S04231967 the Soviets' Soyuz 1 is launched (Vladimir Komarov becomes first
S04231967Cin-flight casualty on Apr. 24).
S04231968 the United Methodist Church is founded.
S04231970 President Nixon bans occupational draft deferments and
S04231970Cdeferments for fathers.
S04231971 700 Vietnam vets toss away their medals at the Capitol in protest
S04231971Cof the Vietnam War.
S04231975 Los Alamos scientists report development of lasers to aid nuclear
S04231975Cweapons output.
S04231984 the Health and Human Services Department announces the discovery
S04231984Cof the virus that causes AIDS.
S04231985 the new Coke debuts (fizzles out after 10 weeks).
S04231988 a ban on smoking in passnger planes goes into effect.
S04231989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Laker.
S0423     Feast of St. George, martyr, dragon slayer, patron saint of
S0423       England.
S0423    1EarthFest Sunday.
S0423    1Fast Day (New Hampshire).
S0423    4National Secretaries Day.
R0423    1National Childhood Immunization Week begins.
R0423    6It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0423    5It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0423    4It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0423    3It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0423    2It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0423    1National YWCA Week begins.
R0423    3It's the Week of the Young.
R0423    4It's the Week of the Young.
R0423    5It's the Week of the Young.
R0423    6It's the Week of the Young.
R0423    7It's the Week of the Young.
R0423    6It's National YWCA Week.
R0423    5It's National YWCA Week.
R0423    4It's National YWCA Week.
R0423    3It's National YWCA Week.
R0423    2It's National YWCA Week.
R0423    6It's National Secretaries Week.
R0423    5It's National Secretaries Week.
R0423    4It's National Secretaries Week.
R0423    3It's National Secretaries Week.
R0423    2It's National Secretaries Week.
R0423    3It's Bike Safety Week.
R0423    4It's Bike Safety Week.
R0423    5It's Bike Safety Week.
R0423    6It's Bike Safety Week.
R0423    7It's Bike Safety Week.
R0423    3It's National Coin Week.
R0423    4It's National Coin Week.
R0423    5It's National Coin Week.
R0423    6It's National Coin Week.
R0423    7It's National Coin Week.
R0423    1Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week begins.
R0423    2It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0423    3It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0423    1National Secretaries Week begins.
R0423    2National Lingerie Week begins!
R0423    3It's National Lingerie Week!
R0423    4It's National Lingerie Week!
R0423    5It's National Lingerie Week!
R0423    6It's National Lingerie Week!
R0423    7It's National Lingerie Week!
R0423    2National Turn Off Your TV Week begins!
R0423    3It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
S0423     Green Man Festival (England).
S0423     First Day of Summer (Iceland).
S0423     Children's Day (Turkey).
S0423     Turkey's National Sovereignty Day.
S0423     Day of Venus (early Roman holiday - before 200 BC - goddess of
S0423       Spring and protectress of vegetation and gardens).
S0423     Festival of Aphrodite (Greek goddess of love).
S0423     Festival of Astarte (Canaanite fertility goddess).
S0423     Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules.
S04241704 the Boston News Letter becomes the first American newspaper
S04241704Cprinted regularly.
S04241792 "La Marseillaise" is composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
S04241800 the Library of Congress is founded with a $5,000 allocation.
S04241802 the Reverend Joseph Badger becomes the first permanent resident
S04241802Cpastor in the Western Reserve (Austinburg, Ohio).
S04241833 a patent is granted for the first soda fountain to Jacob Ebert of
S04241833CCadiz, Ohio and George Dulty of Wheeling, W.Va.
S04241846 Mexican forces cross the Rio Grande; they attack a small American
S04241846Cpatrol on the 25th (the U.S. declares war on Mexico May 13).
S04241897 the first reporter, William Price, is assigned to the White
S04241897CHouse.
S04241898 Spain declares war on the U.S. - Spanish-American War.  (The
S04241898Cfollowing day Congress passed a declaration of war, effective
S04241898CApril 21.)
S04241901 the first baseball game in the newly-formed American League is
S04241901Cplayed, Chicago 8, Cleveland Blues 2.  (The game lasted 1 and 1/2
S04241901Chours before a crowd of 14,000 in the Chicago Cricket Club.  The
S04241901Cthree other scheduled games were rained out.)
S04241916 the Irish Easter rebellion against British occupation begins.
S04241918 history's first tank battle takes place at Villers-Bretonneaux.
S04241925 the warmest temperature ever enjoyed in Cleveland during the
S04241925Cmonth of April occurs, 88 degrees (tied in 1942 and 1986).
S04241928 Herbert G. Dorsey patents the fathometer.
S04241950 Arab Palestine and Transjordan merge to become Jordan.
S04241953 Winston Churchill is knighted, dubbed a Knight of the Garter,
S04241953Cthe oldest and highest order of Knighthood.
S04241962 technicians at M.I.T. accomplish the first transcontinental
S04241962Ctelecast by satellite.
S04241966 U.S. deaths for the week exceeded for the first time South
S04241966CVietnamese.
S04241966 the longest newspaper strike in a major city begins (World-
S04241966CJournal-Tribune, Inc. in N.Y. City - 169 days).
S04241967 Cosmonaut Komarov is the first to die in space aboard the
S04241967CSoviets' Soyuz 1.
S04241970 China launches its first satellite, Mao 1 onboard a Long March-1
S04241970Crocket from Inner Mongolia, becoming the fifth country in space.
S04241971 over 200,000 anti-war demonstrators rally on Capital Hill.
S04241980 the U.S. hostage rescue in Iran is bungled, killing 8 U.S.
S04241980Cservicemen and wounding 5.
S04241981 the IBM-PC is introduced.
S04241990 the 35th Shuttle Mission (STS-31), the Discovery 10 is launched
S04241990Cto deploy the Hubble Space Telescope.
S04241994 the Cleveland Cavaliers play their last regular season game at
S04241994Cthe Richfield Coliseum, Cavs 117, Celtics 91.
R0424    6Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Sunday.
S0424     Feast of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, martyr.
S0424     Feast of Three Holy Maries (France).
S0424     St. Mark's Eve (in northern England it is believed apparitions
S0424       will be seen in graveyards of those who will soon be buried
S0424       there.)
S0424    1EarthFest Sunday.
S0424    1National Christian College Day (American Protestant).
S0424     Arbor Day in Maine and Utah.
S0424    6Arbor Day.  Plant a tree.
S0424    1Fast Day (New Hampshire).
S0424     Victory Day.
S0424    4National Secretaries Day.
R0424    1National Childhood Immunization Week begins.
R0424    2It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0424    3It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0424    4It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0424    5It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0424    6It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0424    7It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0424    4It's the Week of the Young.
R0424    5It's the Week of the Young.
R0424    6It's the Week of the Young.
R0424    7It's the Week of the Young.
R0424    2It's National YWCA Week.
R0424    3It's National YWCA Week.
R0424    4It's National YWCA Week.
R0424    5It's National YWCA Week.
R0424    6It's National YWCA Week.
R0424    7It's National YWCA Week.
R0424    2It's National Secretaries Week.
R0424    3It's National Secretaries Week.
R0424    4It's National Secretaries Week.
R0424    5It's National Secretaries Week.
R0424    6It's National Secretaries Week.
R0424    7It's National Secretaries Week.
R0424    4It's Bike Safety Week.
R0424    5It's Bike Safety Week.
R0424    6It's Bike Safety Week.
R0424    7It's Bike Safety Week.
R0424    4It's National Coin Week.
R0424    5It's National Coin Week.
R0424    6It's National Coin Week.
R0424    7It's National Coin Week.
R0424    1National YWCA Week begins.
R0424    1Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week begins.
R0424    2It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0424    3It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0424    4It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0424    1National Secretaries Week begins.
R0424    2National Lingerie Week begins!
R0424    3It's National Lingerie Week!
R0424    4It's National Lingerie Week!
R0424    5It's National Lingerie Week!
R0424    6It's National Lingerie Week!
R0424    7It's National Lingerie Week!
R0424    1It's National Lingerie Week!
R0424    2National Turn Off Your TV Week begins!
R0424    3It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0424    4It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
S0424     Children's Day (Iceland).
S0424     Armenian Martyr's Day.
S0424    3Stockholders Meeting, Boeing Company, Seattle, WA.
S04251684 a patent is granted for the thimble.
S04251719 Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is first published in London.
S04251792 Dr. Antoine Louis and Tobias Schmidt at 3:30 p.m. first use the
S04251792Cguillotine that they devised and built, executing highwayman
S04251792CNicolas J. Pelletier.
S04251842 author Charles Dickens and his wife arrive in Cleveland after a
S04251842Crough steamboat voyage from Sandusky.
S04251846 Mexican forces attack a small American patrol (the U.S. declares
S04251846Cwar on Mexico May 13).
S04251847 the last of the 46 survivors, of the 87 member Donner Party,
S04251847Creach Bear Valley, California.
S04251848 Graham discovers the 9th asteroid, Metis.
S04251891 President Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco.
S04251898 Congress passes a declaration of war against Spain (Spanish-
S04251898CAmerican War).
S04251901 New York becomes first state requiring license plates for cars
S04251901C(fee of $1).
S04251902 Erwin Harvey becomes the first Cleveland ballplayer (Cleveland
S04251902CBronchos) to have six hits in one game.
S04251904 Yankees' Jack Chesbro records the first of his 41 victories (A.L.
S04251904Crecord).
S04251915 Allies land at Gallipoli.
S04251935 New York limits autos to three people in the front seat.
S04251939 the Federal Security Agency is established.
S04251939 the Federal Works Agency is authorized.
S04251942 the world's worst mine disaster kills 1,549 workers in Honkeiko
S04251942CColliery in Manchuria.
S04251943 the latest Easter occurs (this will happen again in 2038).
S04251945 U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on Elbe River.
S04251945 the United Nations Conference starts.
S04251953 Drs. James Watson and Francis Crick suggest a new structure, a
S04251953Cdouble helix, for DNA.
S04251953 Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon ends his 22 hour, 26 minute
S04251953Cfilibuster, the longest continuous speech in the history of the
S04251953CU.S. Senate (a new record is set on August 30, 1957).
S04251954 Bell labs announce the invention of the solar battery.
S04251956 Rocky Marciano retires, the only undefeated heavyweight champion.
S04251959 the St. Lawrence Seaway opens.
S04251961 Robert Noyce is granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
S04251962 the Lion and Tiger Veldt at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is
S04251962Cdedicated.
S04251967 Gov. John Arthur of Colorado signs the nation's first law
S04251967Clegalizing abortion.
S04251972 glider pilot Hans Grosse flies a record 1461 km.
S04251974 football rule changes are announced, including the 15-minute
S04251974Csudden death period to avoid ties, and the moving of goal posts
S04251974C10 yards back to make field goals more difficult.
S04251982 in accordance with the Camp David agreement, Israel completes
S04251982CSinai withdrawal.
S04251984 MacMillan, Inc. takes over the Scribner Book Companies.
S04251988 a three-judge Israeli panel sentences John Demjanjuk to death
S04251988C(acquitted in 1993).
S04251990 the Space Shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope in
S04251990Corbit 381 miles above Earth.
S04251993 Minnesota's Michael Williams set a new NBA record for consecutive
S04251993Cfree throws (84).
S04251994 the Cleveland Indians lose to Minnesota 9-7 in the 6th game
S04251994Cplayed in their new ballpark.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S04251994C  first back to back HRs - (Indians) Kenny Lofton & Carlos Baerga
S04251994C  first 2 HRs hit in the same game - (Indians) Albert Belle
S04251995 the first pitch of the 126th pro baseball season is tossed 23
S04251995Cdays, 2 minutes late (because of the longest strike in
S04251995Cprofessional sports history) with the Dodgers beating the Marlins
S04251995C8-7.  (Only 144-game schedule is planned instead of 162.)
S0425     Feast of St. Mark, evangelist, patron saint of Venice.
S0425    1EarthFest Sunday.
S0425    6Arbor Day.  Plant a tree.
S0425    1National Christian College Day (American Protestant).
S0425    1Fast Day (New Hampshire).
S0425     ANZAC Day (Australia, New Zealand, Samao and Tonga).
S0425    4National Secretaries Day.
R0425    2It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0425    3It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0425    4It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0425    5It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0425    6It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0425    7It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0425    5It's the Week of the Young.
R0425    6It's the Week of the Young.
R0425    7It's the Week of the Young.
R0425    2It's National YWCA Week.
R0425    3It's National YWCA Week.
R0425    4It's National YWCA Week.
R0425    5It's National YWCA Week.
R0425    6It's National YWCA Week.
R0425    7It's National YWCA Week.
R0425    2It's National Secretaries Week.
R0425    3It's National Secretaries Week.
R0425    4It's National Secretaries Week.
R0425    5It's National Secretaries Week.
R0425    6It's National Secretaries Week.
R0425    7It's National Secretaries Week.
R0425    5It's Bike Safety Week.
R0425    6It's Bike Safety Week.
R0425    7It's Bike Safety Week.
R0425    5It's National Coin Week.
R0425    6It's National Coin Week.
R0425    7It's National Coin Week.
R0425    1Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week begins.
R0425    5It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0425    4It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0425    3It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0425    2It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0425    3It's National Lingerie Week!
R0425    4It's National Lingerie Week!
R0425    5It's National Lingerie Week!
R0425    6It's National Lingerie Week!
R0425    7It's National Lingerie Week!
R0425    1It's National Lingerie Week!
R0425    2National Turn Off Your TV Week begins!
R0425    3It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0425    4It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0425    5It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
S0425     Memorial Day (celebrated in Australia).
S0425     Italy Liberation Day.
S0425     Swazi National Flag Day.
S0425     Portugal's Day.
S0425     Remembrance Day (Papua New Guinea).
S0425     Robigalia (Roman festival honoring Robigo, goddess of farmers who
S0425       were more interested in fertility than in war).
S0425    3Stockholders Meeting, Boeing Company, Seattle, WA.
S04261607 the first British to establish an American colony land at Cape
S04261607CHenry, Va.
S04261777 16 year old Sybil Ludington rides from N.Y. to Connecticut
S04261777Crallying her father's militia to fight the British in Danbur.
S04261805 U.S. forces, including marines, after marching 600 miles across
S04261805Cthe desert from Alexandria, capture the grim fortification of
S04261805CDerne, Tripoli (inspired the line in the Marine Corps anthem).
S04261819 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Washington Lodge No. 1 in
S04261819CBaltimore is organized (first appearance in the U.S.)
S04261862 a Union fleet commanded by Flag Officer David Farragut captures
S04261862CNew Orleans.
S04261865 Gen. Joseph Johnston surrenders the Confederate Army of Tennessee
S04261865Cto Gen. Sherman near Durham Station, N.C.
S04261893 the first Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners is formed; its
S04261893Cgeneral plan is to create a park system to encircle the city.
S04261905 Cubs' Jack McCarthy becomes the only outfielder in M.L. history
S04261905Cto throw out three runners at the plate in the same game, Cubs 2,
S04261905CPittsburgh 1.
S04261906 the first motion pictures are shown in Hawaii.
S04261920 H. Shapley and H.D. Curtis hold the "Great Debate" on the nature
S04261920Cof a nebulae.
S04261945 Fascist leader Mussolini and his mistress are captured (later
S04261945Ctried and shot).
S04261952 "Gunsmoke" starring William Conrad premieres on CBS radio.
S04261954 nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio begins.
S04261956 "Godzilla, King of Monsters" opens in the U.S.
S04261957 Captain N.M. McCracken becomes the first woman assigned to duty
S04261957Cat the U.S. Air Force Academy.
S04261961 Roger Maris hits the first of 61 homers for that year.
S04261962 Ranger IV, launched to test structure and composition of the
S04261962Cmoon, crashes on the dark side, becoming the first U.S.
S04261962Cspacecraft to make contact with the moon.
S04261962 Ariel, the first international satellite (U.S./U.K.), is launched
S04261962Cto study solar radiation and the ionosphere.
S04261964 the United Republic of Tanzania is formed.
S04261970 Masters and Johnson publish "Human Sexual Inadequacy".
S04261971 San Francisco Lightship is replaced by an automatic buoy.
S04261976 Pan Am inaugurates the first non-stop N.Y. to Tokyo service, on
S04261976Ca Boeing 747.
S04261983 the Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 1200 for the first time.
S04261986 Chernobyl becomes the world's worst nuclear power plant disaster.
S04261991 the discovery of the first catacombs known to have been used by
S04261991CAmerican Indians for burial and sacred rites is reported (Casa
S04261991CMalpais in eastern Arizona).
S04261993 the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington is opened.
S04261994 the first all-race free election takes place in South Africa, and
S04261994Ca new flag is unveiled.
S04261994 the Cleveland Indians beat the Twins 11-3 in the 7th game played
S04261994Cin their new ballpark.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S04261994C  first 3 run HR - (Indians) Manny Ramirez
S04261994C  first pinch-hit HR - (Indians) Candy Maldonado
S0426     Feast of SS. Cletus, pope (76-88) and Marcellinus, pope (296-
S0426       304).
S0426    6Arbor Day.  Plant a tree.
S0426    1EarthFest Sunday.
S0426    1National Christian College Day (American Protestant).
S0426    1Fast Day (New Hampshire).
S0426     Confederate Memorial Day.
S0426    4National Secretaries Day.
R0426    3It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0426    4It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0426    5It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0426    6It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0426    7It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0426    6It's the Week of the Young.
R0426    7It's the Week of the Young.
R0426    3It's National YWCA Week.
R0426    4It's National YWCA Week.
R0426    5It's National YWCA Week.
R0426    6It's National YWCA Week.
R0426    7It's National YWCA Week.
R0426    3It's National Secretaries Week.
R0426    4It's National Secretaries Week.
R0426    5It's National Secretaries Week.
R0426    6It's National Secretaries Week.
R0426    7It's National Secretaries Week.
R0426    6It's Bike Safety Week.
R0426    7It's Bike Safety Week.
R0426    6It's National Coin Week.
R0426    7It's National Coin Week.
R0426    1Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week begins.
R0426    6It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0426    5It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0426    4It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0426    3It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0426    2It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0426    4It's National Lingerie Week!
R0426    5It's National Lingerie Week!
R0426    6It's National Lingerie Week!
R0426    7It's National Lingerie Week!
R0426    1It's National Lingerie Week!
R0426    2National Turn Off Your TV Week begins!
R0426    3It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0426    4It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0426    5It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0426    6It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
S0426     Peppercorn Day (Bermuda).
S0426     Ceremony of Yemaya (Santeria).
S0426     Cape Henry Day.
S0426     Tanzanian Union Day.
S0426     Virgin Islands Carnival.
S0426    3Stockholders Meeting, Boeing Company, Seattle, WA.
R0426    6Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Sunday.
S04274977 BC according to Johannes Kepler, the universe is created.
S04271565 the first Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City, is
S04271565Cfounded.
S04271813 American General Dearborn leads a raid on Toronto, burning the
S04271813Chouses of the provincial parliament (the British retaliate the
S04271813Cfollowing year).
S04271846 the Christy Minstrels of Albert Christy first opens at the
S04271846CPalmo's Opera House in New York City (brought minstrelsy to its
S04271846Cpeak).
S04271865 in the U.S.'s worst marine disaster, the steamboat Sultana
S04271865Cexplodes on the Mississippi River north of Memphis, killing at
S04271865Cleast 1,547 of the 1,800 Union soldiers returning from the
S04271865CConfederacy's Andersonville and Cahaba prison camps (was designed
S04271865Cto carry 376).
S04271880 Miller R. Hutchinson patents a bone conduction electrical hearing
S04271880Caid.
S04271897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song and legend) is dedicated.
S04271919 the National Assn. of the Motion Pictures Industry agrees to
S04271919Csubmit films to censorship.
S04271932 the Apollo asteroid is discovered with a perigee of 2 million
S04271932Cmiles.
S04271935 the Soil Conservation Act is passed, creating the Soil
S04271935CConservation Service as a bureau of the Dept. of Agriculture.
S04271937 the U.S. Social Security system makes its first benefit payment.
S04271944 the Great Lakes Historical Society is organized.
S04271945 American troops liberate the Nazi concentration camp at
S04271945CLandsberg, Germany.
S04271945 the founding of the Second Republic, in Austria, occurs.
S04271946 the first radar equipment is installed aboard a commercial ship.
S04271947 Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki set sail from Callao, Peru for
S04271947Cthe Polynesian Islands (landed in Tahiti in August).
S04271947 Babe Ruth Day is celebrated at Yankee Stadium.
S04271950 Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc. changes name to Trans
S04271950CWorld Airlines, Inc.
S04271951 Iran nationalizes the Iranian oil industry.
S04271960 a House investigating committee begins looking into payola.
S04271960 the French sector of Togoland is granted independence, becoming
S04271960Cthe Republic of Togo (National Day).
S04271961 Explorer II is launched, carrying a telescope to hunt gamma rays.
S04271961 a roll-call vote by the NFL clubs officially recognizes Canton,
S04271961COhio as the site of the Football Hall of Fame.
S04271961 Britain grants Sierra Leone independence.
S04271964 Tanzanian Union Day is first celebrated.
S04271965 R.C. Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper.
S04271966 the merger of the Pennsylvania and the N.Y. Central is approved
S04271966Cby the Interstate Commerce Commission.
S04271986 Captain Midnight (John R. MacDougall) interrupts HBO.
S04271992 the new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is proclaimed.
S04271994 the Cleveland Crunch beat the St. Louis Ambush 17-15 and win the
S04271994CNPSL Championship (first championship in Cleveland in 30 years).
S04271994CCrunch wins 3-1 in best of five series, 6-26, 21-14, 29-8, 17-15.
S04271994 the Cleveland Indians beat the White Sox 8-7 in 12 innings in the
S04271994C8th game at Jacobs Field (Chicago had 5 errors).
S04271994 workers begins removing the first of 640 stars (about 1/3 of all)
S04271994Con the Hollywood Walk of Fame to make way for the Metro Rail
S04271994Csubway construction.
S0427     Feast of St. Peter Canisius, confessor, doctor, Apostle of
S0427       Germany.
S0427     Feast of St. George (celebrated in England).
S0427    6Arbor Day.  Plant a tree.
S0427    1EarthFest Sunday.
S0427    1National Christian College Day (American Protestant).
S0427    4National Secretaries Day.
S0427    1Fast Day (New Hampshire).
R0427    4It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0427    5It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0427    6It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0427    7It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0427    7It's the Week of the Young.
R0427    4It's National YWCA Week.
R0427    5It's National YWCA Week.
R0427    6It's National YWCA Week.
R0427    7It's National YWCA Week.
R0427    4It's National Secretaries Week.
R0427    5It's National Secretaries Week.
R0427    6It's National Secretaries Week.
R0427    7It's National Secretaries Week.
R0427    7It's Bike Safety Week.
R0427    7It's National Coin Week.
R0427    1Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week begins.
R0427    2It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0427    3It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0427    4It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0427    5It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0427    6It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0427    7It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0427    5It's National Lingerie Week!
R0427    6It's National Lingerie Week!
R0427    7It's National Lingerie Week!
R0427    1It's National Lingerie Week!
R0427    2National Turn Off Your TV Week begins!
R0427    3It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0427    4It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0427    5It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0427    6It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0427    7It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
S0427     Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania.
S0427     Osvobodilna Fronta Formation (Yugoslavia).
S0427     Sawr Revolution Day (Afghanistan).
S0427     Sham El Nessim (Egypt).
S0427     Sierra Leone Independence Day.
S0427     Togo Independence Day.
R0427    6Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Sunday.
S0427    3Stockholders Meeting, Boeing Company, Seattle, WA.
S04281788 Maryland becomes the 7th state of the original 13 to ratify the
S04281788CConstitution.
S04281789 the mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs.
S04281865 a wake for President Lincoln occurs on Cleveland's Public Square.
S04281882 the John F. Slater Fund for education of blacks is incorporated
S04281882Cin New York.
S04281901 Cleveland's Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as the White
S04281901CSox beat the Blues (Cleveland Blues!) 13-1.
S04281909 Colorado becomes the first state to adopt a code for juvenile
S04281909Cdelinquents.
S04281914 W. H. Carrier patents the air-conditioner.
S04281919 the first successful parachute jump is made by Leslie Irving at
S04281919CMcCook Field, Dayton, Ohio.
S04281922 WOI, Ames, Iowa, becomes the country's first licensed
S04281922Ceducational radio station.
S04281927 Charles Lindbergh gives "The Spirit of St. Louis" its first test
S04281927Cflight in San Diego, Ca.
S04281930 the first night game in organized baseball is played at
S04281930CIndependence, Kansas, in the Western Association (Muskogee
S04281930Cdefeats Independence 13-1).
S04281932 the first yellow fever vaccine is announced.
S04281933 U.S. astronomers find that the Milky Way stars are receding,
S04281933Csupporting the theory of an expanding universe.
S04281937 the first ever animated cartoon electric sign is displayed in
S04281937CN.Y. City.
S04281937 Pan Am's "Clipper" arrives in Hong Kong, completing the first
S04281937Ccommercial flight across the Pacific.
S04281942 the municipally owned Cleveland Transit Systems (CTS) buys the
S04281942CCleveland Railway Company, and takes over the city's transit
S04281942Coperation (later became RTA.)
S04281944 749 American soldiers and sailors are killed as they practice
S04281944C(Exercise Tiger) for D-Day. (9 German E-boats sink 2 American
S04281944CLSTs and damage a third in the English Channel.)
S04281952 Japan's sovereignty is restored.
S04281961 Warren Spahn pitches a no hitter at 40, Milwaukee 1, Giants 0.
S04281967 Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) refuses induction into Army as a
S04281967Cconscientious objector, and is arrested.
S04281969 French President Charles de Gaulle resigns.
S04281972 a Kentucky court of appeals awards the 1968 Kentucky Derby prize
S04281972Cmoney to the second place winner, Forward Pass.  The winner,
S04281972CDancer's Image, is disqualified from the money, but not the win.
S04281975 World Whale Day is observed.
S04281977 Christopher J. Boyce, Snowman of "The Falcon and the Snowman", is
S04281977Cconvicted of supply data on satellites and CIA codes to the
S04281977CU.S.S.R. (sentenced to 40 years in Sept.).
S04281986 the warmest temperature ever enjoyed in Cleveland during the
S04281986Cmonth of April is tied for the second time, 88 degrees (first set
S04281986Con Apr. 24, 1925 and tied on Apr. 30, 1942).
S04281988 the Baltimore Orioles set the dubious record of losing 21
S04281988Cgames in a row to set a new American League record.
S04281989 Yankees' Ricky Henderson sets a M.L. record when he leds off a
S04281989Cgame with a homer for the 36th time.
S04281990 "A Chorus Line" closes, the longest running show on Broadway
S04281990C(6,237 performances).
S04281991 the 40th Shuttle Mission, the Discovery 12 is launched.
S04281992 rebel forces achieve power in Afghanistan, ending 14 years of
S04281992CSoviet-backed regimes.
S04281993 "The Phantom of the Opera" opens in Cleveland.
S04281993 Marty Sullivan, Super Host of WUAB-TV Channel 43, retires.
S04281993 President Clinton issues a decision to permit women to fly in
S04281993Ccombat missions and to serve on warships and rear-area artillery
S04281993Cunits.
S04281993 the first national "Take Our Daughters to Work Day" is held
S04281993C(sponsored by the Ms Foundation for Women).  Also held in Korea,
S04281993CJapan and Canada.
S04281994 after a 40 minute rain delay, the Indians lose to the Sox 5-3 in
S04281994Ctheir 9th game in the new ballpark.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S04281994C  first rain delayed game
S0428     Feast of St. Paul of Cross, confessor.
S0428     Feast of St. Vitalis, martyr.
S0428    6Arbor Day.  Plant a tree.
S0428    1EarthFest Sunday.
S0428     Maryland Ratification Day.
S0428     Washington State Apple Blossom Festival.
S0428     Fast Day (celebrated in New Hampshire).
S0428     Kiss Your Mate Day.
S0428    1National Christian College Day (American Protestant).
S0428     Confederate Memorial Day (celebrated in Alabama, Georgia, and
S0428       Mississippi).
R0428    5It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0428    6It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0428    7It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0428    5It's National YWCA Week.
R0428    6It's National YWCA Week.
R0428    7It's National YWCA Week.
R0428    5It's National Secretaries Week.
R0428    6It's National Secretaries Week.
R0428    7It's National Secretaries Week.
R0428    2It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0428    3It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0428    4It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0428    5It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0428    6It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0428    7It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0428    6It's National Lingerie Week!
R0428    7It's National Lingerie Week!
R0428    1It's National Lingerie Week!
R0428    2National Turn Off Your TV Week begins!
R0428    3It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0428    4It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0428    5It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0428    6It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0428    7It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0428    1It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
S0428     First day of the Festival of Venus (early Roman 6-day holiday
S0428       - before 200 BC - goddess of Spring and protectress of
S0428       vegetation and gardens).
S0428     Festival of Vesta (Roman festival honoring Vesta, goddess of
S0428       fire, the home and cooking, patron goddess of women).
S0428     Floralia begins (Roman 6-day festival honoring Flora, the goddess
S0428       of everything that flourishes - courtesans took an active
S0428       part).
S0428    3Stockholders Meeting, Boeing Company, Seattle, WA.
S04291429 Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over the English.
S04291553 a Flemish woman introduces the practice of starching linen
S04291553Cinto England.
S04291818 James Nicholson is the first permanent settler on Detroit Road in
S04291818Cwhat is now known as Lakewood, Ohio.
S04291830 the oldest existing fishing club, the Ellem Fishing Club formed
S04291830Cby Edinburgh and Berwickshire gentlemen in Scotland, holds its
S04291830Cfirst annual general meeting.
S04291854 the first black university, Ashmum Institute (later renamed
S04291854CLincoln University), is chartered.
S04291857 Headquarters for the U.S.  Army, Division of the Pacific, is
S04291857Cpermanently established at the Presidio.
S04291873 Eli H. Janney patents the railroad coupler.
S04291879 Cleveland Public Square is the site of the first successful
S04291879Cdemonstration of arc light streetlights.
S04291885 women are first admitted to examinations at Oxford University.
S04291913 Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents the all-purpose zipper.
S04291916 the British suppress the Easter Rebellion in Ireland.
S04291943 the Civil Air Patrol is transferred to the War Department.
S04291945 the Americans liberate the prisoners at the Nazi concentration
S04291945Ccamp Dachau.
S04291957 the first military nuclear power plant is dedicated at Fort
S04291957CBelvoir, Va.
S04291961 ABC's "Wide World of Sports" makes its debut.
S04291970 seven students are shot in rioting at Ohio State.
S04291975 the last Americans are evacuated from Saigon by helicopter at
S04291975C7:52 p.m.
S04291980 Rosie Ruiz of N.Y., the women's winner of the 84th Boston
S04291980CMarathon, is disqualified on grounds she did not run the
S04291980Cdistance.
S04291985 the 17th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 7 is launched.
S04291986 Boston's Roger Clemens sets a M.L. record for the most strikeouts
S04291986Cin a 9-inning game (20), Red Sox 3, Mariners 1.
S04291992 riots erupt in Los Angeles after the police officers who had
S04291992Cbeaten Rodney King are found not guilty.
S0429     Feast of St. Peter of Verona, martyr.
S0429     Feast of St. Catherine of Siena.
S0429    1National Christian College Day (American Protestant).
R0429    6It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0429    7It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0429    6It's National YWCA Week.
R0429    7It's National YWCA Week.
R0429    6It's National Secretaries Week.
R0429    7It's National Secretaries Week.
R0429    3It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0429    4It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0429    5It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0429    6It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0429    7It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0429    7It's National Lingerie Week!
R0429    1It's National Lingerie Week!
R0429    3It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0429    4It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0429    5It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0429    6It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0429    7It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0429    1It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
S0429     Emperor's Birthday (Japan).
S0429     Plowing Festival (celebrated in Thailand).
S0429     Second day of the Festival of Venus (early Roman 6-day holiday
S0429       - before 200 BC - goddess of Spring and protectress of
S0429       vegetation and gardens).
S0429     Second day of Floralia (Roman 6-day festival honoring Flora, the
S0429       goddess of everything that flourishes - courtesans took an
S0429       active part).
S0429    6Arbor Day.  Plant a tree.
S0429    3Stockholders Meeting, Boeing Company, Seattle, WA.
S04301562 Jean Ribaut, leading the Huguenots, establishes the first French
S04301562Ccolony in the U.S., Port Royal on Parris Island, S.C.
S04301598 the first theatrical performance in North America is acted on the
S04301598CRio Grande near El Paso, Texas (a Spanish comedy).
S04301789 George Washington is inaugurated as the first president of the
S04301789CUnited States.
S04301798 the Department of the Navy is established, and the U.S. Marine
S04301798CCorp is placed under its jurisdiction.
S04301802 President Jefferson signs the Enabling Act, fixing the boundaries
S04301802Cof the State of Ohio, and allowing the people of Ohio to form
S04301802Ctheir own constitution.
S04301803 the U.S. more than doubles its size thru the Louisiana Purchase
S04301803C(costing $15 million).
S04301808 the first practical typewriter is finished by Italian Pellegrini
S04301808CTurri.  He built it for a blind friend.
S04301812 Louisiana becomes the 18th state.
S04301857 the founding of what would be San Jose State University occurs.
S04301864 hunting license fees are instituted by the state of New York.
S04301869 the Hawaiian YMCA is organized.
S04301894 Cleveland annexes Brooklyn Village.
S04301900 Engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones is killed while trying to save
S04301900Cthe passengers of a runaway train in Vaughan, Miss.
S04301900 Hawaii becomes a U.S. Territory.
S04301908 a local prohibition is approved by voters in Worcester, Mass.,
S04301908Cbecoming the largest dry city in the country.
S04301922 C. C. Robertson pitches the sixth perfect game in major league
S04301922Chistory, Chicago 2, Detroit 0.
S04301939 Lou Gehrig sets a major league record by playing his 2,130th
S04301939Cconsecutive baseball game, his last.
S04301939 NBC/RCA provides the first U.S. demonstration of TV at the
S04301939Copening of N.Y. World's Fair.
S04301941 FDR buys the first savings bond issued for the defense fund.
S04301942 the first submarine built on Great Lakes is launched, "Peto",
S04301942CManitowoc, Wi.
S04301942 the warmest temperature ever enjoyed in Cleveland during the
S04301942Cmonth of April is tied, 88 degrees (first set on Apr. 24, 1925
S04301942Cand tied again on Apr. 28, 1986).
S04301943 David Mead of the Army Signal Corps breaks the Japanese Army's
S04301943Cadministrative code (the 7890) at Arlington Hall in Virginia.
S04301945 Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, commit suicide.
S04301945 Soviet troops liberate the Nazi concentration camp Ravensbrueck
S04301945C(had the only gas chamber operating on German soil).
S04301945 sugar rations are cut by 25% as reserves near rock bottom.
S04301947 Boulder Dam is renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover.
S04301948 the (OAS) Organization of American States' charter is signed by
S04301948Cdelegates of 21 Western Hemisphere countries at Bogot, Colombia.
S04301954 an inventor from Milford, Conn., gets a patent for a snow-
S04301954Cmaking device.
S04301955 element mendelevium is announced - element 101.
S04301963 New Hampshire legalizes the nation's first sweepstakes.
S04301967 Muhammad Ale is stripped of his heavyweight boxing championship
S04301967Ctitle when he refused to be inducted into the military
S04301967C(conscientious objector).
S04301970 National Guard disperses students at Ohio State with tear gas and
S04301970Cshotguns (73 hurt, 100 arrested).
S04301970 U.S. troops invade Cambodia.
S04301973 Nixon aides Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean, and Attorney General
S04301973CKleindienst resign amid charges of White House cover-up.
S04301973 Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love".
S04301974 President Nixon, in a TV speech, presents edited transcripts of
S04301974Cthe White House Watergate tapes (rejected by the judiciary
S04301974Ccommittee that subpoenaed the tapes).
S04301975 Saigon surrenders to the communists, and is renamed Ho Cho Minh
S04301975CCity.
S04301980 52-year-old Gordie Howe retires for the second and last time
S04301980Cafter 25 years with the Detroit Red Wings.
S04301980 Queen Beatrix of Netherlands ascends to throne.
S04301981 Senator Harrison A. Williams of New Jersey is found guilty of
S04301981Ccharges arising from the Avscam investigations, becoming the
S04301981Cthird senator in history to be convicted of criminal charges.
S04301992 "The Cosby Show," the most popular situation comedy ever to
S04301992Cappear on TV, presents its last weekly show.
S04301993 tennis star Monica Seles is injured when a spectator stabs her in
S04301993Cthe back in Germany.
S04301994 about 250,000 refugees from Rwanda cross into Tanzania in a 24-
S04301994Chour period (U.N. called this the biggest, fastest exodus ever).
S0430     Feast of St. Catherine of Siena, patron saint of Italy.
S0430     Louisiana Admission Day.
R0430    7It's National Childhood Immunization Week.
R0430    7It's National YWCA Week.
R0430    7It's National Secretaries Week.
R0430    4It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0430    5It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0430    6It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0430    7It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0430    1It's National Lingerie Week!
R0430    4It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0430    5It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0430    6It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0430    7It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0430    1It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
S0430     Queen's Birthday (National Day in the Netherlands).
S0430    6Arbor Day.  Plant a tree.
S0430    1National Christian College Day (American Protestant).
S0430     Eve of May Day (celebrates the return of summer in England and
S0430       Scotland).
S0430     Beltane, May Eve, Roodmas or Cethsamhain (Wiccan religious
S0430       festival celebrating the burgeoning fertility of the Earth).
S0430     Walpurgis Night - Witches' Sabbath (celebrated in Germany).
S0430     Buddha Purnima (Bangladesh).
S0430     Third day of the Festival of Venus (early Roman 6-day holiday
S0430       - before 200 BC - goddess of Spring and protectress of
S0430       vegetation and gardens).
S0430     Third day of Floralia (Roman 6-day festival honoring Flora, the
S0430       goddess of everything that flourishes - courtesans took an
S0430       active part).
S0430    3Stockholders Meeting, Boeing Co, Seattle, WA.
R0400     It's America's Heartland Development Month.
R0400     It's Cancer Control Month.
R0400     It's Child Abuse Prevention Month.
R0400     It's National Home Improvement Month.
R0400     It's International Guitar Month.
R0400     It's National Dog Appreciation Month!
R0400     April is from the Latin term aperire, which means to open, just
R0400       as the flowers of Spring open.
R0400     The gem for April is the diamond.
R0400     The daisy and sweat pea are the flowers of April.
R0400     The sentimental meaning of the diamond is for innocence, and the
R0400       daisy and the sweet pea are for love.
R0400     The Saxon name for April was Oster Monath, for its east winds.
R0400     The full moon in April is known as the Seed Moon and the Wild
R0400       Goose Moon.
R04010420 Aries is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R04010420   Symbol: The Ram.
R04010420   Ruling Planet: Mars.
R04010420   Element: Fire.
R04010420   Traits: Energetic, assertive, impulsive.
R04010420   Body part associated with this sign: The head.
R04010420   Occupations: Exploration, the military, entrepreneur, outdoor
R04010420     engineering, fireman.
R04210430 Taurus is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R04210430   Symbol: The Bull.
R04210430   Ruling Planet: Venus.
R04210430   Element: Earth.
R04210430   Traits: Determined, persistent, loyal.
R04210430   Body part associated with this sign: The neck.
R04210430   Occupations: Farming, the arts (music), work requiring
R04210430     research, building, hand work.


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S05011006 a supernova is observed in the Lupus the Wolf constellation.
S05011486 Christopher Columbus first approaches Queen Isabella of Spain
S05011486Cwith his proposal of sailing west to reach Asia.
S05011701 the Act of Union is enacted; England, Wales and Scotland form the
S05011701CUnited Kingdom of Great Britain.
S05011840 the first adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England)
S05011840Care issued.
S05011841 the first emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Mo. for
S05011841CCalifornia.  It arrives on November 4.
S05011847 the Smithsonian Institution is formally dedicated in Washington,
S05011847CD.C.  Joseph Henry, a Princeton physicist, is named its first
S05011847Csecretary.
S05011850 John Geary becomes the first mayor of the City of San Francisco.
S05011852 Samuel L. Clemens makes his writing debut in the humorous Boston
S05011852Cweekly, "The Carpet Bag."
S05011857 Massachusetts passes the first literacy requirement for voting.
S05011860 the first school for the deaf is founded.
S05011863 the New York Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled Children opens in
S05011863CN.Y. City, the first orthopedic hospital in the U.S.
S05011869 the Folies-Bergere opens in Paris.
S05011873 the first U.S. postal card is issued (penny postcards).
S05011884 construction begins in Chicago on the first skyscraper (the first
S05011884Csteel skeleton construction), the ten-story Home Insurance
S05011884CCompany of New York.
S05011886 the American Federation of Labor (AFL) sponsors a national day of
S05011886Cdemostrations for the eight-hour-day (the first May Day).
S05011890 May Day is first officially observed.
S05011891 Cy Young pitches the first game played in Cleveland's League
S05011891CPark, Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3.
S05011892 the U.S. Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island in San
S05011892CFrancisco.
S05011898 the U.S. fleet under Dewey defeats the Spanish fleet at Manila
S05011898CBay, Philippines.
S05011902 George Melies's "A Trip to the Moon" is released in Paris.
S05011912 the Beverly Hills Hotel opens.
S05011920 Babe Ruth hits his first Yankee HR, and 50th of his career, out
S05011920Cof Polo Grounds.
S05011920 Joe Oeschger of the Boston Braves and Leon Cadores of the
S05011920CBrooklyn Dodgers each pitch 26 innings in a 1-1 tie, the longest
S05011920Cgame in innings in M.L. history.
S05011926 Satchel Paige makes his pitching debut in the Negro Southern
S05011926CLeague.
S05011928 Lei Day is first observed (a Hawaiian celebration).
S05011931 the Empire State Building is formally opened.
S05011932 the atom is split in London, yielding 60 per cent more energy
S05011932Cthan used.
S05011933 the "Humanist Manifesto" is issued under the signatures of 11
S05011933Cprominent college and university professors.
S05011935 Boulder Dam is completed after 4 years and 354 days.
S05011937 the Neutrality Act, prohibiting the export of arms and ammunition
S05011937Cto belligerent nations, is signed into law (changed in 1939).
S05011939 Batman first appears in Detective Comics.
S05011947 radar for commercial and private planes is first demonstrated.
S05011948 the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea is founded;
S05011948Cproclaims its independence Sept. 9, 1948.
S05011949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, the second satellite of Neptune.
S05011951 the U.S. begins broadcasting Radio Free Europe in Eastern bloc.
S05011951 Mickey Mantle hits his first major league home run.
S05011954 Hudson and Nash-Galvinator merge to become American Motors.
S05011958 the European premiere of the movie "South Pacific" at the
S05011958CBrussels World's Fair marks the U.S. entry into international
S05011958Ccultural competition.
S05011959 the Texas Company changes its name to Texaco, Inc.
S05011960 a U.S. U-2 spy plane is shot down in Russia, piloted by Francis
S05011960CGary Powers.
S05011961 a Delta airliner destined for Miami becomes the first plane to be
S05011961Chijacked to Cuba.
S05011966 the first intentional shelling of Cambodian targets occurs when
S05011966CU.S. artillery fires on forces attacking U.S. troops along the
S05011966CCaibac River.
S05011967 Elvis Presley and Pricilla Beaulieu wed.
S05011968 Cleveland: Now!, a joint public and private program for urban
S05011968Crenewal in Cleveland, is created by Mayor Carl B. Stokes.
S05011971 Amtrak begins operation.
S05011972 the N.Y. Times gets a Pulitzer for the "Pentagon Papers."
S05011975 Smokey the Bear retires after 25 years of public service.
S05011977 Indiana passes the first law legalizing the manufacturing, sale
S05011977Cand use of Laetrile.
S05011978 Richard Rogers, the noted composer, gives $1 million to the
S05011978CAmerican Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters to endow an
S05011978Cannual award for librettists and composers.
S05011979 Denmark approves home rule for Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat).
S05011979 Elton John becomes the first pop star to play in Israel.
S05011980 the first American Book Awards, formerly the National Book
S05011980CAwards, are presented (renamed National Book Awards in 1987).
S05011982 a major air and sea battle erupts as Britain launches a
S05011982Ccounterattack in the Falkland Islands.
S05011991 the 16-year civil war ends in Angola.
S05011992 Serbian forces begin shelling Sarajevo, the capital of the newly
S05011992Cformed republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
S05011993 President Clinton decides in principle to commit U.S. airpower to
S05011993Chelp bring an end to the fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
S05011993 School Superintendent Sammie Campbell Parrish unveils her plan to
S05011993Cimprove education in Cleveland and to meet Judge Battisti's
S05011993Cdesegregation order, called "Vision 21."
S05011993 NBC dedicates its studios in Burbank, California to Bob Hope on
S05011993Chis 90th birthday to honor his career that spanned TV.
S0501     May Day.
S0501     Feast of St. Joseph the Workman, stepfather of Jesus.
S0501     SS. Philip and James Day (apostles) (Anglican).
S0501     Birthday of the Virgin Mary - Coptic (Egyptian) and Abyssinian
S0501       Churches.
S0501    5National Day of Prayer.
S0501     St. Tamenend's Day.
S0501    7Kentucky Derby Day.
S0501     Americanism Day (Pennsylvania).
S0501     Law Day.
S0501     Loyalty Day.
S0501     Dewey Day.
S0501     Bird Day.
S0501     International Labor Day.
R0501    5It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0501    6It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0501    7It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0501    2National Family Reading Week begins.
R0501    2Public Service Recognition Week begins.
R0501    5It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0501    6It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0501    7It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0501    1It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0501    5It's National Lingerie Week!
R0501    6It's National Lingerie Week!
R0501    7It's National Lingerie Week!
R0501    1It's National Lingerie Week!
S0501     International Working Class Day (Russia and Cuba).
S0501     Workers Day (Mozambique).
S0501     Working People's Day (Yugoslavia).
S0501    6May Fellowship Day.
S0501     Lei Day (Hawaii).
R0501    1It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0501     It's Senior Comedians Week!
R0501    1National Family Week begins.
R0501    1National Music Week begins.
R0501    1Be Kind to Animals Week begins.
R0501    1National Youth Hostel Week begins.
R0501    1National Extension Homemakers Week begins.
S0501     Festival of the Hare.
S0501     Spring Festival (Luxembourg).
S0501    1Cat Festival (Belgium).
S0501    1Japanese Constitution Memorial Day.
S0501     Golden Week (Japan - 5 day string of national holidays).
S0501     Beltane (May Eve) Sunrise (Wiccan Sabbat).
S0501     Walpurgis Day (Scandinavia).
S0501     First day of the 3-day Festival of Dea Dia (Roman goddess of
S0501       cornfields).
S0501     Festival of Bona Dea, the Good Goddess (Roman Earth goddess of
S0501       fertility, worshipped only by women).
S0501     Fourth day of the Festival of Venus (early Roman 6-day holiday
S0501       - before 200 BC - goddess of Spring and protectress of
S0501       vegetation and gardens).
S0501     Fourth day of Floralia (Roman 6-day festival honoring Flora, the
S0501       goddess of everything that flourishes - courtesans took an
S0501       active part).
S0501     Feast of Tanit (fertility and Moon goddess of the Phoenician
S0501       colony Carthage).
R0501     Baseball clubs can re-sign their own free agents.
S0501     one of the two most popular days for moving into new houses
S0501       in the U.S. (the other is October 1).
S05021583 Leonardo da Vinci Day is first celebrated.
S05021670 the Hudson Bay Company is founded.
S05021776 France and Spain each agree to provide one million livres in arms
S05021776Cto aid in the American Revolution.
S05021780 William Herschel discovers the first binary star, Xi Ursae,
S05021780CMajoris
S05021797 Major Lorenzo Carter became Cleveland's first permanent settler.
S05021863 the Battle of Chancellorsville begins (Gen. Stonewall Jackson is
S05021863Cwounded by his own troops and dies a week later).
S05021865 the first fire department with paid firemen is established in New
S05021865CYork City by an act of the state legislature.
S05021876 Ross Barnes hits the first home run in the National League.
S05021885 the "Good Housekeeping" magazine is first published.
S05021887 Hannibal W. Goodwin applies for a patent for celluloid
S05021887Cphotographic film.
S05021890 Oklahoma Territory is created.
S05021917 Fred Toney of the Reds and Jim Vaughn of the Cubs pitch the only
S05021917C9-inning dual no-hitter.  Reds win it in the 10th (Jim Thorpe
S05021917Cdrives in the winning run).
S05021925 Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park opens.
S05021932 Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing" is the first musical to win Pulitzer.
S05021939 Lou Gehrig sets record for being in most consecutive games
S05021939C(2130).
S05021942 the Indians set a club record for the longest overall winning
S05021942Cstreak, 13 (tied in 1951).
S05021945 Berlin surrenders; Germany surrenders unconditionally five days
S05021945Clater.
S05021954 St. Louis's Stan Musial becomes the first player to hit a total
S05021954Cof 5 home runs in a doubleheader.
S05021956 a U.S. lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from
S05021956CVenus.
S05021960 a House investigating committee, looking into payola, questions
S05021960C"American Bandstand's" Dick Clark.
S05021968 the Poor People's March on Washington, planned by Dr. Martin
S05021968CLuther King, Jr. before his death, gets under way.
S05021977 the nation's first major anti-nuclear protest is staged at the
S05021977CSeabrook Facility in New Hampshire.
S05021980 Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" is banned in
S05021980CSouth Africa (black children, protesting the lack of quality
S05021980Ceducation, adopt the song - "We don't need no education").
S05021984 Cleveland Indians' Andre Thornton ties the record for the most
S05021984Cbase on balls in a game with 6 (16-inning game).
S05021994 Frederik Willem de Klerk, the last white leader in Africa,
S05021994Cconcedes his South African presidency to President-elect Nelson
S05021994CRolihlahla Mandela.
S05021994 the first seats are installed at Cleveland's Gateway Arena (Gund
S05021994CArena).
S0502     Feast of St. Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, confessor, doctor.
S0502     Day of Ysahodhara (Buddhist).
S0502    7Kentucky Derby Day.
S0502    5National Day of Prayer.
S0502    6May Fellowship Day.
R0502    1National Family Week begins.
R0502    1National Music Week begins.
R0502    1Be Kind to Animals Week begins.
R0502    1National Youth Hostel Week begins.
R0502    1National Extension Homemakers Week begins.
R0502    1It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0502     It's Senior Comedians Week!
R0502    2It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0502    2It's National Family Week.
R0502    2National Family Reading Week begins.
R0502    3It's National Family Reading Week.
R0502    6It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0502    7It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0502    2Public Service Recognition Week begins.
R0502    3It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0502    2It's National Music Week.
R0502    2It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0502    2It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0502    2It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0502    6It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0502    7It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0502    1It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0502    6It's National Lingerie Week!
R0502    7It's National Lingerie Week!
R0502    1It's National Lingerie Week!
S0502     Israeli Independence Day.
S0502    1Japanese Constitution Memorial Day.
S0502     Golden Week (Japan - 5 day string of national holidays).
S0502    1Cat Festival (Belgium).
S0502     Birthday of His Late Majesty Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (Bhutan).
S0502     Second day of the 3-day Festival of Dea Dia (Roman goddess of
S0502       cornfields).
S0502     Fifth day of the Festival of Venus (early Roman 6-day holiday
S0502       - before 200 BC - goddess of Spring and protectress of
S0502       vegetation and gardens).
S0502     Fifth day of Floralia (Roman 6-day festival honoring Flora, the
S0502       goddess of everything that flourishes - courtesans took an
S0502       active part).
S0502     May Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S05031497 Jamaica is discovered by Columbus.
S05031654 America's first toll bridge is erected at Rowley, Massachusetts
S05031654Cover the Newbury River.
S05031662 a royal charter is granted to Connecticut.
S05031715 Edmund Halley observes the total eclipse phenomenon, "Baily's
S05031715CBeads".
S05031765 the first U.S. medical school opens at the College of
S05031765CPhiladelphia.
S05031830 the first regular steam train passenger service starts.
S05031863 Lee defeats Hooker at Chancellorsville.
S05031881 Leonidas G. Wooley patents the electric locomotive headlight.
S05031898 Camp Merriman is established at the Presidio.
S05031919 America's first passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City) occurs.
S05031923 the first non-stop transcontinental flight is completed, N.Y.-San
S05031923CDiego, by Lt. Oakley G. Kelly and L. John A. Macready.
S05031932 24 tourists begin the first air-charter holiday, from London
S05031932Cto Basle, Switzerland for 7 days.
S05031934 Dell becomes the first publisher to offer comic books for sale to
S05031934Cthe public.
S05031936 Yankees' Joe DiMaggio has three hits in his M.L. debut, N.Y. 14,
S05031936CSt. Louis Browns 5.
S05031947 Japan adopts a new constitution, renouncing the right to wage
S05031947Cwar.
S05031951 Gil McDougald ties record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning.
S05031952 the first landing by an airplane at the geographic North Pole
S05031952Coccurs.
S05031959 the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of
S05031959CAmerica merge.
S05031969 Jimi Hendrix is arrested at Toronto International Airport for
S05031969Cpossession of narcotics.
S05031971 the Nixon administration arrests nearly 13,000 anti-war
S05031971Cprotesters who disrupted Monday morning rush hour in Washington.
S05031971 national noncommercial network radio begins programming.
S05031973 the 110-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1450 feet,
S05031973Cthe tallest building in the world.
S05031979 Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman British Prime Minister.
S05031994 the Chicago Bulls beat Cleveland in the Cavaliers' last game
S05031994C(post-season playoff) at the Richfield Coliseum, 95-92 in O.T.
S0503     Commemorating the Finding of the Cross.
S0503    7Kentucky Derby Day.
S0503    6May Fellowship Day.
S0503     Relationship Renewal Day.
R0503    1National Family Week begins.
R0503    1National Music Week begins.
R0503    1Be Kind to Animals Week begins.
R0503    1National Youth Hostel Week begins.
R0503    1National Extension Homemakers Week begins.
R0503    1It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0503     It's Senior Comedians Week!
R0503    2It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0503    3It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0503    2It's National Family Week.
R0503    3It's National Family Week.
R0503    2National Family Reading Week begins.
R0503    3It's National Family Reading Week.
R0503    4It's National Family Reading Week.
R0503    7It's Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week.
R0503    2Public Service Recognition Week begins.
R0503    3It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0503    4It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0503    2It's National Music Week.
R0503    3It's National Music Week.
R0503    2It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0503    3It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0503    2It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0503    3It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0503    2It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0503    3It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
S0503     Santa Cruz Feast Day (Taos Pueblo, N.M.).
S0503     Corn Festival (Native American).
R0503    7It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0503    1It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0503    7It's National Lingerie Week!
R0503    1It's National Lingerie Week!
S0503    1Japanese Constitution Memorial Day.
S0503     Golden Week (Japan - 5 day string of national holidays).
S0503    5National Day of Prayer.
S0503     Day of the Holy Cross (Mexico).
S0503     Swieto Trzeciego Majo or Polish Constitution Day.
S0503    1Cat Festival (Belgium).
S0503     Last day of the 3-day Festival of Dea Dia (Roman goddess of
S0503       cornfields).
S0503     Night of Bona Dea, the Good Goddess (Roman Earth goddess of
S0503       fertility, worshipped only by women).
S0503     Last day of the Festival of Venus (early Roman 6-day holiday
S0503       - before 200 BC - goddess of Spring and protectress of
S0503       vegetation and gardens).
S0503     Floralia ends (Roman 6-day festival honoring Flora, the goddess
S0503       of everything that flourishes - courtesans took an active
S0503       part).
S0503     May Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S05041715 a French manufacturer debuts the first folding umbrella --
S05041715Cin Paris, not Cherbourg!
S05041776 Rhode Island declares its independence.
S05041778 the Continental Congress ratifies the Treaty of Alliance with
S05041778CFrance.
S05041780 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is incorporated.
S05041846 capital punishment is abolished for the first time in the U.S. in
S05041846CMichigan (effective Jan. 1, 1847).
S05041851 the first of the major San Francisco fires occurs.
S05041863 Gen. Robert E. Lee wins his greatest victory over huge Union
S05041863Cforces under Gen. Joseph Hooker at the Battle of
S05041863CChancellorsville.
S05041871 the first all-pro baseball game is played, Ft. Wayne's Kekionga
S05041871C2, Cleveland's Forest City 0.
S05041878 the phonograph is shown for the first time at the Grand Opera
S05041878CHouse in San Francisco.
S05041886 the Haymarket Riot occurs during a labor rally when a bomb
S05041886Cexplodes, killing 7 policemen.
S05041891 Sherlock Holmes disappears at Reichenbach Falls and is presumed
S05041891Cto have met a deadly fate at the hands of Professor Moriarty
S05041891C(according to Doyle).
S05041903 Lakewood is incorporated as a village (pop. 3500).
S05041903 J.J. Rowe becomes the first officially elected mayor of Lakewood
S05041903C(village.)
S05041903 Lakewood's Clifton Clubhouse has its formal opening.
S05041905 Belmont Park opens.
S05041929 Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9.
S05041936 atomic power is used to cure cancer in mice.
S05041942 the Battle of Coral Sea begins (the first sea battle fought
S05041942Csolely by air).
S05041943 the final Allied offensive in North Africa begins (the desert war
S05041943Cends May 13).
S05041956 the AEC approves the first private nuclear reactor at Indian
S05041956CPoint, N.Y., owned by Con Edison.
S05041957 Alan Freed hosts "The Rock n' Roll Show", the first prime-time
S05041957Cnetwork special on rock music.
S05041959 the first annual Grammy Awards of the National Academy of
S05041959CRecording Arts and Sciences are presented for the Year of 1958:
S05041959C  best album "The Music of Peter Gunn" by Henry Mancini
S05041959C  best record "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)" Domenico Modugno
S05041959C  best male vocalist Perry Como for "Catch a Falling Star"
S05041959C  best female vocalist Ella Fitzgerald for "The Irving Berlin
S05041959C    Song Book"
S05041959C  best group Louis Prima and Keely Smith for "That Old Black
S05041959C    Magic"
S05041964 the Pulitzer Committee decides that no works of fiction, music
S05041964Cor drama were worthy of Prizes that year.
S05041967 Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched to take pictures of possible sites
S05041967Cfor manned Apollo landings.
S05041968 the 94th Kentucky Derby becomes the first recalled race in Derby
S05041968Chistory.  Won by Dancer's Image (who is disqualified 3 days later
S05041968Cwhen traces of a pain-killing drug is found in tests), Forward
S05041968CPass is then declared the winner.  (On Dec. 23, the Racing
S05041968CCommission rules Dancer's Image had won the race but not the
S05041968Cpurse.)
S05041969 the Houston Astros set a N.L. record by making 7 double plays
S05041969Cagainst the S.F. Giants (first baseman Curt Blefry participates
S05041969Cin all 7).
S05041970 Ohio National Guardsmen fire into a crowd of Kent State
S05041970CUniversity student protesters, killing 4 and wounding 8.
S05041973 the first TV network female nudity airs, "Steambath" (PBS)
S05041973Cstarring Valerie Perrine.
S05041975 Astros' Bob Watson scores M.L. baseball's 1,000,000 run.
S05041987 the Supreme Court rules women must be admitted to Rotary Clubs.
S05041989 Col. Oliver North becomes the first person involved in the Iran-
S05041989Ccontra scandal to be convicted (does not go to jail, charges
S05041989Cdropped on Sept. 16, 1991).
S05041989 the 29th Shuttle Mission, Atlantis 4 is launched (launches the
S05041989Cspacecraft Megallan on its voyage to Venus the next day).
S05041991 Indians' Chris James sets a club record for the most RBIs in a
S05041991Cgame (9), Cleveland 20, Oakland 6.
S05041994 Israelis and Palestinians sign an accord to begin Palestinian
S05041994Cself-rule in the Gaza Strip, and an enclave around Jericho,
S05041994Cending a 27-year Israeli occupation.
S0504     Feast of St. Monica, mother of St. Augustine, widow.
S0504     St. Florian's Day (patron saint of blacksmiths and firemen).
S0504    7Kentucky Derby Day.
S0504    5National Day of Prayer.
S0504    6May Fellowship Day.
S0504     Rhode Island Independence Day.
S0504     Students Memorial Day.
R0504    1National Family Week begins.
R0504    1National Music Week begins.
R0504    1Be Kind to Animals Week begins.
R0504    1National Youth Hostel Week begins.
R0504    1National Extension Homemakers Week begins.
R0504    1It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0504     It's Senior Comedians Week!
R0504    2It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0504    3It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0504    4It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0504    2It's National Family Week.
R0504    3It's National Family Week.
R0504    4It's National Family Week.
R0504    2National Family Reading Week begins.
R0504    3It's National Family Reading Week.
R0504    4It's National Family Reading Week.
R0504    5It's National Family Reading Week.
R0504    2Public Service Recognition Week begins.
R0504    3It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0504    4It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0504    5It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0504    2It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0504    3It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0504    4It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0504    2It's National Music Week.
R0504    3It's National Music Week.
R0504    4It's National Music Week.
R0504    2It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0504    3It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0504    4It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0504    2It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0504    3It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0504    4It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0504    1It's National Turn Off Your TV Week!
R0504    1It's National Lingerie Week!
S0504    1Japanese Constitution Memorial Day.
S0504     Golden Week (Japan - 5 day string of national holidays).
S0504     Cerridwen and Brigit Festival (celebrated in Ireland).
S0504    1Cat Festival (Belgium).
S0504     May Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S05051814 the British attack Ft. Ontario, Oswego, N.Y.
S05051865 the first train robbery occurs at North Bend, Ohio when a
S05051865Clocomotive overturns and is looted.
S05051866 the first Memorial Day Observance is held in Waterloo, N.Y. to
S05051866Chonor Civil War dead.
S05051867 Battle of Puebla - Mexicans under Gen. Ignacio Zaragosa defeat
S05051867CGen. Maximilian's French forces, leading to the ouster of the
S05051867CFrench colonist (Cinco de Mayo).
S05051880 Warner and Swasey Company begins operating.
S05051888 five machinists form the United Machinists and Mechanical
S05051888CEngineers (National Association of Machinists) in Atlanta, Ga.
S05051891 Carnegie Hall opens in N.Y. City with Tchaikovsky as guest
S05051891Cconductor.
S05051904 Cy Young, of the Boston Americans, pitches major leagues third
S05051904Cperfect game, beating the Philadelphia Athletics 3-0.
S05051908 the Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco.
S05051913 the American College of Surgeons is organized.
S05051921 the first ranger for the Cleveland Metroparks is hired.
S05051922 the construction of Yankee Stadium begins.
S05051926 Sinclair Lewis declines the Pulitzer Prize for his novel
S05051926C"Arrowsmith," declaring that prizes tend to make writers "safe,
S05051926Cpolite, obedient and sterile."
S05051926 the first garden unit of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens is begun
S05051926Cwhen three Cedars of Lebanon are planted for the Hebrew Cultural
S05051926CGarden.
S05051936 Edward A. Ravenscroft patents the screw cap bottle with a pour
S05051936Clip.
S05051942 Corregidor falls to the Japanese.
S05051942 as part of the war effort, sugar rationing begins in the U.S.
S05051942C(ends June 11, 1947).
S05051943 a postal-zone numbering system is inaugurated in 178 cities.
S05051945 Mrs. Elsie Mitchell and 5 neighborhood children are killed near
S05051945CKlamath Falls, Oregon, by a Japanese balloon bomb they discovered
S05051945C- one of 285 to arrive in the U.S.  (The only WW II victims to
S05051945Cdie on the U.S. mainland.)
S05051948 the first air squadron of jets is stationed aboard a carrier.
S05051949 the Council of Europe is established.
S05051955 West Germany is granted full sovereignty by the three occupying
S05051955Cpowers, and joins NATO.
S05051955 "Damn Yankees" opens on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre,
S05051955Cstarring Gwen Verdon and Ray Walston.
S05051956 Jim Bailey runs the first 4-minute mile in the U.S.
S05051956 the world championships of judo are first held, in Tokyo.
S05051961 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space onboard Freedom
S05051961C7 (suborbital flight at 116.5 miles for 15 minutes, 22 seconds).
S05051973 Secretariat wins the Kentucky Derby in record time.
S05051978 Reds' Pete Rose, in his 15th season, becomes the 13th player to
S05051978Creach 3,000 career hits (off Montreal's Steve Rogers).
S05051980 British commandos and police storm the Iranian Embassy in London
S05051980Cfreeing hostages held by Iranian Arabs, killing 3 gunman and
S05051980Ccapturing 2 (2 hostages were killed earlier).
S05051985 President Reagan causes a controversy when he lays a wreath in a
S05051985Cmilitary cemetary in Bitburg, West Germany (49 members of the
S05051985CNazi Waffen SS were also buried there).
S05051986 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame foundation announces the Hall of
S05051986CFame and Museum will be built in Cleveland.
S05051988 Eugene Antonio Marino becomes the first black Catholic archbishop
S05051988Cin the U.S.
S05051989 the Venus orbiter, Magellan, is launched to map the second
S05051989Cplanet.
S05051991 General Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, goes on trial
S05051991Cfor helping Columbia drug traffickers transport drugs.
S05051991 a safe zone is created in northern Iraq by the U.S. to protect
S05051991Cthe Kurd refugees.
S05051992 H. Ross Perot, a Texas billionaire, announces his presidential
S05051992Ccandidacy as an independent (quits July 16, then reannounces his
S05051992Ccandidacy October 1).
S05051994 Michael Fay of Kettering, Ohio is caned (4 lashes with a rattan
S05051994Crod) in Singapore for vandalism.
S05051995 the Indians move into first place (tie) and finish the season the
S05051995CCentral League Champions (their first title in 41 years); Jose
S05051995CMesa pitches his first of a club record 46 saves.
S05052000 the next notable conjunction occurs.
S0505     Feast of St. Pius V, pope (1566-72).
S0505     Cinco de Mayo Festival.
S0505    6May Fellowship Day.
S0505     National Teacher's Day.
S0505    7Kentucky Derby Day .
S0505    5National Day of Prayer.
S0505     Bonza Bottler Day (Number of Day Matches the Number of the
S0505       Month).
R0505    1National Family Week begins.
R0505    1National Music Week begins.
R0505    1Be Kind to Animals Week begins.
R0505    1National Youth Hostel Week begins.
R0505    1National Extension Homemakers Week begins.
R0505    1It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0505     It's Senior Comedians Week!
R0505    5It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0505    4It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0505    3It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0505    2It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0505    5It's National Family Week.
R0505    4It's National Family Week.
R0505    3It's National Family Week.
R0505    2It's National Family Week.
R0505    2National Family Reading Week begins.
R0505    3It's National Family Reading Week.
R0505    4It's National Family Reading Week.
R0505    5It's National Family Reading Week.
R0505    6It's National Family Reading Week.
R0505    2Public Service Recognition Week begins.
R0505    6It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0505    5It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0505    4It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0505    3It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0505    5It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0505    4It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0505    3It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0505    2It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0505    5It's National Music Week.
R0505    4It's National Music Week.
R0505    3It's National Music Week.
R0505    2It's National Music Week.
R0505    5It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0505    4It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0505    3It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0505    2It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0505    5It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0505    4It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0505    3It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0505    2It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
S0505     Children's Day (celebrated in Japan and South Korea).
S0505     Last day of Golden Week (Japan - 5 day string of national
S0505    C  holidays).
S0505     Feast of Yasodhara (Wife of the Buddha).
S0505     Tango-no-sekku (Boy's Festival) -- Japan.
S0505     Coronation Day Anniversary (Thailand).
S0505    1Japanese Constitution Memorial Day.
S0505     Denmark Liberation Day.
S0505     Netherlands Liberation Day.
S0505    1Cat Festival (Belgium).
S0505     May Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S05061527 the sack of Rome by Emperor Charles V ends the Renaissance.
S05061626 Manhat-a-hat-a Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and
S05061626Cbuttons to Peter Minuit.
S05061851 a patent is granted to Dr. John Gorrie for a "refrigeration
S05061851Cmachine" (ice-making machine).
S05061851 Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco starts.
S05061860 the Olympic Club, the first athletic club in the U.S., is founded
S05061860Cin San Francisco.
S05061861 Arkansas becomes the 9th state to secede from the U.S.
S05061864 General Sherman with 100,000 Union troops marches towards Atlanta
S05061864C(captures the city Sept. 1).
S05061864 the Battle of the Wilderness ends indecisively as the armies of
S05061864CLee and Grant wrought mutual destruction near Chancellorsville.
S05061882 the Chinese Exclusion Act is passed by Congress.
S05061896 a sustained flight by an unmanned "heavier-than-air" aircraft is
S05061896Cfirst achieved by Samuel Langley.
S05061906 a "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street is
S05061906Cissued, allowing United Railroads to run electric streetcars in
S05061906CSan Francisco.
S05061915 Red Sox's Babe Ruth has his pitching debut and his first HR, but
S05061915Closes to Yanks 4-3 in 15 innings.
S05061925 the Cleveland Public Library Main Building opens.
S05061935 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is created.
S05061937 the Hindenburg explodes over Lakehurst, New Jersey; the first
S05061937Ccoat-to-coast radio program is conducted by Herbert Morrison,
S05061937Creporting the disaster.
S05061954 Roger Bannister is the first to break the 4-minute mile (3:59:4).
S05061959 the warmest temperature ever enjoyed in Cleveland during the
S05061959Cmonth of May is tied for the second time, 92 degrees (first set
S05061959Cin 1879 and tied in 1944).
S05061960 President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960.
S05061960 Princess Margaret weds Anthony Armstrong Jones, a commoner.
S05061962 the first nuclear warhead is fired from a Polaris submarine
S05061962C("U.S.S. Ethan Allen").
S05061973 the first World Hockey Association championship is won by the New
S05061973CEngland Whalers, defeating the Winnipeg Jets four games to one.
S05061974 Cleveland experiences its heaviest May snowfall (2 inches).
S05061982 Seattle's Gaylord Perry becomes the first pitcher in 19 years,
S05061982Cthe 15th ever, and the oldest man, to win 300 baseball games,
S05061982CMariners 7, Yankees 3.
S05061986 Rev. Donald E. Pelotte, 41, becomes the first American Indian
S05061986Cordained a Roman Catholic bishop.
S05061994 the Channel Tunnel under the English Channel opens.
S0506     Feast of St. John Apostle Before the Lateran (Latin) Gate.
S0506    7Kentucky Derby Day.
S0506    6May Fellowship Day.
S0506    5National Day of Prayer.
S0506     National Nurse's Day.
S0506     National Homebrew Day.
R0506    1National Family Week begins.
R0506    1National Hospital Week begins.
R0506    1National Music Week begins.
R0506    1Be Kind to Animals Week begins.
R0506    1National Youth Hostel Week begins.
R0506    1National Extension Homemakers Week begins.
R0506    1It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0506     It's Senior Comedians Week!
R0506    6It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0506    5It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0506    4It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0506    3It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0506    2It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0506    6It's National Family Week.
R0506    5It's National Family Week.
R0506    4It's National Family Week.
R0506    3It's National Family Week.
R0506    2It's National Family Week.
R0506    2National Family Reading Week begins.
R0506    3It's National Family Reading Week.
R0506    4It's National Family Reading Week.
R0506    5It's National Family Reading Week.
R0506    6It's National Family Reading Week.
R0506    7It's National Family Reading Week.
R0506    2Public Service Recognition Week begins.
R0506    7It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0506    6It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0506    5It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0506    4It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0506    3It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0506    6It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0506    5It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0506    4It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0506    3It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0506    2It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0506    6It's National Music Week.
R0506    5It's National Music Week.
R0506    4It's National Music Week.
R0506    3It's National Music Week.
R0506    2It's National Music Week.
R0506    6It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0506    5It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0506    4It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0506    3It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0506    2It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0506    6It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0506    5It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0506    4It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0506    3It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0506    2It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
S0506    1Japanese Constitution Memorial Day.
S0506     Eyvind Kelve (celebrated in Norway).
S0506     Kagitingan Day (Philippines).
S0506     Syria Martyrs' Day.
S0506    1Cat Festival (Belgium).
S0506     May Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S05071789 the first inaugural ball, to honor President Washington, is held.
S05071792 Capt. Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington).
S05071800 the Northwest Territory is divided by law into two territories,
S05071800Cthe Ohio and the Indiana Territory.
S05071824 Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" is presented for the first time.
S05071824 Mexico designates Texas as one of its provinces.
S05071836 the first theater license is issued by the City of Cleveland.
S05071840 the most destructive U.S. single-location tornado on record
S05071840Clevels most of Natchez, Mississippi (317 killed).
S05071847 the American Medical Association is organized in Philadelphia.
S05071861 Tennessee Convention votes to secede from the Union (ratified by
S05071861Cpopular vote June 8).
S05071864 the Spotsylvania campaign begins; Grant continues to hammer Lee's
S05071864Cwaning forces.
S05071914 a resolution establishing Mother's Day, to be celebrated on the
S05071914Csecond Sunday in May, is passed by Congress.
S05071915 a German submarine sinks the Lusitania.
S05071934 the newly restored U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides) is
S05071934Cpermanently berthed at Constitution Drydock in Boston.
S05071934 the world's largest pearl, 14 pounds, 1 oz., is discovered at
S05071934CPalawan, Philippines.
S05071943 Bizerte, Tunisia, is captured by American troops; the British
S05071943Ctake Tunis.
S05071945 World War II ends in Europe - V.E. Day; Germany surrenders at
S05071945C2:41 a.m.
S05071947 "The Kraft Television Theater" premieres.
S05071950 St. Anthony Mary Claret, former Archbishop of Santiago, Cuba, is
S05071950Ccanonized.
S05071954 the heavily fortified, Franco-Vietnamese camp of Dien Bien Phu
S05071954Cfalls to the communists after a 55-day siege.
S05071957 Indians' pitcher Herb Score is hit in the eye by a line drive off
S05071957Cthe bat of Yankees' Gil McDougald.
S05071963 Telstar 2 is launched (apogee 6,700 miles).
S05071970 "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last American
S05071970Crelease.
S05071973 the Washington Post is awarded the Pulitzer for public service
S05071973Cfor its investigation of the Watergate Cover-up.
S05071974 the League of Women Voters decide to admit men.
S05071984 Vietnam Vets reach an out-of-court settlement with seven chemical
S05071984Ccompanies, makers of Agent Orange, of $180 million on their
S05071984Cclass-action suit.
S05071985 baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth calls for drug testing in
S05071985Cmajor league baseball.
S05071992 the 47th Shuttle Mission, the Endeavour, the $2 billion
S05071992Creplacement for the Challenger, is launched on its maiden voyage.
S05071992CCapturing and correcting the orbit of a satellite, the astronauts
S05071992Cset new U.S. records for duration of spacewalk and the number of
S05071992Castronauts outside the craft.
S05071992 the 27th Amendment is ratified 200 years after it was proposed
S05071992Cby James Monroe, allowing for Congressional pay raises to become
S05071992Ceffective only after an election of Representatives has
S05071992Cintervene.
S05071994 the first major public art benefit at Cleveland's Gateway is
S05071994Cheld.
S05071995 the Indians set a team record for the longest game, 6 hours, 36
S05071995Cminutes, in their 17-inning win over the Twins, 10-9.
S0507     Feast of St. Stanislaus, bishop, martyr, patron of Poland.
R0507    7Kentucky Derby.
S0507    6May Fellowship Day.
R0507    1National Family Week begins.
R0507    1National Hospital Week begins.
R0507    1National Music Week begins.
R0507    1Be Kind to Animals Week begins.
R0507    1National Youth Hostel Week begins.
R0507    1National Extension Homemakers Week begins.
R0507    1It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0507    2It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0507    3It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0507    4It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0507    5It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0507    6It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0507    7It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0507    2It's National Family Week.
R0507    3It's National Family Week.
R0507    4It's National Family Week.
R0507    5It's National Family Week.
R0507    6It's National Family Week.
R0507    7It's National Family Week.
R0507    2National Family Reading Week begins.
R0507    3It's National Family Reading Week.
R0507    4It's National Family Reading Week.
R0507    5It's National Family Reading Week.
R0507    6It's National Family Reading Week.
R0507    7It's National Family Reading Week.
R0507    1It's National Family Reading Week.
R0507    2Public Service Recognition Week begins.
R0507    3It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0507    4It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0507    5It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0507    6It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0507    7It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0507    1It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0507    2It's National Music Week.
R0507    3It's National Music Week.
R0507    4It's National Music Week.
R0507    5It's National Music Week.
R0507    6It's National Music Week.
R0507    7It's National Music Week.
R0507    2It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0507    3It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0507    4It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0507    5It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0507    6It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0507    7It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0507    2It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0507    3It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0507    4It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0507    5It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0507    6It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0507    7It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0507    2It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0507    3It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0507    4It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0507    5It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0507    6It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0507    7It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0507     It's Senior Comedians Week!
S0507    5National Day of Prayer.
S0507    1Japanese Constitution Memorial Day.
S0507     Beaufort Scale Day - measures wind force (scale 0 calm to 12
S0507       hurricane).
S0507     Helston Furry Dance (Welsh).
S0507     Ploughing Ceremony (Thailand).
S0507    1Cat Festival (Belgium).
S05081429 Jeanne d'Arc defeats the British who had laid siege to Orlans.
S05081541 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River.
S05081642 Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve founds and becomes the first
S05081642Cgovernor of Ville-Marie, the first permanent European settlement
S05081642Cin Canada and the future city of Montreal.
S05081792 the U.S. institutes its first military draft.
S05081823 "Home, Sweet Home" is sung publicly for the first time (performed
S05081823Con stage in London).
S05081846 the first major battle of the Mexican War is fought at Palo Alto,
S05081846CTexas.
S05081847 Robert W. Thompson patents the rubber tire (first called "air
S05081847Cwheels").
S05081878 Paul Hines makes baseball's first unassisted triple play.
S05081879 George B. Selden, inventor and patent attorney of Rochester,
S05081879CN.Y., files for the first patent application for a gasoline-
S05081879Cdriven automobile.
S05081886 Coca-Cola is first sold, at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia.
S05081936 Hall of Fame jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revives after being
S05081936Cthrown into a wooden rail by his horse, Flanakins, and trampled
S05081936Cby other horses.  He is pronounce dead by the track doctor, but
S05081936Cat the mortuary, Dr. Horace Stevens gives him a shot of
S05081936Cadrenaline in the heart, and Neves gets up and returns to the Bay
S05081936CMeadows jockey room.
S05081936 Britain sends a questionnaire to Hitler to clear up questions
S05081936Cabout his ambitions.
S05081942 the Battle of Coral Sea ends; the U.S. naval air forces inflict
S05081942Cheavy losses on the Japanese.
S05081944 the first eye bank is established at New York Hospital for
S05081944Cstoring corneal transplants.
S05081951 the development of a 75-ton atomic cannon is announced.
S05081951 dacron men's suits are introduced.
S05081961 the first practical sea water conversion plant opens in Freeport,
S05081961CTexas.
S05081962 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" opens on
S05081962CBroadway at the Alvin Theatre, starring Zero Mostel.
S05081967 Lunar Orbiter 4 enters a lunar polar orbit to take pictures of
S05081967Cpossible sites for manned Apollo landings.
S05081968 James A. "Catfish" Hunter pitches the tenth perfect game in major
S05081968Cleague history, Oakland 4, Minnosota 0.
S05081970 helmeted construction workers in N.Y. City beat up anti-war
S05081970Cprotesters.
S05081970 the Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in England.
S05081971 Mariner 8 falls into the Atlantic Ocean after the launch
S05081971Cvehicle's second-stage booster fails.
S05081972 President Nixon orders the mining of Haiphong harbor and massive
S05081972Cbombing raids over North Vietnam.
S05081973 Indians holding the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for ten
S05081973Cweeks surrender.
S05081980 the World Health Organization announces the worldwide eradication
S05081980Cof smallpox.
S05081984 the U.S.S.R. announces it will not participate in the L.A. Summer
S05081984COlympics because of anticipated anti-Soviet protests.
S05081987 presidential candidate Gary Hart drops out of the race when
S05081987Clinked with former model Donna Rice.
S05081990 Cuyahoga County voters approve the sin tax to build Gateway.
S05081994 the Colorado Silver Bullets, the first women's professional
S05081994Cbaseball team in 40 years (coached by baseball great Phil
S05081994CNiekro), and affiliated with the one-year old Northern League,
S05081994Cfall 19-0 in their debut against the all-male Northern League
S05081994CAll-Stars.
S0508    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
S0508     Apparition of St. Michael the Archangel.
S0508     Harry S. Truman's Birthday (celebrated in Missouri).
S0508     World Red Cross Day.
S0508     V-E Day.
R0508    1National Hospital Week begins.
R0508    1National Nursing Home Week begins.
R0508    2Salvation Army Week begins.
R0508    2It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0508    3It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0508    4It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0508    5It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0508    6It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0508    7It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0508    2It's National Family Week.
R0508    3It's National Family Week.
R0508    4It's National Family Week.
R0508    5It's National Family Week.
R0508    6It's National Family Week.
R0508    7It's National Family Week.
R0508    3It's National Family Reading Week.
R0508    4It's National Family Reading Week.
R0508    5It's National Family Reading Week.
R0508    6It's National Family Reading Week.
R0508    7It's National Family Reading Week.
R0508    1It's National Family Reading Week.
R0508    3It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0508    4It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0508    5It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0508    6It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0508    7It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0508    1It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0508    2It's National Music Week.
R0508    3It's National Music Week.
R0508    4It's National Music Week.
R0508    5It's National Music Week.
R0508    6It's National Music Week.
R0508    7It's National Music Week.
R0508    2It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0508    3It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0508    4It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0508    5It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0508    6It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0508    7It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0508    2It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0508    3It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0508    4It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0508    5It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0508    6It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0508    7It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0508    2It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0508    3It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0508    4It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0508    5It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0508    6It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0508    7It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
S0508     Furry Day (Helston, England)
S0508    7Native American Day.
S0508     Armistice Day (France).
S0508     German Democratic Republic Liberation Day.
S0508     Storks return to Ribe, Denmark.
S05091502 Columbus leaves Spain on his 4th and final trip to the New World.
S05091662 the first "Punch and Judy" show is presented by Pietro Gimonde at
S05091662CCovent Garden.
S05091671 Irish-born Col. Thomas Blood steals the British Crown Jewels
S05091671C(although later caught, because of his gift of blarney, he
S05091671Creceives a pardon and a pension).
S05091754 the first newspaper cartoon in America is published, showing a
S05091754Cdivided snake with caption "Join or die".
S05091763 Chief Pontiac strikes the first blow of Pontiac's War, laying
S05091763Csiege to Fort Detroit.
S05091785 Joseph Bramah receives a British patent for beer pump handles.
S05091832 the Seminoles sign a treaty agreeing to leave Florida and move
S05091832Cwest of the Mississippi River.
S05091852 the first U.S. Roman Catholic Church Council is held at the
S05091852CCathedral in Baltimore.
S05091882 Telegraph Hill Railroad Company is organized.
S05091908 Winston Churchill is elected to the House of Commons.
S05091909 at the urging of Anna May Jarvis, who had organized the first
S05091909Cofficial Mother's Day service at St. Andrew Methodist Church in
S05091909CGrafton, W.Va. in honor of her mother, Philadelphia's mayor and
S05091909Ccity council proclaim the first official Mother's Day.
S05091926 the first flight over North Pole (Bennett and Byrd) takes place.
S05091936 the first scheduled transatlantic dirigible flight is completed
S05091936Cwhen the Hindenburg lands at Lakehurst, N.J.
S05091937 Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy debut on radio.
S05091944 the first eye bank opens in N.Y. City.
S05091946 the first variety show, NBC's "Hour Glass", premieres.
S05091960 the U.S. announces the discontinuance of U-2 flights similar to
S05091960Cthe one intercepted by the U.S.S.R.
S05091960 the FDA approves the contraceptive pill for public use.
S05091961 FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland".
S05091961 Baltimore's Jim Gentile hits grand slammers in consecutive
S05091961Cinnings.
S05091962 a beam of light is first successfully reflected from the moon by
S05091962Cuse of a laser.
S05091963 a secret military satellite is launched by the Air Force from
S05091963CPoint Arguello, Ca., releasing 400 million tiny copper hairs into
S05091963Ca polar orbit to provide a cloud of reflective material for
S05091963Crelaying radio signals from coast to coast within the U.S.
S05091967 the first ever vein graft operation for coronary artery disease
S05091967Cis performed at the Cleveland Clinic.
S05091972 disguised Israeli paratroopers storm a hijacked plane in Tel
S05091972CAviv, freeing all the hostages (2 hijackers killed, 2 captured).
S05091974 impeachment hearings are opened against Nixon by the House
S05091974CJudiciary Committee.
S05091978 "Ain't Misbehavin'," a celebration of the songs of Fats Waller,
S05091978Copens on Broadway on the Longacre Theater.
S05091984 the White Sox beat the Brewers 7-6 in the 25th inning in Chicago
S05091984Cin the longest game in elapsed time (8 hours 6 min.).  (Game was
S05091984Cstopped by the 1 a.m. curfew, and resumed the next night.)
S05091994 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is unanimously elected South Africa's
S05091994Cfirst black president by its first all-race Parliament.
S05091995 the Cleveland Indians beat the Twins 10-0, tieing a league record
S05091995C(1954 Indians and 1960 Yankees) for scoring 8 runs in the 1st
S05091995Cinning with no-outs; Indians pitcher Orel Hershiser has his first
S05091995CA.L. win.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S05091995C  first grand slam - (Indians) Paul Sorrento
S0509    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
S0509     Feast of St. Gregory of Nazianzus, bishop, confessor, doctor.
S0509     Feast of St. Joan of Arc (New Orleans, Louisiana).
S0509    7Native American Day.
S0509     Cotton Carnival (Memphis, Tennessee).
R0509    1National Hospital Week begins.
R0509    1National Nursing Home Week begins.
R0509    2It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0509    2Salvation Army Week begins.
R0509    3It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0509    4It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0509    5It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0509    6It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0509    7It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0509    3It's National Family Week.
R0509    4It's National Family Week.
R0509    5It's National Family Week.
R0509    6It's National Family Week.
R0509    7It's National Family Week.
R0509    4It's National Family Reading Week.
R0509    5It's National Family Reading Week.
R0509    6It's National Family Reading Week.
R0509    7It's National Family Reading Week.
R0509    1It's National Family Reading Week.
R0509    2It's National Hospital Week.
R0509    3It's Salvation Army Week.
R0509    4It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0509    5It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0509    6It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0509    7It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0509    1It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0509    3It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0509    4It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0509    5It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0509    6It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0509    7It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0509    3It's National Music Week.
R0509    4It's National Music Week.
R0509    5It's National Music Week.
R0509    6It's National Music Week.
R0509    7It's National Music Week.
R0509    3It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0509    4It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0509    5It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0509    6It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0509    7It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0509    3It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0509    4It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0509    5It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0509    6It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0509    7It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
S0509     Victory Day (in WW II) celebrated in U.S.S.R.
S0509     Czechoslovakia Liberation Day.
S0509     Romania Independence Day.
S0509     Lumeria (Roman festival honoring the lemures, the earth-wandering
S0509       spirits of passed-over family members who return to the earth).
S05101773 the British Parliament passes the Tea Act to prevent the British
S05101773CEast India Company from going bankrupt.
S05101775 the 2nd Continental Congress convenes in Pennsylvania.
S05101775 Col. Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain boys capture Fort
S05101775CTiconderoga, N.Y.
S05101823 the first steamboat to ascent the Mississippi River arrives at
S05101823CFort Snelling, Minnesota.
S05101865 Jefferson Davis is captured at Irwinville, Ga., by Union calvary.
S05101869 the driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah completes
S05101869Cthe Transcontinental railroad.
S05101879 the Archaeological Institute of America is founded.
S05101908 Anna May Jarvis organizes the first official Mother's Day service
S05101908Cat St. Andrew Methodist Church in Grafton, W.Va. in honor of her
S05101908Cmother who had passed away two years earlier on the second Sunday
S05101908Cin May.
S05101914 the first national Mother's Day is celebrated (made official by
S05101914Can act of Congress).
S05101919 Brig. General Douglas MacArthur is named to head West Point.
S05101939 the Methodist Church is reunited after 109 years of division.
S05101940 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of England.
S05101940 Hitler invades Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg.
S05101959 archeologists find ruins of Nero's gardens in Rome.
S05101960 U.S.S. Triton completes the first circumnavigation of the globe
S05101960Cunder water.
S05101966 the lowest temperature ever experienced in Cleveland in the month
S05101966Cof May is recorded, 25 degrees.
S05101969 Apollo 10 transmits the first color TV pictures of earth from
S05101969Cspace.
S05101971 the first expansion to the Football Hall of Fame opens.
S05101984 the World Court rules unanimously that the U.S. should halt any
S05101984Cattempts to blockade or mine Nicaraguan ports (the U.S. states it
S05101984Cwould not be bound by the decision).
S05101994 an annular eclipse occurs, putting Cleveland in the moon's
S05101994Ccentral shadow (umbra) for the first time since 1806 (Cleveland's
S05101994Cnext annular eclipse will be in 2093.
S05101995 the Bull's Micheal Jordan switches from his #45 to his retired
S05101995C#23 to beat Orlando; the club is fined $25,000.
S0510    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
S0510     Confederate Memorial Day (North and South Carolina).
S0510     Feast of St. Antoninus, bishop of Florence, confessor.
S0510    7Native American Day.
S0510     Golden Spike Day (Utah).
R0510    1National Hospital Week begins.
R0510    1National Nursing Home Week begins.
R0510    2It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0510    3It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0510    2Salvation Army Week begins.
R0510    4It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0510    5It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0510    6It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0510    7It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0510    4It's National Family Week.
R0510    5It's National Family Week.
R0510    6It's National Family Week.
R0510    7It's National Family Week.
R0510    5It's National Family Reading Week.
R0510    6It's National Family Reading Week.
R0510    7It's National Family Reading Week.
R0510    1It's National Family Reading Week.
R0510    2It's National Hospital Week.
R0510    3It's National Hospital Week.
R0510    3It's Salvation Army Week.
R0510    4It's Salvation Army Week.
R0510    5It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0510    6It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0510    7It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0510    1It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0510    4It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0510    5It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0510    6It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0510    7It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0510    4It's National Music Week.
R0510    5It's National Music Week.
R0510    6It's National Music Week.
R0510    7It's National Music Week.
R0510    4It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0510    5It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0510    6It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0510    7It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0510    4It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0510    5It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0510    6It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0510    7It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
S0510     Tin Hau's Day (celebrated in China).
S0511 330 Constantinople is founded.
S05111752 the first U.S. fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia.
S05111812 the Waltz is introduced into English ballrooms.  Most observers
S05111812Cconsider it disgusting and immoral. No wonder it caught on!
S05111814 the Americans beat the British at the Battle of Plattsburgh.
S05111850 work starts on the first brick building in San Francisco.
S05111858 Minnesota becomes the 32nd state.
S05111875 George "Charmer" Zettlein pitches the first major league nine
S05111875Cinning shutout, Chicago 1, St. Louis 0.
S05111916 Einstein's Theory of General Relativity is presented.
S05111928 WGY, Schenectady, N.Y. begins the first scheduled TV programming
S05111928C(three times a week).
S05111930 the first U.S. planetarium, Adler, opens in Chicago.
S05111935 the Rural Electrification Administration is established by
S05111935Cexecutive order to build power lines and finance electricity
S05111935Cproduction in areas not served by private distributors.
S05111947 B.F. Goodrich manufactures the first tubeless tire in Akron, Oh.
S05111949 Siam changes its name to Thailand.
S05111950 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington is dedicated (had been in
S05111950Coperation since 1942).
S05111951 Jay Forrester patents the computer core memory.
S05111960 Israelli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.
S05111963 Canadian acceptance of U.S. nuclear warheads for missiles
S05111963Cinstalled on Canadian soil is announced.
S05111964 the 2,000 mph B-70 bomber makes its formal debut.  It is
S05111964Crelegated to research status before it got off the ground.
S05111967 ceremonies marking the installation of the 100 millionth
S05111967Ctelephone in the U.S. are held.
S05111971 Cleveland's Steve Dunning becomes the last A.L. pitcher to hit a
S05111971Cgrand slam in a game, Indians 7, Oakland 5.
S05111973 the charges against Dr. Daniel Ellsberg for espionage and theft,
S05111973Cfor stealing and copying the Pentagon Papers, are dismissed.
S05111977 Ted Turner manages one Atlanta Braves game.
S05111995 the Indians move into first place and finish the season the
S05111995CCentral League Champions (their first title in 41 years).
S0511    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
S0511    7Native American Day.
S0511     Minnesota Day.
R0511    1National Hospital Week begins.
R0511    5It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0511    6It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0511    7It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0511    5It's National Family Week.
R0511    6It's National Family Week.
R0511    7It's National Family Week.
R0511    6It's National Family Reading Week.
R0511    7It's National Family Reading Week.
R0511    1It's National Family Reading Week.
R0511    2It's National Hospital Week.
R0511    3It's National Hospital Week.
R0511    4It's National Hospital Week.
R0511    1National Nursing Home Week begins.
R0511    2It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0511    3It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0511    4It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0511    3It's Salvation Army Week.
R0511    4It's Salvation Army Week.
R0511    5It's Salvation Army Week.
R0511    6It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0511    7It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0511    1It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0511    5It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0511    6It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0511    7It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0511    5It's National Music Week.
R0511    6It's National Music Week.
R0511    7It's National Music Week.
R0511    5It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0511    6It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0511    7It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0511    5It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0511    6It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0511    7It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0511    2Salvation Army Week begins.
S0511     The three-day festival of the Frost Saints, Mammertus, Pancras,
S0511       and Servatus begins (France).
S0511     Ceremony for Rain (celebrated in Guatemala).
S0511     Laotian Constitution Day.
S0511     Lumeria (Roman festival honoring the lemures, the earth-wandering
S0511       spirits of passed-over family members who return to the earth).
S05121789 the Columbian Society, formerly Tammany Society No. 1, is
S05121789Corganized.  It later becomes an infamous group of New York
S05121789CCity political bosses.
S05121846 the wagon train with the ill-fated Donner party leaves
S05121846CIndependence, Missouri on its journey to California.
S05121896 New York City passes the first ordinance making it unlawful to
S05121896Cspit on the sidewalks.
S05121919 the Yankees and Senators play a second straight extra inning tie,
S05121919C4-4 in 15.
S05121926 the Airship Norge becomes the first vessel over the North Pole.
S05121933 the Federal Emergency Relief Administration is created.
S05121937 the first worldwide radio broadcast is received in the U.S., the
S05121937Ccoronation of King George VI of England.
S05121938 Sandoz Labs synthesize LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide).
S05121942 a Nazi U-boat sinks an American cargo ship at the mouth of the
S05121942CMississippi River.
S05121943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender to the Allies.
S05121946 AT&T announces car-phone service in St. Louis.
S05121949 the Berlin blockade ends.
S05121949 the first foreign woman ambassador is received in the U.S.,
S05121949CS.V.L. Pandit of India.
S05121953 the first noncommercial educational television station, KUHT,
S05121953Cbegins broadcasting.
S05121955 Sam Jones becomes the first black to pitch a no-hitter in the
S05121955Cmajor leagues.
S05121975 the U.S. merchant ship "Mayaguez" is captured by Cambodians
S05121975C(hostages are released after the U.S. response militarily).
S05121980 the first nonstop transcontinental balloon flight is completed by
S05121980CMaxie Anderson and his son Kris (3100 miles in 4 days from Fort
S05121980CBaker, Ca. to Matane, Quebec aboard the "Kitty Hawk").
S05121985 the first woman Conservative rabbi, Amy Eilberg, 30, is ordained
S05121985Cin N.Y. City.
S05121986 Fred Markham, on a level course and unaided by the wind, becomes
S05121986Cthe first person to pedal a bicycle 65 mph.
S05121993 the bronze Orangutan and Komodo Dragon are unveiled outside the
S05121993CCleveland Metroparks Zoo RainForest.
S05121994 ice is first made at Cleveland's Gateway Arena (Gund Arena).
S05121995 Jose Mesa gets the first of his M.L. record 37 consecutive saves.
S0512    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
S0512     Feast of SS. Nereus, Achilleus, and Domitilla, martyrs.
S0512     The second day of the three-day festival of the Frost Saints,
S0512       Mammertus, Pancras, and Servatus (France).
S0512     Fatima Annual Pilgrimage (Portugal).
S0512    7Native American Day.
S0512     National Limerick Day.
S0512     St. Tammany Day (Colonist soldiers adopt an old Indian chief,
S0512       Tamanend, as a patron saint to ridicule the British).
S0512     Festival of Sashti (celebrated in India).
R0512    1National Hospital Week begins.
R0512    6It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0512    7It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0512    6It's National Family Week.
R0512    7It's National Family Week.
R0512    7It's National Family Reading Week.
R0512    1It's National Family Reading Week.
R0512    5It's National Hospital Week.
R0512    4It's National Hospital Week.
R0512    3It's National Hospital Week.
R0512    2It's National Hospital Week.
R0512    1National Nursing Home Week begins.
R0512    2It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0512    3It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0512    4It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0512    5It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0512    3It's Salvation Army Week.
R0512    4It's Salvation Army Week.
R0512    5It's Salvation Army Week.
R0512    6It's Salvation Army Week.
R0512    6It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0512    7It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0512    6It's National Music Week.
R0512    7It's National Music Week.
R0512    6It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0512    7It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0512    6It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0512    7It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
R0512    2Salvation Army Week begins.
R0512    7It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0512    1It's Public Service Recognition Week.
S05131607 the English found Jamestown, Va., (the first permanent
S05131607Csettlement and the first Anglican church in America.)
S05131792 the Democratic-Republican Party is formed.
S05131821 Samuel Rust patents a printing press.
S05131830 Ecuador secedes from the Great Columbia Republic.
S05131835 the first foreign embassy in Hawaii is established.
S05131846 the U.S. declares war on Mexico.
S05131873 Ludwig M.N. Wolf patents the sewing machine lamp holder.
S05131884 the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is
S05131884Cfounded.
S05131911 N.Y.'s Fred Merkle becomes the first to hit 6 runs in one inning
S05131911C(RBIs not officially adopted until 1920).
S05131917 3 children see a vision of the Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal.
S05131918 the U.S. begins issuing airmail stamps.
S05131943 the desert war in North Africa ends.
S05131950 the Diner's Club issues its first credit cards.
S05131954 the St. Lawrence Seaway Bill, authorizing the construction of the
S05131954Cartificial waterway, is signed by President Eisenhower.
S05131955 Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive HRs of at least 463 feet.
S05131956 the Pachyderm Building at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens.
S05131958 St. Louis' Stan Musial, in his 17th season, becomes the 8th
S05131958Cplayer to reach 3,000 career hits (a pinch hit double off
S05131958CChicago's Moe Drabowsky).
S05131966 federal funding for education is denied to 12 school districts in
S05131966Cthe South (first action against violators of the desegregation
S05131966Cguidelines of the 1964 Civil Rights Act).
S05131967 a pro-Vietnam demonstration, an 8-hour parade in N.Y. City to
S05131967Cshow support for U.S. troops in Vietnam, draws 70,000
S05131967Cparticipants.
S05131968 peace talks formally open in Paris between the U.S. and North
S05131968CVietnam (war ends in 1973).
S05131981 an assassin wounds Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Square.
S05131982 Braniff International Corporation files for bankruptcy, the first
S05131982Cmajor U.S. airline to go bankrupt.
S05131983 Reggie Jackson becomes the first major leaguer to strike out
S05131983C2,000 times.
S05131985 61 row houses burn in Philadelphia when police drop a bomb on the
S05131985Cheadquarters of the radical group Move (11 people die).
S05131992 the concrete foundation for the new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs
S05131992CField) is poured.
S05131993 Kansas City's George Brett hits his 300th HR in the sixth inning
S05131993Cin the 7-3 victory over the Indians, becoming the sixth player
S05131993Cin M.L. history with 3,000 hits and 300 HRs.
S05131994 the Indians, in their 13th home game, begin a 18 home game
S05131994Cwinning streak (sets a new club record) when Mark Clark
S05131994Cpitches a shutout against Detroit, 2-0.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S05131994C  first shutout pitched
S05131995 New Zealand's Black Magic 1 wins the America's Cup (second time
S05131995Cin history that it leaves America), sweeping Dennis Connor's
S05131995CYoung America 5-0.
S0513    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
S0513     Feast of St. Robert Bellarmine, bishop, confessor, doctor.
S0513     Feast of St. John the Silent, hermit.
S0513     The last day of the three-day festival of the Frost Saints,
S0513       Mammertus, Pancras, and Servatus (France).
R0513    1National Hospital Week begins.
R0513    2Salvation Army Week begins.
R0513    7It's American Heritage Week (Rhode Island).
R0513    7It's National Family Week.
R0513    1It's National Family Reading Week.
R0513    6It's National Hospital Week.
R0513    5It's National Hospital Week.
R0513    4It's National Hospital Week.
R0513    3It's National Hospital Week.
R0513    2It's National Hospital Week.
R0513    1National Nursing Home Week begins.
R0513    2It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0513    3It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0513    4It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0513    5It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0513    6It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0513    3It's Salvation Army Week.
R0513    4It's Salvation Army Week.
R0513    5It's Salvation Army Week.
R0513    6It's Salvation Army Week.
R0513    7It's Salvation Army Week.
R0513    1It's Public Service Recognition Week.
R0513    7It's National Youth Hostel Week.
R0513    7It's National Music Week.
R0513    7It's "Be Kind to Animals" Week.
R0513    7It's National Extension Homemakers Week.
S0513    7Native American Day
S0513     Jamestown Day.
S0513     Leprechaun Day.
S0513     Preakness Frog Hop (Baltimore).
S0513     Garland Day (celebrated in England).
S0513     Lumeria (Roman festival honoring the lemures, the earth-wandering
S0513       spirits of passed-over family members who return to the earth).
S0513    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S05141634 Massachusetts passes the first U.S. property tax law.
S05141796 Edward Jenner discovers a vaccine for smallpox.
S05141804 Lewis and Clark's northwest expedition leaves St. Louis.
S05141811 Paraguay gains independence from Spain (National Day).
S05141812 annexation by an act of Congress adds the West Florida territory
S05141812Cto the territory of Mississippi and to the nation.
S05141832 the Black Hawk War begins when untrained American recruits attack
S05141832CSauk Indian peace envoys.
S05141847 H.M.S. Driver becomes the first steamship to circumnavigate the
S05141847Cearth.
S05141853 Gail Borden applies for a patent for condensed milk.
S05141874 Harvard and McGill play the first game of American football; the
S05141874Cgoal post is used for the first time.
S05141904 the first Olympic Games held in the U.S. opens as part of the St.
S05141904CLouis Exposition.
S05141913 Washington's Walter Johnson gives up a run in the fourth inning
S05141913Cagainst the St. Louis Browns to end his streak of 56 scoreless
S05141913Cinnings (Senators win 10-5).
S05141918 Indians' Stan Coveleski sets a club record for the most innings
S05141918Cpitched (19).
S05141935 Los Angeles' Griffith Planetarium opens, the 3rd in the U.S.
S05141948 the State of Israel is proclaimed.
S05141955 the Warsaw Pact is signed by the Eastern bloc nations, creating
S05141955Can alliance opposing NATO.
S05141965 a monument to President Kennedy is dedicated by Queen Elizabeth
S05141965Cat Runnymede (where in 1215 King John had signed the Magna
S05141965CCharta).
S05141967 Mickey Mantle hits his 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller.
S05141969 the last Corvair produced, an Olympic gold Monza coupe with a
S05141969Cblack interior, rolls off the Willow Run assembly line in
S05141969CYpsilanti, Mich.
S05141973 United States launches space station "Skylab".
S05141973 the Supreme Court rules that women in the armed forces are
S05141973Centitled to the same benefits for their spouses as those accorded
S05141973Cto men.
S05141977 Andrew Daulton Lee, Falcon of "The Falcon and the Snowman", is
S05141977Cconvicted of supplying data on satellites and CIA codes to the
S05141977CU.S.S.R. (sentenced in July to life imprisonment).
S05141993 the Greater Cleveland Peace Officers Memorial is dedicated at W.
S05141993C3rd and Lakeside.
S05141994 Cleveland beats the Detroit Tigers 9-3 in the Indians 14th home
S05141994Cgame.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S05141994C  first 3 run HR - (Indians) Manny Ramirez
S0514    1Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
S0514     Feast of St. Boniface, martyr.
S0514    7Native American Day.
R0514    1National Hospital Week begins.
R0514    2It's National Hospital Week.
R0514    3It's National Hospital Week.
R0514    4It's National Hospital Week.
R0514    5It's National Hospital Week.
R0514    6It's National Hospital Week.
R0514    7It's National Hospital Week.
R0514    1National Nursing Home Week begins.
R0514    2It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0514    3It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0514    4It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0514    5It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0514    6It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0514    7It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0514    2Salvation Army Week begins.
R0514    3It's Salvation Army Week.
R0514    4It's Salvation Army Week.
R0514    5It's Salvation Army Week.
R0514    6It's Salvation Army Week.
R0514    7It's Salvation Army Week.
R0514    1It's Salvation Army Week.
S0514     Paraguay Independence Day (Spain 1811).
S0514     Goddess of Tithe Festival (celebrated in North Africa).
S0514     Guinean Democratic Party Anniversary.
S0514     Israel Independence Day.
S0514     Kamuzu Day or the President's Birthday (Malawi).
S0514     Liberia's National Unification Day.
S0514     Festival for Isis (Ancient Egyptian - Isis is the most complete
S0514       flowering of the Goddess concept in human history.)
S05151602 Cape Cod is discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold.
S05151618 Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law.
S05151672 the first copyright law in America is enacted in Mass. for "The
S05151672CGeneral Laws and Liberties of the Massachusetts Colony."
S05151753 Whitsunday Term Day is first observed.
S05151862 Union Grounds, Brooklyn, the first baseball enclosure, opens.
S05151869 the National Woman Suffrage Association is formed with Elizabeth
S05151869CStanton as its first president.
S05151888 the first woman is nominated for president (Victoria Claflin
S05151888CWoodhull).
S05151900 the Waitresses' Union is founded in Cleveland during the 8th
S05151900Cconvention of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes.
S05151902 Lyman Gilmore flies his twenty horsepower steam-engined aircraft,
S05151902Cbecoming the first person to achieve powered flight.
S05151911 the Supreme Court dissolves the Standard Oil Company for
S05151911Cviolating the Sherman Antitrust Act.
S05151918 the U.S. Airmail service begins (Washington, D.C., Philadelphia
S05151918Cand N.Y.).
S05151929 the deadliest U.S. hospital fire kills 123 at the Cleveland
S05151929CClinic.
S05151930 the first "air hostess," Ellen Church, welcomes passengers aboard
S05151930Ca United Air Lines flight from Oakland, CA to Cheyenne, WY.
S05151938 the Jugoslav Cultural Garden unit of Cleveland's Cultural Gardens
S05151938Cofficially opens.
S05151939 DDT is first used in combatting the Colorado beetle in
S05151939CSwitzerland.
S05151940 the first successful helicopter flight in the U.S. is completed
S05151940Cby the VS-300, manufactured by the Vought-Sikorsky Corporation.
S05151941 Yankees' Joe DiMaggio begins his 56 game hitting streak.
S05151942 FDR creates the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAC).
S05151942 as part of the war effort, gasoline rationing begins in 17
S05151942Ceastern states.
S05151951 AT&T announces it has one million stockholders - a first in the
S05151951CUnited States.
S05151954 Dr. William Mustard performs the first successful heart surgery,
S05151954Caided by hypothermia.
S05151955 the last French troops leave Vietnam.
S05151960 taxes reach 25% of earnings, according to a Tax Foundation report
S05151960Cthat lumped together federal, state and local taxes.
S05151963 the last of the Mercury flights, the "Faith 7", is launched,
S05151963Cpiloted by Maj. L. Gordon Cooper.
S05151970 two women are promoted to generals, the first in U.S. history.
S05151970 the Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in the U.S.
S05151972 Alabama Governor George Wallace is shot while campaigning for
S05151972Cpresident in Laurel, Missouri.
S05151973 the first issue of "Playgirl" goes on sale (600,000 copies are
S05151973Csold).
S05151975 a U.S. rescue attempt of the crew of the "S.S. Mayaguez," a
S05151975Ccontainer ship seized by Cambodian rebels and believed to be
S05151975Cheld on Tang Island in the Gulf of Thailand, becomes the final
S05151975Coffensive of the Vietnam War, 18 killed and 50 wounded.
S05151981 Cleveland Indians' Len H. Barker II pitches the 11th perfect game
S05151981C(vs Tor.) and the first since 1968. (The Tribes only perfect game
S05151981Caccomplished at the Stadium.)
S05151982 Jack Kaenel, at 16, becomes the youngest to win the Preakness.
S05151985 it is announced that the skeleton of what is to believed to be
S05151985Cthe earliest known dinosaur had been unearthed in the Painted
S05151985CDesert of Arizona (a 225 million-year-old creature the size of a
S05151985Csmall ostrich).
S05151988 Soviet forces begin withdrawing from Afghanistan.
S05151991 Edith Cresson is appointed the first woman premier of France.
S05131992 three astronauts of the crew of the shuttle Endeavor walk in
S05131992Cspace (a first), and wrestle a damaged satellite inside the
S05131992Cshuttle for repairs using only their gloved hands (another
S05131992Cfirst).
S05151993 Prairie Bayou, ridden by Mike Smith, becomes the first gelding to
S05151993Cwin the Preakness.
S05151994 Cleveland beats Detroit 11-6 in their 15th home game at Jacobs
S05151994CField.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S05151994C  first Indians 3-game sweep - Detroit Tigers
S0515     Feast of St. John Baptist de la Salle, confessor.
S0515     Feast of St. Torquatus and his companions, martyrs.
S0515     Feast of the Shrine of St. Dymphna.
S0515     National Peace Officers Memorial Day.
S0515    7Armed Forces Day.
R0515     It's the Ides of May!
R0515    2It's National Hospital Week.
R0515    3It's National Hospital Week.
R0515    4It's National Hospital Week.
R0515    5It's National Hospital Week.
R0515    6It's National Hospital Week.
R0515    2It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0515    3It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0515    4It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0515    5It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0515    6It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0515    7It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0515    7It's National Hospital Week.
R0515    3It's Salvation Army Week.
R0515    4It's Salvation Army Week.
R0515    5It's Salvation Army Week.
R0515    6It's Salvation Army Week.
R0515    7It's Salvation Army Week.
R0515    1It's Salvation Army Week.
R0515    1International Pickle Week begins.
S0515     Quarter day in Scotland.
S0515     Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day.  Why?
S0515       Because it may be waving at you.
S0515     Aoi Matsuri or Hollyhock Festival (Japan).
S0515     Prayer's Day (Denmark).
S0515     San Isidro Day (Mexico).
S0515     Festival of the Fontanalia (Roman festival honoring Vesta, the
S0515       goddess of fire, home and cooking, patron goddess of women).
S05161770 Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France.
S05161862 Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds the first motor car.
S05161866 Congress authorizes the nickel 5-cent piece (the silver half-dime
S05161866Cwas used up to this point), minted with not more than 25% nickel.
S05161866 Charles Elmer Hires first produces root beer.
S05161910 the U.S. Bureau of Mines is established as part of the Department
S05161910Cof the Interior.
S05161914 the Grand League of the Horse Shoe Pitchers Association is
S05161914Corganized in Kansas City.
S05161914 Ewing Field, near Masonic Street in San Francisco, opens.
S05161920 Joan of Arc is canonized in Rome.
S05161927 Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd and Home.
S05161929 the first Academy Awards are given:
S05161929C      Best Film:    Wings.
S05161929C      Best Actor:   Emil Jennings.
S05161929C      Best Actress: Janet Gaynor.
S05161933 Moscow lifts ban on jazz.
S05161938 Cleveland's Union Bank of Commerce opens (later merged with
S05161938CHuntington Bancshares Inc.).
S05161939 Cleveland beats the Philadelphia Athletes 8-3 in 10 innings at
S05161939CPhiladelphia's Shibe Park in the first A.L. night game.
S05161939 the first local food stamp program is inaugurated in Rochester,
S05161939CN.Y.
S05161943 resistance in the Jewish Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of
S05161943Cfighting.
S05161957 Yankee players are involved in the Copacabana Incident, leading
S05161957Cto the Billy Martin trade.
S05161965 Spaghetti-O's is first marketed.
S05161966 the Beach Boys "Pets Sounds" is released.
S05161969 the $50 million nuclear sub "Guitarro" sinks at dockside in S.F.
S05161969Cwhile undergoing final fitting (a House report charged the Navy
S05161969Cwith "inexcusable carelessness").
S05161971 first class mail is raised to 8 cents (was 6 cents).
S05161975 Junko Tabei of Japan becomes the first woman to conquer Mount
S05161975CEverest.
S05161980 the EPA finds evidence of chromosome damage in residents of the
S05161980CLove Canal area in Niagara Falls.
S05161985 Madonna performs her first concert in Cleveland at the Public
S05161985CHall ("Crazy for You" tour).
S05161994 Cleveland's WUAB-TV Channel 43 and WMJI-FM announce they will
S05161994Cpresent the July 4th fireworks (the city could not afford it).
S0516    7Armed Forces Day.
S0516     Feast of St. Ubald, bishop, confessor.
S0516     Day of St. Brendan, the 6th-century Irishman who sailed west in
S0516       search of the Garden of Eden.
S0516     Feast of St. Simon Stock.
R0516    3It's National Hospital Week.
R0516    4It's National Hospital Week.
R0516    5It's National Hospital Week.
R0516    6It's National Hospital Week.
R0516    7It's National Hospital Week.
R0516    3It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0516    4It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0516    5It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0516    6It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0516    7It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0516    4It's Salvation Army Week.
R0516    5It's Salvation Army Week.
R0516    6It's Salvation Army Week.
R0516    7It's Salvation Army Week.
R0516    1It's Salvation Army Week.
R0516    1International Pickle Week begins.
R0516    2It's International Pickle Week.
S0516     Savitu-Vrata (celebrated in India).
S05171620 the first merry-go-round is seen at a fair in Philippapolis,
S05171620CTurkey.
S05171630 Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi becomes the first to see two belts
S05171630Con Jupiter's surface.
S05171733 England passes the Molasses Act, placing high duties on rum and
S05171733Cmolasses brought to the colonies from other than British
S05171733Cpossessions.
S05171792 24 merchants form the N.Y. Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street.
S05171803 Richard French and John Hawkins patent a reaper.
S05171814 Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (National Day).
S05171875 the first Kentucky Derby is raced at Churchill Downs (Aristides
S05171875Cwins with a time of 2:37 1/4, jockey Oliver Lewis).
S05171884 Alaska becomes a district, although often referred to as a
S05171884Cterritory.
S05171898 Camp Merritt is established in the Presidio, California.
S05171912 liquified petroleum gas is first used for cooking and heating in
S05171912CPennsylvania.
S05171918 Germany recommends marriage before the age of 20 to increase the
S05171918Cbirth rate.
S05171921 the Kiwanis Club of Lakewood is organized.
S05171921 President Harding opens (via telephone) first Valencia Orange
S05171921CShow in Anaheim.
S05171923 Saint Ignatius College is officially changed to John Carroll
S05171923CUniversity.
S05171925 Indians' Tris Speaker, in his 18th season, becomes the 5th player
S05171925Cto reach 3,000 career hits (off Tom Zachery in a 2-1 loss to the
S05171925CWashington Senators).
S05171938 Congress passes Naval Expansion Act, financing plan to build a
S05171938Ctwo-ocean navy.
S05171939 the first sports event, Columbia vs Princeton College baseball,
S05171939Cis telecasted.
S05171949 Britain recognizes the Republic of Ireland; reasserts Northern
S05171949CIreland's dependence on the U.K.
S05171954 Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education,
S05171954Coverthrowing the principle of "separate but equal."
S05171960 the first atomic reactor system is patented by J.W. Flora, Canoga
S05171960CPark, CA.
S05171961 Castro offers Bay of Pigs prisoners in exchange for 500 U.S.
S05171961Cbulldozers.
S05171968 the European Space Research Organization launches its first
S05171968Csatellite.
S05171970 Atlanta's Hank Aaron, in his 16th season, becomes the 9th player
S05171970Cto reach 3,000 career hits (off Reds' Wayne Simpson).
S05171971 "Godspell" opens off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theater in N.Y.
S05171971CCity (2,118 performances, and 527 performances on Broadway at the
S05171971CBroadhurst Theater.)
S05171973 a special Senate committee begins public hearings on the
S05171973CWatergate conspiracy.
S05171974 during a shootout with Los Angeles police, the house the
S05171974CSymbionese Liberation Army were using to hideout in, is destroyed
S05171974Cby fire (5 die).
S05171979 the highest voltage attained, 1.5 million volts, is generated.
S05171987 an Iraqi warplane missile kills 37 sailors on the frigate U.S.S.
S05171987CStark in the Persian Gulf.
S05171993 the first computers using Intel's new microprocessor, the
S05171993CPentium, is unveiled.
S0517     Feast of St. Paschal Baylon, confessor.
S0517     Feast of St. John Nepomucenus.
S0517    7Armed Forces Day.
S0517    2Victoria Day -- Canada.
R0517    4It's National Hospital Week.
R0517    5It's National Hospital Week.
R0517    6It's National Hospital Week.
R0517    7It's National Hospital Week.
R0517    4It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0517    5It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0517    6It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0517    7It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0517    5It's Salvation Army Week.
R0517    6It's Salvation Army Week.
R0517    7It's Salvation Army Week.
R0517    1It's Salvation Army Week.
R0517    1International Pickle Week begins.
R0517    2It's International Pickle Week.
R0517    3It's International Pickle Week.
S0517     Constitution Day (Norwegian Independence Day).
S0517     World Telecommunications Day (UN observance).
S0517     Nauruan Constitution Day.
S0517     Festival of Dea Dia (Roman goddess of cornfields).
S05181631 leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Company give all adult males who
S05181631Cjoined the Congregational Church the right to vote.  John
S05181631CWinthrop is elected governor of Massachusetts in the first
S05181631Caccredited election in the colonies.
S05181756 England declares war on France (French-Indian War).
S05181830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for the manufacture
S05181830Cof his invention, the lawn mower.  Saturdays are destroyed
S05181830Cforever.
S05181856 mounts for the U.S. Army's camel corps arrive at the corps' base
S05181856Cin Texas.
S05181896 the Supreme Court upholds Louisiana's Jim Crow law, Plessy v.
S05181896CFerguson (as long as everyone had equal facilities, it wasn't
S05181896Cillegal to separate blacks from whites).
S05181899 World Good-Will Day - 26 nations meet in the first Hague Peace
S05181899CConference.
S05181905 Luna Park opens in Cleveland.  The park closes in 1930.
S05181910 the passage of Earth through the tail of Halley's Comet causes
S05181910Cnear-panic.
S05181917 the Selective Service Act is signed into law.
S05181933 the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Act is signed by FDR.
S05181934 TWA begins commercial service of the DC-2.
S05181952 Prof. W.F. Libby places age of Stonehedge at 1848 BC through
S05181952Ccharcoal analysis.
S05181953 Jacqueline Cochrane, an American, becomes the first woman to
S05181953Cbreak the sound barrier.
S05181964 the Supreme Court rules unconstitutional a federal statute
S05181964Cdepriving naturalized citizens of U.S. citizenship if they return
S05181964Cto the land of their birth for three years.
S05181967 Tennessee Gov. Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law", upheld in the
S05181967CScopes Trial in 1925.
S05181969 Apollo 10, the first manned mission to the moon, is launched with
S05181969CThomas P. Stafford, Eugene A. Cernan, and John W. Young.
S05181973 Archibald Cox is named Watergate prosecutor (is fired Oct. 20).
S05181974 India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.
S05181978 abortion is legalized in Roman Catholic Italy.
S05181980 Mount St. Helens blows it's top in Washington State, 500 times
S05181980Cas powerful as the Hiroshima bomb.
S05181986 LPGA golfer Pat Bradley becomes the first woman to exceed $2
S05181986Cmillion in career earnings.
S05181994 the Tropical Butterfly Garden at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, a
S05181994Cgreenhouse doubling as the exhibit, opens.
S0518     Feast of St. Venantius, bishop, martyr.
S0518     Feast of St. Eric, patron saint of Sweden.
S0518    7Armed Forces Day.
S0518    2Victoria Day -- Canada.
S0518     International Museum Day.
S0518     Visit Your Relatives Day.
S0518     World Good-Will Day.
R0518    5It's National Hospital Week.
R0518    6It's National Hospital Week.
R0518    7It's National Hospital Week.
R0518    5It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0518    6It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0518    7It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0518    6It's Salvation Army Week.
R0518    7It's Salvation Army Week.
R0518    1It's Salvation Army Week.
R0518    1International Pickle Week begins.
R0518    2It's International Pickle Week.
R0518    3It's International Pickle Week.
R0518    4It's International Pickle Week.
S0518     Feast of the Horned God (English).
S0518     Discovery Day (Cayman Islands).
S0518     Haitian Flag Day.
S0518     Las Piedras Battle (Uruguay).
S0518     Vesak Day (Singapore).
S0518     Visakha Bucha Day (Thailand).
S05191536 Henry VIII executes his second wife, Anne Boleyn.
S05191643 the first federation of American colonies is formed; Connecticut,
S05191643CMassachusetts Bay, New Haven and Plymouth form the United
S05191643CColonies of New England.
S05191749 George II grants a charter to the Ohio Company to settle the Ohio
S05191749CValley.
S05191774 Ann Lee and eight Shakers sail from Liverpool to New York.
S05191774C(They become the first conscientious objectors on religious
S05191774Cgrounds and are jailed during the American Revolution in 1776.)
S05191796 a game protection law is passed by Congress to restrict
S05191796Cencroachment by whites on Indian hunting grounds.
S05191802 Napoleon establishes the Legion d'Honneur.
S05191857 William Francis Channing and Moses G. Farmer are granted the
S05191857Cfirst patent for an electric fire alarm system.
S05191898 the postcard is first authorized.
S05191913 the Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill is signed in California,
S05191913Cexcluding Japanese from owning land.
S05191916 the Lakewood Main Library at Detroit-Arthur is opened (enlarged
S05191916C6/3/1924.)
S05191921 an immigration quota act is enacted by the U.S.
S05191928 51 frogs are entered in the first annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee"
S05191928Cat Angel's Camp in Calaveras County, California.
S05191930 the first regularly schedules train rolls into Cleveland's Union
S05191930CTerminal in the Terminal Tower Complex.
S05191944 the Gustav line, the German defense line in Italy, collapses
S05191944Cunder heavy assault by Allied troops.
S05191958 Canada and the U.S. establish the North American Air Defense
S05191958CCommand (NORAD).
S05191960 Alan Freed and eight other disc jockeys are accused of taking
S05191960Cradio payola.
S05191964 the State Department announces the U.S. embassy in Moscow had
S05191964Cbeen bugged (a network of more than 40 microphones embedded in
S05191964Cthe walls had been found).
S05191967 the first U.S. air strike on central Hanoi is launched.
S05191971 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 2, the first spacecraft to crash land on
S05191971CMars.
S05191973 Secretariat wins the Preakness, second leg in the Triple Crown.
S05191975 the Cleveland Sight Center opens its Mobility Training Park
S05191975Cfor the visually impaired.
S05191976 the Young Adult Area opens in the Lakewood Library Main Branch.
S05191993 the Dow Jones first closes above 3,500.
S05191994 Cleveland beats Milwaukee 4-2 in 13 innings in their 18th home
S05191994Cgame at Jacobs Field.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S05191994C  first 6-game stand sweep - Indians take 3 games from Detroit
S05191994C    and Milwaukee each
S0519     Feast of St. Celestine V, Pope (1294).
S0519    7Armed Forces Day.
S0519    2Victoria Day -- Canada.
S0519     St. Dunstan's Day, patron saint of blacksmiths (Anglican).
S0519     May Ray Day.
R0519    6It's National Hospital Week.
R0519    7It's National Hospital Week.
R0519    6It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0519    7It's National Nursing Home Week.
R0519    7It's Salvation Army Week.
R0519    1It's Salvation Army Week.
R0519    1International Pickle Week begins.
R0519    2It's International Pickle Week.
R0519    3It's International Pickle Week.
R0519    4It's International Pickle Week.
R0519    5It's International Pickle Week.
S0519     Cup Day (South Australia).
S0519     Youth and Sports Day (Turkey).
S0519     Bendideia (Greek).
S0520 325 the first Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea, Asia
S0520 325CMinor.
S05201639 Dorchester, Massachusetts schools become the first U.S. public
S05201639Cschools to be supported by direct taxation.
S05201749 the first fire engine is used in America (Salem, Mass.).
S05201774 England passes two more Intolerable Acts (called by the
S05201774CColonists) - the Administration of Justice Act where any British
S05201774Cofficial accused of capital offenses could not be tried in
S05201774CMassachusetts, and the Massachusetts Government Act which forbade
S05201774Cpublic meetings unless sanctioned.
S05201775 the First African Baptist Church of Savannah, Ga., the oldest
S05201775Cblack Baptist church in the U.S., is born.
S05201785 by congressional authority, Section 16 in each township of the
S05201785CWestern Reserve is set aside to support public schools.  (The
S05201785Cfirst federal land grant that subsidized education.)
S05201845 the first legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii.
S05201862 the Homestead Act is passed, granting free family farms to
S05201862Csettlers.
S05201874 Levi Strauss markets his blue jeans with copper rivets, priced at
S05201874C$13.50 A DOZEN.
S05201875 the International Bureau of Weights and Measures is established
S05201875Cby treaty.
S05201900 the Cleveland Bartenders' League Local 108 is organized.
S05201916 the Saturday Evening Post is issued with the first Norman
S05201916CRockwell painting on its cover.
S05201926 the Railway Labor Act, the oldest continuous federal collective
S05201926Cbargaining legislation in U.S. history, becomes law.
S05201926 Congress passes the Air Commerce Act, requiring licensing of
S05201926Cpilots and planes.
S05201927 at 7:40am, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic.
S05201927 Britain acknowledges Saudi Arabian independence in Jedda Treaty.
S05201932 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland on her flight to become the
S05201932Cfirst woman to fly solo across Atlantic.
S05201942 black recruits are allowed in the U.S. Navy for the first time.
S05201959 Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship that was taken away
S05201959Cin WW II.
S05201959 Ford wins the battle to call its new car "Falcon", registering
S05201959Cthe name 20 minutes before Chrysler.
S05201963 the Supreme Court legalizes sit-ins in cities enforcing
S05201963Csegregation.
S05201968 France is nearly paralyzed as millions of workers occupy
S05201968Cfactories, mines and offices, and stop all forms of
S05201968Ctransportation, in protest of de Gaulle and "police repression".
S05201969 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops capture Hamburger Hill after 10
S05201969Cdays of bloody battle (the hill is abandoned May 27).
S05201976 commercial SST service begins between France and the U.S.
S05201977 the Orient Express takes its last trip.
S05201978 the U.S. launches Pioneer 12 (Venus 1) toward the planet Venus.
S05201979 Cambodian Martyrs Day is first observed.
S05201980 N.Y. state and federal officials agree on evacuating 710 families
S05201980Cin the Love Canal area of Niagara Falls.
S05201985 retired Navy officer John Walker and his son Michael are arrested
S05201985Cfor espionage.
S05201992 Vice-President Dan Quayle attacks TV show leading character
S05201992C"Murphy Brown" for having and keeping her baby out of wedlock:
S05201992C"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not
S05201992Chaving."
S05201993 the final episode of "Cheers", "Last Call", airs.
S0520     Feast of St. Bernardine of Sienna, confessor.
S0520    7Armed Forces Day.
S0520    2Victoria Day -- Canada.
S0520     Eliza Doolittle Day.
S0520     Ferrary Day.
S0520     Lafayette Day (Massachusetts).
S0520     Mecklenburg Day (North Carolina).
S0520     Weights and Measures Day.
R0520    7It's National Hospital Week.
R0520    7It's National Nursing Home Week!
R0520    1It's Salvation Army Week.
R0520    1International Pickle Week begins.
R0520    2It's International Pickle Week.
R0520    3It's International Pickle Week.
R0520    4It's International Pickle Week.
R0520    5It's International Pickle Week.
R0520    6It's International Pickle Week.
S0520     Cameroon National Day or Independence Day (France 1960).
S0520     Mjollnir (Germanic).
S0520     Cuba Independence Day.
S0520     M.P.R. Anniversary (Zaire).
S05211804 Lewis and Clark head into the wilderness.
S05211832 the Democratic Party formally adopts its name at its first
S05211832Cnational convention (Baltimore, Md.).
S05211846 the first steamship arrives in Hawaii.
S05211861 North Carolina becomes the 10th state to secede from the Union.
S05211861 Richmond, Va., is made the capital of the Confederate States of
S05211861CAmerica.
S05211871 the army of Thiers at Versailles enters Paris and executes 20,000
S05211871CCommunards, members of an opposing faction.
S05211881 the American Red Cross is founded by Clara Burton.
S05211904 the Federalion Internationale de Football Association (FIFA),
S05211904Csoccer's governing body, is founded.
S05211906 Louis H. Perlman applies for a patent for a demountable tire
S05211906Ccarrying rim for automobiles.
S05211908 the first horror film ("Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde") is released
S05211908C(Chicago).
S05211927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after first solo flight across the
S05211927CAtlantic.
S05211929 an automatic electric stock quotation board is installed in N.Y.
S05211929CCity.
S05211932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the
S05211932CAtlantic Ocean.
S05211933 Mount Davidson Cross is lit by President Roosevelt in
S05211933CWashington via the telegraph.
S05211935 the new church of St. James (Lakewood, Ohio) is dedicated, known
S05211935Cas the best example of church art and decor in the country.
S05211941 the first American ship, the Robin Moore, is sunk by a U-boat.
S05211945 Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall marry at Malabar Farm in Ohio.
S05211955 the first transcontinental round-trip solo flight is completed.
S05211959 the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm is opened,
S05211959Cand the barn at the Children's Petting Farm is dedicated.
S05211964 the Baltimore Lighthouse, on Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, becomes
S05211964Cthe first nuclear-powered lighthouse.
S05211972 a man attacks Michelangelo's Pieta with a hammer.
S05211973 the first athletic scholarship awarded to a woman is given to
S05211973CLynn Genesko, a swimmer from Woodbridge, N.J., by the University
S05211973Cof Miami (Fla.).
S05211975 "A Chorus Line" premieres at the N.Y. Shakespeare Festival's
S05211975CNewman Theater.
S05211977 Seattle Slew won the Preakness to remain undefeated.
S05211980 "Star Wars" sequel, "The Empire Strikes Back" opens.
S05211985 Patricia Frustaci of California gives birth to 7 children (3
S05211985Csurvived), the largest multiple birth on record in the U.S.
S05211989 Nancy Lopez wins her third LPGA championship.
S05211995 at 12:20 p.m. 582 canoes and kayaks gather together on Hinckley
S05211995CLake in the Cleveland Metroparks to set a Guinness World Record
S05211995Cfor the largest free-floating raft of canoes and kayaks.
S0521     Feast of St. Valens, Bishop and martyr.
S0521     Feast of SS. Constantine and Helen (Orthodox).
S0521    2Victoria Day -- Canada.
S0521    7Armed Forces Day.
R0521    1International Pickle Week begins.
R0521    2It's International Pickle Week.
R0521    3It's International Pickle Week.
R0521    4It's International Pickle Week.
R0521    5It's International Pickle Week.
R0521    6It's International Pickle Week.
R0521    7It's International Pickle Week.
S0521     Naval Battle of Iquique (Chile).
S0521     Yugoslav Air Force Day.
S0521     Day of Maeve (Celtic).
S05221455 the Battle of St. Albans opens the War of Roses between two
S05221455Cbranches of the English royal family, the House of York and the
S05221455CHouse of Lancaster
S05221781 Washington and Count de Rochambeau meet at Webb House to plan the
S05221781Cjoint Franco-American campaign.
S05221795 Sambo, in "The Triumphs of Love, or Happy Reconciliation" by John
S05221795CMurdock, becomes the first American-born black character in
S05221795CAmerican theater.
S05221807 Townsend Speakman begins making and selling fruit-flavored
S05221807Ccarbonated drinks - in Philadelphia.
S05221819 the "U.S.S. Savannah" leaves Savannah to become the first
S05221819Csteamship to cross the Atlantic.
S05221849 Abraham Lincoln receives a patent for a device designed for
S05221849C"buoying vessels over shoals."  (The only president to receive a
S05221849Cpatent.)
S05221863 General Grant begins his siege on Vicksburg.
S05221865 three Confederate soldiers, refusing to accept Lee's surrender,
S05221865Cattack 500 federal troops and are killed.
S05221872 the Amnesty Act is signed, restoring civil rights to the
S05221872Ccitizens of the South (except for 500 Confederate leaders).
S05221891 the first public demonstration of motion pictures takes place at
S05221891CEdison's workshop in West Orange, N.J.
S05221892 Dr. Washington Sheffield invents the toothpaste tube.
S05221899 Plain Dealer reporter Charles Shanks first uses the French word
S05221899C"automobile" in a series of articles he writes about a road trip
S05221899Cwith car magnate Alexander Winton from Cleveland to N.Y. (the
S05221899Cword thereafter becomes accepted in U.S.).
S05221900 Edwin S. Votey patents the pneumatic piano player.
S05221906 the Wright brothers get a patent for their improved plane.
S05221909 the first San Francisco fireboat, the "David Scannell", is
S05221909Claunched.
S05221911 Boston's Cliff Curtis sets a N.L. record with 23 consecutive
S05221911Closses (broken on 6/27/1993).
S05221933 World Trade Day is first observed.
S05221933 the first modern day sighting of the Loch Ness Monster is
S05221933Creported by John Mackay.
S05221935 National Maritime Day is proclaimed in commemoration of the
S05221935C"U.S.S. Savannah" which left Savannah on the first transatlantic
S05221935Cvoyage under steam.
S05221939 Hitler and Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel".
S05221947 the first ballistic missile is fired.
S05221953 President Eisenhower signs the Offshore Oil Bill, surrendering
S05221953C$80 billion of Federal offshore oil and gas reserves to the oil
S05221953Ccorporations.
S05221962 Roger Maris sets record by getting 4 intentional passes and ties
S05221962Crecord with 5 walks in a 9 inning game.
S05221967 the Confession of 1967 is adopted by the General Assembly of the
S05221967CPresbyterian Church in the U.S. (the first new confession since
S05221967Cthe Westminster Confession of 1647).
S05221969 the Excursion Module (LEM) descends from the Command Module
S05221969C(Apollo 10, the first manned mission) to within 10 miles of the
S05221969Cmoon's surface before returning to the Module.
S05221970 Mel Stottlemyre sets a M.L. record by walking 11, but wins 2-0.
S05221972 Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to visit Russia.
S05221972 Ceylon gains independence from Britain and becomes Sri Lanka.
S05221973 Nixon admits White House role in the Watergate cover-up, citing
S05221973Cnational security.
S05221977 Janet Guthrie becomes the first woman to qualify for the Indy
S05221977C500.
S05221989 the first successful transfer of cells containing foreign genes
S05221989Cinto a human being is performed at the National Institutes of
S05221989CHealth (altered cancer-fighting cells placed in the blood of a
S05221989Ccancer-patient).
S05221990 North and South Yemen are formerly united.
S05221992 Johnny Carson hosts his last "The Tonight Show".
S05221993 Shark Encounter opens at Sea World of Ohio.
S0522     Feast of St. Basilicus, martyr.
S0522     National Maritime Day.
S0522    2Victoria Day -- Canada.
S0522    7National Missing Children's Day.
S0522     World Trade Day.
R0522    2It's International Pickle Week.
R0522    3It's International Pickle Week.
R0522    4It's International Pickle Week.
R0522    5It's International Pickle Week.
R0522    6It's International Pickle Week.
R0522    7It's International Pickle Week.
S0522     Day of Visvakarma (celebrated in India).
S0522     Sri Lanka Heroes' Day.
S05231430 Joan of Arc is captured by Burgundians who sell her to the
S05231430CEnglish.
S05231533 King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon's marriage is declared
S05231533Cnull and void.
S05231701 Captain Kidd is hung in London after convicted of piracy and
S05231701Cmurder.
S05231785 Ben Franklin invents the bifocals.
S05231788 South Carolina becomes the 8th state of the original 13 to ratify
S05231788Cthe Constitution.
S05231861 Virginia secedes from the Union.
S05231863 the First National Bank of Cleveland is organized (later merged
S05231863Cwith Huntington Bancshares Inc.).
S05231873 Canada's North West Mounted Police force is established.
S05231876 Joe Borden of Boston pitches the N.L.'s first no-hitter.  (Borden
S05231876Clost his effectiveness soon after and ended the season as the
S05231876Cclub's groundskeeper.)
S05231879 the Iowa State College at Ames establishes the first U.S.
S05231879Cveterinary school.
S05231894 William T. Love leads groundbreaking ceremonies of Love Canal for
S05231894Chis utopian community, Model City, N.Y.
S05231898 the first Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from S.F.
S05231903 the first direct primary election law is adopted by Wisconsin.
S05231903 the first automobile trip across the U.S. begins (S.F. to N.Y.).
S05231908 a dirigible explodes over S.F. Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.
S05231921 "Shuffle Along," the first black musical comedy, opens in New
S05231921CYork City.
S05231922 Walt Disney incorporates his first film company Laugh-O-Gram
S05231922CFilms.
S05231934 nylon is first produced by Dr. Wallace H. Carothers, a research
S05231934Cchemist at Du Pont laboratories.
S05231934 Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed in a police ambush.
S05231949 the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) is established.
S05231955 the Presbyterian Church votes to accept women as ministers.
S05231956 World Trade Center is dedicated in the Ferry Building in S.F.
S05231958 the botanical garden at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
S05231958Cis dedicated.
S05231960 Israel captures Nazi war-criminal Adolf Eichmann, who headed the
S05231960CS.S. Jewish section.
S05231962 Joe Pepitone becomes the second Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
S05231962C(the first was Joe DiMaggio).
S05231976 West Point acknowledges widespread cheating.
S05231984 Kristine Holderied becomes the first woman midshipman to graduate
S05231984Cat the top of her class at Annapolis.
S05231993 one of only two known posters from the 1931 movie "Dracula" sells
S05231993Cfor $70,000 at an auction in Cleveland.
S05231994 it is announced Cleveland's WJW-TV Channel 8 will drop its
S05231994C42-year CBS affiliation to join the Fox Network in the largest
S05231994Cstation realignment in network history (Fox/New World
S05231994CCommunication Group, Inc. alliance and CBS).
S05231994 Seattles' Ken Griffey, Jr. breaks Mickey Mantles' 1956 record for
S05231994Chome runs in the first 2 months of the season with his 21st,
S05231994COakland 7, Mariners 5.
S05231994 Star Trek: The Next Generation's two-hour series finale,  "All
S05231994CGood Things...", airs.
S05231995 nine automakers agree to repair or replace Japanese-made seat
S05231995Cbelts in 8.4 million cars sold from 1986-91. (The Japanese maker
S05231995Cclaimed messy Americans ruined the belts.)
S05231995 Malley's "Albert Belle Bar" debuts in Cleveland
S0523     Feast of St. Desiderius, Bishop and martyr.
S0523    7National Missing Children's Day.
S0523     Wedding Anniversary of B.J. and Peg Hunnicutt of Mill Valley!
S0523     South Carolina Ratification Day.
S0523    2Victoria Day -- Canada.
R0523    3It's International Pickle Week.
R0523    4It's International Pickle Week.
R0523    5It's International Pickle Week.
R0523    6It's International Pickle Week.
R0523    7It's International Pickle Week.
S0523     Linnaeus Day.
S0523     Rosalia, Rose Festival of Flora (Roman festival honoring Flora,
S0523       goddess of everything that flourishes).
S05241689 the English Parliament guarantees the freedom of religion for
S05241689CProtestants.
S05241783 John Wesley is converted on Aldersgate Street.
S05241822 Ecuador liberation forces defeat the Spanish.
S05241844 Samual F.B. Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought," the first
S05241844Ctelegraph message (Washington to Baltimore).
S05241866 Berkeley is named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne).
S05241866CNever turn your back on it.
S05241869 the first exploration expedition goes down the Colorado River and
S05241869Cthrough the Grand Canyon by boat, 1000 miles in 101 days.
S05241878 the first American bicycle race is held at Boston's Beacon Park.
S05241883 the Brooklyn Bridge is opened by President Arthur and Governor
S05241883CCleveland.
S05241893 the Ohio Anti-Saloon League is formed in Oberlin.
S05241899 the nation's first auto repair shop opens in Boston.
S05241915 Thomas Edison announces the invention of the telescribe to record
S05241915Ctelephone conversations.
S05241925 New York is the first to legalize 2.75 beer.
S05241931 the first air-conditioned train car is installed on the B&O
S05241931CRailroad.
S05241935 the Reds beat the Phillies 2-1 in the first major league baseball
S05241935Cnight game, in Cincinnati.
S05241935 the American Cultural Garden unit of Cleveland's Cultural Gardens
S05241935Cis dedicated.
S05241936 N.Y.'s Tony Lazzeri becomes the first to hit 2 grand slams in one
S05241936Cgame (M.L. record).
S05241940 a time capsule known as the Crypt of Civilization is sealed at
S05241940COglethorpe University in Atlanta, Ga. (not to be opened until
S05241940C8113).
S05241941 the "HMS Hood" is sunk by the "Bismarch."
S05241954 the first rocket to exceed 150 mile altitude succeeds at White
S05241954CSands, NM.
S05241954 IBM announces the development of a vacuum tube "electronic"
S05241954Cbrain, capable of more than 10 million operations an hour.
S05241958 the United Press and the International News Service merge,
S05241958Cbecoming U.P.I.
S05241959 the first house with a built-in bomb shelter is exhibited in
S05241959CPleasant Hills, Pa.
S05241960 Midas 2 is launched from Cape Canaveral, designed to act as an
S05241960Cearly warning system against surprise missile attacks.
S05241962 M. Scott Carpenter makes the second American manned orbital
S05241962Cflight aboard the Mercury capsule "Aurora 7."
S05241965 a federal law authorizing the postal interception of communist
S05241965Cpropaganda is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
S05241976 Concorde supersonic jet service between the U.S. and Europe is
S05241976Cinaugurated when 2 jets arrive from Paris.
S05241983 the Supreme Court holds that the IRS can deny tax exemption to
S05241983Cprivate schools that practice race discrimination.
S0524     Feast of SS. Donatian and Rogatian, martyrs.
S0524    7National Missing Children's Day.
S0524     Day of the Aldersgate Experience (Methodist).
S0524    2Victoria Day -- Canada.
S0524     Kirtland Warbler Day.
R0524    4It's International Pickle Week.
R0524    5It's International Pickle Week.
R0524    6It's International Pickle Week.
R0524    7It's International Pickle Week.
S0524     Triple Goddess Day (Celtic).
S0524     Day of Slavonic Letters (Bulgaria).
S0524     Empire Day (Belize and Malawi).
S0524     Ecuador Independence Battle (Spain 1822).
S05251721 John Copson becomes America's first insurance agent
S05251721C(Philadelphia).
S05251787 the Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia.
S05251793 the first Roman Catholic priest is ordained in the U.S., Father
S05251793CStephen Theodore Badin, in Baltimore.
S05251810 Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (National
S05251810CDay).
S05251825 the American Unitarian Association is founded.
S05251829 John the Baptist is said to have appeared to Joseph Smith and
S05251829COliver Cowdery and ordained them priests (they later founded the
S05251829CMormon Church).
S05251844 a patent for an early gas engine is awarded to Stuart Perry of
S05251844CNewport, N.Y.
S05251901 the first Indian motorcycle is built.
S05251925 John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching evolution in Tennessee
S05251925CSchool.
S05251927 Henry Ford stops producing the Model T car (begins Model A).
S05251935 Clevelander Jesse Owens becomes the only athlete to set 6 world
S05251935Crecords in one hour.
S05251935 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs against the Pirates,
S05251935Cincluding a blast out of Forbes Field (a baseball first).
S05251945 Arthur C. Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous
S05251945Corbit.
S05251946 Transjordan (renamed Jordan) gains independence from Britain
S05251946C(National Day).
S05251948 San Francisco receives its first telecast.
S05251950 the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel in N.Y., the longest in the U.S.,
S05251950Copens.
S05251951 Giants' Willie Mays goes 0-for-5 against the Philadelphia
S05251951CPhillies in his M.L. baseball debut.
S05251953 the first noncommercial educational television station is
S05251953Cestablished in Houston, Texas.
S05251953 the first atomic cannon is electronically fired at Frenchman
S05251953CFlat, Nevada.
S05251961 President Kennedy sets the U.S. goal of putting a man on moon
S05251961C"before this decade is out" .
S05251963 30 independent African states create the Organization of
S05251963CAfrican Unity (OAU).
S05251964 the closing of schools to avoid desegregation is ruled
S05251964Cunconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court (Prince Edward County,
S05251964CVa. had to reopen and desegregate its schools).
S05251965 Cassius Clay, in his first appearance as Muhammad Ali, floors
S05251965CSonny Liston in 48 seconds.
S05251968 the Gateway  Arch in St. Louis, Mo., is formally dedicated.
S05251973 the U.S. launches the first Skylab crew, Skylab 2 (Kerwin,
S05251973CConrad, Weitz).
S05251978 "Star Wars" is released.
S05251983 the first National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed.
S05251983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) is released, setting
S05251983Copening-day box office record.
S05251986 millions in the U.S. form a human chain to raise money for the
S05251986Chomeless in "Hands Across America".
S05251991 Cuba completes withdrawal of its troops from Angola.
S05251991 Namibia gains independence.
S05251992 Jay Leno takes over "The Tonight Show."
S0525     Deposition of St. Aldelmus, bishop and confessor (Anglican).
S0525     Feast of St. Mary Magdalen of Pazza, virgin.
S0525    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
S0525    7National Missing Children's Day.
R0525    5It's International Pickle Week.
R0525    6It's International Pickle Week.
R0525    7It's International Pickle Week.
S0525     Flitting-day (Scotland term day - Scots move if they desire
S0525       a change of residence).
S0525    2Whit Monday (Britain).
S0525    2Spring Bank Holiday (United Kingdom).
S0525     Latvian National Flag Day.
S0525     African Unity Day, also observed as African Freedom Day
S0525       (celebrated in Chad and Zambia).
S0525     Argentina National Day.
S0525     Bermuda Day.
S0525     Jordan Independence Day.
S0525     Sudanese Revolution Day.
S0525     Youth Day (Yugoslavia).
S05261781 the Bank of North America is incorporated in Philadelphia.
S05261790 the Territory south of the River Ohio is created by Congress.
S05261805 Lewis and Clark, after a year of exploration, spot the snow-
S05261805Ccapped peaks of the Rocky Mountains.
S05261864 the Montana Territory is organized, separated from the Territory
S05261864Cof Idaho.
S05261865 the last Confederate troops surrender (Lee surrendered Apr.9).
S05261868 President Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote.
S05261887 racetrack betting becomes legal for the first time in N.Y. State.
S05261896 the Dow Jones Industrial Average is adopted.
S05261898 San Francisco approves a new City Charter, allowing Municipal
S05261898Cownership of utilities (charter effective Jan 1, 1900).
S05261906 the Archaeological Institute of America is incorporated.
S05261906 Lewis Nixon announces the invention of sonar.
S05261913 Actor's Equity is organized in New York City.
S05261913 a grasshopper cloud measuring 5 miles by 18 miles is reported in
S05261913CNew Mexico.
S05261923 the first Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance is ran.
S05261930 the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the purchase of intoxicating
S05261930Cliquor is not a violation of the Constitution.
S05261938 the House Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities (HUAC)
S05261938Cis formed.
S05261946 a patent is filed in the U.S. for the H-Bomb.
S05261950 the first whooping crane hatched in captivity is born in
S05261950CArkansas.
S05261958 Union Square in S.F. becomes a State Historical Landmark.
S05261959 Pittsburgh's Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings against
S05261959CMilwaukee, but in the 13th allows a hit and loses.
S05261966 British Guyana becomes the independent nation of Guyana.
S05261967 Neil Diamond's first Cleveland appearances occurs at Chippiwa
S05261967CLake Park for $1.50 a ticket ($1 with a coupon).
S05261977 toy designer George Willig climbs N.Y. City World Trade Center
S05261977Cin 3 and a half hours (fined $1.10, one cent for each story).
S05261978 the first legal casino in the U.S. outside Nevada is opened in
S05261978CAtlantic City, N.J., by Resorts International Hotel Casino.
S05261993 a long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose
S05261993CCanseco's head and goes over the fence for a home run.
S0526     Feast of St. Philip Neri, confessor.
S0526     Feast of St. Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury,
S0526       (Anglican).
S0526    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
S0526    7National Missing Children's Day.
S0526     Al Jolson Day.
S0526     Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Day.
R0526    6It's International Pickle Week.
R0526    7It's International Pickle Week.
S0526     Flitch of Bacon Trial (held since the 13th century in Dunmow,
S0526       Essex to award of a flitch of bacon to anyone who can convince
S0526       jurors, six maidens and six bachelors, they have been married
S0526       for one year and one day without quarreling).
S0526    2Whit Monday (Britain).
S0526    2Spring Bank Holiday (United Kingdom).
S0526     Guyana Independence Day.
S0526     Day of Chin-Hua-Fu-Jen (celebrated in China).
S0526     Festival of Diane begins (Roman 6-day festival honoring Diane,
S0526       the Moon and Nature goddess).
S0526     First day of the Secular Games (9-day Roman holiday honoring
S0526       Proserpina, a corn-seed goddess).
S05271796 James S. McLean of New Jersey patents his piano.
S05271814 Creek chief William Weatherford (Red Eagle) surrenders to General
S05271814CJackson after the Battle of Horse Shoe Bend, breaking the power
S05271814Cof the Creek Nation.
S05271844 the first telegraph line is opened between Washington and
S05271844CBaltimore.
S05271873 the first annual Preakness Stakes is won by Survivor, with a time
S05271873Cof 2:43, at Pimlico, Md. (jockey G. Barbee).
S05271896 Bay District Race Track closes.
S05271901 Euclid Beach Park, under the management of the Humphrey family,
S05271901Creopens as a family-oriented, no-beer amusement park (closes in
S05271901C1969).
S05271907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco
S05271919 the first transatlantic air flight is completed by a U.S. Navy
S05271919Cflying boat (11 days).
S05271931 a pressurized cabin in a balloon is used for the first time.
S05271931 the first full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes opens at
S05271931CLangley Field, Va.
S05271933 the Federal Securities Act is signed, requiring registration of
S05271933Csecurities with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
S05271933 Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" is released.
S05271935 the Supreme Court rules the National Recovery Act
S05271935Cunconstitutional.
S05271936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for N.Y. on her maiden voyage.
S05271937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens.
S05271941 the Bismarch is sunk by the British at 10:39 a.m.
S05271951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park in San Francisco opens.
S05271957 permission is granted to the Dodgers and Giants to leave N.Y.
S05271969 construction begins on Walt Disney World.
S05271975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus and Mars".
S05271994 the new Catechism of the Catholic Church, the first official
S05271994Cmanual of doctrine in more than 400 years, is release in English
S05271994C(first appeared in French in Nov. 1992).
S05271994 the Indians win their seventh consecutive game in Jacobs Field,
S05271994Cbeating Oakland 3-2.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S05271994C  first home run into the second deck - (Indians) Paul Sorrento
S0527     Feast of St. Bede the Venerable, confessor, doctor, writer.
S0527     Feast of St. John, Pope and martyr.
S0527    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
S0527    7National Missing Children's Day.
S0527    2Whit Monday (Britain).
S0527    2Spring Bank Holiday (United Kingdom).
S0527     Afghanistan Independence Day.
S0527     Nicaraguan Armed Forces Day.
S0527     Turkish Constitution Day.
R0527    7It's International Pickle Week.
S0527     Centennial Games (celebrated during Roman times).
S0527     Festival of Diane (Roman 6-day festival honoring Diane, the Moon
S0527       and Nature goddess).
S0527     Second day of the Secular Games (9-day Roman holiday honoring
S0527       Proserpina, a corn-seed goddess).
S05281539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida and claims it for Spain.
S05281742 the first indoor swimming pool opens at Goodman's Fields, London.
S05281818 the Walk-in-the-Water, the first steam-vessel to sail the Great
S05281818CLakes, is launched from Black Rock, N.Y.
S05281830 President Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, requiring eastern
S05281830CIndians to be resettled west of the Mississippi.
S05281867 Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland's oldest cultural
S05281867Cinstitution, is founded.
S05281902 the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland is organized.
S05281915 John B. Gruelle, former cartoonist for the Cleveland Press,
S05281915Capplies for a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
S05281916 Jimmy Glaxton becomes the first black to play M.L. ball (released
S05281916Cwhen it was discovered one of his parents was black).
S05281926 United States Customs Court is created by Congress.
S05281928 the Dodge Brothers, Inc. and the Chrysler Corporation merge.
S05281929 the first all color talking picture "On With The Show" is
S05281929Cexhibited in N.Y. City.
S05281937 Golden Gate Bridge is dedicated.
S05281951 Willie Mays gets his first major league hit, a home run (off
S05281951CWarren Spahn).
S05281953 the first animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor, "Melody"
S05281953Cpremieres.
S05281954 Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder" opens in New York.
S05281956 President Eisenhower signs a farm bill allowing the government
S05281956Cto store agricultural surpluses.
S05281956 Carl Erskine, a pitcher, becomes the first player to hit a home
S05281956Crun in eight straight games.
S05281959 monkeys Able and Baker zoom 360 miles into space on a Jupiter
S05281959Cmissile.
S05281961 Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977).
S05281964 the Palestine National Congress meets to form the PLO.
S05281967 Sir Francis Chichester, British adventurer and magazine
S05281967Cpublisher, completes his 28,500-mile, solo voyage around the
S05281967Cworld that began August 27, 1966.
S05281971 U.S.S.R. Mars 3 is launched, the first spacecraft to soft land on
S05281971CMars.
S05281973 the Indy 500 is postponed two days after a 12-car accident occurs
S05281973Cat the start of the race, due to a wet track.
S05281976 a nuclear test pact is signed by the U.S. and the  U.S.S.R.,
S05281976Climiting underground tests to less than 150 kiloton yields.
S05281976 Ellis Island officially reopens.
S05281980 the first women graduate from the service academies, West Point
S05281980C61, Annapolis 55, and the Air Force Academy 97.
S0528     Feast of St. Bernard of Montjoux, patron of mountain climbers.
S0528     Feast of St. Germanus, Bishop of Paris.
S0528     Feast of the London Martyrs of 1582.
S0528    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
S0528    2Whit Monday (Britain).
S0528    7National Missing Children's Day.
S0528    2Spring Bank Holiday (United Kingdom).
S0528     Feast of the Dead (Buddhist).
S0528     Festival of Diane (Roman 6-day festival honoring Diane, the Moon
S0528       and Nature goddess).
S0528     Third day of the Secular Games (9-day Roman holiday honoring
S0528       Proserpina, a corn-seed goddess).
S05291453 Constantinople falls to the Turks (some believe this signalled
S05291453Cthe end of the Middle Ages).
S05291721 South Carolina is formally incorporated as a royal colony.
S05291790 Rhode Island becomes the last of the original 13 states to ratify
S05291790Cthe Constitution.
S05291846 Sarah Keyes is the first of the Donner party to die.
S05291848 Wisconsin becomes the 30th state.
S05291884 the U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry is established.
S05291896 the first rides open at Euclid Beach Park - the Switchback
S05291896CRailway (roller coaster), the Crystal Maze, a Merry-Go-Round, a
S05291896CFerris Wheel and the Swings.
S05291912 15 young women are fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the
S05291912C"Turkey Trot" during their lunch break.
S05291913 Stravinsky's "The Rites of Spring" opens in Paris.
S05291916 the U.S. President's flag is first adopted.
S05291919 Einstein's light-bending prediction is confirmed by Arthur
S05291919CEddington.
S05291919 the pop-up toaster is patented by Charles Strite.
S05291922 the U.S. Supreme Court rules that organized baseball is primarily
S05291922Ca sport and not a business, and thus not subject to antitrust
S05291922Claws and interstate commerce regulations.
S05291937 the Great Lakes Exposition opens for a second season in
S05291937CCleveland.
S05291942 Bing Crosby records "White Christmas", the greatest selling
S05291942Crecord to date.
S05291953 Edmund Hillary and Norgay of N.Z. become the first to reach top
S05291953Cof Mt. Everest.
S05291961 the nation's first food stamps are issued in Welch, W.Va.
S05291963 Del Shannon's "From Me To You" hits the Billboard Hot 100; the
S05291963Cfirst song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney to do so (a #1 hit
S05291963Cin England by the Fab Four).
S05291967 Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla,
S05291967Carchbishop of Krakaw (who later became Pope John Paul II).
S05291969 the first crossing of the Arctic Sea ice is completed by the
S05291969CBritish Trans-Arctic expedition.
S05291978 first class postage is raised to 15 cents (was 13 cents for 3
S05291978Cyears).
S05291982 Pope John Paul II visits England, the first time in over 450
S05291982Cyears.
S05291982 the Pentagon draws up the first strategy for fighting a
S05291982Cprotracted nuclear war.
S05291987 West German Matthias Rust flies a rented Cessna 400 through
S05291987Cdefended Soviet airspace and lands in Red Square (sentenced to
S05291987Cfour years).
S05291992 the Cleveland Cavaliers are eliminated in Game 6 of the 2nd
S05291992Cround of the NBA Playoffs by the Chicago Bulls. It is their best
S05291992Cshowing in post-season games.
S05291994 Seattle's Ken Griffey, Jr. sets the M.L. record for the most home
S05291994Cruns hit in the first 2 months of a season (22).
S05291995 Dave Winfield cracks his first HR for the Indians, his 464th,
S05291995CIndians 7, White Sox 6.
S0529     Feast of St. Maximus, Bishop of Triers.
S0529    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
S0529     Rhode Island Ratification Day.
S0529     Wisconsin Admission Day.
S0529    2Whit Monday (Britain).
S0529    2Spring Bank Holiday (United Kingdom).
S0529     Royal Oak Day (Oak Apple Day) (celebrated in England).
S0529     Day of Buddha's Parinirvana (Bhutan).
S0529     Festival of Diane (Roman 6-day festival honoring Diane, the Moon
S0529       and Nature goddess).
S0529     Fourth day of the Secular Games (9-day Roman holiday honoring
S0529       Proserpina, a corn-seed goddess).
S05301431 Joan of Arc, 19, is burned at the stake in Rouen, France.
S05301539 Fernando de Soto lands in Florida and begins consolidating
S05301539CSpain's dominion.
S05301783 the first daily newspaper begins publication (Pennsylvania
S05301783CEvening Post).
S05301800 the State of Connecticut cedes jurisdictional claims to all
S05301800Cterritory called the Western Reserve of Connecticut (including
S05301800Cparts of Ohio).
S05301821 James Boyd patents the rubber-lined cotton web fire hose.
S05301848 William G. Young patents the ice cream freezer.
S05301854 the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska are created.
S05301868 the first national Decoration Day (Memorial Day) is celebrated to
S05301868Chonor the Civil War dead.
S05301870 the first Force Act is passed by Congress, establishing
S05301870Csupervision of Federal elections.
S05301879 the warmest temperature ever enjoyed in Cleveland during the
S05301879Cmonth of May occurs, 92 degrees (tied in 1944 and 1959).
S05301882 Cleveland's Knights of Labor, District Assembly No. 47, is
S05301882Corganized.
S05301890 the Arcade opens in Cleveland.
S05301890 the Garfield Monument in Lake View Cemetery is dedicated.
S05301896 the first automobile accident happens in New York City.
S05301909 the National Conference on the Negro convenes, leading to the
S05301909Cfounding of the National Association for the Advancement of
S05301909CColored People.
S05301911 the Indianapolis 500 is inaugurated.  Winning driver Ray Harroun
S05301911Ctakes it with a blazing 75 mph.
S05301913 Boston Red Sox' Harry Hooper becomes the first player to hit
S05301913Cleadoff homers in a M.L. doubleheader.
S05301920 Joan d'Arc Day is proclaimed.
S05301920 Coney Island beach censors ban socks for women and one piece
S05301920Csuits for men.
S05301922 the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
S05301927 Igor Stravinsky's oratorio "Oedipus Rex" makes its world debut.
S05301933 a patent is given on invisible glass installation.
S05301937 Memorial Day Massacre - striking Republic Steel workers and their
S05301937Cfamilies, while parading towards the Republic factory, are
S05301937Cattacked for no reason by police in Chicago (10 killed).
S05301937 Yankee pitcher Carl Hubbell achieves his 24th consecutive
S05301937Cvictory (M.L. record).
S05301953 the first major league network baseball game airs, Cleveland 7,
S05301953CChicago 2.
S05301958 the Unknown Soldiers from WW II and Korea are enshrined at
S05301958CArlington National Cemetery.
S05301959 the first full size hovercraft is launched.
S05301964 the Cleveland War Memorial Fountain is dedicated.
S05301966 the U.S. launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon.
S05301967 Biafra declares its independence from Nigeria (capitulates
S05301967CJanuary 12, 1970).
S05301968 a U.S. jet with 214 servicemen is intercepted by the Soviets and
S05301968Cforced to land in Russia.
S05301971 U.S. Mariner 9, the first satellite to orbit Mars, is launched.
S05301973 Gordon Johncock wins a shortened Indy 500 due to rain.
S05301982 Cal Ripken, Jr. begins his consecutive game streak.
S05301982 Spain joins NATO.
S05301986 the first outdoor test of genetically engineer plants begins when
S05301986Cgenetically altered tobacco is planted on a Wisconsin farm.
S05301987 North American Philips Company introduces the compact disc video.
S05301987 Reds' Eric Davis becomes the first NL player to hit three grand
S05301987Cslams in a month and sets the NL record for the most homers in
S05301987CApril and May (19).
S0530     The REAL Memorial Day (Decoration Day).
S0530     Feast of St. Felix, pope (268-73), martyr.
S0530     Feast of St. Jean d'Arc, Maid of Orlans.
S0530    2Whit Monday (Britain).
S0530    2Spring Bank Holiday (United Kingdom).
S0530     Wiccan Love Feast (English).
S0530     Festival of Diane (Roman 6-day festival honoring Diane, the Moon
S0530       and Nature goddess).
S0530     Fifth day of the Secular Games (9-day Roman holiday honoring
S0530       Proserpina, a corn-seed goddess).
S0530     Eta Pegasid meteor shower, radiant in Pegasus.
S05311678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry.
S05311790 President Washington signs the U.S. copyright act.
S05311821 the first Catholic cathedral in the U.S., the Cathedral of the
S05311821CAssumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is dedicated in Baltimore.
S05311868 Ironton, Ohio has the nation's first Memorial Day parade.
S05311868 the first recorded bicycle race occurs, 2 kilometers in Paris.
S05311870 Professor Edward J. de Smedt patents sheet asphalt pavement.
S05311879 the first electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition.
S05311879 Madison Square Garden opens its doors.
S05311884 a patent for "flaked cereal" is applied for by Dr. John Harvey
S05311884CKellogg.
S05311889 the Johnstown Flood occurs.
S05311900 U.S. troops arrive in Peking to help put down the Boxer
S05311900CRebellion.
S05311902 the Treaty of Vereenigning is signed, ending the Boer War.
S05311910 the Union of South Africa is formed as a commonwealth of England.
S05311913 the 17th amendment, providing for election of senators by popular
S05311913Cvote, is ratified.
S05311935 Phillies' Jim Bivin retires Babe Ruth on an infield grounder in
S05311935CRuth's final M.L. at-bat.
S05311938 the BBC broadcasts "Spelling Bee", the first game show on TV.
S05311944 the warmest temperature ever enjoyed in Cleveland during the
S05311944Cmonth of May is tied, 92 degrees (first set in 1879).
S05311949 Charley Lupica begins his stay on a 4-foot-square platform atop a
S05311949C60-foot pole, vowing to stay until the Cleveland Indians clinch
S05311949Cthe pennant. (They don't, and he comes down 117 days later.)
S05311955 the Supreme Court orders "all deliberate speed" in integration of
S05311955Call public schools.
S05311955 construction begins on cosmodrome launch facilities.
S05311961 South Africa becomes a republic and withdraws from the
S05311961CCommonwealth (National Day).
S05311962 Israel hangs Nazi war-criminal Adolf Eichmann for death camp
S05311962Cacts.
S05311962 the first International Jazz Festival opens in Washington, D.C.
S05311962C(a disappointment).
S05311964 the S.F. Giants beat the Mets 8-6 in a 23-inning, 7 hrs., 32
S05311964Cmins. baseball game (the longest baseball game in M.L. history).
S0531    2Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
S0531     Feast of Queenship of Mary (Visitation).
S0531     Feast of St. Petronilla, virgin.
S0531     National Senior Health and Fitness Day.
S0531     Holy Wells Day (English).
S0531    2Whit Monday (Britain).
S0531    2Spring Bank Holiday (United Kingdom).
S0531     Republic Day (celebrated in South Africa.)
S0531     Festival of Diane ends (Roman 6-day festival honoring Diane, the
S0531       Moon and Nature goddess).
S0531     Sixth day of the Secular Games (9-day Roman holiday honoring
S0531       Proserpina, a corn-seed goddess).
R0500     It's Senior Citizens Month.
R0500     It's National Labor History Month.
R0500     It's Bike Month.
R0500     It's Car Care Month.
R0500     It's National Radio Month.
R0500     It's Correct Posture Month!
R0500     It's Better Sleep Month.
R0500     It's National Hair Color Month!
R0500     It's National Tavern Month!!
R0500     It's National Fungal Awareness Month!!!
R0500     The emerald and agate are the gems for May.
R0500     The lilies of the valley and hawthorn are the flowers of May.
R0500     The sentimental meaning of the emerald is for happiness, and the
R0500       lily of valley and the hawthorn are for the confession of
R0500       love.
R0500     May's name comes from the Latin word maiores, or elders.
R0500     The full moon in May is known as the Song Moon and the Hare Moon.
R05010520 Taurus is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R05010520   Symbol: The Bull.
R05010520   Ruling Planet: Venus.
R05010520   Element: Earth.
R05010520   Traits: Determined, persistent, loyal.
R05010520   Body part associated with this sign: The neck.
R05010520   Occupations: Farming, the arts (music), work requiring
R05010520     research, building, hand work.
R05210531 Gemini is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R05210531   Symbol: The Twins.
R05210531   Ruling Planet: Mercury.
R05210531   Element: Air.
R05210531   Traits: Mentally active, talkative, versatile.
R05210531   Body part associated with this sign: The arms.
R05210531   Occupations: Crafts, communications, work dealing with
R05210531     intricate problems, sales, small businesses.
 
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S06011495 the first written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in the
S06011495CExchequer Rolls of Scotland.  Friar John Cor is the distiller.
S06011638 the first earthquake is recorded in the U.S. at Plymouth, Mass.
S06011774 the Boston Port Bill, the first bill of the Intolerable Acts
S06011774C(called by the Colonists), becomes effective, closing Boston
S06011774Charbor until restitution for the destroyed tea is made (passed
S06011774CMar. 25, 1774).
S06011789 the first legislation enacted by Congress is signed (legalizing
S06011789Ccertain oaths).
S06011792 Kentucky becomes the 15th state.
S06011796 Tennessee becomes the 16th state.
S06011796 in accordance with the Jay Treaty, all British troops are
S06011796Cwithdrawn from U.S. soil.
S06011813 Capt. John Lawrence utters the Navy motto, "Don't give up the
S06011813Cship" (his ship, the "Chesapeake, is captured by the British
S06011813Cfrigate "Shannon").
S06011861 the U.S. and Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange.
S06011862 Robert E. Lee is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate
S06011862Carmies.
S06011869 the voting machine is patented by Thomas A. Edison.
S06011877 U.S. troops are authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico.
S06011880 the first pay telephone is installed in the Yale Bank Building in
S06011880CNew Haven, Conn.
S06011888 the first seismograph is installed at the Lick Observatory at
S06011888CMount Hamilton, Ca.
S06011892 General Electric Company is established.
S06011925 Lou Gehrig bats for Pee Wee Wanninger in the 8th and replaces
S06011925CWally Pipp at first base, starting his record 2130 game streak.
S06011925CThe Washington Senators beat N.Y. 5-3.
S06011936 the Queen Mary arrives in N.Y. on its maiden voyage.
S06011938 Superman first appears in Action Comics.
S06011939 the first TV heavyweight boxing match airs (Max Baer vs Lou
S06011939CNova).
S06011944 the BBC broadcasts a line of poetry by the 19th century French
S06011944Cpoet Paul Verlaine, alerting the French resistance of the coming
S06011944Cinvasion, "The long sobs of the violins of autumn."
S06011946 Assault wins the Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown (7th
S06011946Cwinner).
S06011947 the development of photosensitive glass is announced in Corning,
S06011947CN.Y.
S06011949 the first magazine on microfilm is offered to subscribers by
S06011949CNewsweek.
S06011951 the first self-contained titanium plant is opened at Henderson,
S06011951CNevada.
S06011965 A. Penzias and R. Wilson detect a 3 degree Kelvin primordial
S06011965Cbackground.
S06011967 Moshe Dayan is named defense minister of Israel.
S06011967 the Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in
S06011967CEngland (released in the U.S. the next day).
S06011977 Seattle's Ruppert Jones homers off Indians' Dennis Eckersley in
S06011977Cthe fifth to snap Eckersley's no-hit string of 22 1/3 innings,
S06011977Cjust two short of Cy Young's M.L. record.  Cleveland 7,
S06011977CMariners 1.
S06011981 China publishes its first English newspaper.
S06011986 television coverage of Senate proceedings begins (ends Jul 15).
S06011986 Pat Bradley wins the LPGA golf tournament, becoming the first to
S06011986Cwin all 4 of the top women's tournaments.
S06011994 the Indians beat the Angels 3-2 in their 11th consecutive win at
S06011994Chome.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S06011994C  first game won by the winning run walked in
S06011995 the Marilyn Monroe stamp goes on sale.
S06011995 Indians' Manny Ramirez is selected the A.L. Player of the Month
S06011995C(May).
S0601     Feast of St. Angela Merici, virgin.
S0601     Feast of St. Pamphilus, priest and martyr.
S0601     All Saint's Day (Eastern Orthodox).
S0601     Birthday of the Virgin Mary - Coptic (Egyptian) and Abyssinian
S0601       Churches.
S0601    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward
S0601    1Howe).
S0601    7National Trails Day (Cleveland Metroparks).
S0601     Statehood Day (Tennessee).
S0601     Atlantic Hurricane Season begins.
S0601     Children's Day (Cape Verde).
S0601     International Child's Day (Poland).
S0601    1Teachers' Day (Massachusetts).
S0601     Nathaniel Ulysses Turtle Day.
R0601    1It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0601    1National Humor Week begins.
R0601    1National Soaring Week begins.
S0601     Feast of the Oak Nymph.
S0601     Summer Holiday (Ireland).
S0601     Western Samoa National Day.
S0601     South African Public Holiday.
S0601     Victory Day (Tunisia).
S0601     Anniversary of the Royal Brunei Malay Regiment.
S0601     Festival of Juno begins (2-day Roman festival honoring the
S0601       supreme goddess).
S0601     Seventh day of the Secular Games (9-day Roman holiday honoring
S0601       Proserpina, a corn-seed goddess).
S0601     First day of the Festival of Tellus Mater (Roman 3-day festival
S0601       honoring Tellus Mater, goddess of fecundity).
S06021774 a new Quartering Act, known as one of the Intolerable Acts by the
S06021774CColonists, is authorized by England, calling for billeting of
S06021774Ctroops in private homes.
S06021793 the Reign of Terror begins in France.
S06021835 P.T. Barnum and his circus begin their first tour of the U.S.
S06021857 James E.A. Gibbs patents the first practical chain-stitch single-
S06021857Cthread, twist-loop, rotary hook sewing machine.
S06021858 the Donati Comet is seen first, and named after it's discoverer.
S06021869 Cleveland's Forest City play their first game, beginning the
S06021869Ctown's baseball tradition (vs. Cincinnati Red Stockings).
S06021873 ground is broken on San Francisco's Clay Street for world's
S06021873Cfirst cable-powered railroad.
S06021883 the first night baseball game (under lights) is held in Ft.
S06021883CWayne, Ind. (M.E. College vs professionals from Quincy, Ill.),
S06021883CFort Wayne 19, Quincy 11 in seven innings.
S06021886 President Grover Cleveland becomes the first Chief Executive to
S06021886Cbe married in the White House.
S06021901 New York police arrest Benjamin Adams for playing golf on Sunday.
S06021902 the nation's first initiative and referendum law is adopted in
S06021902COregon, allowing voters to propose laws and veto legislation.
S06021904 Prof. Schron discovers microbe responsible for photosynthesis.
S06021910 pygmies are discovered in Dutch New Guinea.
S06021924 the Snyder Act is passed, granting full citizenship to American
S06021924CIndians.
S06021929 the German Cultural Garden unit of Cleveland's Cultural Gardens
S06021929Cis dedicated.
S06021940 the Greek Cultural Garden and the Ukrainian Cultural Garden units
S06021940Cof Cleveland's Cultural Gardens are dedicated.
S06021946 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day).
S06021952 Maurice Olley of G.M.'s R & D department is shown a plastic model
S06021952Cof the Corvette, and told to design a chassis for the car (roles
S06021952Coff the assembly line 12 months later).
S06021953 Elizabeth II is crowned Queen of England.
S06021966 Surveyor I soft-lands on the moon at Oceanus Procellarum, and
S06021966Csends back pictures to the U.S.
S06021967 FCC orders TV and radio stations that advertise cigarettes to air
S06021967Chealth warnings.
S06021967 "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" is released in the U.S.
S06021967C(released in England the day before).
S06021975 prostitutes occupy a church in Lyons, France to protest police
S06021975Crepression.
S06021979 John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit a communist country,
S06021979CPoland.
S06021993 a ban on the use of all tobacco products is announced by baseball
S06021993Cfor the minor leagues.
S0602     Feast of SS. Marcellinus and Peter, martyrs.
S0602     Feast of St. Erasmus (St. Elmo's Day), patron saint of sailors,
S0602       bishop, martyr.
S0602    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward
S0602    1Howe).
S0602    1Teachers' Day (Massachusetts).
S0602    7National Trails Day (Cleveland Metroparks).
S0602     Republic (Constitution) Day, celebrated in Italy.
R0602    1It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0602    1National Humor Week begins.
R0602    1National Soaring Week begins.
R0602    2It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0602    2It's National Humor Week.
R0602    2It's National Soaring Week.
S0602     Gawai Dayak (celebrated in Malaysia).
S0602     Coronation Day of the Fourth Hereditary King (Bhutan).
S0602     Foundation Day (Western Australia).
S0602     Hristo Botev Day (Bulgaria).
S0602     Anniversary of the Republic (Italy).
S0602     Festival of Juno ends (2-day Roman festival honoring the
S0602       supreme goddess).
S0602     Second day of the Festival of Tellus Mater (Roman 3-day festival
S0602       honoring Tellus Mater, goddess of fecundity).
S0602     Eighth day of the Secular Games (9-day Roman holiday honoring
S0602       Proserpina, a corn-seed goddess).
S06031509 Henry VIII marries his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.
S06031540 Hernando de Soto, during his quest for gold, becomes the first
S06031540CEuropean to cross the Appalachian Mountains.
S06031621 the Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New
S06031621CNetherlands" (New York).
S06031770 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in California.
S06031797 the first religious service in Cleveland takes place (funeral
S06031797Cservice for surveyor David Eldridge).
S06031802 Constable Ezekiel Hawley reports the first census of Cleveland
S06031802CTownship (76 free male inhabitants age 21 or over).
S06031851 the first baseball uniforms are worn by the N.Y. Knickerbockers
S06031851C(straw hats, white shirts, and blue full-length trousers).
S06031861 the first land battle of the Civil War is in Philippi, WV.  A
S06031861CUnion force attacks and defeats a newly recruited Confederate
S06031861Cforce.
S06031864 at the Battle of Cold Harbor, Gen. Lee wins his last victory over
S06031864CUnion forces, numbering 108,000 to his 59,000.
S06031888 "Casey at the Bat" is first published (by the S.F. Examiner).
S06031916 ROTC is established by the National Defense Act.
S06031924 the enlarged Lakewood Library Main Branch at Detroit and Arthur
S06031924Cis opened.
S06031925 Chicago's Eddie Collins, in his 18th season, becomes the 6th
S06031925Cplayer to reach 3,000 career hits (off Detroit's Rip Collins).
S06031932 Lou Gehrig becomes the first to hit 4 consecutive HRs; Yanks beat
S06031932CA's 20-13.
S06031937 Edward, Duke of Windor, formerly King Edward VIII, weds Mrs.
S06031937CWallis Warfield Simpson in France.
S06031942 the Battle of Midway begins; Japan's first major defeat in WW II.
S06031948 the 200 inch Hale telescope is dedicated at the Palomar
S06031948CObservatory in California.
S06031949 Wesley Anthony Brown becomes the first black midshipman to
S06031949Cgraduate from the U.S. Naval Academy.
S06031949 "Dragnet" is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles).
S06031959 the U.S. Air Force Academy graduates its first cadets.
S06031959 Discoverer 3, a military research satellite, is unsuccessfully
S06031959Claunched.
S06031959 Singapore becomes self governing under British supervision.
S06031963 the agency shop labor contract is ruled constitutional by the
S06031963CSupreme Court where permitted by the state (also ruled the state
S06031963Ccould bar the agency shop).
S06031965 Gemini IV is launched; Ed White becomes the first American to
S06031965Cwalk in space (22 minutes).
S06031966 Gemini 9 is launched, the 7th U.S. 2-man flight.
S06031967 "Respect" reaches #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart (Aretha
S06031967CFranklin's only single to top the pop chart).
S06031970 the first artificial gene is synthesized.
S06031972 the first woman rabbi in the U.S., Sally J. Priesand, 25, is
S06031972Cordained in Cincinnati, Ohio.
S06031976 the U.S. is presented with the oldest known copy of the Magna
S06031976CCarta.
S06031978 Phillies' Dave Johnson becomes the first to pitch-hit 2 grand
S06031978Cslams in a season, helping to beat the Dodgers 5-1.
S06031985 "Larry King Live" premieres on CNN.
S06031989 the Chinese army units move in to crush protests in Tiananmen
S06031989CSquare in Beijing (ends the next day).
S06031992 delegates from 178 countries attend the U.N. Conference on
S06031992CEnvironment and Development (Earth Summit) in Rio de Janeiro.
S06031993 the outdoor gorilla exhibit opens at the Cleveland Metroparks
S06031993CZoo.
S0603     Feast of St. Clotildis, Queen of France.
S0603     Pilgrimage to the Tomb of Eve in Jiddah (Ishmaelites -
S0603       anniversary of the murder of Abel).
S0603    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward
S0603    1Howe).
S0603    7National Trails Day (Cleveland Metroparks).
S0603    1Teachers' Day (Massachusetts).
S0603     Confederate Memorial Day (Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee).
S0603     Jefferson Davis' Birthday (Ala., Fl., Ga., Miss., and S.C.).
S0603     Egg Day.
R0603    1It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0603    1National Humor Week begins.
R0603    1National Soaring Week begins.
R0603    2It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0603    3It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0603    2It's National Humor Week.
R0603    3It's National Humor Week.
R0603    2It's National Soaring Week.
R0603    3It's National Soaring Week.
S0603     Broken Dolls Day (Japanese).
S0603     Yang di-Pertuan Agong's Birthday (Malaysia).
S0603     Last day of the Festival of Tellus Mater (Roman 3-day festival
S0603       honoring Tellus Mater, goddess of fecundity).
S0603     Last day of the Secular Games (9-day Roman holiday honoring
S0603       Proserpina, a corn-seed goddess).
S0604 780 BC the first total solar eclipse reliably recorded is noted by
S0604 780Cthe Chinese.
S06041784 Mme. Thible becomes the first woman to fly (in a balloon).
S06041805 Tripoli ends war with the United States.
S06041812 the Louisiana Territory is officially renamed "Missouri
S06041812CTerritory".
S06041844 the last flightless pair of auks die (killed for food).
S06041845 Hatch's sowing machine is first demonstrated (sowed wheat, oats
S06041845Cand other grasses).
S06041845 the first American grand opera, "Leonora," composed by William
S06041845CHenry Fry, is first presented at the author's expense at the
S06041845CChestnut Street Theater in Philadelphia (not successful).
S06041850 Empire Engine Company No. 1 is organized in San Francisco.
S06041896 the road test of the first Ford car is delayed an hour because
S06041896Cthe car was wider than the door of the shed in which it was
S06041896Cbuilt.  Remember, "Ford has a better idea!"
S06041906 Pathologist Howard T. Ricketts discovers ticks cause Rocky Mt.
S06041906Cspotted fever.
S06041912 Massachusetts enacts the first U.S. minimum wage law (effective
S06041912CJuly 1, 1913).
S06041917 the first Pulitzer prizes are awarded.
S06041918 at Chteau-Thierry, the U.S. Second Division halts German forces
S06041918Cadvancing toward Paris.
S06041919 the national suffrage bill passes the U.S. Senate 56 to 25, and
S06041919Cmoves to the states for ratification.
S06041931 the first rocket-powered glider in the U.S. is flown by William
S06041931CG. Swan, a stunt pilot, at Atlantic City, N.J. (for 1,000 ft. and
S06041931Creached a height of 100 ft.).
S06041940 the British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 340,000
S06041940Ctroops.
S06041944 at 9:30 p.m., Group Captain James Stagg, chief meteorologist for
S06041944Cthe R.A.F., makes what some historians believe "the most
S06041944Cimportant weather prediction in history" - gradual clearing on
S06041944CJune 6th in Normandy.
S06041944 Field Marshall Rommel decides to drive home for his wife's
S06041944Cbirthday, and misses the D-Day invasion.
S06041944 Allied forces enter Rome (out of respect for the religious
S06041944Choliday, Trinity Sunday, the American and British armies did not
S06041944Coccupy the city until the next morning).
S06041944 the "hunter-killer" battle task force headed by the aircraft
S06041944Ccarrier Guadalcanal captures the German sub U-505 (4th sub snared
S06041944Cand the first enemy ship to be boarded on the high seas by the
S06041944CU.S. Navy since the War of 1812) off the coast of French West
S06041944CAfrica.  (Now displayed in Chicago's Museum of Science &
S06041944CIndustry.)
S06041944 representatives from six cities, including Cleveland, meet in
S06041944CSt. Louis and form the All American Football Conference (AAFC).
S06041946 the largest solar prominence (300,000 miles) is observed.
S06041957 the first commercial coal pipeline is placed in operation.
S06041961 the K-19, the first Soviet atomic sub armed with nuclear
S06041961Cwarheads, loses its coolant system during a training exercise in
S06041961Cthe North Atlantic.  22 volunteers give their lives averting an
S06041961Cexplosion that would have poisoned the sea with radiation.
S06041969 a 22-year-old man sneaks into the wheel pod of a jet parked in
S06041969CHavana and survives the 9-hour flight to Spain despite the thin
S06041969Coxygen levels and -40 degrees F temperatures at 29,000 feet.
S06041970 Tonga becomes independent and a member of the British
S06041970CCommonwealth.
S06041970 the Food and Drug Administration approves the use of the drug
S06041970CL-dopa for treatment of Parkinson's disease.
S06041974 the never-to-be-repeated 10-Cent-Beer Night at the Cleveland
S06041974CStadium occurs.  League President MacPhail rules against any
S06041974Cfuture such events "as a hazard to baseball."
S06041975 the discovery of the oldest animal fossils in the U.S., large
S06041975Cmarine worms dating back some 620 million years, are reported in
S06041975CNorth Carolina.
S06041984 the successful cloning of DNA from an extinct animal is reported
S06041984C(an animal related to the zebra and the horse).
S06041985 the Supreme Court strikes down Alabama's "moment of silence" law
S06041985C(one-minute period of silent meditation or prayer in public
S06041985Cschools).
S06041989 the Chinese army crush protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
S06041990 the use of high school facilities by student political and
S06041990Creligious groups is upheld by the Supreme Court.
S06041993 18-year old Carey Schueler, a left-handed pitcher and daughter of
S06041993Ca White Sox V.P., becomes the first woman to be picked in the
S06041993Cbaseball amateur draft.
S0604     Feast of St. Francis Caracciolo, confessor.
S0604     Feast of St. Optatus, Bishop of Mileve.
S0604     Old Maid's Day.
S0604     U.N.'s International Day of Innocent Children Victims of
S0604       Aggression.
S0604    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward
S0604    1Howe).
S0604    7National Trails Day (Cleveland Metroparks).
S0604    1Teachers' Day (Massachusetts).
S0604     Birthday of Socrates.
R0604    1It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0604    1National Humor Week begins.
R0604    1National Soaring Week begins.
R0604    2It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0604    3It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0604    4It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0604    2It's National Humor Week.
R0604    3It's National Humor Week.
R0604    4It's National Humor Week.
R0604    2It's National Soaring Week.
R0604    3It's National Soaring Week.
R0604    4It's National Soaring Week.
S0604     Emancipation Day (Tonga).
S06051815 the Village of Cleveland elects its first officials.
S06051833 Ada Lovelace (future first computer programmer) meets Charles
S06051833CBabbage.
S06051846 a telegraph line is opened between Philadelphia and Baltimore.
S06051849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy (Danish National Day).
S06051854 the Canadian Reciprocity Treaty is signed, opening the U.S. to
S06051854CCanadian products in return for freedom of operation on the Great
S06051854CLakes and the St. Lawrence River.
S06051854 Ohio City is annexed to Cleveland.
S06051862 the Treaty of Saigon permits the French to occupy the three
S06051862Ceastern provinces of Cochin China.
S06051875 the Pacific Stock Exchange is formally opened.
S06051900 Carry Nation destroys her first tavern (Kiowa, Kansas).
S06051920 the Merchant Marine Act is passed by Congress, specifying that
S06051920Cgovernment-owned ships be sold to U.S. shipping companies.
S06051937 War Admiral wins the Triple Crown at Belmont (fourth winner.)
S06051940 the first synthetic rubber tire is exhibited in Akron, Ohio.
S06051944 the BBC broadcasts the second line of poetry by the 19th century
S06051944CFrench poet Paul Verlaine, telling the French resistance the
S06051944Cinvasion is coming within 48 hours, "Wounding my heart with a
S06051944Cmonotonous languor."
S06051947 Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines "The Marshall
S06051947CPlan" (economic recovery of Europe).
S06051957 the A.M.A. votes to study the use of stimulants in athletes.
S06051963 a sex scandal (21-year-old Christine Keeler) forces out the
S06051963CBritish war minister John Profumo.
S06051966 Eugene Cernan, on Gemini 9, is the first American to walk in
S06051966Cspace.
S06051967 the Six Day War begins, Israel defeating the Arab nations of
S06051967CEqypt, Jordan and Syria.
S06051968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy is fatally shot in Los Angeles (dies
S06051968CJune 6).
S06051972 the U.N. Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm.
S06051975 Egypt reopens the Suez Canal eights years to the day after it was
S06051975Cclosed at the start of the Six Day War.
S06051980 Gulf and Western announce a new battery that will run an electric
S06051980Ccar.
S06051981 TODAY/PC ran for first time.
S06051982 Sophia Loren completes 17 days sentence in jail for tax fraud in
S06051982CItaly.
S06051985 GM bids $5 billion for Hughes Aircraft in largest acquisition in
S06051985Chistory.
S06051989 the Blue Jays lose in their debut in the Skydome 5-3 to
S06051989CMilwaukee.
S06051991 the 41st Shuttle Mission - Columbia 11 is launched, carrying the
S06051991CSpace Lab module.
S06051992 the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati reopens extradition case
S06051992Cof John Demjanjuk.
S06051993 Julie Krone becomes the first female jockey to win a Triple
S06051993CCrown race, riding Colonial Affair to victory at Belmont.
S06051995 Carl Weiman and Eric Cornell cooled atoms of ribidium gas to a
S06051995Ctemperature so low (2 nanokelvin, or 2-billionths of a degree
S06051995Cabove absolute zero) that they acted as if they were a single
S06051995Catom, creating a new form of matter - dubbed a "superatom."
S06051995 Indians' pitcher Orel Hershiser has his first A.L. shutout,
S06051995CCleveland 8, Detroit 0.
S0605     Constitution Day, celebrated in Denmark.
S0605     Feast of St. Boniface, bishop of Mainz, martyr, Apostle of
S0605       Germany.
S0605    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward
S0605    1Howe).
S0605     World Environment Day.
S0605    7National Trails Day (Cleveland Metroparks).
S0605    1Teachers' Day (Massachusetts).
R0605    1It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0605    1National Humor Week begins.
R0605    1National Soaring Week begins.
R0605    5It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0605    4It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0605    3It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0605    2It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0605    5It's National Humor Week.
R0605    4It's National Humor Week.
R0605    3It's National Humor Week.
R0605    2It's National Humor Week.
R0605    5It's National Soaring Week.
R0605    4It's National Soaring Week.
R0605    3It's National Soaring Week.
R0605    2It's National Soaring Week.
S0605     Corn Dance (Pueblo Indians).
S0605     Danish Constitution Day.
S0605     Iranian Revolution Day.
S0605     The Seychelles Liberation Day.
S06061683 the first public museum, the Ashmolean, opens in Oxford, England.
S06061809 Swedish Constitution and Flag Day (National Day).
S06061816 10 inches of snow falls on New England (entered into records as
S06061816C"the year in which there was no summer").
S06061844 the YMCA is founded in London.
S06061850 Levi Strauss makes his first blue jeans.
S06061876 the Imperial Council of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the
S06061876CMystic Shrine for the U.S., a Masonic order, is organized by Dr.
S06061876CWalter Fleming.
S06061882 Henry W. Seely patents the electric flatiron.
S06061890 the U.S. Polo Association is formed.
S06061896 George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen leave New York on their
S06061896C3,500-mile trip, rowing across the Atlantic Ocean.
S06061916 women suffrage in East Cleveland is approved by voters.  (Refused
S06061916Cby city board of elections, it goes to court and is upheld.)
S06061916 the Cleveland Museum of Art in Wade Park is dedicated.
S06061918 the Battle of Belleau Wood begins, the first U.S. victory of
S06061918CWorld War I.
S06061919 Man o' War wins the first of his victories as a two-year-old at
S06061919CBelmont.
S06061925 Walter Chrysler forms Chrysler Motor Co.
S06061932 the U.S. institutes the first gasoline tax.
S06061933 the U.S. Employment Service is created.
S06061933 the first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.
S06061934 Congress creates the Securities and Exchange Commission.
S06061936 aviation gasoline is first produced commercially in Paulsboro,
S06061936CNew Jersey.
S06061942 the first nylon parachute jump occurs in Hartford, Connecticut by
S06061942CAdeline Gray.
S06061944 D-Day - Allies storm Normandy, France.  (Mickey Mouse is used as
S06061944Cthe D-Day code word.)
S06061961 a system for the detection of heart defects in children is
S06061961Cperfected by the Chicago Heart Association.
S06061969 Joe Namath quits football after Pete Rozelle, the football
S06061969Ccommissioner, orders him to sell his interest in a bar.
S06061969 the last episode of "Star Trek" airs on NBC, "Turnabout
S06061969CIntruder".
S06061977 the Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws.
S06061977 the development of a neutron bomb by the U.S. is reported by the
S06061977C"Washington Post" (production of elements of the bomb is ordered
S06061977COct. 1978).
S06061978 Proposition 13, lowering property tax 57%, wins at California
S06061978Cpolls.
S06061981 Maya Yang Lin, a 21-year-old Yale undergraduate, wins the
S06061981Cnationwide competition to design a Vietnam War Memorial.
S06061982 Israel invades southern Lebanon, site of Palestinian guerrilla
S06061982Cstrongholds, to annihilate the leaders of the PLO.
S06061991 the Greek Orthodox Church suspends its ties with the National
S06061991CCouncil of Churches (troubled by liberal positions taken on
S06061991Cabortion and homosexuality).
S06062012 the transit of Venus (between the Earth and the Sun) occurs.
S0606     Feast of St. Norbet, archbishop of Magdeburgh, confessor.
S0606     Conservation Day (Cleveland Metroparks Zoo).
S0606     D-Day.
S0606    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward
S0606    1Howe).
S0606    7National Trails Day (Cleveland Metroparks).
S0606    1Teachers' Day (Massachusetts).
S0606     Philatelic Writers Day.
S0606     Bonza Bottler Day (Number of Day Matches the Number of the
S0606       Month).
R0606    1It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0606    1National Humor Week begins.
R0606    1National Soaring Week begins.
R0606    6It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0606    5It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0606    4It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0606    3It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0606    2It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0606    6It's National Humor Week.
R0606    5It's National Humor Week.
R0606    4It's National Humor Week.
R0606    3It's National Humor Week.
R0606    2It's National Humor Week.
R0606    6It's National Soaring Week.
R0606    5It's National Soaring Week.
R0606    4It's National Soaring Week.
R0606    3It's National Soaring Week.
R0606    2It's National Soaring Week.
S0606     Night of Observation (Moslem).
S0606     Memorial Day (Korea).
S0606     Swedish Flag Day.
S0606     Tuen Ng Festival (Hong Kong).
S06071099 Christian Crusaders reach Jerusalem.
S06071494 Spain and Portugal divide up South America according to the
S06071494Cprovisions of the Treaty of Tordesillas.
S06071767 Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Kentucky.
S06071775 Landmark Day - from this day forward the United Colonies are
S06071775Ccalled the United States.
S06071776 Richard Henry Lee of Virginia at the 2nd Continental Congress
S06071776Ccalls for the Declaration of Independence.  ("These United
S06071776CColonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent
S06071776Cstates.)
S06071812 the Alger family become the first permanent settlers on Warren
S06071812CRoad (near Lorain Avenue.)
S06071838 members of the Cleveland City Guard decide to change the name to
S06071838Cthe Cleveland Grays.
S06071839 the Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed.
S06071859 an ordinance is passed by Cleveland City Council to improve
S06071859CEuclid Avenue from Public Square to Erie Street (a carriageway 25
S06071859Cfeet wide filled with one foot of gravel.
S06071860 the first American "dime novel" is published: "Malaseka, The
S06071860CIndian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs. Ann Stevens.
S06071862 William Bruce Mumford, a retired gambler in New Orleans,
S06071862Cbecomes the first U.S. citizen to be tried and hung for treason
S06071862C(for desecrating the American Flag).
S06071870 Thomas S. Hall patents the automatic electric block railroad
S06071870Csignal system.
S06071887 Tolbert Lanston patents the monotype typesetting machine.
S06071892 John F. Palmer patents the cord construction bicycle tire.
S06071892 John J. Doyle becomes baseball's first pinch-hitter.
S06071903 Professor Curie reveals discovery of a new element, Polonium.
S06071905 Norway declares independence from Sweden.
S06071913 Gustaf W. Elmen develops permalloy.
S06071914 the first vessel, the Alliance, passes through the Panama Canal.
S06071918 U.S. Marines win name of "Devil Hounds" for fierce fighting in
S06071918CFrance.
S06071919 N.Y. inaugurates written test for driver's license applicants.
S06071924 Batman's parents are killed.
S06071930 Gallant Fox wins the Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown (2nd
S06071930Cwinner).
S06071936 the Yankees beat the Indians 5-4 in 16 innings, setting the
S06071936Crecord of no strike outs.
S06071938 the infamous shirtsleeve incident occurs when Cleveland's Johnny
S06071938CAllen is ordered from the mound for having a tattered uniform
S06071938Csleeve on his throwing arm (the uniform is now in the Hall of
S06071938CFame).
S06071941 Whirlaway takes the Triple Crown with a win at Belmont (5th
S06071941Cwinner).
S06071942 Admiral Nimitz defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway.
S06071954 the first microbiology laboratory is dedicated in New Brunswick,
S06071954CNew Jersey.
S06071965 an 1879 Connecticut law banning the use of contraceptives is
S06071965Cruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
S06071965 the Cosmopolitan girl first appears.
S06071967 Israel captures the Wailing Wall.
S06071975 the U.S. removes the last combat aircraft from Taiwan.
S06071980 Temperance Hill wins Belmont Stakes (50:1 long shot).
S06071981 Israel bombs an Iraqi nuclear reactor outside Baghdad (alleged
S06071981Cplutonium production facility).
S06071981 Lakewood Library's latest addition to the main branch is
S06071981Cdedicated.
S06071983 Steve Carlton of the Phillies becomes the leading strikeout
S06071983Cpitcher.
S06071993 Cleveland breaks ground for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
S06071995 over-water approval for its first commercial flight is granted
S06071995Cthe Boeing 777 (London to Washington,D.C.).
S0607     Feast of St. Robert, abbot.
S0607     Feast of St. Vulflagius.
S0607    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward
S0607    1Howe).
S0607    7National Trails Day (Cleveland Metroparks).
S0607    1Teachers' Day (Massachusetts).
S0607    6Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
R0607    1It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0607    1National Humor Week begins.
R0607    1National Soaring Week begins.
R0607    2It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0607    3It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0607    4It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0607    5It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0607    6It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0607    7It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0607    2It's National Humor Week.
R0607    3It's National Humor Week.
R0607    4It's National Humor Week.
R0607    5It's National Humor Week.
R0607    6It's National Humor Week.
R0607    7It's National Humor Week.
R0607    2It's National Soaring Week.
R0607    3It's National Soaring Week.
R0607    4It's National Soaring Week.
R0607    5It's National Soaring Week.
R0607    6It's National Soaring Week.
R0607    7It's National Soaring Week.
S0607     Chad National Day.
S0607     Vestalia (Roman festival honoring Vesta, goddess of fire, the
S0607       home and cooking, patron goddess of women).
S0608 632 Prophet Mohammed dies.
S06081723 the Honourable Society of Improvers of the Knowledge of
S06081723CAgriculture in Scotland is founded.
S06081786 the first commercially-made ice cream is sold in New York.
S06081844 the Cleveland Horticultural Society is organized with Dr. Jared
S06081844CKirtland, a prominent Lakewood settler, as president.
S06081847 the Fielden's Factory Act is passed by Parliament, reducing the
S06081847Cworking hours for women and children to 10 1/2 hours a day or 58
S06081847Chours a week.
S06081861 Tennessee becomes the 11th state to secede from the Union.
S06081869 the patent is issued for the first suction-principle vacuum
S06081869Ccleaner.
S06081889 cable cars begin service in Los Angeles.
S06081912 Universal Studios is founded.
S06081917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School.
S06081918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, is
S06081918Cdiscovered.
S06081935 the American Medical Association officially accepts birth
S06081935Ccontrol.
S06081935 Omaha takes the Triple Crown at Belmont (third winner).
S06081937 the world's largest flower, the Amorphophallus Titanum or giant
S06081937Ccalla lily of Sumatra, blooms at the N.Y. Botanical Gardens (8
S06081937C1/2 ft.  high, 4 ft. in diameter, and 2 ft. in circumference).
S06081939 Dr. Jonas Salk, who discovered the first polio vaccine, receives
S06081939Chis medical degree from N.Y.U.
S06081939 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain arrive in
S06081939CWashington, D.C., the first British sovereigns to visit the U.S.
S06081940 Edwin M. McMillan and Philip H. Abelson announce the discovery of
S06081940Celement 93, neptunium.
S06081948 John E. Rudder becomes the first black commissioned officer in
S06081948Cthe U.S. Marine Corps.
S06081950 the Red Sox beat the St. Louis Browns 29-4 at Fenway Park and set
S06081950Csix M.L. records:
S06081950C most runs scored by one team
S06081950C most long hits in a game - 17 (9 doubles, 1 triple and 7 homers)
S06081950C most total bases - 60
S06081950C most extra bases on long hits - 32
S06081950C most runs for 2 games - 49 (16 and 33)
S06081950C most hits in 2 games - 23 and 28
S06081953 a tornado touches down on the West Side of Cleveland.
S06081962 the Office of Science and Technology is established by President
S06081962CKennedy.
S06081963 a drive against cigarette smoking is opened by the American Heart
S06081963CAssociation, the first voluntary public agency to do so.
S06081965 commanders in Vietnam are authorized to commit U.S. ground forces
S06081965Cto combat.
S06081965 Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay. Inc. merge to form PepsiCo, Inc.
S06081966 NFL and AFL announce plans to become NFC and AFC in 1970.
S06081967 the Israelis accidentally attack the "U.S.S. Liberty" in the
S06081967CMediterranean, killing 34.
S06081968 James Earl Ray is arrested in London for the murder of Martin
S06081968CLuther King, Jr.
S06081968 Don Drysdale pitches a record 68th consecutive scoreless inning.
S06081978 Congress supports bankrupted New York with a $2 billion bond.
S06081979 The Source, the first computer public information service, goes
S06081979Conline.
S06081982 a U.S. president (Reagan) speaks to the British Parliament for
S06081982Cthe first time.
S06081983 a U.S. presidential panel concludes man-made pollution is a major
S06081983Ccause of acid rain.
S06081986 alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.
S06081986 the Orioles beat the Yankees 18-9 at Yankee Stadium in 4 hrs., 16
S06081986Cmin., the longest 9-inning game in A.L. history.
S06082004 the transit of Venus (between the Earth and the Sun) occurs.
S0608     Feast of St. Metardus, Bishop and confessor.
S0608    1Children's Day.
S0608    1Race Unity Day.
S0608    1SUNday in the Park (Cleveland Metroparks).
S0608    7Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
S0608    6Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
R0608    2It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0608    3It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0608    4It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0608    5It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0608    6It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0608    7It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0608    2National Dog Bite Prevention Week begins.
R0608    2It's National Humor Week.
R0608    3It's National Humor Week.
R0608    4It's National Humor Week.
R0608    5It's National Humor Week.
R0608    6It's National Humor Week.
R0608    7It's National Humor Week.
R0608    2It's National Soaring Week.
R0608    3It's National Soaring Week.
R0608    4It's National Soaring Week.
R0608    5It's National Soaring Week.
R0608    6It's National Soaring Week.
R0608    7It's National Soaring Week.
R0608    1It's National Fraternal Week.
S0608    7Queen's official birthday (Great Britain's National Day).
S0608     Grain in Ear Festival (celebrated in China).
S0609 068 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide.
S06091732 a royal charter for Georgia is granted to James Oglethorpe.
S06091851 the San Francisco Committee of Vigilence forms.
S06091860 the first dime novel is published.
S06091863 the Battle of Brandy Station (or Fleetwood), the greatest U.S.
S06091863Ccavalry engagement, is fought.  10,000 horsemen lead by Jeb
S06091863CStuart are defeated by an equal number lead by Union General
S06091863CPleasonton.
S06091868 the first meeting of the Board of Regents, University of
S06091868CCalifornia, is held.
S06091898 China leases Hong Kong's New Territories to Britain for 99 years.
S06091901 the N.Y. Giants set a M.L. record with a 31-hit attack against
S06091901CCincinnati as they pound the Reds 25-13.
S06091902 the first vending machine-type Automatic Restaurant opens in
S06091902CPhiladelphia.
S06091908 Miss Dolly Shepard brings down Miss Loule May on her single
S06091908Cchute, the first mid-air rescue by parachute.
S06091914 Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner, in his 17th season, becomes the 2nd
S06091914Cplayer in history, and the first in the modern era, to get 3,000
S06091914Chits.
S06091923 Brink's Inc. introduces armored security vans.
S06091931 Goddard patents a rocket-fueled aircraft design.
S06091934 Donald Duck makes his first screen appearance ("The Wise Little
S06091934CHen").
S06091949 Ms. Georgia Neese Clark is confirmed as the first woman Treasurer
S06091949Cof the U.S.
S06091953 New England's most disastrous tornado roars into Worcester
S06091953CCounty, Mass.  (Forecasted in the Farmer's Almanac!)
S06091959 the U.S. launches the first nuclear sub with ballistic missiles
S06091959C(George Washington) at Groton, Conn.
S06091958 the Goodtime I begins its first season in Cleveland.
S06091963 "Cleopatra" opens in N.Y.
S06091963 the Houston Colts beat the Giants 3-0 in the first Sunday night
S06091963Cbaseball game in M.L. history.  (Permission was granted because
S06091963Cof the excessive heat in Houston during the day - pre-Astrodome.)
S06091969 the U.S. licenses rubella vaccine.
S06091969 Brian Jones quits (sic) the Rolling Stones because of his drug
S06091969Cproblems.
S06091973 Secretariat captures the Triple Crown at Belmont (9th winner).
S06091979 the hottest spot in the solar system, located between Jupiter and
S06091979CMars by Voyager 1, is reported to have a temperature between 300
S06091979Cmillion and 400 million degrees Celsius.
S06091984 Laserphonic Fantasy premieres.
S06091986 the Rogers Commission report is released, blaming the Challenger
S06091986Cdisaster on Morton Thiokol, the rocket manufacturer.
S06091987 Fawn Hall explains to a congressional committee that Col. North
S06091987Cis "every secretary's dream boss."
S06091991 the first championship of the World League of American Football
S06091991Cis won by the London Monarches, defeating the Barcelona Dragons
S06091991C21-0.
S06091992 William Pinkney completes his 32,000-mile trip, the first black
S06091992Cto sail solo around the world.
S06091993 tickets for the Indians first season in Jacobs Field at Gateway
S06091993Cgo on sale to the general public.
S06091994 Cleveland-area 18-year-old Ryan Armour becomes the youngest
S06091994Cgolfer to play in the Nike Cleveland Open.
S06091997 the British lease on the New Territories in Hong Kong expires.
S0609     Feast of SS. Primus and Felician, martyrs.
S0609     Feast of St. Columba (Columcille), the third patron saint of
S0609       Ireland (native-born).
S0609    1Children's Day.
S0609    1Race Unity Day.
S0609    1SUNday in the Park (Cleveland Metroparks).
S0609    1Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
S0609    7Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
S0609    6Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
S0609     Senior Citizens Day (Oklahoma).
R0609    3It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0609    4It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0609    5It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0609    6It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0609    7It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0609    2It's National Fraternal Week.
R0609    1It's National Fraternal Week.
R0609    2National Dog Bite Prevention Week begins.
R0609    3It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0609    3It's National Humor Week.
R0609    4It's National Humor Week.
R0609    5It's National Humor Week.
R0609    6It's National Humor Week.
R0609    7It's National Humor Week.
R0609    3It's National Soaring Week.
R0609    4It's National Soaring Week.
R0609    5It's National Soaring Week.
R0609    6It's National Soaring Week.
R0609    7It's National Soaring Week.
S0609    7Queen's official birthday (Great Britain's National Day).
S0609     Vestia (Roman festival honoring Vesta, goddess of fire, the
S0609       home and cooking, patron goddess of women).
S06101639 the first American log cabin is built at Ft. Christina
S06101639C(Wilmington, Delaware).
S06101652 the first mint in America is established in Boston (in defiance
S06101652Cof English colonial law).
S06101682 the first tornado recorded by white settlers in North America
S06101682Chits New Haven, Conn.
S06101720 Mrs. Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard.
S06101772 the burning of the Gaspee, a British revenue cutter, by Rhode
S06101772CIslanders occurs.
S06101801 Tripoli declares war on the United States.
S06101808 Pope Pius VII excommunicates Napoleon Bonaparte.
S06101854 Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved.
S06101854 the first regular meeting of the joint City Council of Cleveland
S06101854C(after Cleveland annexes Ohio City) is held.
S06101861 Dorothea Dix, famous penal and hospital reformer, is appointed
S06101861Csuperintendent of women nurses, serving as head of hospital
S06101861Cnursing for the Union Army.
S06101865 the first performance of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" occurs in
S06101865CMunich, Germany.
S06101869 the "Agnes" arrives in New Orleans with the first ever shipment
S06101869Cof frozen beef.
S06101889 the United Confederate Veterans is organized in New Orleans.
S06101902 the window envelope is patented by Americus F. Callahan.
S06101915 the Girl Scouts are incorporated.
S06101921 Congress passes the Budget and Accounting Act, establishing the
S06101921CBureau of the Budget and General Accounting Office.
S06101921 Yankees' Babe Ruth becomes baseball's career home run leader by
S06101921Chitting his 120th career home run off Cleveland's Jim Bagby,
S06101921CCleveland 8, N.Y. 6.
S06101932 the first demonstration of artificial lightning occurs in
S06101932CPittsfield, Mass.
S06101935 Alcoholics Anonymous is formed in Akron, Ohio by Dr. Robert Smith
S06101935Cand William G. Wilson.
S06101940 Italy declares war on Britain and France.
S06101943 the Withholding Tax Act is signed, enacting the first U.S.
S06101943Cpaycheck withholding tax.
S06101944 Joe Nuxhall at 15 years, 10 months and 11 days becomes the
S06101944Cyoungest M.L. baseball player when he pitches 2/3's of an inning
S06101944Cfor the Reds in an 18-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.
S06101946 the Italian Republic is established.
S06101947 President Truman becomes the first president to pay a state visit
S06101947Cto Canada.
S06101948 the first Ford passenger car ('49 model) using independent front
S06101948Csuspension with coil springs, instead of the "buggy spring"
S06101948Ctransverse springs, is unveiled in N.Y.
S06101955 the first virus separated into component parts is reported.
S06101957 Jacksonville, Florida school teacher Mae Axton tells Billboard
S06101957Cthat she allows her students to listen to Elvis Presley records
S06101957Cin class when their minds wander (co-wrote with Tommy Durden,
S06101957CPresley's first #1 hit, "Heartbreak Hotel").
S06101959 Rocky Colavito becomes the only Cleveland player to hit four home
S06101959Cruns in a game.  (He did it in consecutive at-bats!)  Indians 11,
S06101959COrioles 8.
S06101963 a bill requiring equal pay for equal work, regardless of sex, is
S06101963Csigned by President Kennedy.
S06101967 the Six-Day War ends between Israel and Arab world with U.N.
S06101967Chelp.
S06101971 the U.S. ends a 21-year-old trade embargo on Peking.
S06101975 a commission on CIA domestic activities reports that the CIA had
S06101975Cundertaken unlawful surveillance of some 300,000 persons or
S06101975Corganizations.
S06101977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II.
S06101978 Affirmed takes the Triple Crown at Belmont (11th winner).
S06101980 "Urban Cowboy" opens.
S06101984 the first reported successful "high frontier" interception test
S06101984Cin outer space occurs (Star Wars.)  In August 1993, questions
S06101984Cabout it possible being rigged are raised.
S06101989 Rev. Jerry Falwell announces the disbanding of the Moral
S06101989CMajority.
S06101995 Cleveland Indians lose to Milwaukee 6-1, but still set a club
S06101995Crecord with the best start after 40 games, 29-11.
S06101995 Disney's "Pocahontas" premieres in New York Central Park to a
S06101995Ccrowd of 100,000 on 4 giant screens (largest premiere ever).
S0610     Feast of St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland, widow.
S0610    1Children's Day.
S0610    1Race Unity Day.
S0610    1SUNday in the Park (Cleveland Metroparks).
S0610    1Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
S0610    7Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
S0610    6Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
R0610    4It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0610    5It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0610    6It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0610    7It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0610    2It's National Fraternal Week.
R0610    3It's National Fraternal Week.
R0610    1It's National Fraternal Week.
R0610    2National Dog Bite Prevention Week begins.
R0610    3It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0610    4It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0610    4It's National Humor Week.
R0610    5It's National Humor Week.
R0610    6It's National Humor Week.
R0610    7It's National Humor Week.
R0610    4It's National Soaring Week.
R0610    5It's National Soaring Week.
R0610    6It's National Soaring Week.
R0610    7It's National Soaring Week.
S0610     Portuguese National Day.
S0610    7Queen's official birthday (Great Britain's National Day).
S0610     Day of Anahita (Persian).
S0610     Camoes Memorial Day (Portugal).
S0610     Portugal Day (Madeira).
S0610     Camoen Portuguese Communities Day (Macoa).
S06111776 Thomas Jefferson begins on his draft of the Declaration of
S06111776CIndependence.
S06111793 the first American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick.
S06111838 the Iowa Territory is organized.
S06111859 the claim is filed for the Comstock Lode.  The mine eventually
S06111859Cproduces more than $300 million in silver.
S06111861 West Virginia names it first governor.
S06111878 the District of Columbia is given a new government by Congress,
S06111878Cthree commissioners appointed by the president (change in 1974).
S06111895 the first U.S. patent for a gasoline-driven automobile by a U.S.
S06111895Cinventor is issued to Charles E. Duryea.
S06111898 the first U.S. Marines land in Cuba during the Spanish-American
S06111898CWar.
S06111925 a gem dealer is thrown from a plane in Britain in the first
S06111925Crecorded murder in the skies.
S06111927 Charles A. Lindbergh, in the Air Corps Reserve, receives the
S06111927Cfirst Distinguished Flying Cross.
S06111937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" is released.
S06111947 WW II sugar rationing finally ends (began May 28, 1942).
S06111955 the first magnesium jet airplane is flown.
S06111957 the first test of an Atlas missile ends in failure.
S06111959 the U.S. Postmaster General bans "Lady Chatterley's Lover" from
S06111959Cthe U.S. mail (overruled by U.S. Court of Appeals in Mar. 1960).
S06111959 the new land-sea vehicle Hovercraft is unveiled.
S06111966 Janis Joplin plays her first gig (with Big Brother and the
S06111966CHolding Company in San Francisco).
S06111967 the Six Day War ends with Israel the victor.
S06111972 Cleveland's thermometer plunges to a record 31 degrees, the
S06111972Clatest in the spring that the temperature ever fell below
S06111972Cfreezing.
S06111977 Seattle Slew captures the Triple Crown at Belmont (10th winner).
S06111977 the Main Street Electrical Parade at Disneyland premieres.
S06111982 "E T: The Extra-Terrestrial" is released.
S06111984 the Supreme Court declares that illegally obtained evidence may
S06111984Cbe admitted at a trial providing it could be proved that the
S06111984Cevidence would have been discovered inevitably by lawful means.
S06111992 Tracy Austin, 29, becomes the youngest inductee of the
S06111992CInternational Tennis Hall of Fame at a ceremony at Newport, R.I.
S06111993 "Jurassic Park" opens, setting a box office record of $50 million
S06111993Cin the first weekend (record $18.2 million the first day).
S06111995 Lotus Development Corp. agrees to be bought out by IBM, the
S06111995Csoftware industry's largest merger.
S0611     Feast of St. Barnabas, apostle.
S0611    1Children's Day.
S0611    1Race Unity Day.
S0611    1SUNday in the Park (Cleveland Metroparks).
S0611    1Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
S0611    7Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
S0611    6Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
R0611    5It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0611    6It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0611    7It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0611    2It's National Fraternal Week.
R0611    3It's National Fraternal Week.
R0611    4It's National Fraternal Week.
R0611    1It's National Fraternal Week.
R0611    2National Dog Bite Prevention Week begins.
R0611    3It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0611    4It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0611    5It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0611    5It's National Humor Week.
R0611    6It's National Humor Week.
R0611    7It's National Humor Week.
R0611    5It's National Soaring Week.
R0611    6It's National Soaring Week.
R0611    7It's National Soaring Week.
S0611     King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii (1737-1819).
S0611    7Queen's official birthday (Great Britain's National Day).
S0611     Al-Esra (Oman).
S0611     Libya Evacuation Day (U.S. Troops).
S0611     Time Memorial Day (Japan).
S0611     Day of Tyche (Greek).
S0611     Festival of Concordia (Roman goddess of peace and civic harmony).
S06121665 English rename New Amsterdam "New York" after the Dutch pull out.
S06121701 the Act of Settlement is passed, declaring that no Roman Catholic
S06121701Cmay become King of England.
S06121776 the Virginia Bill of Rights is adopted (basis for the U.S. Bill
S06121776Cof Rights).
S06121838 the Iowa Territory is formed, separated from the Wisconsin
S06121838CTerritory.
S06121839 the first baseball game is played in America.  Thanks Abner!
S06121849 Lewis Haslett patents the gas mask.
S06121880 John Lee Richmond pitches the first major league perfect game,
S06121880CWorcester 1, Cleveland's Forest City 0.
S06121898 the Philippines gain its independence from Spain.
S06121917 the Secret Service extends protection of the president to his
S06121917Cfamily.
S06121920 the Farmer Labor Party is organized.
S06121923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended
S06121923Cupside down, 40 feet above the ground.
S06121934 the Black-McKeller Bill passes, causing Boeing empire to break up
S06121934Cinto Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Air Lines.
S06121939 the Baseball Hall of Fame is dedicated in Cooperstown, N.Y.
S06121942 the U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign the Lend-Lease agreement during WW II.
S06121944 the first Nazi V-1 missile (Fieseler Fi-103) hits London.
S06121946 Philippines National Day is proclaimed.
S06121948 Citation takes the Triple Crown with a win at Belmont (8th
S06121948Cwinner).
S06121957 the Cedar Point Causeway opens.
S06121962 three convicts dig their way out of Alcatraz with spoons.
S06121963 JFK establishes the President's Advisory Council on the Arts.
S06121963 "Cleopatra," starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, opens.
S06121965 the Big Bang theory of the creation of the universe is supported
S06121965Cby the announcement of the discovery of new celestial bodies know
S06121965Cas blue galaxies.
S06121967 state laws forbidding interracial marriages is ruled
S06121967Cunconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
S06121970 Sir Lawrence Olivier is named a Baron (Lord Olivier of Brighton)
S06121970Cand a member of the House of Lords by the queen.  He is the first
S06121970Cactor named to peerage.
S06121971 Tricia Nixon and Edward F. Cox marry at White House.
S06121972 John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" is released, including
S06121972C"Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" and "Luck of
S06121972Cthe Irish".
S06121974 Little League baseball announces its teams are open to girls.
S06121977 ground-breaking ceremonies are held for the President Kennedy
S06121977Clibrary.
S06121979 American Bryan Allen pedals a plane across the English Channel.
S06121981 the third baseball strike starts (ends after 7 weeks).
S06121981 more than 800,000 demonstrate against nuclear proliferation in
S06121981CCentral Park, N.Y. City, the largest rally against nuclear arms
S06121981Cever held in America.
S06121984 the Supreme Court rules that courts could not overrule seniority
S06121984Cprograms to prevent layoffs of employees hired under affirmative
S06121984Caction programs.
S06121989 the Supreme Court rules the burning of the American flag as a
S06121989Cpolitical protest is protected by the First Amendment.
S06121991 Pinatuba in the Philippines erupts after 600 years, forewarning
S06121991Cof cataclysmic eruptions that occur 3 days later which affect
S06121991Cweather patterns for at least 18 months.
S06121991 in Russia's first free election, Boris Yeltsin is elected
S06121991Cpresident.
S06121993 a U.S. 1,200-member Quick Reaction Force participates in a U.N.
S06121993Cretaliatory strike against a Somalia warlord.
S06121994 Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson murders his ex-wife, Nicole Brown
S06121994CSimpson, and her friend Ronald Lyle Goldman.
S06121994 the first test flight of the Boeing 777 is successful.
S06121995 the U.S. Supreme Court holds that the federal governments'
S06121995Cclassification by race should be subject to "strict scrutiny"  by
S06121995Clower courts (specific and well-documented reasons for giving
S06121995Cpreference to minorities when awarding contract).
S0612     Feast of St. John of San Facondo, confessor.
S0612    1Children's Day.
S0612    1Race Unity Day.
S0612    1SUNday in the Park (Cleveland Metroparks).
S0612    1Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
S0612    7Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
S0612    6Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
R0612    6It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0612    7It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0612    5It's National Fraternal Week.
R0612    4It's National Fraternal Week.
R0612    3It's National Fraternal Week.
R0612    2It's National Fraternal Week.
R0612    1It's National Fraternal Week.
R0612    2National Dog Bite Prevention Week begins.
R0612    3It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0612    4It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0612    5It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0612    6It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0612    6It's National Humor Week.
R0612    7It's National Humor Week.
R0612    6It's National Soaring Week.
R0612    7It's National Soaring Week.
S0612     Philippines Independence Day (Spain 1898).
S0612    7Queen's official birthday (Great Britain's National Day).
S0612     Feast of Mut (Egyptian).
S0612     Peace with Bolivia Day (Paraguay).
S0612     The Twelfth (Northern Ireland).
S0613 323 BC Alexander the Great dies of a fever in Babylon.
S06131633 the Maryland charter is issued to Lord Cecil Baltimore.
S06131798 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded in California.
S06131890 the Supreme Council of the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the
S06131890CEnchanted Realm (Freemasons) is instituted.
S06131895 the world's first auto race occurs in France, Paris to Bordeaux
S06131895Cand back.
S06131898 the Yukon Territory of Canada is organized.  Dawson is chosen as
S06131898Cthe capital.
S06131920 the U.S. Post Office rules that children may not be sent by
S06131920Cparcel post.
S06131927 Charles Lindbergh is honored in New York City for his trans-
S06131927Catlantic flight.  750,000 pounds of confetti are showered down.
S06131933 the Federal Savings & Loan Association is authorized.
S06131933 the first sodium vapor lamps are installed in Schenectady, N.Y.
S06131940 twelve Cleveland players deliver a petition to owner Alva
S06131940CBradley, demanding that manager Oscar Vitt be fired, earning the
S06131940Cteam the nickname "Cry Baby" Indians.
S06131942 the Office of Strategic Services is created.
S06131944 Marvin Camras patents the wire recorder.
S06131948 on Babe Ruth Day at Yankee Stadium, Babe Ruth's #3 is retired;
S06131948CN.Y beats the Indians 5-3.
S06131956 the U.S. Army gets its first official flag.
S06131956 the British give up the Suez Canal after 72 years.  Egypt assumes
S06131956Cresponsibility.
S06131957 Red Sox Ted Williams hits three home runs and drives in five runs
S06131957Cin a 9-3 victory over Cleveland to become the first A.L. player
S06131957Cto have two three-homer games in a season.
S06131963 a leading Vietnamese Buddhist monk, Ngo Quang Duc, is the first
S06131963Cto immolate himself in protest to the treatment by the Diem
S06131963Cgovernment of Buddhists.
S06131964 tickets go on sale for the Beatles' September concert (35
S06131964CCleveland police officers are stationed outside Public Hall to
S06131964Censure order).
S06131966 the Supreme Court rules on Miranda v. Arizona (suspect must be
S06131966Cinformed of rights).
S06131967 Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first black Supreme Court
S06131967Cjustice.
S06131971 the New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers.
S06131972 Robert Isray makes a no-cash trade of his L.A. Rams for Carroll
S06131972CRosenbloom's Baltimore Colts.
S06131973 President Nixon orders a 60-day freeze on all retailed prices.
S06131976 the worst racial violence in 15 years begins in South Africa.
S06131979 the Sioux nation receives an estimated $100 million for an area
S06131979Cof the Black Hills of South Dakota taken from them in 1877
S06131979C(largest award ever received by an Indian group).
S06131980 Rep. John Jenrette, Jr. (D-SC) is indicted in "Abscam"
S06131980Cinvestigation
S06131981 a teenager fires six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II.
S06131982 King Fahd of Saudi Arabia is crowned.
S06131987 the last "Prairie Home Companion" radio broadcast airs.
S06131993 (Avril Phaedra) Kim Campbell becomes Canada's first female PM
S06131993Cand the first of the country's 19 PM's born-and-bred on the
S06131993Cwest coast.
S06131994 the sign in front of Jacobs Field at the corner of Ontario and
S06131994CCarnegie is turned on for the first time.  The Indians, in their
S06131994C24th home appearance, win their 12th consecutive home game
S06131994Cbeating Toronto 7-3.
S06131995 Indians' Dennis Martinez hurls his second no-hitter at Jacobs
S06131995CField, beating Baltimore 11-0 in front of the largest crowd to
S06131995Cdate (41,927).  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S06131995C  first pitcher to get two shut-outs
S0613     Feast of St. Anthony of Padua, patron of lovers, illiterate,
S0613       poor, animals and things that are lost.
S0613    1Children's Day.
S0613    1Race Unity Day.
S0613    1SUNday in the Park (Cleveland Metroparks).
S0613    1Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
S0613    7Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
S0613    6Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
R0613     It's the Ides of June!
S0613    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S0613     Kitchen Klutzs of America Day.
S0613     The National Asparagus Festival, Shelby, Mich.
R0613    7It's National Safe Boating Week.
R0613    1It's National Fraternal Week.
R0613    6It's National Fraternal Week.
R0613    5It's National Fraternal Week.
R0613    4It's National Fraternal Week.
R0613    3It's National Fraternal Week.
R0613    2It's National Fraternal Week.
R0613    2National Dog Bite Prevention Week begins.
R0613    3It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0613    4It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0613    5It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0613    6It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0613    7It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0613    7It's National Humor Week.
R0613    7It's National Soaring Week.
S0613    7Queen's official birthday (Great Britain's National Day).
S0613     Tibetan All Saints Day.
S0613     Queen's Birthday (Montserrat).
S0613     Reform Movement's Anniversary (Yemen Arab Republic).
S06141623 Rev. Gerville Pooley of Virginia files first breach-of-promise
S06141623Clawsuit against Cicely Jordan.  He loses.
S06141642 Massachusetts passes the first compulsory education law.
S06141775 the Second Continental Congress establishes the U.S. Army.
S06141777 Stars and Stripes is adopted as the U.S. flag, replacing the
S06141777CGrand Union Flag (effective Sept. 3).
S06141834 Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper.
S06141846 the California (Bear Flag) Republic is proclaimed in Sonoma.
S06141847 Bunson invents a gas burner.
S06141850 a fire destroys part of San Francisco.
S06141851 Woodland Cemetery in Cleveland is dedicated.
S06141864 the James River Bridge, the longest (2,100 ft.) pontoon bridge
S06141864Cever used in war, is constructed in 8 hours by 450 Union
S06141864Cengineers (enabled Grant's forces to cross and move on to
S06141864CPetersburg).
S06141870 the first M.L. extra innings game is played, Brooklyn Atlantics
S06141870C8, Cincinnati Red Stockings 7, snapping Brooklyn's 92-game
S06141870Cwinning streak.
S06141876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co. gets it's franchise in
S06141876CSan Francisco.
S06141877 Flag Day is observed for the first time (presidential
S06141877Cproclamation to mark the centennial).
S06141895 the Cleveland Orchestra is founded.
S06141900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins.
S06141919 Captain John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Whitten Brown set out on the
S06141919Cfirst non-stop transatlantic airplane crossing.
S06141922 President Harding becomes the first president to be heard on the
S06141922Cradio.
S06141938 chlorophyll is patented by Benjamin Grushkin.
S06141940 German forces enter Paris during WW II.
S06141942 the first bazooka rocket gun is produced, at Bridgeport, Ct.
S06141942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released.
S06141944 the first B-29 raid against Mainland Japan takes place.
S06141948 TV Guide is first published.
S06141950 the first human birth is broadcasted on TV in New Jersey.
S06141951 UNIVAC 1, the first commercial computer, is unveiled
S06141951C(Philadelphia, Pa.).
S06141952 the keel is dedicated for first nuclear powered submarine, the
S06141952C"Nautilus," at Groton, Conn.
S06141954 America partakes in a nation-wide civil defense test against an
S06141954Catomic attack.
S06141954 President Eisenhower signs the order adding words "under God" to
S06141954Cthe Pledge of Allegiance.
S06141967 Mariner V is launched for a Venus flyby .
S06141972 the EPA bans nearly all use of DDT.
S06141974 the Heimlich Maneuver is announced.
S06141976 "The Gong Show" premieres.
S06141982 the British successfully retake the Falkland Islands, defeating
S06141982CArgentina forces who had invaded them on April 2.
S06141983 Pioneer 10 is the first man-made object to leave the Solar
S06141983CSystem.
S06141994 the Cleveland Indians, in their 25th home game at Jacobs Field,
S06141994Ctie a club record set in 1965 with their 13th consecutive home
S06141994Cgame win, beating Toronto 7-5.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S06141994C  first club record tied since moving to Jacobs Field
S0614     Flag Day.
S0614     Feast of St. Basil the Great, bishop, confessor, doctor.
S0614    1Children's Day.
S0614    1Race Unity Day.
S0614     United States Army's Birthday.
S0614    1SUNday in the Park (Cleveland Metroparks).
S0614    1Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
S0614    7Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
R0614    1It's National Fraternal Week.
R0614    2It's National Fraternal Week.
R0614    3It's National Fraternal Week.
R0614    4It's National Fraternal Week.
R0614    5It's National Fraternal Week.
R0614    6It's National Fraternal Week.
R0614    7It's National Fraternal Week.
R0614    2National Dog Bite Prevention Week begins.
R0614    3It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0614    4It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0614    5It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0614    6It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0614    7It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0614    1It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
S0614    7Queen's official birthday (Great Britain's National Day).
S0614     Birthday of the Muses (Greek).
S0614     Rice Planting Festival (Japan).
S0615 763 BC Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on a clay tablet.
S06151215 King John signs the Magna Charta at Runnymede.
S06151502 Columbus discovers Martinque.
S06151664 the colony of New Jersey is established.
S06151752 Benjamin Franklin proves lightning is electricity with his kite.
S06151775 Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the American Army.
S06151785 2 French balloonists die in the world's first fatal aviation
S06151785Caccident.
S06151804 the 12th Amendment is ratified, specifying the manner of choosing
S06151804Cthe President and Vice-President.
S06151836 Arkansas becomes the 25th state.
S06151844 Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber.
S06151846 the Oregon Treaty is signed, setting the U.S.-British boundary of
S06151846Cthe Oregon Territory at 49 N.
S06151851 Jacob Fussell, a Baltimore dairyman, sets up the first
S06151851Cice-cream factory.
S06151859 Joseph C. Hutchison performs the first mastoid operation.
S06151864 the Battle of Petersburg, Va. begins; the gatling gun is first
S06151864Cused.
S06151864 Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington, Va.) is turned into a
S06151864Cmilitary cemetery.
S06151867 John Stough Bobbs performs the first gallstone operation.
S06151869 John W. and Isaiah S. Hyatt apply for a patent for celluloid.
S06151877 the first black graduates from the U.S. Military Academy at West
S06151877CPoint, Henry O. Flipper.
S06151878 the first attempt at motion pictures (using 12 cameras, each
S06151878Ctaking one picture) occurs to see if all 4 of a horse's hoofs
S06151878Cleave the ground during a gallop.  Leland Stanford bet they
S06151878Cdidn't.  He lost.
S06151909 Benjamin F. Shibe patents the cork center baseball.
S06151916 the Boys Scouts of America is incorporated by a bill signed by
S06151916CPresident Wilson.
S06151917 Congress passes the Espionage Act.
S06151919 the first flight across Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) is completed.
S06151924 J. Edgar Hoover becomes head of the FBI.
S06151924 Congress approves the law making all Indians citizens.
S06151924 the Ford Motor Company announces the manufacture of its
S06151924C10,000,000 automobile (7 years to make the first million, but
S06151924Conly 132 working days to make the tenth million).
S06151925 the Philadelphia Athletics go into the bottom of the 8th inning
S06151925Ctrailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15.
S06151938 Reds' Johnny Vander Meer pitches the first and last consecutive
S06151938Cno-hitter.  After beating the Boston Braves four days earlier, he
S06151938Cno-hits the Dodgers 6-0 in the first night game in Brooklyn.
S06151944 Marines of the 2nd and 4th Divisions, reinforced by the Army's
S06151944C27th Infantry Regiment, invade Saipan.
S06151948 as part of the blockade, the Soviets stop all coal shipments to
S06151948CBerlin.
S06151952 "Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl" is published.
S06151963 "Sukiyaki" (originally "Ue O Mui Te Aruko") by Kyu Sakamoto
S06151963Cbecomes the first song sung in a foreign language to go to No. 1
S06151963Cin America.
S06151970 the claim of conscientious objector status on moral grounds alone
S06151970Cis found constitutional by the Supreme Court.
S06151980 Cleveland Indians' Jorge Orta gets six hits in one game.
S06151981 the F-117A Stealth Fighter is first flown, 31 months after the
S06151981Cdecision to develop it.
S06151986 Pravda announces the high-level Chernobyl staff are fired for
S06151986Cstupidity.
S06151991 cataclysmic eruptions begin at Pinatuba in the Philippines
S06151991Cat 2 a.m., sending plumes of ash 100,000 feet into the
S06151991Catmosphere, and affecting weather patterns for at least 18 months
S06151991C(worst world volcanic activity in 80 years).
S06151992 Vice-President Dan Quayle urges a student to misspell the word
S06151992Cpotato(e).
S06151994 the Cleveland Indians, in their 26th home game at Jacobs Field,
S06151994Ctie a club record set in 1954 with their 14th consecutive home
S06151994Cgame win, beating Toronto 4-3 on Jim Thome's home run in the
S06151994C13th.
S0615    1Father's Day.
S0615     Feast of St. Vitus, martyr, the patron saint of those suffering
S0615       from chorea, epilepsy, and sleeping sickness, and invoked
S0615       against rabies.
S0615     Feast of St. Bernard of Menthon.
S0615     Feast of SS. Modestus and Crescentia, martyrs.
S0615    1Glenn Miller Festival (3-day festival in Clarinda, Iowa).
S0615    5Viola Gopher Count.
R0615    2It's National Fraternal Week.
R0615    3It's National Fraternal Week.
R0615    4It's National Fraternal Week.
R0615    5It's National Fraternal Week.
R0615    6It's National Fraternal Week.
R0615    7It's National Fraternal Week.
R0615    3It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0615    4It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0615    5It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0615    6It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0615    7It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0615    1It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
S0615     Apache Ceremonies (Native American).
S0615     Arkansas Admission Day.
S0615     Magna Charta Day.
S0615     Valdemar's Day (Denmark).
S0615     Vestalia (Roman festival honoring Vesta, goddess of fire, the
S0615       home and cooking, patron goddess of women).
S06161373 the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance is signed in London, the
S06161373Coldest treaty in history.
S06161567 Mary Queen of Scots is thrown into Lochleven Castle prison.
S06161775 the Liberty Bell is rung for the 2nd Continental Congress.
S06161795 General "Mad Anthony" Wayne begins peace talks with Indian chiefs
S06161795Cat Greenville, Ohio (treaty is later signed ending all wars
S06161795Cbetween the Indians and the settlers in Ohio).
S06161812 Britian, fearing war, orders an end to attacks on U.S. shipping.
S06161812CThis is not known in the U.S. and war is declared on June 18.
S06161816 after an evening of ghost stories, Mary Shelley has a nightmare
S06161816Cthat gives her the inspiration for "Frankenstein" (or the Modern
S06161816CPrometeus).
S06161858 "A house divided against itself cannot stand" is delivered by
S06161858CAbraham Lincoln (during the first of the Lincoln-Douglas
S06161858CDebates).
S06161879 Gilbert and Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at the Bowery
S06161879CTheatre in New York City (introduction to the U.S.).
S06161883 the first baseball "Ladies' Day" (N.Y. Gothams vs Cleveland's
S06161883CForest City) takes place.
S06161884 the first roller coaster is put in operation at Coney Island,
S06161884CN.Y.
S06161894 the squeeze play is first employed in baseball by George Case and
S06161894CDutch Carter, of Yale, in a game against Princeton (introduced in
S06161894CM.L. baseball in 1904).
S06161903 the Ford Motor Company is founded.
S06161903 Pepsi-Cola Co. registers Pepsi-Cola with the U.S. Patent Office,
S06161903Ca year after opening its doors.
S06161904 Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's "Ulysses").
S06161911 the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) is incorporated
S06161911C(later becomes IBM).
S06161919 Ohio ratifies the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to
S06161919Cvote (the fifth state to do so).
S06161920 International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) is incorporated to
S06161920Cown a Puerto Rican and two Cuban telephone companies.
S06161922 Henry A. Berliner demonstrates the first helicopter prototype for
S06161922Ca gathering of representatives of the U.S. Bureau of Aeronautics.
S06161933 the U.S. Consumers' Counsel is authorized.
S06161933 the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is created.
S06161933 the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRS) is created,
S06161933Cestablishing the National Recovery Administration (NRA), and the
S06161933CPublic Works Administration (PWA) - later struck down.
S06161941 the first U.S. federally owned airport opens (Washington, D.C.).
S06161947 the first network news airs - Dumont's "News from Washington".
S06161949 the gas turbine-electric locomotive is first demonstrated in
S06161949CErie, Pa.
S06161961 Discoverer 25 is launched to determine how space conditions
S06161961Caffect various minerals.
S06161961 Rudolf Nureyev, the Russian ballet dancer, requests asylum.
S06161963 Vostok 6 is launched.  Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman
S06161963Cin space.
S06161975 the Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees to be in
S06161975Cviolation of antitrust laws.
S06161976 a baseball game at the covered Astrodome is called because of
S06161976Crain (flooding around the stadium prevented attendance).
S06161980 the Supreme Court rules that new life forms created in
S06161980Clabortories can be patented.
S06161987 subway gunman Bernhard Goetz is acquitted on all but gun
S06161987Cpossession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob
S06161987Chim.
S06161991 Atlanta's Otis Nixon sets a N.L. record, and ties the M.L. record
S06161991Cset by Eddie Collins of the Philadelphia A's in 1912, by stealing
S06161991C6 bases in a game.
S06161994 the Cleveland Indians, in their 27th home game at Jacobs Field,
S06161994Cand beating a club record set in 1954, set the second longest
S06161994Chome game consecutive win record (15) with a "Major League"
S06161994Cfinish.  Down by 2, with 2 outs in the 9th, the Tribe battles
S06161994Cback to beat Boston 7-6.
S06161994 for the first time in its 110-year history, CEI is forced to
S06161994Cselectively blackout 38,500 customers because 2 of its plants
S06161994Cwere down and they were unable to generate enough power during
S06161994Cthe heat wave.
S0616     Feast of St. John Francis Regis, confessor.
S0616    1Father's Day.
S0616     Senior Celebration Day
S0616     National Juggling Day.
S0616    5Viola Gopher Count.
R0616    3It's National Fraternal Week.
R0616    4It's National Fraternal Week.
R0616    5It's National Fraternal Week.
R0616    6It's National Fraternal Week.
R0616    7It's National Fraternal Week.
R0616    4It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0616    5It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0616    6It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0616    7It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0616    1It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
S0616     U.N.'s International Day of Solidarity with People of South
S0616       Africa.
S0616     Bloomsday (Dublin, Ireland).
S0616     Soweto Day.
S0616     Night of the Drop (Egyptian).
S06171579 Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of California.
S06171700 Massachusetts enacts a law requiring Roman Catholic priests to
S06171700Cleave the colony within three months.
S06171775 the Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill) occurs.
S06171856 the Republican Party opens its first convention in Philadelphia.
S06171863 the first U.S. accident insurance company is chartered.
S06171867 Joseph Lister in Glascow, Scotland becomes the first surgeon to
S06171867Cperform surgery under antiseptic conditions.
S06171880 John M. Ward pitches the second major league perfect game,
S06171880CProvidence 5, Buffalo 0.
S06171885 the Statue of Liberty arrives in N.Y. City aboard the French ship
S06171885C"Isere".
S06171915 Cubs' George "Zip" Zabel, called into the game against the
S06171915CBrooklyn Dodgers with 2 out in the 1st, wins 4-3 in the 19th
S06171915Cinning in the longest relief effort in M.L. history.
S06171923 ten beach censors ban one-piece bathing suits in Atlantic City,
S06171923CN.J.
S06171937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in N.Y.
S06171940 Prime Minister Churchill urges Britain to conduit herself so that
S06171940Cthat moment in history will be remembered as her "finest hour."
S06171942 the American Expeditionary Force lands in Africa.
S06171944 the Republic of Iceland is proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland.
S06171947 the first globe-circling passenger airline is inaugurated by Pan
S06171947CAm Airways.
S06171950 the first human kidney transplant is performed in Chicago.
S06171953 the Red Sox set a major league record for the most runs scored in
S06171953Cone inning (17).
S06171954 the televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings end.
S06171956 Golda Meir becomes Israel's foreign minister.
S06171960 Red Sox's Ted Williams hits his 500th career home run in
S06171960CCleveland Stadium.
S06171962 the African common market is established.
S06171963 the Supreme Court rules laws requiring recitation of the Lord's
S06171963CPrayer or Bible verses in public schools unconstitutional.
S06171965 Guam-based B-52s bomb a Vietcong concentration 30 miles north of
S06171965CSaigon in the first mass bombing raid of the Vietnam War (first
S06171965Ccombat use of the bombers since placed in operation in 1952).
S06171967 China becomes a nuclear power when it successfully tests its
S06171967Cfirst H-bomb.
S06171972 the Watergate break-in occurs.
S06171976 the NBA and ABA basketball leagues merge.
S06171982 the Cleveland Press closes after 103 years.
S06171985 the 18th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 5 is launched.
S06171991 the Apartheid Law in South Africa is repealed
S06171992 the last 2 Western hostages held in Lebanon are released.
S06171992 a litter of four male cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are born at
S06171992Cthe Cleveland Metroparks Zoo (the first cheetahs ever born at the
S06171992CZoo).
S06171993 Indians' Carlos Baerga hits 3 home runs against Detroit (5 RBI's)
S06171993Cin the Tribe's 9-5 loss to Detroit (the 16th Cleveland player to
S06171993Cdo so).
S06171993 baseball club owners vote 26-2 to double the number of teams that
S06171993Cmake the playoffs.
S06171994 the Cleveland Indians, in their 28th home game at Jacobs Field,
S06171994Ctie a club record set in 1951 with their 16th consecutive home
S06171994Cgame win, beating Boston 8-1.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S06171994C  Jacobs Field attendance tops 1,000,000
S06171995 Indians' rookie Herbert Perry, in his second M.L. game (his first
S06171995Cwas the day before when he went 0-3), goes 3-4 with two HRs and
S06171995Ca single, Cleveland 7, N.Y. 4.
S0617     Feast of St. Avitus, priest and confessor.
S0617     Feast of St. Botolph.
S0617     Bunker Hill Day (Massachusetts).
S0617     Republic Day, celebrated in Iceland.
S0617    1Father's Day.
S0617     St. Alban's Day (Anglican).
S0617    5Viola Gopher Count.
R0617    4It's National Fraternal Week.
R0617    5It's National Fraternal Week.
R0617    6It's National Fraternal Week.
R0617    7It's National Fraternal Week.
R0617    5It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0617    6It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0617    7It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0617    1It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
S0617     Federal Republic of Germany's National Day.
S0617     German Unity Day (Federal Republic of Germany).
S0617     Icelandic Republic Day (independence from Denmark).
S0617     Couples Day (Greek).
S06181583 Richard Martin of London takes out the first life insurance
S06181583Cpolicy, on William Gibbons.  The premium was 383 pounds.
S06181778 the British Redcoats evacuate Philadelphia.
S06181798 the slogan "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute"
S06181798Cis first used by Robert Goodloe Harper as a toast (refers to the
S06181798CXYZ Affair).
S06181798 the first of four acts known as the Alien and Sedition Acts is
S06181798Cadopted by Congress.
S06181812 the U.S. declares war on England (War of 1812).
S06181815 the Battle of Waterloo occurs (Napoleon is defeated by Wellington
S06181815Cand Blcher).
S06181861 the first fly casting tournament is held (Utica, N.Y.).
S06181864 at the Battle of Petersburg, Va., Grant is unable to take the
S06181864Ccity so he begins a siege that continues until April 1865.
S06181872 Woman's Suffrage Convention is held at Mercantile Liberty Hall.
S06181873 Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in
S06181873Cpresidential election.
S06181892 Macademia nuts are first planted in Hawaii.
S06181898 the amusement pier is opened in Atlantic City, N.J.
S06181910 the Mann-Elkins Act is passed, increasing the authority of the
S06181910CInterstate Commerce Commission and extending its jurisdiction to
S06181910Ccover telegraph, telephone, and cable companies.
S06181928 Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
S06181928COcean.
S06181934 U.S. Highway planning nationwide surveys are authorized.
S06181941 the Colorado Aqueduct begins supplying water to Los Angeles and
S06181941Cother southern California cities.
S06181950 the Cleveland Indians score 14 runs in the first inning for an
S06181950CA.L. record, beating the Philadelphia A's 21-2.
S06181953 Egypt is proclaimed a republic.
S06181953 Boston's Sammy White sets a M.L. record for the most runs in one
S06181953Cinning (3), and Boston's Gene Stephens sets a M.L. record for the
S06181953Cmost hits in one inning (3) - both in the same inning (7th).
S06181959 the first telecast from England to the U.S. is transmitted.
S06181963 Cassius Clay K.O.'s Henry Cooper in the fifth round, just as he
S06181963Cpredicted.
S06181965 a Titan 3C rocket is launched into orbit (first large solid fuel
S06181965Crocket).
S06181967 the Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern
S06181967CCalifornia.
S06181972 the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 5-3 vote, rules against former St.
S06181972CLouis Cardinals' Curt Flood, maintaining that baseball was exempt
S06181972Cfrom anti-trust laws, and allowing the reserve clause to still
S06181972Cstand.
S06181977 a Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft
S06181977Cfor the first time.  It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747.
S06181977 it is reported that the cause of the Legionnaires' disease
S06181977Coutbreak was found to be a bacterium.
S06181979 the U.S. and Soviets sign SALT II Pact, limiting offensive
S06181979Cnuclear weapons.
S06181981 Dept. of Agriculture reports using gene-splicing to make a
S06181981Cvaccine against hoof and mouth disease.
S06181983 the 7th Shuttle Mission (STS-7) - Challenger 2 is launched.
S06181983CSally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
S06181993 the first lab test is released in Arizona confirming a bee
S06181993Cinvolved in an attack as Africanized (Killer Bee). It is the
S06181993Csecond state invaded.
S06181994 the Cleveland Indians, in their 29th home game at Jacobs Field,
S06181994Cset a club record of 17 consecutive home game wins by beating
S06181994CBoston 8-2 (best A.L. record - 8 game winning streak and 39-25).
S06181994CFirsts at Jacobs Field:
S06181994C  first club record broken since moving to Jacobs Field
S06181995 the Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 4,500 for the first time
S06181995C(4,510.79).
S0618    1Father's Day.
S0618     Feast of St. Ephrem, confessor, doctor.
S0618     Feast of SS. Marcus and Marcellianus, martyrs.
R0618    5It's National Fraternal Week.
R0618    6It's National Fraternal Week.
R0618    7It's National Fraternal Week.
R0618    6It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0618    7It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0618    1It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
S0618     Jagannath Ratha Yatra (India).
S0618    5Viola Gopher Count.
S0618     Egypt Evacuation Day.
S06191757 the Second Coming of Christ occurs, according to the followers
S06191757Cof Emanuel Swedenborg (the Church of the New Jerusalem).
S06191770 the Church of the New Jerusalem is founded.
S06191778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
S06191846 the first recorded baseball game under a set of adopted rules
S06191846Cis played at Elysian Fields, Hoboken, N.J., New York Nine 23,
S06191846CKnickerbockers 1 in four innings.
S06191862 slavery is outlawed in U.S. territories.
S06191864 the Confederate cruiser "Alabama" is sunk by the "U.S.S.
S06191864CKearsarge" off Cherbourg, France.
S06191867 the first annual Belmont Stakes, the oldest of the 3 classic
S06191867CAmerican races, is won by Ruthless, with a time of 3:05, at
S06191867CJerome Park, N.Y. (jockey was J. Gilpatrick).
S06191875 the U.S. Marine Hospital at the Presidio formally opens.
S06191910 Father's Day is celebrated for the first time in Spokane Wash.,
S06191910Cinitiated by Mrs. John B. Dodd.
S06191912 a new labor law is passed by Congress, extending the 8-hour
S06191912Cworking day to all workers under federal contract.
S06191917 King George V orders members of British royal family to dispense
S06191917Cwith German titles and surnames.  (They took the name Windsor.)
S06191931 the first photoelectric cell is installed commercially in West
S06191931CHaven, Ct.
S06191934 the Communications Act is signed, establishing the Federal
S06191934CCommunications Commission (FCC).
S06191939 Atlanta, Georgia bans pinball machines.
S06191942 Boston Braves' Paul Waner, in his 16th season, becomes the 7th
S06191942Cplayer to reach 3,000 career hits (off Pittsburgh's Rip Sewell).
S06191944 during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, called the "Marianas
S06191944CTurkey Shoot," 280 Japanese planes are shot down by U.S. carrier-
S06191944Cbased planes and anti-aircraft fire from U.S. ships.
S06191947 the Tucker automobile premieres in Chicago.
S06191955 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100.
S06191961 Kuwait gains independence from Britain.
S06191963 Julius and Ethal Rosenberg, convicted of atomic espionage, are
S06191963Celectrocuted.
S06191963 Indians' Willie Kirtland's home run in the 19th inning sets a
S06191963Cclub record for the longest game ended by a home run.
S06191963 charter members of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame are
S06191963Cchosen.
S06191965 Air Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky becomes the South Vietnamese Premier.
S06191971 the Cleveland Indians set a team record with 2 back-to-back home
S06191971Cruns at the beginning of a game (vs. Detroit).
S06191972 pilots halt overseas flights to protest the need for better
S06191972Cpreventions against hijacking.
S06191976 U.S. Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after a 10-month flight
S06191976Cfrom earth.
S06191977 Pope Paul VI canonizes the 19th-century bishop John Neumann, the
S06191977Cfirst U.S. male saint.
S06191981 Boeing Commercial Chinook two-rotor helicopter gets certified.
S06191985 the MPAA self-imposes the new rating of PG-13.
S06191986 Len Bias, the Celtics first pick, suffers a fatal cocaine-induced
S06191986Cseizure.
S06191987 the Supreme Court voids Louisiana's law requiring schools to
S06191987Cteach creationism.
S06191991 the last Soviet troops leave Hungary.
S06191994 the Cleveland Indians, in their 30th home game at Jacobs Field,
S06191994Cextend their club record to 18 consecutive home game wins by
S06191994Cbeating Boston and Roger Clemens 6-5 (in first place by a 3 game
S06191994Clead - best A.L. record with a 9 game winning streak and 40-25,
S06191994Cand the best at-home record in baseball 23-7).  During this
S06191994Cstreak, the Tribe swept Detroit, Milwaukee, Oakland, California,
S06191994CToronto, and Boston. Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S06191994C  first club record set since moving to Jacobs Field
S06191994CIndians' starting pitcher Jack Morris wins his 250th career game.
S06191994 Detroit ties a M.L. record by homering in its 25th consecutive
S06191994Cgame.
S0619    1Father's Day.
S0619     Feast of St. Juliana Falconieri, virgin.
S0619     Emancipation Day (Texas).
S0619     Juneteenth.
R0619    6It's National Fraternal Week.
R0619    7It's National Fraternal Week.
R0619    7It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
R0619    1It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
S0619     New Church Day (Swedenborgians).
S0619    5Viola Gopher Count.
S0619     Midsummer Eve (Finland and Sweden).
S0619     Righting Day (Algeria).
S0619     Rizal's Birthday (Philippines).
S0619     Artigas Day (Uruguay).
S0620 451 AD, Attila the Hun experiences his first and only defeat at
S0620 451CChalon at the hands of Roman and Visigoth legions under Aetius.
S06201632 Britain grants Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area.
S06201782 the United States chooses the Eagle as it's symbol (The Great
S06201782CSeal).
S06201791 King Louis XVI is caught trying to escape the French Revolution.
S06201793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on his cotton gin.
S06201819 the "U.S.S. Savannah" becomes the first steamship to cross the
S06201819CAtlantic.
S06201837 Queen Victoria, at 18, ascends British throne, following death of
S06201837Cher uncle, King William IV. (Ruled for 63 years.)
S06201863 West Virginia becomes the 35th state.
S06201867 President Andrew Johnson announces the purchase of Alaska.
S06201887 a Command Performance by Buffalo Bill for Queen Victoria is
S06201887Cheld.
S06201893 Lizzie Borden is found "Not Guilty" of taking an axe and
S06201893Cgiving her parents a combined total of 81 whacks.
S06201900 the Boxers, a nationalist group, occupy Peking.
S06201904 the first modern comprehensive building code in the nation,
S06201904Cordinances 46388-A and 44404-A, is adopted in Cleveland.
S06201907 the Army War College opens in Washington, D.C.
S06201913 Mount McKinley's peak is first reached.
S06201920 the Yankees win protest of 1-0 White Sox win, and the game is
S06201920Creplayed.
S06201921 the first woman to preside over the House of Representatives is
S06201921CRep. Alice Robertson of Oklahoma (occupied the chair for 30
S06201921Cminutes).
S06201926 the first international Eucharistic Congress in the U.S. convenes
S06201926Cat Chicago.
S06201933 the U.S. Labor Advisor Board is organized.
S06201935 a device to keep vital organs alive outside the body for
S06201935Cprolonged periods is announced.
S06201939 the first rocket plane using liquid propellants is test flown.
S06201948 "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV.
S06201960 marine scientist John C. Lilly announces the bottle-nosed
S06201960Cdolphin has a brain equal to or greater than man.
S06201960 Senegal and the Sudanese Republic (later renamed Mali) gain
S06201960Cindependence as the Mali Federation (Senegal later withdraws).
S06201963 the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. agree on a hot line between Washington
S06201963Cand Moscow.
S06201964 Gen. Westmoreland succeeds Gen. Paul Hakins as head of U.S.
S06201964Cforces in Vietnam.
S06201967 Muhammad Ali gets five years in jail for evading the draft as a
S06201967Cconscientious objector.  (The Supreme Court overrules his
S06201967Cconviction.)
S06201968 Jim Hines becomes the first person to run 100 meters in under 10
S06201968Cseconds.
S06201972 the infamous conversation between President Nixon and his chief
S06201972Cof staff, H.R. Haldeman, concerning the Watergate break-in,
S06201972Coccurs.  (18 1/2-minutes of the White House tape is later
S06201972Cerased.)
S06201977 the trans-Alaskan oil pipeline opens (oil arrives at Valdez 38
S06201977Cdays later).
S06201980 Congress deregulates the trucking industry.
S06201982 National Bald Eagle Day is first observed.
S06201982 Pete Rose becomes the 5th M.L. player to appear in 3,000 games.
S06201987 Johnny Carson marries his fourth wife, Alexis.
S06201988 a law to force the admission of women to private clubs is upheld
S06201988Cby the Supreme Court.
S06201994 Cleveland stops Detroit's record-tieing home run streak (25),
S06201994Cbeating them 7-1 (Indians 10th consecutive win).
S06201995 the 28,000-pound framework of the dome for the 325-seat Omnimax
S06201995CTheater at Cleveland's Great Lakes Science Center is set in
S06201995Cplace.
S0620    1Father's Day.
S0620     National Bald Eagle Day.
S0620     Feast of St. Silverius, pope (536-37), martyr.
S0620     West Virginia Day.
R0620    7It's National Fraternal Week.
R0620    1It's National Dog Bite Prevention Week.
S0620     Day of Ixchel (Mayan).
S0620    5Viola Gopher Count.
S0620     Argentina's Flag's Day.
S0620     Midsummer Day (Finland and Sweden).
S06211633 Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse,
S06211633Cand detest" his Copernican heliocentric views.
S06211684 the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter is revoked by King Charles
S06211684CII of England.
S06211784 Spain closes the lower Mississippi River and the port of New
S06211784COrleans to use by Americans.
S06211788 the United States Constitution is ratified when New Hampshire
S06211788Cbecomes the 9th state of the original 13 to ratify (came into
S06211788Ceffect Mar. 4, 1789).
S06211805 Great Stoneface Mountain is found in New Hampshire.
S06211834 Cyrus Hall McCormick patents a practical reaping machine.
S06211884 the Cleveland Electric Light Co. is founded (later became
S06211884CC.E.I.).
S06211893 the first Ferris wheel is premiered at Chicago's Columbian
S06211893CExposition.
S06211898 Guam surrenders to the "U.S.S. Charleston" - Spanish-American
S06211898CWar.  (Obviously had not heard of the outbreak of war, for when
S06211898Cfired upon, the commander sent an apology for not returning the
S06211898Csalute because they were out of ammo.)
S06211917 the Hawaiian chapter of the Red Cross is founded.
S06211932 the first Federal gasoline tax (one-cent-per-gallon) goes into
S06211932Ceffect.
S06211934 the U.S. National Mediation Board is approved.
S06211939 doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic laterial sclerosis.
S06211941 Nazi Germany invades Russia.
S06211942 Axis shells are reported falling on the Oregon coast near Fort
S06211942CStevens.
S06211943 the U.S.S. Cod, the Gato-class submarine now on display in
S06211943CCleveland, is commissioned.
S06211945 after an 82-day campaign costing 7,631 U.S. lives, Japanese
S06211945Cforces on Okinawa surrender, the last major battle of the Pacific
S06211945Cwar.
S06211946 Bill Veeck buys the Indians for $2.2 million.
S06211948 the first stored-program computer, the Manchester Mark I, runs
S06211948Cits first program.  Written by  Prof. Tom Kilburn, it took 52
S06211948Cminutes to run.
S06211948 Dr. Peter Goldmark of Columbia Records demonstrates the long
S06211948Cplaying record.
S06211963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII.
S06211964 three civil rights workers are murdered in Mississippi.
S06211964 Jim Bunning, on Fathers' Day, pitches the eighth perfect game,
S06211964CPhillies 6, Mets 0.
S06211970 Tigers' shortstop Cesar Gutierrez sets a modern M.L. record when
S06211970Che goes 7-for-7 against five Indians pitchers in a 9-8, 12
S06211970Cinning victory.
S06211973 the Supreme Court hands the issue of obscenity back to the states
S06211973Cfor them to decide.
S06211976 a federal investigator publicly launches the governments search
S06211976Cfor a suspected Nazi war criminal living in Cleveland (John
S06211976CDemjanjuk).
S06211976 a 110-foot model of King Kong is dropped off the World Trade
S06211976CCenter in N.Y. for the movie remake.
S06211982 Washington, D.C. jury finds John Hinckley, Jr. innocent by reason
S06211982Cof insanity in the shooting of President Reagan.
S06211984 10 million shares of Superior Oil stock are sold for
S06211984C$423,800,000, the largest single stock transaction in the N.Y.
S06211984CStock Exchange's history.
S06211985 American, Brazilian and West German forensic pathologists
S06211985Cannounce skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil are Nazi Dr. Josef
S06211985CMengele.
S06211985 the NCAA approves suspension of teams for as long as 2 seasons
S06211985Cfor violations of rules concerning recruiting, amateur status,
S06211985Cacademic standings and ethics.
S06211993 the peregrine falcon eggs on the 12th floor of Cleveland's
S06211993CTerminal Tower are found to be fertile ("candling").
S06211993 "Laser Light Fantasy" opens at Geauga Lake.
S0621     The Summer Solstice.
S0621    1Father's Day.
S0621     Feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, confessor, patron saint of
S0621       Catholic Youth, born in Castiylione delle Sliviere, Venice.
S0621     New Hampshire Ratification Day.
S0621    5Viola Gopher Count.
S0621     The first day of the New Year (Ancient Greece after 432 B.C.).
S0621     Litha or Midsummer (Wiccan Sabbat - a traditional time for
S0621       magic).
S0621     Pya Martyrs' Day (Togo).
S0621     Festival of Oraea (Roman goddess of summer).
S06221611 Henry Hudson is set adrift in Hudson Bay during a mutiny
S06221611C(presumed lost).
S06221675 the Royal Greenwich Observatory is established in England by
S06221675CCharles II.
S06221774 Parliament passes the Quebec Act, extending Quebec's boundaries
S06221774Cas far south as the Ohio River, and as far west as the
S06221774CMississippi River.
S06221807 the British board the U.S.S. Chesapeake, a provocation leading to
S06221807Cthe War of 1812.
S06221808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak.
S06221816 the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar is started in N.Y. City.
S06221832 the pin manufacturing machine is patented (John I. Howe).
S06221847 the doughnut is invented.
S06221849 Stephen C. Massett opens at the Courthouse (S.F.) as the first
S06221849Cprofessional entertainer to use the (allegedly) only piano in
S06221849CCalifornia.
S06221851 a fire destroys part of San Francisco.
S06221868 Arkansas reenters the U.S. after the Civil War.
S06221870 the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Justice are
S06201870Ccreated.
S06221895 Euclid Beach Park first opens.
S06221910 the Zeppelin Deutscheland becomes the first airship to transport
S06221910Cpassengers.
S06221914 Alice Gertrude Bryant and Florence W. Duckering become the first
S06221914Cwomen members of the American College of Surgeons.
S06221933 the Illinois waterways opens, linking the Great Lakes with the
S06221933CGulf of Mexico.
S06221938 Joe Louis K.O.'s Max Schmeling in 124 seconds, avenging an
S06221938Cearlier defeat which Hitler had proclaimed as proof of Aryan
S06221938Csuperiority.
S06221940 France falls to Nazi Germany.
S06221942 Congress codifies the rules and customs pertaining to the display
S06221942Cand usage of the U.S. flag.
S06221944 the G.I. Bill of Rights (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944)
S06221944Cis signed into law.
S06221957 Kansas City stops using streetcars in it's transit system.
S06221964 the provisions of the Internal Security Act of 1950 denying U.S.
S06221964Cpassports to communists are ruled unconstitutional by the U.S.
S06221964CSupreme Court.
S06221969 the Cuyahoga River catches fire.
S06221970 President Nixon signs a law changing the voting age from 21 to
S06221970C18.  The 26th Amendment, passed July 1, 1971, affirms.
S06221970 the U.S. suspends use of defoliants in Vietnam.
S06221970 juries of fewer than 12 persons is ruled constitutional by the
S06221970CSupreme Court.
S06221977 Walt Disney's "The Rescuers" is released.
S06221978 James Christy of the U.S. Naval Observatory discovers a small
S06221978Cmoon orbiting Pluto (12,000 miles away).
S06221979 Pro Football Researchers Association is founded at Canton, Oh.
S06221983 it is the first time a satellite is retrieved from orbit (by the
S06221983CSpace Shuttle Challenger.)
S06221993 Carlton Fisk catches his 2,226th game, a N.L. record (is released
S06221993Cby the White Sox six days later when Chicago comes to Cleveland).
S06221994 Captain Frank's Restaurant at the end of Cleveland's 9th Street
S06221994Cpier is torn down to make way for a park.
S06221994 Houston wins its first professional championship when the Rockets
S06221994Ccapture the NBA crown, beating the Knicks in seven.
S06221995 ground is broken for the Women in Military Service for America
S06221995CMemorial in Washington, D.C.
S06221995 Dr. Lonnie R. Bristol becomes the first black to head the 148-
S06221995Cyear old AMA.
S0622     Feast of St. Paulinus, bishop of Nola, confessor.
S0622     Feast of St. Alban, martyr.
S0622     The longest day of the year (15 hours, 11 minutes of daylight in
S0622       Cleveland - sunrise to sunset).
S0622     Candelaria for Yemaya (Brazilian).
S0622     Corrective Move (People's Democratic Republic of Yemen).
S0622     Morat Battle Commemoration (Switzerland).
S0622     Teachers' Day (El Salvador).
S06231340 the English annihilated the French fleet, assembled for an
S06231340Cinvasion of England, in a battle off the coast of Flanders at
S06231340CSluis (Sluys), ending any threat during the Hundred Years War.
S06231501 Pedro Cabral arrives in Lisbon with a fleet of ships loaded with
S06231501Cspices from India.
S06231683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians
S06231683Cin Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken".
S06231771 Jose Candido Exposito becomes the first matador in history to be
S06231771Ckilled in a bullfight.
S06231776 the final draft of the Declaration of Independence is submitted
S06231776Cto Congress.
S06231784 America's first teenage balloonist, 13-year-old Edward Warren,
S06231784Csolos.
S06231796 Moses Cleaveland meets with the Chiefs of the Six Nations at
S06231796CBuffalo in his first attempt to establish friendly relations with
S06231796Cthe Indians as Superintendent of the Western Reserve for the
S06231796CConnecticut Land Company.
S06231810 John Jacob Astor organizes the Pacific Fur Company, and becomes
S06231810Cthe richest man in America.
S06231846 the saxophone is invented.
S06231857 a patent for a process for the economical production of steel
S06231857C(blowing air through molten iron to oxidize impurities) is
S06231857Cawarded to William Kelly.
S06231860 the Government Printing Office is established by an act of
S06231860CCongress (now the largest printing establishment in the world).
S06231867 Christopher Latham Sholes, Samuel Soul, and Carlos Glidden
S06231867Creceive two patents for the typewriter.
S06231893 the Humphrey family open a popcorn stand outside a Cleveland
S06231893Ccarnival; their first successful venture on the road to owning
S06231893CEuclid Beach Park.
S06231911 King George V is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
S06231917 Boston's Ernie G. Shore relieves Babe Ruth with nobody out and a
S06231917Cman on first.  The base runner is caught stealing, and Shore
S06231917Cretires all 26 batters to gain a 4-0 victory over Washington (a
S06231917C"special mention" perfect game).
S06231925 Russia's International Lenin Prize, given to Soviet citizens for
S06231925Cachievements in art, literature, science and engineering, is
S06231925Cestablished.
S06231938 Marineland, the first aquarium, opens in Florida.
S06231938 the Civil Aeronautics Authority is established to regulate air
S06231938Ctraffic.
S06231947 the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill becomes law.
S06231950 Indians' Luke Easter hits the longest ball in Cleveland
S06231950CStadium's history, 477 feet, into the upper deck, Section 4.
S06231950 the Tigers and Yankees set a M.L. record with 11 combined home
S06231950Cruns (Yanks 6, Detroit 5), in Detroit's 10-9 win.
S06231955 Walt Disney's "Lady And The Tramp" is released.
S06231960 Congress ratifies a mutual cooperation and security treaty with
S06231960CJapan with provisions for U.S. defense of Japan.
S06231963 Mets' Jimmy Piersall hits his 100th career home run and
S06231963Ccelebrates by running around the bases backwards.
S06231968 the war in Vietnam becomes the longest war in U.S. history.
S06231969 Earl Warren turns over the Chief Justice seat to Warren Burger.
S06231972 Nixon and Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate.
S06231976 the CN Tower in Toronto, the world's tallest free-standing
S06231976Cstructure (555 meters), opens.
S06231980 the first solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation
S06231980Coccurs.
S06231981 John Demjanjuk is stripped of his citizenship.
S06231981 Kathy Rinaldi becomes the youngest player (14) to win at
S06231981CWimbledon.
S06231993 Lorena Bobbitt emasculates her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt.
S06231995 Disney's "Pocahontas" is released.
S0623     Vigil of St. John.
S0623     Midsummer's Eve (celebrated in Europe).
S0623     Official birthday of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg (National Day).
S0623     Day of Cuchulaine (celebrated in Ireland).
S0623     Discovery Day (Newfoundland).
S0623     Guru Padma Sambhava's Birthday (Bhutan).
S0623     Day of Venus (early Roman holiday - before 200 BC - goddess of
S0623       Spring and protectress of vegetation and gardens).
S0623     Festival of Ishtar begins (major Assyro-Babylonian mother
S0623       goddess).
S06241314 Scotland regains independence from England after the Battle of
S06241314CBannockburn.
S06241340 the English defeat the French in the naval battle of Sluys on the
S06241340CNorth Sea.
S06241497 John Cabot lands on Newfoundland on his quest for a westerly
S06241497Croute to Japan, the first European since Leif Ericson to set
S06241497Cfoot on the North American continent.
S06241509 Henry VIII becomes King of England.
S06241579 Reverend Francis Fletcher, Sir Francis Drake's chaplain, reads
S06241579Cthe first English service on the American continent.
S06241650 Charles II lands in Scotland and is proclaimed king.
S06241664 proprietorship of New Jersey is granted by James, Duke of York,
S06241664Cto Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret (New Jersey is
S06241664Cnamed after Carteret, former governor of the Isle of Jersey).
S06241812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins.
S06241817 the first coffee is planted in Hawaii, on the Kona coast.
S06241832 the Village of Cleveland appoints the town's first Board of
S06241832CHealth (to combat a cholera epidemic).
S06241833 the frigate U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides) becomes the first
S06241833Coccupant of a new drydock in the Boston Navy Yard which bears her
S06241833Cname.
S06241879 the first crew race for the Childs Cup is won by the University
S06241879Cof Pennsylvania (the oldest trophy in sprint racing).
S06241883 the National Baseball League expels Richard Higham, the only
S06241883Cumpire ever thrown out of the major leagues (for dishonesty).
S06241898 the first major battle of the Spanish-American War is fought at
S06241898CLas Guasimas, Cuba.
S06241901 the Jewish National Fund is started.
S06241910 an act requiring installation of radio equipment on all American
S06241910Cpassenger ships operating from U.S. ports is passed by Congress.
S06241930 ground is broken for the construction of the Cleveland Stadium.
S06241938 the Wheeler-Lea Act is passed, superseding the Pure Food Act of
S06241938C1906 with more stringent regulations.
S06241947 the first reported sighting of Flying Saucers, is seen near Mt.
S06241947CRainier, Washington by Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho.
S06241948 the Selective Service Act is signed into law.
S06241948 John Ford's "Fort Apache" debuts in New York City.
S06241964 the FTC announces it will require health warnings on all
S06241964Ccigarette packages starting in 1965.
S06241970 the Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
S06241973 Eamon de Valera, President of Ireland and oldest head of state
S06241973Cin the world, retires.
S06241976 an anonymous American gives Britain $1.2 million to buy the site
S06241976Cof the Battle of Hastings.
S06241981 the Virgin Mary, at 5:40 p.m., first appears to six children on
S06241981CApparition Mountain outside Medjugorie in former Yugoslavia.
S06241982 the Supreme Court rules a president can not be sued for damages
S06241982Cfor actions he took while in office.
S06241983 Brewers' Don Sutton strikes out Cleveland's Alan Bannister,
S06241983Cbecoming the 8th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters.
S06241988 Indians' Doug Jones sets a M.L. record with his 14th consecutive
S06241988Csave, Cleveland 7, Yankees 5.
S06241993 the F.B.I. seize 8 Muslims in a bomb plot in N.Y. City.
S06241993 Primera, an Andean condor, is hatched at the Cleveland Metroparks
S06241993CZoo, the fifth born in captivity.
S06241994 the first game suspended because of curfew is played at Jacobs
S06241994CField (3 rain delays amounting to 3:10).  The next day, when the
S06241994Cgame is resumed, the Yankees beat the Indians 11-6, ending the
S06241994CTribe's home game winning streak (18) and setting a club record
S06241994Cfor the longest 9 inning game (4:03).  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S06241994C  the first game suspended by the 1 a.m. curfew
S06241994 Seattles' Ken Griffey, Jr. breaks Babe Ruth's record for home
S06241994Cruns in the first 3 months of the season with his 32nd.
S06241994 Disney's "The Lion King" premieres.
S06241995 N.J. Devils win the Stanley Cup for the first time, sweeping
S06241995CDetroit in four with a 5-2 win (first time a team wins without
S06241995Chome-ice advantage).
S0624     St. Jean Baptiste Day (Quebec).
S0624     St. John the Baptist's Day (Britain).
S0624     Nativity of St. John the Baptist, patron saint of missionaries.
S0624     Observance at Prayer Book Cross (Episcopalian - in San Francisco,
S0624       site of the first English service).
S0624     Middle Children's Day.
S0624    1Gay Pride Day.
S0624     Midsummer Day - quarter day in medieval England and Scotland.
S0624     Midsummer's Eve (pagan festival).
S0624     Battle of Carabobo (Venezuela).
S0624     Countryman's Day (Peru).
S0624     Day of the Fish (Zaire).
S0624     Feriado Municipal Angra (Azores).
S0624     Thailand's National Day.
S0624     Inti Raymi (Aztec).
S0624     Day of Venus (early Roman holiday - before 200 BC - goddess of
S0624       Spring and protectress of vegetation and gardens).
S0624     Festival of Vesta (Roman festival honoring Vesta, goddess of
S0624       fire, the home and cooking, patron goddess of women).
S0624     Festival of Aphrodite (Greek goddess of love).
S0624     Festival of Ishtar ends (major Assyro-Babylonian mother goddess).
S0624     Festival of the Burning of the Lamps at Sais (Ancient Egyptian
S0624       festival honoring Isis, the most complete flowering of the
S0624       Goddess concept in human history, and Neith, protectress of
S0624       Sais and patron goddess of Lower Egypt.)
S06251178 five Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon
S06251178C(only known observation - the crater formed by the impact is now
S06251178Cknown as Giordano Bruno).
S06251630 the fork is introduced to American dining by Gov. Winthrop.
S06251788 Virginia becomes the 10th state of the original 13 to ratify the
S06251788CConstitution.
S06251798 the Alien Act, second of the Alien and Sedition Acts, is passed.
S06251835 Yerba Buena is founded with construction of its first building
S06251835C(later to be called San Francisco).
S06251868 Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South
S06251868CCarolina are readmitted to the U.S.
S06251868 Congress passes a law providing an eight-hour day for labors and
S06251868Cworkmen employed by the government.
S06251876 Col. George A. Custer, age 36, and 264 men of the 7th Calvary
S06251876C(including his brother Capt. Tom Custer (31), a civilian brother
S06251876CBoston Custer (27), his brother-in-law Lt. James Calhoun (30) and
S06251876Ca 18-year-old nephew "Autie" Reed) are killed at the Little Big
S06251876CHorn, during the Sioux Indian War (known as the Battle of
S06251876CGreasing Grass by the Indians).  Comanche, a horse, is the lone
S06251876Csurvivor.
S06251910 the Mann Act is passed, making it illegal to transport women
S06251910Cacross State lines, or into the U.S., for immoral purposes.
S06251910 a Postal Savings Bank system is established by Congress.
S06251929 President Hoover authorizes the building of Boulder Dam (Hoover
S06251929CDam).
S06251937 Cubs' Augie Galan becomes the first N.L. player to hit home runs
S06251937Cfrom both sides of the plate in the same game, Chicago 11,
S06251937CBrooklyn 2.
S06251938 Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland
S06251938Cunder the new constitution.
S06251938 the Fair Labor Standards Act is signed, establishing a minimum
S06251938Cwage of 40 cents.
S06251939 the Rusin Cultural Garden unit of Cleveland's Cultural Gardens is
S06251939Cdedicated.
S06251946 a Northrop XB35 "flying wing" type bomber makes its maiden
S06251946Cflight.
S06251948 the Soviets announce a ban on all food shipments from soviet
S06251948Careas into Berlin.
S06251948 the Displaced Persons Bill is signed into law.
S06251950 North Korean forces cross the 38th parallel.
S06251951 the first color TV broadcast airs on CBS, four hours including
S06251951C"Arthur Godfrey" from N.Y. City to 4 other cities (unfortunately,
S06251951Cno color TV sets were owned by the public).
S06251959 Discoverer 4, a military research satellite, is unsuccessfully
S06251959Claunched.
S06251962 the Supreme Court rules N.Y. school prayer unconstitutional.
S06251966 Buckpasser sets a world record of 1:32.6 for the mile in winning
S06251966Cthe Arlington Classic, and becomes the first 3-year-old to win
S06251966Cmore than $1 million.
S06251967 the first global TV broadcast, "Our World," originates live from
S06251967C19 countries on 5 continents, and is seen in 39 nations via
S06251967Csatellite.
S06251973 former Nixon counsel John Dean tells Senate hearings that Nixon,
S06251973Chis aides and staff, and the Justice Department, had conspired to
S06251973Ccover-up the Watergate facts.
S06251975 Mozambique gains independence from Portugal after 470 years
S06251975C(National Day).
S06251977 Pink Floyd's "Animals" concert at the Cleveland Stadium sets an
S06251977Cinternational attendance record for tickets sold for one act.
S06251977 Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightening for the 7th
S06251977Ctime!
S06251981 Supreme Court holds male-only draft registration is
S06251981Cconstitutional.
S06251982 San Francisco holds its first County Fair.
S06251988 the hottest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland occurs (104
S06251988Cdegrees).
S06251990 the Supreme Court rules that a person who wishes are clearly
S06251990Cknown can refuse life-sustaining medical treatment.
S06251991 the U.S. declares the area north of the 38th parallel in northern
S06251991CIraq a safe zone to protect the Iraqi Kurd refugees.
S06251991 the republics of Croatia and Slovenia formally declare their
S06251991Cindependence.
S06251992 the 48th Shuttle Mission, Columbia 12 is launched.
S06251993 David Letterman tapes his last "Late Night" show for NBC.
S0625     Feast of St. William, abbot.
S0625     St. Pontius Pilate's Day in the Coptic (Egyptian) and Abyssinian
S0625       Churches.
S0625     Virginia Ratification Day.
S0625    1Gay Pride Day.
S0625     Midsummer Day, celebrated in Europe.
S0625     Teej (Indian).
S0625     Mozambique Independence Day (Portugal 1975).
S06261483 Richard III usurps the English throne
S06261498 the toothbrush is invented in China.
S06261721 the first smallpox inoculations in America are given in Boston by
S06261721CDr. Zabdiel Boylston.
S06261797 Charles Newbold patents an iron plow.  He can't sell it to
S06261797Cfarmers, though, because they fear the effects of iron on
S06261797Cthe soil!
S06261822 classes begin in the first public schoolhouse built for the
S06261822CVillage of Cleveland, the Cleveland Academy (the first
S06261822Cschoolhouse was purchased from a private group).
S06261847 James Nasmyth patents the steam pile driver.
S06261870 the first section of Atlantic City Boardwalk opens.
S06261894 the first U.S. patent for a gasoline-driven automobile is issued
S06261894Cto Karl Benz of Germany.
S06261900 Dr. Walter Reed begins research that beats yellow fever.
S06261916 the Cleveland Indians appear on the field with numbers on their
S06261916Csleeves for a game against the White Sox (the first time players
S06261916Care identified by numbers corresponding to the scorecard).
S06261917 the first of the American Expeditionary Force arrives in Europe.
S06261933 the U.S. Consumer's Advisory Board is organized.
S06261934 FDR signs the Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit
S06261934CUnions.
S06261934 the Evangelical and Reformed Church is established in Cleveland,
S06261934COhio.
S06261945 the United Nations charter is signed in San Francisco.
S06261948 the U.S. responses to the Soviet blockade of Berlin with massive
S06261948Cairlifts (Berlin Airlift).
S06261949 Walter Baade discovers the asteroid Icarus inside the orbit of
S06261949CMercury.
S06261959 the St. Lawrence Seaway is dedicated.
S06261960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain.
S06261960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day).
S06261963 President Kennedy speaks at the Berlin Wall: "Ich bin ein
S06261963CBerliner" (I am a Berliner).
S06261964 the Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album.
S06261965 "I Want Candy" by the Strange brothers (three Jewish guys from
S06261965CN.Y. City - Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein and Richard Gottehrer -
S06261965Cpassing themselves off as Australian aborigines, Miles, Niles and
S06261965CGiles) cracks Billboard Top 100 (goes to No. 11).
S06261968 the U.S. returns Iwo Jima and the Bonin Islands to Japan.
S06261972 the Air Force unveils the new F-15 jet fighter.
S06261976 Rangers' shortstop Toby Harrah plays an entire doubleheader
S06261976Cagainst Chicago without making any fielding plays, assists or
S06261976Cputouts.
S06261977 Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, the last performance of his
S06261977Ccareer.
S06261978 the first dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, is
S06261978Claunched.
S06261984 the first flight of Space Shuttle Discovery is scrubbed at T -4.
S06261990 a proposed Constitutional amendment against burning the American
S06261990Cflag is defeated in Congress.
S06261992 the U.S. Supreme Court rules in U.S. vs. Fordice that Mississippi
S06261992Coperates a dual system of higher education for blacks and whites.
S06261993 "Late Night with David Letterman" airs for the last time on NBC
S06261993C(12:30 a.m. EST).
S06261993 the U.S. launches 23 Tomahawk missiles against Iraqi government
S06261993Cbuildings at 4:22 p.m. EDT. in retaliation for an assignation
S06261993Cplot discovered in April against former President Bush.
S06261993 the Front Row in Cleveland (Highland Heights) presents its last
S06261993Cperformance (singer Luther Vandross, opened 7/5/1974 with Sammy
S06261993CDavis, Jr.).
S06261994 "The Lion King" grosses $42 million in its first weekend, setting
S06261994Ca new Disney record.
S06261994 Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. becomes the first small college
S06261994Cto discover a supernova (in the middle of NGC 4948).
S0626     Feast of SS. John and Paul, martyrs in Rome about 362.
S0626     Green Corn Festival (Native American - Cherokees' most important
S0626       festival - honors Sehu, the corn goddess).
S0626    1Gay Pride Day.
S0626     Madagascar Independence Day (France 1960).
S0626     Somali Republic Independence of the Northern Region.
S06271652 New Amsterdam (now N.Y.C.) imposes the first speed limit in the
S06271652CU.S., specifying that it is illegal for traffic within the city
S06271652Climits to proceed at a gallop.
S06271693 the first woman's magazine, "The Ladies' Mercury" is published
S06271693Cin London.  It has the first advice column.
S06271778 the Liberty Bell returns to Philadelphia after the British leave.
S06271787 Briton Edward Gibbon completes his "History of the Decline and
S06271787CFall of the Roman Empire".
S06271812 Canadians capture the" U.S.S. Commencement," the first encounter
S06271812Cafter the U.S. declares war on Britain.
S06271841 shipwrecked Manjiro Nakahama is rescued and later becomes the
S06271841Cfirst Japanese immigrant in the U.S.
S06271847 New York and Boston are linked by telegraph wires.
S06271848 an air-conditioned theater is first offered by the Broadway
S06271848CTheater in N.Y. City.
S06271884 the U.S. Bureau of Labor is created within the Dept. of the
S06271884CInterior (an independent Dept. in not authorized until 1913).
S06271917 catcher Hank Gowdy of the Boston Braves becomes the first
S06271917Cbaseball player to enter military service in World War I.
S06271927 the U.S. Marines take on an English bulldog as a new mascot.
S06271929 a system for transmitting TV pictures in full color is
S06271929Cdemonstrated at Bell Labs in New York.
S06271939 the Indians play their first night game at the Stadium; Tigers'
S06271939CEarl Averill gets only hit off Bob Feller, Indians 5, Detroit 0.
S06271945 the Federal Communications Commission allocates 13 channels for
S06271945Ctelevision (channel 1 is reallocated for noncommercial use).
S06271950 the U.S. sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam and agrees
S06271950Cto provide military and economic aid to the anti-Communist
S06271950Cgovernment.
S06271950 the U.N. Security Council adopts a U.S. resolution approving of
S06271950Carmed intervention in Korea.
S06271952 the Immigration and Naturalization Act is passed, ending the last
S06271952Cracial and ethnic barriers to naturalization.
S06271954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow the elected government of
S06271954CGuatemala.
S06271954 the world's first atomic power station begins producing
S06271954Celectricity in Obninsk, U.S.S.R.
S06271955 the nation's first automobile seat belt legislation is enacted in
S06271955CIllinois.
S06271960 chlorophyll "A" is synthesized in Cambridge, Mass.
S06271962 H. Ross Perot, former IBM salesman, begins Electronic Data System
S06271962C(EDS) with $1,000.
S06271973 John W. Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies
S06271973Clist".
S06271975 the International Whaling Commission bars the hunting of the
S06271975Cfinback whale.
S06271977 the Supreme Court decides to let lawyers advertise.
S06271977 Djibouti gains independence from France (National Day).
S06271979 the Supreme Court rules that black employees could be promoted
S06271979Cahead of whites with greater work experience providing the move
S06271979Cis part of an affirmative action program.
S06271980 the first female state police officer graduates (N.J.).
S06271982 the 4th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 is launched, carrying
S06271982Cthe first military and commercial payloads.
S06271984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts.
S06271985 U.S. Route 66 is removed from the U.S. highway system.
S06271986 the World Court in Hague rules the U.S. support of Nicaraguan
S06271986Ccontras illegal.
S06271986 Giants' rookie Robby Thompson sets a M.L. record when he is
S06271986Ccaught stealing 4 times in S.F.'s 7-6 12-inning victory over the
S06271986CReds.
S06271988 Mike Tyson knocks out Michael Spinks in 91 seconds.
S06271988 Michigan becomes the first state to ban surrogate motherhood.
S06271991 civil war begins in Yugoslavia.
S06271993 Lakewood City Center is dedicated.
S06271993 in the last game K.C. plays in the Stadium, the Indians win
S06271993Cthe rubbermatch 3 - 2.  (In the 25 years the two teams have
S06271993Cplayed at the park, the record is 74 - 73.)
S06271993 Mets' Anthony Young sets a new N.L. record with 24 consecutive
S06271993Closses (old record was set on 5/22/1911).
S06271994 Kenny Lofton is named "Player of the Week", becoming the third
S06271994CIndian to be named in consecutive weeks (Ramirez, Belle).
S06271995 the 71st Shuttle Mission (STS-71) - Atlantis is launched to later
S06271995Cdock with the Russian space station Mir, pick up three
S06271995Cscientists, including American Norman E. Thagard, and drop off a
S06271995Crelief crew.
S06271995 former WMMS engineer William Alford is sentenced to 10 days and a
S06271995C$1,000 fine for cutting the cable of the satellite feed during
S06271995CHoward Stern's broadcast from the Cleveland Flats in 1994.
S0627     Feast of St. Ladislas I, King of Hungary.
S0627     Feast of St. Cressent, Bishop and martyr.
S0627     Commemoration of Joseph Smith's death (founder of Mormonism).
S0627     National Fink Day.
S0627    1Gay Pride Day.
S0627     Djibouti Independence Feast Day.
S0627     Aestas' Day (Corn Goddess - Roman goddess of Summer).
S0627     Festival of Julian the Blessed (Roman holiday).
S0627     Pons-Winnecke meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S06281687 William Phipps, the first knighted native American, is dubbed by
S06281687CKing James II of England (for finding a treasure ship).
S06281762 the first reported counterfeiting attempt occurs in Boston.
S06281778 at the Battle of Monmouth (N.J.), the last major battle fought in
S06281778Cthe north, Molly Pitcher carries water for the Americans until
S06281778Cher husband collapses wounded.  She then takes his place and
S06281778Cfires the cannon until the end of the battle.
S06281820 the tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous.
S06281832 the first epidemic of Asiatic cholera strikes the U.S. (N.Y.
S06281832CCity).
S06281838 Britain's Queen Victoria is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
S06281859 the first dog show is held, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.
S06281861 the Leipzig Observatory discovers a short-period (6.2 years)
S06281861Ccomet, d'Arrest.
S06281894 congress declares Labor Day a national holiday.
S06281902 the Isthmian Canal Act is passed by Congress, authorizing the
S06281902Cfinancing to build a canal across Panama.
S06281910 the Cubs' Joe Tinker becomes the first M.L. player to steal home
S06281910Ctwice in the same game.
S06281912 Cleveland's first motorized fire-fighting equipment is put into
S06281912Cservice.
S06281914 Austria's Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sofia are assassinated,
S06281914Ctouching-off WW I.
S06281918 in Hawaii, the first inter-island flight occurs.
S06281919 the Treaty of Versailles, officially ending World War I, is
S06281919Csigned.
S06281919 Harry S. Truman marries Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in
S06281919CIndependence, Mo.
S06281920 men of the 1st Battalion of the famous, highly decorated Irish
S06281920Cregiment Connaught Rangers, stationed in India, laid down their
S06281920Carms and refused to soldier for England in protest of the
S06281920Cterrorizing done by the British Black and Tans in Ireland.  (One
S06281920Cmutineer was executed, many served prison terms, and the unit was
S06281920Cdisbanded.)
S06281924 the worst Ohio tornado disaster hits Lorain, killing 85.
S06281930 Cleveland's Terminal Tower Complex is formally dedicated.
S06281932 an alligator is sighted in the Bronx River (the first reported
S06281932Csighting of New York sewers' alligators).
S06281933 Washington Senators' Howard Craghead hits the first grand slam at
S06281933Cthe Stadium.
S06281934 the National Housing Act is passed by Congress, establishing the
S06281934CFederal Housing Administration (FHA).
S06281934 the Federal Farm Bankruptcy Act, also known as the Frazier-Lemke
S06281934CAct, is signed into law, establishing a moratorium on farm
S06281934Cforeclosures (during the Depression).
S06281936 the Great Lakes Exposition opens in Cleveland (first season).
S06281939 Pan Am Airways begins regular transatlantic air service, the
S06281939C"Dixie Clipper."
S06281940 the Smith Act, outlawing organizations which advocate the
S06281940Coverthrow of the U.S. government and requiring aliens to be
S06281940Cfingerprinted, is passed.
S06281942 the first U.S. ground assault on the Japanese in the South
S06281942CPacific is executed by commandos on Salamaua, New Guinea, at
S06281942Cnight.
S06281942 the Dumont TV network begins (WABD N.Y.).
S06281946 permanent radio play-by-play of Indians games is established by
S06281946Cowner Bill Veeck.
S06281956 the first atomic reactor built for private research begins
S06281956Coperations in Chicago, Ill.
S06281958 the Mackinac Bridge, the world longest suspension bridge, is
S06281958Cdedicated.
S06281961 the A.M.A. back the Sabin polio vaccine over the Salk.
S06281964 Malcolm X founds the Organization for Afro-American Unity to seek
S06281964Cindependence for blacks in the Western Hemisphere.
S06281965 American troops begin fighting in a combat role for the first
S06281965Ctime in Vietnam.
S06281969 a police raid on a seedy, Mafia-ran gay bar in N.Y. City's
S06281969CGreenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn, results in the Stonewall
S06281969CRiots (marked as the turning point for the gay rights movement).
S06281971 the Supreme Court decides for Muhammad Ali, four years after he
S06281971Cwas convicted of draft evasion and stripped of his title.
S06281976 the first women enter the Air Force Academy.
S06281978 Supreme Court orders a California medical school to admit Allan
S06281978CBakke, a white man claiming reverse discrimination when his
S06282978Capplication was rejected.
S06281987 the first Gay Pride Day is celebrated.
S06281992 a baboon's liver is transplanted into a human for the first time.
S06281994 the EPA announces it will begin issuing Solar Warning Indexes to
S06281994Cwarn against the harmful effects of the sun.
S0628     Feast of St. Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons, martyr.
S0628     Feast of St. Leo II, Pope and confessor.
S0628    1Gay Pride Day.
S0628     Shab-e-Barat (Bangladesh).
S0628     Birthday of Hemera (Greek).
S0628     Pons-Winnecke meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S06291317 movable type is first used in the printing of "The Family Sayings
S06291317Cof Confucius."
S06291456 Pope Calixtus III issues a papal bull against Haley's Comet.
S06291534 Jacques Cartier, while searching for the passage to Asia,
S06291534Cdiscovers Prince Edward Islands.
S06291767 Parliament passes the Townshend Revenue Act, requiring the
S06291767Ccolonies to pay an import duty on tea, glass, paints, oil, lead
S06291767Cand paper.
S06291776 Mission Dolores is founded by San Francisco Bay.
S06291810 the first U.S. missionary society, the American Board of
S06291810CCommissioners for Foreign Missions, is organized in Bradford,
S06291810CMass.
S06291854 Congress ratifies the Gadsden Purchase with Mexico, adding parts
S06291854Cof New Mexico and Arizona to the U.S. for $10 million.
S06291858 the Treaties of Tientsin opens eleven more Chinese ports to
S06291858Cforeigners, and legalizes the trafficking of opium.
S06291863 the very first 1st National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa.
S06291906 the Hepburn Act, named for congressman William Hepburn of Ohio,
S06291906Cor the Railroad Rate Act, is passed, empowering the Interstate
S06291906CCommerce Commission to regulate railroad, pipeline and terminal
S06291906Crates.
S06291916 a Boeing aircraft flies for the first time.
S06291919 Sir Barton becomes the first Triple Crown winner.
S06291927 the first flight from the West Coast arrives in Hawaii.
S06291929 the first high-speed jet wind tunnel is completed at Langley
S06291929CField, Ca.
S06291930 the North American Martyrs - St. Isaac Joques, et al. - are
S06291930Ccanonized.
S06291938 the Olympic National Park is founded.
S06291939 the "Dixie Clipper" completes the first commercial plane
S06291939Cflight to Europe.
S06291949 South Africa begins implementing apartheid (no mixed marriages).
S06291956 the Federal-Aid Highway Act is signed, inaugurating the
S06291956Cinterstate highway system.
S06291956 the U.S. war orphans education law is enacted.
S06291956 Charles Dumas becomes the first person to high jump over seven
S06291956Cfeet.
S06291961 three satellites, Transit 4-A, Greb 3, and Injun, are launched
S06291961Csimultaneously for the first time.
S06291964 Castro's sister defects, accusing her brother of selling Cuba out
S06291964Cto "Russian imperialism".
S06291966 Hanoi and Haiphong in North Vietnam are bombed for the first time
S06291966Cin the Vietnam War.
S06291967 Israel removes barricades separating city of Jerusalem.
S06291970 the last U.S. troops leave Cambodia, ending two months of
S06291970Cmilitary expansion in Southeast Asia.
S06291972 the Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional,
S06291972C"cruel and unusual punishment".
S06291972 the Supreme Court rules that journalists have no rights to
S06291972Cwithhold confidential information from grand juries.
S06291973 the Federal Energy Office is established.
S06291974 Mikhail Baryshnikov, a soviet ballet dancer, defects to the West.
S06291976 terrorists hold 256 hostages at the Entebbe Airport in Uganda
S06291976C(freed by Israeli commandos on July 3).
S06291976 Seychelles Islands gain independence after 162 years under
S06291976CBritish rule.
S06291977 Robert Hall, the nation's largest retail clothing chain, closes.
S06291982 a major Protestant church mergers brings together the United
S06291982CPresbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.
S06291994 the first-ever complete fossil of a pygmy mammoth skeleton
S06291994C(70,000-year-old) is found in one of the Channel Islands (off the
S06291994Ccoast of Calif.).
S06291995 the U.S. shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir link
S06291995Cfor the first time, and begin a historic five-day voyage as a
S06291995Csingle ship (practice run for the construction of an
S06291995Cinternational space station).
S0629     Feast of St. Peter, apostle, patron saint of fishermen and
S0629       weathermen.
S0629     Feast of St. Paul, apostle.
S0629     St. Peter's Day (Anglican).
S0629    1Gay Pride Day.
S0629     The Seychelles Independence Day.
S0629     Day of Ogun (Santeria).
S0629     Pons-Winnecke meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S06301520 Montezuma II, the Aztec emperor, is mysteriously murdered.
S06301794 Battle of Ft. Recovery (Ohio) occurs.
S06301812 Congress authorizes the first Treasury notes (first of five war
S06301812Cissues).
S06301831 Thaddeus Fairbanks patents the platform scale.
S06301834 Congress creates Indian Territory and the Department of Indians
S06301834CAffairs.
S06301838 Philos, Eli W., and John A. Blake patent the caster.
S06301859 Charles Blondin becomes the first to cross Niagara Falls on a
S06301859Ctightrope.
S06301870 Ada H. Kepley becomes the first female law school graduate.
S06301886 the U.S. Forest Service is organized.
S06301893 the Excelsior diamond (blue-white, 995 carats) is discovered.
S06301894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid.
S06301906 the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act are signed
S06301906C(effective Jan. 1, 1907).
S06301908 a giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (the Tunguska Event).
S06301914 Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest, in campaign for Indian equal
S06301914Crights in South Africa.
S06301930 the first round-the-world radio broadcast airs from Schenectady,
S06301930CNew York.
S06301931 the last regular production car comes off the Pierless assembly
S06301931Cline; established in Cleveland in 1900.
S06301933 the coast-to-coast temperatures averages 72 degrees, setting the
S06301933Crecord for the hottest nationwide June reading.
S06301934 the Portsmouth Spartans become the Detroit Lions.
S06301936 the 40-hour work week federal law is approved.
S06301936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, is first published.
S06301940 the U.S. Weather Bureau becomes part of the Commerce Department.
S06301948 the transistor is first demonstrated at Murray Hill, N.J.
S06301948 Cleveland's Bob Lemon pitches the first A.L. no-hitter at night,
S06301948CIndians 2, Detroit 0.
S06301950 President Truman orders American troops into Korea and a naval
S06301950Cblockade of the Korean coast.
S06301952 "The Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV.
S06301953 the first Corvette rolls off a short, makeshift assembly line in
S06301953CFlint, Mich.
S06301954 Yankee pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting 3 batters in one
S06301954Cinning.
S06301960 Zaire (Belgium Congo) gains it's independence.
S06301963 Pope Paul VI's coronation occurs.
S06301964 the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival makes its debut.
S06301970 Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati is dedicated (Hank Aaron spoils
S06301970Cthe show with a homer, Atlanta 8, Reds 2).
S06301971 the Supreme Court overrides government attempts to stop the
S06301971Cpublishing of the Pentagon Papers.
S06301971 Ohio becomes the 38th state to ratify the 26th Amendment,
S06301971Clowering the voting age for all elections to 18.
S06301973 the largest merchant ship built in the U.S., the 1094-foot,
S06301973C230,000-ton supertanker "Brooklyn," is christened at the Brooklyn
S06301973CNaval Yard.
S06301975 the discovery of a galaxy approximately 8 billion light-years
S06301975Caway from Earth, Galaxy 3C123, is announced (5 to 10 times larger
S06301975Cthan the Milky Way).
S06301976 a TV production of "Swan Lake," the first live TV broadcast of a
S06301976Cfull-length ballet, airs.
S06301982 the E.R.A. is defeated, failing to gain ratification in states.
S06301987 the United Church of Christ, at a convention in Cleveland, Ohio,
S06301987Cbecomes the first major U.S. Protestant denomination to affirm
S06301987Cthe position of the Jewish religion.
S06301992 one second is added to the world's time in order to keep the
S06301992Csuper-accurate atomic clocks in step with the Earth's rotation.
S06301993 the U.S. Court of Appeals upholds extradition of John Demjanjuk
S06301993Cbut found "substantial doubt" he was Ivan the Terrible.
S06301993 Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go with the Tribe to
S06301993CGateway (Jacobs Field) despite protests by Native American
S06301993Cgroups.
S06301993 the two-shilling coin, last to bear the image of King George VI,
S06301993Cceases to be legal tender in Great Britain.
S06301994 the Cleveland Cavaliers unveil the team's new logo.
S06301995 Indians' Eddie Murray, in his 19th season, off 735 different
S06301995Cpitchers, and in his 2,764th game, becomes the 20th player to
S06301995Creach 3,000 career hits (in the 6th inning off Tom Trombley) in
S06301995CCleveland's 4-1 win over the Twins (in Minnesota).
S0630     Commemoration of St. Paul, apostle.
S0630     Tom Sawyer Day.
S0630    1Gay Pride Day.
S0630     Guatemalan Army Day (Anniversary of the Revolution of 1871).
S0630     Mongolian Constitution Day.
S0630     Zaire Independence Day (Belgium 1960).
S0630     Pons-Winnecke meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
R0600     It's National Adopt-a-Cat Month!
R0600     It's National Rose Month.
R0600     It's Dairy Month.
R0600     It's Philatelic Writers Month.
R0600     It's National Accordion Awareness Month.
R0600     It's National Ragweed Control Month!
R0600     It's Fight the Filthy Fly Month!!
R0600     The pearl, moonstone and alexandrite are the gems for June.
R0600     The rose and honeysuckle are the flowers of June.
R0600     The sentimental meaning of the pearl and moonstone is for purity,
R0600       and the rose and the honeysuckle are for love and devotion.
R0600     June's name comes from the Latin word juniores, or youths.
R0600     June is known as the Month of the Strawberry Moon (Native
R0600       Americans).
R0600     The full moon in June is known as the Wild Strawberry Moon and
R0600       the Dyad (pair) Moon.
R06010620 Gemini is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R06010620   Symbol: The Twins.
R06010620   Ruling Planet: Mercury.
R06010620   Element: Air.
R06010620   Traits: Mentally active, talkative, versatile.
R06010620   Body part associated with this sign: The arms.
R06010620   Occupations: Crafts, communications, work dealing with
R06010620     intricate problems, sales, small businesses.
R06210630 Cancer is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R06210630   Symbol: The Crab.
R06210630   Ruling Planet: Moon.
R06210630   Element: Water.
R06210630   Traits: Maternal, compassionate, thrifty.
R06210630   Body part associated with this sign: The breast.
R06210630   Occupations: Raising children, animals, or plants, history,
R06210630     antiques, caring for the elderly.
 
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S07011690 the Army of England's Protestant King, William III, defeats
S07011690Cformer Roman Catholic king James II in the Battle of the Boyne in
S07011690CIreland, winning the Crown of Britain and Ireland.
S07011847 the first adhesive U.S. postage stamp goes on sale (Franklin 5
S07011847Ccents and Washington 10 cents).
S07011847 amateur astronomer M. Hencke discovers his second asteroid, Hebe.
S07011850 overland mail delivery west of the Missouri River is organized
S07011850Cfor the first time on a monthly basis from Independence, Mo., to
S07011850CSalt Lake City, Utah.
S07011850 at least 626 ships lie at anchor around San Francisco Bay (many
S07011850Cabandoned in search of fortune in the gold fields).
S07011862 Congress enacts the Morrill Act to punish and prevent polygamy in
S07011862Cthe territories (bad news for Utah).
S07011862 the Seven Days Campaign ends with the indecisive Battle of
S07011862CMalvern Hill (Va.).
S07011863 the Battle of Gettysburg (Pa.) begins.  Lee's northward advance
S07011863Cis halted.
S07011867 the Dominion of Canada is proclaimed by the British North
S07011867CAmerican (BNA) Act.
S07011871 British Columbia joins the Dominion of Canada.
S07011873 Prince Edward Island joins the Dominion of Canada.
S07011885 postal rates are lowered to 2 cents an ounce by an act of
S07011885CCongress.  (A deficit in the Post Office Department resulted.)
S07011898 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.
S07011898C(They ran!)
S07011899 the Christian Commercial Men's Association of American (Gideons
S07011899CInternational) is formed by a group of travelling salesmen in
S07011899CBoscobel, Wisc.
S07011899 S.F. City Hall is turned over to the city, after 29 years of
S07011899Cbuilding.
S07011910 Black and Decker is founded by Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker.
S07011910 a completely automatic bread bakery opens in Chicago.
S07011911 the self-starter for the automobile is developed.
S07011913 the Massachusetts minimum wage law takes effect.
S07011916 the Allies attack the German defenses at the Somme, beginning the
S07011916Cbloodiest battle in history.
S07011919 First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents from 3 cents.
S07011925 Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport opens. The U.S. Mail
S07011925Cthreatened to take Cleveland off its air-route if it didn't.
S07011930 Northland Transportation Co. extends bus service across the
S07011930Ccountry and changes its name to Greyhound Company.
S07011931 the Cleveland Municipal Stadium is completed.
S07011931 the National Council of Congregational and Christian Churches is
S07011931Cformed in Seattle, Wash.
S07011931 ice vending machines are introduced in Los Angeles (25 lbs., 15
S07011931Ccents.)
S07011934 Arthur W. Fuch takes the first entire-body x-ray photograph.
S07011939 the Federal Works Agency (FWA) is established, consolidating five
S07011939Cexisting agencies.
S07011941 the world's first TV commercial (Bulova watch) is broadcasted by
S07011941CWNBT, New York City.
S07011943 the first U.S. paycheck withholding tax is implemented.
S07011944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide
S07011944Cfinancial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank).
S07011946 the U.S. holds atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
S07011947 the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland becomes Case
S07011947CInstitute of Technology.
S07011949 Linus Pauling reports discovering the cause of sickle-cell
S07011949Canemia.
S07011950 the first U.S. ground forces land in Korea.
S07011951 Cleveland Indians' Bob Feller pitches his third no-hitter,
S07011951Csetting a major league record.
S07011960 the Somali Republic is formed when British Somaliland
S07011960CProtectorate and the Italian Trusteeship Territory of Somalia
S07011960Cmerge.
S07011961 Haleakala National Park is established in Hawaii.
S07011962 Rwanda gains independence.
S07011963 the U.S. Postmaster General inaugarates zip codes.
S07011963 the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, the largest U.S. building
S07011963Ctrade union, orders its locals to end all racial discrimination.
S07011963 the Beatles' record "She Loves You" is released.
S07011966 the Medicare insurance program for the elderly is inaugurated.
S07011966 construction crews begin tearing up Market Street to build BART.
S07011967 the European Community (EC), the merger of the Common Market, the
S07011967CEuropean Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy
S07011967CCommunity, is created.
S07011968 the United Auto Workers formally separate from the AFL-CIO.
S07011969 a federal Truth-in-Lending Law goes into effect (charges for
S07011969Ccredit and loans be made clear to debtors).
S07011971 the 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age to 18, is ratified
S07011971C(Ohio is the last state to ratify).
S07011971 the Golden Gate Bridge is paid for (so why is there still a
S07011971Ctoll?).
S07011972 "Ms." magazine is first published.
S07011973 a bill barring military operations in Indochina without
S07011973Ccongressional approval is signed by President Nixon.
S07011977 the last Ford Trimotor airplane crashes taking off from the Put-
S07011977Cin-Bay airfield (Ohio).
S07011982 Kosmos 1383, the first search and rescue satellite, is launched.
S07011982 Cal Ripken begins playing shortstop (2,103 consecutive games on
S07011982Chis record breaking night) against the Indians in Memorial
S07011982CStadium after first starting his career (and record) as a 3rd
S07011982Cbaseman.
S07011986 Tony Bernazard becomes the first Cleveland player to hit a home
S07011986Crun from both sides of the plate in the same game.
S07011987 excavation begins on the Channel Tunnel (under the English
S07011987CChannel).
S07011991 the Warsaw Pact is abolished.
S07011992 new federal anti-pollution laws go into effect governing disposal
S07011992Cof appliances with Freon and other refrigerants.
S07011993 Ohio's new seller's disclosure law (Ohio Residential Property
S07011993CDisclosure Form) takes effect.
S07011994 Nancy Schrom Dye becomes the first woman president of Ohio's
S07011994COberlin College, the first U.S. college to admit women.
S07011994 in the 37th home game at Jacobs Field, Indians' Albert Belle hits
S07011994Ca home run in his third consecutive game in as many days.  The
S07011994CTribe's bullpen move their chairs on top of the bullpen dugout
S07011994C(the Orioles' bullpen had done this days earlier).  Firsts at
S07011994CJacobs Field:
S07011994C  first home run streak of 3 consecutive games - Albert Belle
S07011995 the NBA locks out its players in the first work stoppage in its
S07011995Chistory.
S0701     Dominion Day -- Canada.
S0701     Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus.
S0701     Birthday of the Virgin Mary - Coptic (Egyptian) and Abyssinian
S0701       Churches.
R0701    7Let's Play Tennis Week begins.
R0701    1Man Watchers' Compliment Week begins.
S0701    2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of the Caribbean Common
S0701    2Market.
S0701     Territory Day (British Virgin Islands).
S0701     Burundi Independence Day (Belgium 1962).
S0701     Day of Freedom (Suriname).
S0701     First Republic Day (Ghana).
S0701     Rwanda Independence Day (Belgium 1962).
S0701     Somalia Union Day.
S0701     Take Over Day (Nauru).
S0701    5Zambia Unity Day.
S0701    2Zambia Heroes Day.
S0701     Half-year Holiday (Hong Kong).
S07021644 the first decisive battle of the English Civil War is fought at
S07021644CMarston Moor, Yorkshire, England, and won by the
S07021644CParliamentarians.
S07021776 the Continental Congress passes a resolution stating "these
S07021776CUnited Colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent
S07021776Cstates."
S07021776 New Jersey gives "all inhabitants of adult age, with net worth of
S07021776C50 pounds" the right to vote.  Realizing this gave women the
S07021776Cright to vote, new laws were passed in 1807 limiting the vote to
S07021776C"free, white males."
S07021777 Vermont becomes the first state to abolish slavery.
S07021850 Benjamin J. Lane patents a gas mask with a self contained
S07021850Cbreathing apparatus.
S07021862 President Lincoln signs into law the Morrill Act (Land Grant
S07021862CCollege Act) to punish and prevent polygamy in the territories
S07021862C(bad news for Utah).  It also granted to each loyal state 30,000
S07021862Cacres of land for each of their congressman to benefit
S07021862Cagricultural education (led to state university systems).
S07021881 President James A. Garfield is shot.  He dies on Sept. 19, 1881.
S07021890 the Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies.
S07021900 the first flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1) occurs.
S07021921 Jack Dempsey beats Georges Carpentier, a French hero, at Boyles
S07021921CThirty Acres (N.J.) in the first million-dollar fight.
S07021926 the U.S. Army Air Corp is created by Congress.
S07021926 the Distinguished Flying Cross is commissioned.
S07021932 the term "New Deal" is introduced by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his
S07021932Cspeech accepting the Democratic nomination for the presidency.
S07021937 Amelia Earhart disappears during her flight over the Pacific
S07021937COcean.
S07021940 the Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge is opened.
S07021940 the Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attack by air.
S07021941 Joe DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 1897 44 game hitting streak.
S07021955 "The Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC television.
S07021957 the first submarine designed to fire guided missiles, the" U.S.S.
S07021957CGrayback," is launched.
S07021960 the first U.S. black competes in the Miss Universe contest,
S07021960Crepresenting Ohio.
S07021964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, the nations most
S07021964Csweeping civil rights legislation.
S07021973 the National Black Network, the nation's first radio news network
S07021973Cowned and managed by blacks, begins operation in N.Y. City.
S07021976 the Supreme Court rules the death penalty is not inherently cruel
S07021976Cor unusual punishment.
S07021976 Vietnam is officially united.
S07021978 the discovery of Charon, a satellite of Pluto, is announced.
S07021979 Susan B. Anthony dollar, the first U.S. coin to honor a woman,
S07021979Cis issued.
S07021985 the Proto is launched on its way to Halley's Comet.
S07021986 the Supreme Court, ruling in cases involving a N.Y. City labor
S07021986Cunion and the Cleveland Fire Department, upholds affirmative
S07021986Caction programs.
S07021994 Indians' starters complete their third consecutive game: Mark
S07021994CClark (8-2) Indians 4, Orioles 2; Jack Morris (5-4), his 175
S07021994Ccareer complete game, Indians 6, Twins 1; and Charles Nagy (6-4)
S07021994CIndians 9, Twins 1.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S07021994C  Indians' starters complete third consecutive game
S0702     Midpoint of the year (at noon, or following midnight in leap
S0702       years).
S0702     Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
S0702     Feast of Expectant Mothers (Italy).
S0702     Debtors' Day.
R0702    7Let's Play Tennis Week begins.
R0702    1It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0702    1Man Watchers' Compliment Week begins.
R0702    2It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
S0702    2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of the Caribbean Common
S0702    2Market.
S0702    5Zambia Unity Day.
S0702    2Zambia Heroes Day.
S0702     Yar Nyidhok or Summer Solstice (Bhutan).
S07031608 Quebec is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
S07031754 Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to the French, the first
S07031754Cbattle of the French and Indian War.
S07031775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
S07031776 the Continental Congress provides a wartime incentive to promote
S07031776Cwarship construction on Lake Champlain ($37 2/3 a month and a
S07031776Chalf pint of rum a day).
S07031806 Michael Keens exhibits the first cultivated strawberry.
S07031815 the Treaty with Algiers is signed and American prisoners are
S07031815Creturned.
S07031841 John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown
S07031841Cplanet by the irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus.
S07031861 the Pony Express arrives in S.F. with overland letters from New
S07031861CYork.
S07031863 the Battle of Gettysburg (Pa.) ends in a major victory for the
S07031863CNorth.
S07031863 the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, comprised of many
S07031863CClevelanders, causes the first faltering of Pickett's Charge.
S07031863CThe undermanned regiment inflicts a complete rout of two
S07031863Crebel brigades (outnumber 8 to 1) on the left flank of the
S07031863Cadvancing force.
S07031884 the first Dow Jones Average is published.
S07031884 the first linotype machines are put into operation by the N.Y.
S07031884C"Tribune."
S07031890 Idaho becomes the 43rd state.
S07031898 the Spanish fleet at Cuba, in an attempt to break out of
S07031898CSantiago, is destroyed by U.S. ships - Spanish-American War.
S07031898 Joshua Slocum becomes the first person to complete a solo
S07031898Ccircumnavigation of the earth.
S07031914 a telephone line is installed between New York and San Francisco.
S07031928 the first television made in the U.S. is announced (only $75!).
S07031929 foam rubber is developed at the Dunlop Latex Development
S07031929CLaboratories.
S07031930 Congress creates the Veterans Administration.
S07031931 two days after the Cleveland Stadium is opened, a world
S07031931Cheavyweight boxing championship between Max Schmeling and Young
S07031931CStribling inaugurates the facility.
S07031945 the first Fords roll off the assembly line since the shut-down
S07031945Cfor war production on Feb. 10, 1942.
S07031947 Larry Doby signs with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first
S07031947Cblack player in the American League.
S07031950 American and North Korean forces clash for the first time during
S07031950Cthe Korean War.
S07031956 President Eisenhower authorizes the CIA's first U-2 flight over
S07031956CRussia (the first is flown the next day).
S07031962 French President Charles de Gaulle proclaims Algeria's
S07031962Cindependence.
S07031968 Indians' Luis Tiant sets the club record for the most outs in an
S07031968Cextra inning game (19).
S07031968 the lowest temperature ever experienced in Cleveland in the month
S07031968Cof July is recorded, 41 degrees.
S07031976 Israeli raid frees hostages at Entebbe airport (Uganda).
S07031984 the Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as
S07031984Cmembers.
S07031988 the U.S.S. Vincennes, under questionable circumstances, shoots
S07031988Cdown an Iranian commercial airliner.
S07031989 the Supreme Court puts restraints on a woman's right to a
S07031989Cabortion by giving the states the right to restrict abortions.
S07031991 the Gateway Board of Trustees approve a 20-year baseball park
S07031991Clease with Cleveland Indians.
S07031994 the Cleveland Indians retire Larry Doby's number 14.
S07031995 25-year-old Eric Alkinson leaps from the Golden Gate Bridge,
S07031995Cbecoming the 1,000th known suicide.  (The first, H.B. Wobbler,
S07031995C47, jumped three months after the it opened in 1937.)
S0703     Dog Days of Summer begin.  (Originally, the period when Sirius,
S0703       the Dog Star, rose just before or at sunrise.  Ancients
S0703       sacrificed a brown dog to appease the rage of Sirius, whom they
S0703       believed was the cause of the hot weather.)
S0703     Feast of St. Leo II, pope (681-83).
S0703     Idaho Admission Day.
S0703     Disobedience Day.
S0703     Compliment-Your-Mirror Day.
R0703    7Let's Play Tennis Week begins.
R0703    1It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0703    2It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0703    1Man Watchers' Compliment Week begins.
R0703    2It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0703    3It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
S0703     Sothis (celebrated in Egypt).
S0703    2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of the Caribbean Common
S0703    2Market.
S0703     Algeria Independence Day.
S0703    5Zambia Unity Day.
S0703    2Zambia Heroes Day.
S0703     Festival for Isis (Ancient Egyptian - Isis is the most complete
S0703       flowering of the Goddess concept in human history.)
S07041054 Chinese astromomers record the brightest known supernova, and
S07041054Cit continues shining for 23 days (now called Crab Supernova).
S07041631 the first employment agency, the Bureau d'Adresse in Paris, is
S07041631Cestablished.
S07041776 the Declaration of Independence is approved (only John Hancock,
S07041776Cpresident of the Congress signed - most of the signings took
S07041776Cplace Aug. 2, then continued sporadically until 1781).
S07041789 the first tariff bill is enacted by Congress.
S07041796 the first Independence Day celebration is held in the Western
S07041796CReserve (Conneaut) by Moses Cleaveland and his survey party.
S07041801 the first big social affair in Cleveland is held in Major Lorenzo
S07041801CCarter's log cabin, the city's first permanent white settler.
S07041802 the U.S. Military Academy officially opens at West Point N.Y.
S07041805 the final treaty of the purchase of land, west of the Cuyahoga
S07041805CRiver, is completed with the Indians (now Cleveland and western
S07041805Csuburbs.)
S07041817 construction begins on the Erie Canal.
S07041831 "America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" is first sung publicly at the
S07041831CPark Street Church in Boston.  (Sung to the tune of "God Save the
S07041831CKing," the author, Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, did not know it was
S07041831Cthe British anthem.)
S07041825 Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York turns the first shovelful
S07041825Cof earth for the Ohio Canal.
S07041827 the Erie and Ohio Canal opens and the first boat arrives in
S07041827CCleveland.
S07041828 the first U.S. passenger railroad begins, the Baltimore and Ohio.
S07041836 Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and Eliza Hart Spalding become the
S07041836Cfirst women to journey across the U.S. continent (accompanied by
S07041836Ctheir husbands who were missionaries).
S07041838 the Cleveland City Guards' first appearance occurs during the 4th
S07041838Cof July parade (later change their name to the Cleveland Grays).
S07041845 Texas votes for annexation to the United States.
S07041845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond.
S07041862 Lewis Carroll begins inventing the story of Alice in Wonderland
S07041862Cfor his friend, Alice Pleasance Liddell, during a boating trip.
S07041863 Union forces under General Grant capture Vicksburg.
S07041863 Boise, Idaho is founded (now capital of Idaho).
S07041879 the British colonial force smashes the Zulu army at Ulundi.
S07041882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens.
S07041883 Buffalo Bill Cody introduces his "Wild West Show."
S07041884 the Statue of Liberty is given to the United States.
S07041894 the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Cleveland's Public Square is
S07041894Cdedicated.
S07041894 the Republic of Hawaii is established.
S07041894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the first U.S. autos.
S07041895 "America the Beautiful" by Katherine Lee Bates, a Wellesley
S07041895CCollege professor, is first printed (a church publication
S07041895Centitled "The Congregationalist").
S07041903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens.
S07041903 President Roosevelt sends a message to the Philippines in 9.5
S07041903Cminutes, then a message around the world in 12 minutes.
S07041916 the new Cleveland City Hall is dedicated.
S07041917 U.S. Col. Stanton at Lafayette's tomb announces, "Lafayette, we
S07041917Care here."
S07041917 the first U.S. flight training field opens at Rantoul, Ill.
S07041918 nearly 100 ships are launched at ports around the U.S. as a
S07041918Cpatriotic gesture.
S07041918 Lakewood Park is dedicated.
S07041919 Jack Dempsey beats Jess Williard (fight stopped after three
S07041919Crounds) in Toledo, Ohio to win the heavyweight championship.
S07041931 the first fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium.
S07041931 the first trailside museum opens in the Cleveland Metroparks at
S07041931Cthe North Chagrin Reservation.
S07041933 work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge.
S07041939 during Lou Gehrig Day at Yankee Stadium, Gehrig makes "luckiest
S07041939Cman" speech.
S07041942 U.S. fliers join with R.A.F. for first time, and bomb Nazi bases
S07041942Cin Holland.
S07041946 the Philippines Islands are formally granted their independence
S07041946Cby the U.S.
S07041954 Marilyn Sheppard is found murdered by her husband, Sam.
S07041956 the first U-2 spy plane is flown over Russia.
S07041959 America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood is unfurled.
S07041960 the fifty-star flag makes its official debut at Independence
S07041960CHall.
S07041964 "I Get Around" reaches #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, the first
S07041964Cof the Beach Boys' 3 singles to top the chart.
S07041965 Mariner 4 flies past Mars; sends first close-up photos.
S07041966 LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act.
S07041968 Explorer 38, a giant radio astronomy satellite (antennas extended
S07041968Cbecomes 1500 feet in diameter) is launched into Earth orbit.
S07041968 the thermometer drops to 41 degrees for the second day in a row,
S07041968Cthe lowest temperature ever experienced in Cleveland in the month
S07041968Cof July, 41 degrees, is experienced for the second day in a row.
S07041970 Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on Los Angeles radio.
S07041973 the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) is
S07041973Cestablished.
S07041976 the United States celebrates its Bicentennial, capping a year of
S07041976Cfestivities with the ringing of bells nationwide at 2 p.m.
S07041982 the first Budweiser-Cleveland 500 premiers.
S07041986 the Statue of Liberty opens, after months of refurbishing, in
S07041986Ctime to celebrate its 100th birthday.
S0704     Feast of St. Flavian, Bishop of Antioch.
S0704     Feast of St. Ulrich, Bishop of Augsburg.
S0704     Independence Day.
S0704     Dog Days of Summer.
R0704    7Let's Play Tennis Week begins.
R0704    1It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0704    2It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0704    3It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0704    1Man Watchers' Compliment Week begins.
R0704    2It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0704    3It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0704    4It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
S0704     Philippine-American Friendship Day.
S0704    2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of the Caribbean Common
S0704    2Market.
S0704    5Zambia Unity Day.
S0704    2Zambia Heroes Day.
S0704     Combatant's Day (Yugoslavia).
S0704     Trades Holiday (Scotland).
S0704     Festival of Pax (Roman festival honoring Pax, goddess of peace).
S07091755 the French and their Indian allies defeat Gen. Braddock.
S07051811 Venezuela is the first South American country to gain
S07051811Cindependence from Spain.
S07051841 Thomas Cook opens the first travel agency.  They are first
S07051841Cinvolved in organizing trips for groups opposed to alcoholic
S07051841Cbeverages.
S07051859 Capt. N.C. Brooks discovers Midway Islands.
S07051865 William Booth found the Salvation Army, in London, England.
S07051865 the Secret Service is founded.
S07051883 the first photograph of lightning is taken in Bohemia by Robert
S07051883CHaensel.
S07051884 the U.S. Navigation Bureau is authorized.
S07051908 St. James, the first catholic church in Lakewood, celebrates
S07051908Cfirst mass.  A new church is dedicated May 21, 1935.
S07051935 President FDR signs the National Labor Relations Act.
S07051935 brothers Tony (Dodgers) and Al Cuccinello (Giants) hit home runs
S07051935Cin the same game (M.L. record), Brooklyn 14, N.Y. 4.
S07051935 the first "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcasted.
S07051937 Joe DiMaggio hits his first grand slam.
S07051944 the first rocket airplane is flown.
S07051946 Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at a fashion show in
S07051946CParis.
S07091946 the A.L. beats the N.L. 12-0 at Fenway Park, the most one-sided
S07091946Cof the All-Star games.
S07051947 Indians' Larry Doby, the first black player in the A.L., appears
S07051947Cin his first M.L. game (at Comiskey Park).
S07051950 Pvt. Kenneth Shadrick of Skin Fork, WVA, is the first U.S.
S07051950Cfatality in the Korean War.
S07051951 the junction transistor invention is announced by Dr. William
S07051951CShockley.
S07051954 Boeing conducts initial flight of the B-52A bomber.
S07051961 "The Making of the President" is published.
S07091968 the N.L. wins the first All-Star game played indoors (Astrodome)
S07091968Cand the first 1-0 contest in the games' history.
S07051974 the Front Row Theater opens in Cleveland (Highland Heights) with
S07051974CSammy Davis, Jr.
S07051975 Cape Verde gains independence from Portugal.
S07051984 the Supreme Court weakens a 70-year-old "exclusionary rule."
S07051984CEvidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in
S07059184Ccriminal trials.
S07051986 the first Goodwill Games, created by Ted Turner, begin in Moscow.
S07051991 regulators in seven countries, including the U.S., act to shut
S07051991Cdown BCCI (Bank of Commerce and Credit International) for fraud,
S07051991Ctheft, and money laundering from corrupt activities in many
S07051991Ccountries.
S07051991 baseball owners approve the addition of the Colorado Rockies and
S07051991Cthe Florida Marlins to the N.L. (beginning in 1993).
S07051993 the first of the two peregrine falcons' eggs on a 12th floor
S07051993Cledge of Cleveland's Terminal Tower hatches.
S07051993 Rickey Henderson becomes the second man to hit leadoff homers in
S07051993Ca M.L. doubleheader (Oakland 6-2, Cleveland 5 (11)-6).
S07051994 the full Cleveland Orchestra first performs a concert at Jacobs
S07051994CField.
S0705     Feast of St. Anthony-Mary Zaccaria, confessor.
S0705     Feast of St. Athanasius, deacon and martyr.
S0705     Dog Days of Summer.
R0705    7Let's Play Tennis Week begins.
R0705    1It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0705    2It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0705    3It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0705    4It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0705    1Man Watchers' Compliment Week begins.
R0705    5It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0705    4It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0705    3It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0705    2It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
S0705     Sun Dance Festival (Native American).
S0705    2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of the Caribbean Common
S0705    2Market.
S0705    5Zambia Unity Day.
S0705    2Zambia Heroes Day.
S0705     Algeria Independence Day.
S0705     Cape Verde Independence Day.
S0705    2Sempach Battle Commemoration (Switzerland).
S0705     Venezuela Independence Day.
S0705     Earth at aphelion.
S07061669 LaSalle leaves Montreal on his way to discover and explore the
S07061669COhio River.
S07061687 Isaac Newton's "PRINCIPIA" is published by Royal Society in
S07061687CEngland.
S07061699 Capt. William Kidd, N.Y. businessman turned pirate, is seized in
S07061699CBoston.
S07061775 Congress issues "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of
S07061775CTaking up Arms," detailing grievances but denying any intention
S07061775Cto separate from Britain.
S07061798 the Alien Enemies Act, the third of the Alien and Sedition Acts,
S07061798Cis passed.
S07061848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo becomes effective, ending the
S07061848CMexican-American War.
S07061858 Lyman R. Blake patents a shoe manufacturing machine.
S07061869 Cleveland's Lakeview Cemetery is incorporated.
S07061885 the first successful inoculation (for rabies) of a human being is
S07061885Cannounced, by Louis Pasteur.
S07061886 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers first malted milk to the public.
S07061887 the Nickel Plate Railroad is founded.
S07061920 the Yankees score a team record of 14 runs in 1 inning vs the
S07061920CSenators.
S07061928 the preview of the first all-talking motion picture, "Lights of
S07061928CNew York", takes place in New York, N.Y.
S07061929 St. Louis sets a N.L. record with 28 runs, Cardinals 28, Phillies
S07061929C6.
S07061932 first class postage goes back up to 3 cents from 2 cents.
S07061933 Chicago's Comiskey Park host the first All-Star baseball game.
S07061933CBabe Ruth hits the first home run.  Indians' Hall of Famer Earl
S07061933CAverill collects the first pinch hit.  American League wins 4-2.
S07061935 the Wagner Act, guaranteeing the worker's right to collective
S07061935Cbargaining, becomes law.
S07061942 Anne Frank, age 13, and her family go into hiding with four
S07061942Cothers from the Nazis in the "Secret Annex" at 263 Prinsengracht
S07061942C(Prince's Canal), Amsterdam.
S07061944 "The Day the Clowns Cried" occurs in Hartford, Conn. when a fire
S07061944Cengulfs a Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus big top,
S07061944Ckilling 169.
S07061944 Army Lieutenant Jack Roosevelt Robinson, when boarding a military
S07061944Cbus at Fort Hood, is told to sit in the back of the bus.  He
S07061944Crefuses.  (He is later court martialed, but is acquitted.)
S07061954 the Indians set a club and league record for the most runs scored
S07061954Cin the first inning with no-outs (8), against Baltimore (tied the
S07061954Crecord in 1995 against the Twins).
S07061954 Elvis Presley records his first hit, "That's All Right" (the
S07061954Cfirst time he adds a dash of rock to a country and blues tune).
S07061956 Indians' Jim Busby hits a grand slam in two consecutive games
S07061956C(a club record).
S07061957 the first Pugwash Conference of Nuclear Scientists meets "to
S07061957Cassess the perils to humanity which have arisen as a result of
S07061957Cthe development of weapons of mass destruction."
S07061957 Beatle John Lennon first meets Paul McCartney during a
S07061957Cperformance by Lennon's first band, the Quarry Men Skiffle Group,
S07061957Cat St. Peter's Church in Woolton (Liverpool suburb).
S07061957 Althea Gibson, who learned to play tennis in the asphalt jungle
S07061957Cof New York, wins Wimbledon.
S07061964 Malawi gains independence from Britain.
S07061964 the Beatles' movie "Hard Day's Night" is first released in
S07061964CBritain.
S07061975 the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros (Islands) declares
S07061975Cits independence from France.
S07061993 the second of two peregrine falcon eggs on a 12th floor ledge of
S07061993CCleveland's Terminal Tower hatches.
S0706     Commemoration of SS. Peter and Paul.
S0706     Dog Days of Summer.
R0706    7Let's Play Tennis Week begins.
R0706    1It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0706    2It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0706    3It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0706    4It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0706    5It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0706    1Man Watchers' Compliment Week begins.
R0706    6It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0706    5It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0706    4It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0706    3It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0706    2It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
S0706     Old Milwaukee Day in Wisconsen.
S0706    2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of the Caribbean Common
S0706    2Market.
S0706    5Zambia Unity Day.
S0706    2Zambia Heroes Day.
S0706     Caricom Day (St. Vincent).
S0706     Cayman Islands' Constitution Day.
S0706     Commemoration Day of the Burning of the John Hus
S0706       (Czechoslovakia).
S0706     Family Day (Lesotho).
S0706     Kadooment Day (Barbados).
S0706     Malawian Independence Day.
S0706    2Sempach Battle Commemoration (Switzerland).
S0706     Comoros Independence Day.
S07071607 "God Save the King" is first sung.
S07071754 Kings College in N.Y. City opens. School later is renamed
S07071754CColumbia College.
S07071776 the Declaration of Independence has its first public reading.
S07071798 the first case of outright abrogation of a treaty by the U.S.
S07071798Coccurs when Congress pronounces the U.S. "freed and exonerated
S07071798Cfrom the stipulations" of the treaties of 1778 with France.
S07071837 the first actual legislation on the part of the City of Cleveland
S07071837Cis passed (an ordinance for the establishment of common schools).
S07071846 the U.S. annexes California.
S07071891 a patent is granted for the travelers cheque.
S07071898 the U.S. annexes Hawaii.
S07071905 the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is established in
S07071905CChicago (to be known as Wobblies).
S07071908 the Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay.
S07071923 the Cleveland Indians set club records for the most runs scored
S07071923Cin a single game with two out (13 in the eighth inning), the most
S07071923Cruns in a game (27), and the largest margin of victory (24),
S07071923Cbeating Boston 27-3.
S07071928 the Desoto is first unveiled at a private showing to prospective
S07071928Cfranchise dealers.
S07071930 construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam.
S07071936 the National League wins its first All-Star game (4-3) at Braves
S07071936CField in Boston.
S07071946 Mother Frances X. Cabrini is canonized (the first American
S07071946Csaint).
S07071948 the first regular commissioned U.S. Navy women officers are sworn
S07071948Cin.
S07071949 "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio, and a TV series in 1951 and
S07071949C1967.
S07071959 the American Lutheran Church is established by the merger of the
S07071959CEvangelical Lutherans and the United Evangelical Lutherans.
S07071972 the U.S. and Soviets sign an accord for cooperation in science
S07071972Cand technology.
S07071972 the first women FBI agents, Susan Lynn Roley, a former U.S.
S07071972CMarine, and Joanne E. Pierce, a former nun, are sworn in.
S07071978 the Solomon Islands attain independence from Britain.
S07071980 the first solar-powered airplane flies across the English
S07071980CChannel.
S07071981 Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor is the first female nominated
S07071981Cfor the Supreme Court.
S07071986 the Supreme Court strikes down the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction
S07071986Claw.
S07071987 the Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition and vote to admit women.
S07071987 the Yankees, on 7/7, trailing by 7, score 7 in the 7th and 5 in
S07071987Cthe 8th to beat the Twins 12-7.
S07071992 Jupiter's gravitational forces break up the comet Shoemaker-Levy
S07071992C9 (SL-9) - captured 65 years earlier - into at least 23 segments
S07071992Cwhich crash into the planet 2 years later.
S07071993 Mets' Anthony Young, after retiring 23 straight batters, extends
S07071993Chis M.L. record to 26 losses.
S07071994 CBS announces WOIO Channel 19 as its new Cleveland affiliate,
S07071994C(effective August 29).
S0707     Feast of Cyril and Methodius, converted Slavs, devised Cyrillic
S0707       alpha.
S0707     Feast of Benedict the XI, Pope and confessor.
S0707     Annual Running of the Bulls at Pamplona, Spain.
S0707     Dog Days of Summer.
S0707     Bonza Bottler Day (Number of Day Matches the Number of the
S0707       Month).
S0707     Manufacturers' Day.
R0707    7Let's Play Tennis Week begins.
R0707    1It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0707    2It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0707    3It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0707    4It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0707    5It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0707    6It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0707    1Man Watchers' Compliment Week begins.
R0707    2It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0707    3It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0707    4It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0707    5It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0707    6It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0707    7It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
S0707    2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of the Caribbean Common
S0707    2Market.
S0707    5Zambia Unity Day.
S0707    2Zambia Heroes Day.
S0707     People of Serbia Uprising Day (Yugoslavia).
S0707     Saba Saba Day (Tanzania).
S0707     Solomon Islands Independence Day.
S0707     Tanabata or Star Festival (Japan - a day for lovers).
S0707    2Sempach Battle Commemoration (Switzerland).
S0707     Festival of Juno begins (2-day Roman festival honoring the
S0707       supreme goddess).
S0707     Chih-ni Festival, Heavenly Weaver-Girl (Chinese, goddess of the
S0707       star Alpha in the Lyre).
S07081663 King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island.
S07081776 Col. John Nixon reads the Declaration of Independence to
S07081776CWashington's troops in N.Y.
S07081777 Vermont becomes the first state abolishing slavery, and adopts
S07081777Cmale suffrage.
S07081796 the first American Passport is issued by the U.S. State
S07081796CDepartment.
S07081800 the first cowpox vaccination in the U.S. is performed by
S07081800CHarvard's Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse upon his son, Daniel (to
S07081800Cprevent smallpox).
S07081835 the Liberty Bell cracks (again) while it tolls the death of Chief
S07081835CJustice John Marshall.
S07081850 the Mormon colony on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan crown as its
S07081850Cking James Jesse Strang, its founder.
S07081856 Charles E. Barnes patents a machine gun.
S07081862 Theodore R. Timby patents the revolving gun turret.
S07081863 at the Battle of Port Hudson, Miss., Confederate Maj. Gen.
S07081863CFranklin Gardner surrenders his garrison to Gen. Nathaniel P.
S07081863CBanks after a 6-week siege.
S07081889 Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" (then called
S07081889C"Customer's Afternoon Letter") is published.
S07081889 the last Bareknuckle Prizefight is held, John L. Sullivan beating
S07081889CJake Kilrain at Richburg, Mass., in 2 hours and 16 minutes.
S07081892 the American Physiological Association is organized.
S07081896 William Jennings Bryan makes his "cross of gold" speech at the
S07081896CDemocratic Convention in Chicago.
S07081905 part of Angel Island in S.F. is allocated for an Immigration
S07081905CDetention Center.
S07081907 Florenz Ziegfeld stages first "Follies" on the N.Y. Theater roof.
S07081918 the Aisne-Marne Offensive begins, marking the turning point for
S07081918Cthe Allies.
S07081935 Cleveland hosts its first All-Star Game, setting an All-Star
S07081935Cattendance record (until 1981 in Cleveland), A.L. 4, N.L. 1.
S07081935C(Cleveland has the top four crowds in All-Star history.)
S07081963 all financial transactions with Cuba are banned by the U.S.
S07081969 85 of 543,400 leave Saigon in first of U.S. troop withdrawals.
S07081986 President Reagan signs legislation moving up and fixing the start
S07081986Cof daylight savings time to the first Sunday in April.
S07081988 Indians' Bud Black sets the club record for the most batters hit
S07081988Cin a inning (3).
S07081990 Jose Canseco hits a home run 460 feet to left-center field at
S07081990CCleveland Stadium, coming within a foot of the permanent
S07081990Cbleachers.  (No player has done that, but the A's slugger came
S07081990Cthe closest.)
S07081994 Boston's John Valentin makes the 9th unassisted triple play in
S07081994Cregular-season M.L. baseball history, Red Sox 5, Seattle 3.
S07081995 Indians beat Seattle 7-3, setting a club record for the best
S07081995Cstart at 46-20.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S07081995C  first steal home - (Indians) Kenny Lofton
S07081995C  first back-to-back triples - (Indians) Wayne Kirby and Kenny
S07081995C    Lofton
S07081995C  three triples in a game - Lofton (2), Kirby
S0708     Feast of St. Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal, widow.
S0708     Feast of St. Kilian.
S0708     Feast of St. Grimbald.
S0708     Dog Days of Summer.
S0708     Plan your Vacation Day
R0708    1It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0708    2It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0708    3It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0708    4It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0708    5It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0708    6It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0708    2It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0708    3It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0708    4It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0708    5It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0708    6It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0708    7It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0708    7It's National Nude Weekend!
S0708    2Sempach Battle Commemoration (Switzerland).
S0708     Nonae Caprotinae (Roman celebration).
S0708     Festival of Juno ends (2-day Roman festival honoring the
S0708       supreme goddess).
S07091540 England's King Henry VIII 6-month marriage to Anne of Cleves is
S07091540Cannulled.
S07091595 Johannes Kepler discovers inscribed perfect geometric solid
S07091595C"construction of universe."
S07091800 Mt. Vernon Gardens becomes the site of the first summer theatre
S07091800Cin the U.S.
S07091808 Samuel Parker patents a leather splitting machine.
S07091816 Argentina gains independence from Spain.
S07091846 Capt. Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S.
S07091872 John F. Blondel patents the doughnut cutter.
S07091878 the corncob pipe is patented by Henry Tibbe.
S07091893 Daniel H. Williams makes the first successful surgical suture of
S07091893Cthe heart.
S07091902 a patent is obtained for barbituric acid - hope for insomniacs.
S07091910 archeologists find a tablet drawn-up in 94 AD chronicling the
S07091910Cfall of Jerusalem.
S07091922 U.S.'s Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller breaks the 1-minute
S07091922Cbarrier (:58.6) in the 100 meter freestyle.
S07091932 the Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) are formed.
S07091933 the Frankford Yellowjackets are sold, and rechristened the
S07091933CPhiladelphia Eagles.
S07091940 the National League records the first shutout in All-Star game
S07091940Chistory (4-0) at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis.
S07091944 Saipan is secured after 24 days of fighting, costing 3,100 U.S.
S07091944Ctroops.
S07091955 "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1 on the Top 100 chart, the first
S07091955Crock and roll song to do so.  (It was also the first rock and
S07091955Croll song used in a feature film, "Blackboard Jungle.")
S07091957 the discovery of element 102, nobelium, is announced.
S07091959 Maj. Dale and Master Sgt. Ovnand become the first American
S07091959Cfatalities in the Vietnam War.
S07091963 Cleveland hosts its third All-Star Game (Cleveland has the top
S07091963Cfour crowds in All-Star history), N.L. 5, A.L. 3.  Jim "Mudcat"
S07091963CGrant is the sole Tribe representative, but he does not play.
S07091969 the U.S. Department of Agriculture suspends use of DDT pending
S07091969Cresults of study.
S07091973 the use of federal funds to sterilize minors is halted by the
S07091973CDepartment of HEW.
S07091976 Uganda asks the U.N. to condemn the Israeli hostage-rescue raid
S07091976Con Entebbe.
S07091979 Voyager II flies past Jupiter, and sends the first pictures of
S07091979CJupiter's moon, Europa, back to Earth.
S07091980 Walt Disney's "The Fox and The Hound" is released.
S07091994 the first Cleveland Electric Formula Classic, a 13 lap, 30 mile
S07091994Crace averaging 75 m.p.h., is ran during the Cleveland Budweiser
S07091994CGrand Prix.  (Notre Dame's entry, driven by Mark Folkert, wins
S07091994Cthe field of 11.)
S0709     Feast of St. Thomas More.
S0709     Feast of St. Maria Goretti, virgin, martyr.
S0709     Feast of St. Cyrillus, Bishop of Gortyna, martyr.
S0709     Feast of the Martyrs of Gorkum.
S0709     Feast of the Martyrs of China II.
S0709     Feast of the Martyrs of Orange.
S0709     National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
S0709     Argentina Independence Day.
S0709     Dog Days of Summer.
S0709     Lobster Carnival (Nova Scotia).
R0709    2It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0709    3It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0709    4It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0709    5It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0709    6It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0709    3It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0709    4It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0709    5It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0709    6It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0709    7It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0709    7It's National Nude Weekend!
R0709    1It's National Nude Weekend!
S0709     Aviation Day (U.S.S.R.).
S0709    2Sempach Battle Commemoration (Switzerland).
S07101797 the first U.S. frigate, the "United States", is launched in
S07101797CPhiladelphia.
S07101850 V.P. Millard Fillmore becomes president following Zachary
S07101850CTaylor's death.
S07101890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state.
S07101892 the first concrete-paved street is built, in Bellefountaine,
S07101892COhio.
S07101913 the nation's highest temperature is recorded in Death Valley,
S07101913CCalifornia, 134 degrees.
S07101925 the Scopes "Monkey" Trial begins.  It is the first trial that
S07101925Chad live radio coverage (WGN).
S07101925 U.S.S.R.'s official news agency TASS is established.
S07101928 George Eastman of Rochester, N.Y., shows the first color motion
S07101928Cpictures ever exhibited.
S07101932 Indians' Johnny Burnett collects 9 hits in 11 times at-bat in a
S07101932C18-inning game, setting a team and M.L. record.  (Philadelphia
S07101932CA's beat the Tribe 18-17.)
S07101933 the first police radio system is operated in Eastchester Twp.,
S07101933CN.Y.
S07101938 the "Yankee Clipper" lands in London, completing the first
S07101938Cpassenger flight over the Atlantic.
S07101943 the Allies invade Sicily.
S07101947 Indians' Larry Doby, the first black player in the A.L., reaches
S07101947Cbase on an error in his first appearance in the Stadium.  Don
S07101947CBlack becomes the first Cleveland player to pitch a no-hitter at
S07101947Cthe Stadium, and the eighth in club history, Indians 3,
S07101947CPhiladelpia 0.
S07101949 the first practical rectangular TV tube is announced in Toledo,
S07101949COh.
S07101951 the first Korean truce talks are held between U.N. and Korean
S07101951Crepresentatives at Kaesong, on the 38th parallel.
S07101962 Telstar, the first geosynchronous communications satellite, is
S07101962Claunched.
S07101965 "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" reaches #1 on Billboards' Hot 100
S07101965Cchart, the first of the Rolling Stones' 8 singles to top the
S07101965Cchart.
S07101966 Orbiter 1 is launched (the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the
S07101966CMoon.)
S07101973 the Bahamas become independent after three centuries of British
S07101973Crule.
S07101982 the first public quadruple somersault on a trapeze is performed
S07101982Cby Miguel Vasquez.
S07101985 Greenpeace's 160-foot protest vessel, Rainbow Warrior, is bombed
S07101985Cand sunk in New Zealand by French agents.
S07101985 Coca-Cola announces it will resume selling the old formula Coke
S07101985C(Coco-Cola Classic).
S07101991 the U.S. lifts economic sanctions imposed on South Africa in
S07101991C1986.
S07101995 In a strongly worded letter, Pope John Paul II apologizes to the
S07101995Cworld's women for the Catholic Church's role in blocking their
S07101995Cadvancement, denouncing sexual violence and job discrimination,
S07101995Cand, in a reversal,  praising the women's liberation movement.
S0710     Feast of St. Felicitas and the Seven Holy Brothers, martyrs (St.
S0710       Felicitas is the patron saint of expectant women who want
S0710       boys).
S0710     Feast of SS. Rufina and Secunda, virgins.
S0710     Dog Days of Summer.
S0710     Lady Godiva Day (England).
R0710    3It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0710    4It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0710    5It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0710    6It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0710    4It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0710    5It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0710    6It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0710    7It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0710    7It's National Nude Weekend!
R0710    1It's National Nude Weekend!
S0710    2Sempach Battle Commemoration (Switzerland).
S0710     Bahamas National Day.
S07111533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII.
S07111798 the U.S. Marine Corps is created by an act of Congress.
S07111804 V.P. Aaron Burr kills Alex Hamilton in a pistol duel near
S07111804CWeehawken, New Jersey.
S07111847 Stephen Foster's "Susanna" is first performed at a concert in the
S07111847CEagle Saloon, Pittsburgh, Pa.
S07111863 the first U.S. draft lottery is held.
S07111889 the newly formed hamlet of Lakewood, formerly East Rockport,
S07111889Cselects its first 3 trustees.
S07111914 Babe Ruth makes his M.L. pitching debut for the Red Sox and gets
S07111914Chis first win, Boston 4, Cleveland 3.
S07111916 the Federal Aid Road Act is passed, providing grant-in-aid to
S07111916Cstates for road construction.
S07111921 Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day), and a
S07111921CCommunist regime is established.
S07111923 the first railroad signal system of continuous cab signals is
S07111923Cinstalled at Sunbury, Pa.
S07111934 FDR becomes the first president to travel through the Panama
S07111934CCanal.
S07111944 Phil Cavaretta sets an All-Star game record by reaching base
S07111944Csafely five straight times (triple, single, and 3 walks).
S07111950 the All-Star game, played at Comiskey Park (N.L. wins 4-3), marks
S07111950Cseveral firsts: first extra-inning game, first N.L. win in an
S07111950CA.L. park, and the first network televised All-Star game.
S07111955 the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs takes first cadets.
S07111962 the first transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
S07111962Coccurs.
S07111962 the Great Lakes Theater Festival premiers.
S07111962 the Telstar communications satellite transmits the first
S07111962Cworldwide TV show from Britain and France.
S07111974 the World Football League plays first games.
S07111975 Chinese archeologists announce the uncovering of a 3-acre burial
S07111975Cmound concealing 6000 clay statues of warriors and their regalia
S07111975Cdating from 221 to 206 BC.
S07111977 the Medal of Freedom is awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin
S07111977CLuther King, Jr.
S07111979 Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia and disintegrates.
S07111984 the U.S. announces air bags or automatic seat belts are required
S07111984Cin cars by 1989.
S07111985 Nolan Ryan becomes the first pitcher to strike out 4000 batters
S07111985C(Danny Heep).
S07111986 President Reagan places contras under CIA jurisdiction.
S07111986 Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara.
S07111987 Col. Oliver North implicates officials inside the White House in
S07111987Cthe secret arms sales to Iran.
S07111991 the Eclipse of the Century - the first eclipse over a major
S07111991Cobservatory, Mauna Kea, Hawaii, occurs.
S07111995 President Clinton formally opens diplomatic relations with
S07111995CVietnam.
S07111995 Muslim enclave Srebrenica is overran by Bosnian Serbs, becoming
S07111995Cthe first of the six U.N.-designated "safe areas" to be
S07111995C"ethnicly cleansed."
S07111995 Dodgers' pitcher Hideo Nomo becomes the first Japanese to play in
S07111995Cthe All-Star Game.  Frank Thomas becomes the first White Sox to
S07111995Chit a home run in an All-Star game.  Indians' Carlos Baerga has
S07111995Cthe best showing, going 3 for 3.  N.L. wins 3-2 with 3 HRs.
S0711     Feast of St. Pius I, pope (141-55), martyr.
S0711     Feast of St. Olga, first Russian saint of Orthodox Church.
S0711     National Cheer Up the Sad and Lonely Day.
S0711     Censors' Day.
R0711    4It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0711    5It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0711    6It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0711    5It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0711    6It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0711    7It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0711    7It's National Nude Weekend!
R0711    1It's National Nude Weekend!
S0711     Dog Days of Summer.
S0711     National Holiday of the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia.
S0711       (celebrated mainly in Ulan Bator, yurt capital of Asia.)
S0711     Theano's Day (Patroness of Vegetarianism).
S0711     Uganda's National Holiday.
S0711    2Sempach Battle Commemoration (Switzerland).
S07121191 Crusaders under Richard Coeur de Lion defeat the Saracens in
S07121191CPalestine.
S07121543 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th and last wife).
S07121689 Orangeman's Day - Battle of Boyne, the Protestant victory in
S07121689CIreland, is fought.
S07121775 the Continental Congress appoints the U.S.'s first management of
S07121775CIndian affairs official.
S07121812 U.S. forces led by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812).
S07121817 the first flower show is held at Dannybrook, County Cork, Ire.
S07121843 Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, announces that a
S07121843Cdivine revelation has sanctioned the practice of polygamy.
S07121844 Captain J.N. Taylor first demonstrates the fog horn.
S07121859 William Goodale patents a paper bag manufacturing machine.
S07121862 the Medal of Honor is established by Congress.
S07121870 a U.S. patent for a process by which celluloid is produced is
S07121870Cawarded to John W. Hyatt, Jr., and Isaiah S. Hyatt of Albany,
S07121870CN.Y.
S07121882 the Atlantic City, New Jersey ocean pier is completed.
S07121921 the Indians and the Yankees combine for an A.L. record 16 doubles
S07121921Cas the Tribe wins 17-8.  Cleveland sets a club record with 9
S07121921Cdoubles.
S07121928 the first televised tennis match is broadcasted.
S07121933 Congress passes the first minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour).
S07121934 the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island is abandoned.
S07121954 President Eisenhower proposes an interstate highway system for
S07121954Cgeneral use and atomic defense.
S07121957 Dwight Eisenhower is the first president to fly in helicopter.
S07121960 Echo I, the first passive satellite, is launched.
S07121960 U.S.S.R.'s Sputnik 5 is launched with 2 dogs.
S07121966 Ohio's record rainfall in a 24-hour period falls in Sandusky,
S07121966C10.5 inches.
S07121967 Richard Speck murders eight student nurses in Chicago.
S07121974 the National Research Act, establishing guidelines for scientific
S07121974Cresearch on humans, is signed by President Nixon.
S07121975 San Tome and Principe gain independence from Portugal.
S07121976 a change in the baseball reserve clause is agreed to by M.L.
S07121976Cowners, allowing players to be free agents after 5 years.
S07121977 the first free flight test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
S07121977Coccurs.
S07121979 Kiribati gains independence from Britain.
S07121984 Walter F. Mondale choses Rep. Geraldine Ferraro as his running
S07121984Cmate, the first woman major-party VP candidate.
S07121984 New York institutes the nation's first mandatory seat belt law.
S07121993 U.S. ground troops are deployed in Macedonia as part of a U.N.
S07121993Ceffort to prevent the war in Bosnia to spread to the new-born
S07121993Cnation.
S07121994 a cat named Tabitha is recovered in a crawlspace above the
S07121994Cbaggage compartment of a Tower Air Boeing 747 after escaping its
S07121994Ccarrier during a N.Y. to L.A. flight 12 days earlier, and logging
S07121994Cover 32,000 miles.
S0712     Feast of St. John Gualbert, abbot.
S0712     Dog Days of Summer.
S0712     Orange Day (Irish Orangemen).
R0712    5It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0712    6It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0712    6It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0712    7It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0712    7It's National Nude Weekend!
R0712    1It's National Nude Weekend!
S0712     Different Colored Eyes Day.
S0712     Old Dances (Buddhist).
S0712     Sao Tome and Principe Independence Day.
S0712     Kiribati Independence Day.
S07131568 the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer.
S07131787 the Northwest Ordinance is enacted by Congress, permitting a
S07131787Cterritory (Northwest Territory) to become three to five states
S07131787Cwith 60,000 population.
S07131836 the U.S. adopts a numbering system for its patents. Patent #1 is
S07131836Cgranted to John Ruggles for locomotive traction wheels.
S07131846 the first public high school opens in Cleveland.
S07131863 the 1863 Draft Riots in New York begin following the first draft
S07131863Clottery.
S07131865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west".
S07131880 Stephen D. Field patents an electric street car.
S07131908 women compete in modern Olympic events for the first time.
S07131919 the first lighter-than-air transatlantic flight is completed.
S07131930 the first World Cup of Soccer is held in Montevideo, Uruguay.
S07131943 the biggest tank battle in history ends on the Eastern Front, the
S07131943CRussian army the victor.
S07131954 Cleveland hosts its second All-Star Game (Cleveland has the top
S07131954Cfour crowds in All-Star history), A.L. 11, N.L. 9.  Three
S07131954CIndians provided 8 RBI'S (Al Rosen drove in five runs with two
S07131954Chomers, Larry Doby hit a pinch home run, and Bobby Avila had 2
S07131954CRBI'S.)
S07131973 Don Everly of the Everly Brothers, charter members of the Rock
S07131973Cand Roll Hall of Fame, tells his brother Phil of his intentions
S07131973Cto leave the group after a Knott's Berry Farm concert the next
S07131973Cday (the brothers split up during the on-stage performance).
S07131978 Walter Peonisch completes a 128.8-mile swim from Havan, Cuba to
S07131978CDuck Key, Florida (in a shark cage).
S07131985 the world rock festival, Live Aid Concert, for African famine
S07131985Crelief occurs.
S07131993 the 64th All-Star game is played in the 2-year old Oriole Park in
S07131993CCamden Yards, Baltimore, A.L. 9, N.L. 3.  (All-Star records set:
S07131993Cthe first 2 consecutive wins by a 6 or more run margin by either
S07131993Cleague; homers are hit in each of the first three innings).
S07131993 ground breaking for Cleveland's Wyndham Playhouse Square hotel is
S07131993Cheld.
S07131995 Discovery 21 is launched, manned by an Ohioans (Terrence (Tom)
S07131995CHenricks of Woodville, Oh., Mary Ellen Weber of Bedford Hts.,
S07131995CDonald A. Thomas of Cleveland Hts., Nancy J. Currie of Troy, Oh.,
S07131995Cand Kevin R. Kregel of Long Island, N.Y. - an honorary Ohioan).
S07131995 the spacecraft Galileo unleashes a probe towards Jupiter that
S07131995Cis to become the first Earth emissary ever to penetrate the
S07131995Catmosphere of any of the outer gas giants (Dec. 1995).
S0713     Feast of Our Lady of Fatima.
S0713     Feast of St. Anacletus I, pope (c. 76-c. 88), martyr.
S0713     Nathan Bedford Forrest's Birthday (Tennessee).
S0713    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S0713     Dog Days of Summer.
S0713     Hospitality Day.
R0713    6It's "Let's Play Tennis" Week.
R0713    7It's Man Watchers' Compliment Week!
R0713    7It's National Nude Weekend!
R0713    1It's National Nude Weekend!
S0713     The start of the Bon Festival or Feast of Lanterns (Japan).
S0713     Reed Dance Day (Swaziland).
S0713     People of Montenegro Uprising Day (Yugoslavia).
S0713     La Retraite aux Flambeau or The Night Watch (France).
S07141771 the Mission San Antonio de Padua is founded in California.
S07141789 the citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison.
S07141798 the Sedition Act is passed, prohibiting "false, scandalous and
S07141798Cmalicious" writing against the U.S. government.
S07141832 opium is exempted from U.S. narcotic import tariffs.
S07141850 the first public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
S07141850Coccurs.
S07141853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese.
S07141865 the Matterhorn is first ascended by Edward Whymper.
S07141868 a patent is granted for a tape measure enclosed in a circular
S07141868Ccase.
S07141891 John T. Smith patents corkboard.
S07141905 New York police raid a women's poolroom led by a female
S07141905Cdetective.
S07141927 the Hawaii's first commercial airplane flight occurs.
S07141933 all political parties in Germany other than the Nazi Party are
S07141933Cdeclared illegal.
S07141945 the battleship "U.S.S. South Dakota," the Navy's most decorated
S07141945Cship of World War II, becomes the first ship to bombard Japan
S07141945C(Kamaishi).
S07141946 after losing 11-10 to Ted Williams and the Red Sox in the first
S07141946Cgame of a doubleheader in Fenway, Indians manager Lou Boudreau
S07141946Cpulls the Williams Shift in the nightcap, stationing everyone
S07141946Cexcept the left fielder on the right side when Williams came to
S07141946Cbat.  (They still lost 6-4.)
S07141951 Citation becomes the first race horse to win over $1,000,000.
S07141955 "Mr. Roberts" premieres.
S07141959 the first atomic powered cruiser, the "U.S.S. Long Beach," is
S07141959Claunched from Quincy, Mass.
S07141961 the third week in July is designated "Captive Nations Week."
S07141965 the U.S. Mariner IV, the first Mars probe, passes behind the
S07141965Cplanet at 6,100 miles altitude.
S07141966 eight student nurses are murdered in Chicago.
S07141967 Surveyor IV, part of a U.S. program to develop the technology of
S07141967Csoft landing and provide data about the lunar surface, is
S07141967Claunched (radio contact is lost moments before landing on the
S07141967Cmoon).
S07141967 Eddie Mathews of the Houston Astros becomes the 7th player to hit
S07141967C500 home runs.
S07141972 Jean Westwood is chosen head of the Democratic Party's National
S07141972CCommittee (first woman to hold the top job in either of the two
S07141972Cmajor parties).
S07141973 the Everly Brothers, charter members of the Rock and Roll Hall of
S07141973CFame, call it quits during a on-stage concert at Knott's Berry
S07141973CFarm in California.
S07141978 Lee Iacocca resigns as president of Ford.  Immediately hired by
S07141978Cthe Chrysler Corp., he becomes its CEO on Nov. 1, 1979.
S07141993 Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) takes the "fried" out of chicken by
S07141993Cunveiling the Colonel's Rotisserie Gold roasted chicken.
S07141995 making up a postponed game due to rain from the night before, the
S07141995CIndians beat Oakland 1-0 and 7-6.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S07141995C  first doubleheader won by the Indians
S0714     Feast of St. Bonaventure, bishop, confessor, doctor.
S0714     Dog Days of Summer.
R0714    2Space Week begins.
R0714    7It's National Nude Weekend!
R0714    1It's National Nude Weekend!
S0714     Bastille Day or Fete National (France and French Guiana).
S0714     Community Day (Madagascar).
S0714     Founders' Day or Cecil Rhodes Day (Rhodesia).
S0714     Iraqi 14th of July Revolution (1958).
S0714     Monaco's National Holiday.
S0714     Tahiti's National Holiday.
S0714     Alpha Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
S07151099 the first Crusade ends when Godfrey of Bouillon and Raymond takes
S07151099CJerusalem from the Egyptians.
S07151662 Charles II grants a charter to establish the Royal Society in
S07151662CLondon.
S07151779 General Anthony Wayne wins his nickname, "Mad Anthony", at the
S07151779CBattle of Stony Point (N.Y.).
S07151783 the first successful steamboat, the Pyroscaphe, makes a trial run
S07151783Con the River Saone in France.
S07151788 Marietta, Ohio, capital of the Northwest Territories, gets its
S07151788Cfirst governor, Arthur St. Clair.
S07151815 Napoleon Bonaparte is captured.
S07151830 the Sauk and Fox Indians sign a treaty with the U.S., ceding
S07151830Ctheir lands in Wisconsin and Illinois.
S07151867 the San Francisco Merchant's Exchange opens.
S07151869 margarine is patented in Paris, for use in the French Navy.
S07151870 Manitoba joins the Canadian Dominion.
S07151873 between 75 and 100 delegates, representing all legitimate trades,
S07151873Cmeet in Cleveland in the first Industrial Congress.
S07151876 G.W. Bradley pitches the first M.L. baseball no-hitter for the
S07151876CSt. Louis Reds against Hartford, 2-0.
S07151881 Billy the Kid is killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Ft. Sumner, NM.
S07151902 the 3M Company is founded.
S07151916 William Edward Boeing founds Pacifico Aero Products Co. (later
S07151916Cbecomes Boeing Airplane Co.)
S07151918 in the Second Battle of the Marne, German forces attack east and
S07151918Cwest of the Reims but make no substantial gains.
S07151918 St. Vladimir's Day is first observed.
S07151929 the first airport hotel opens, Oakland, Ca.
S07151940 the first betatron is placed in operation, Urbana, Ill.
S07151946 the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis debuts.
S07151953 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," starring Marilyn Monroe, premieres.
S07151959 launching what he calls his "New Frontier," Senator John F.
S07151959CKennedy accepts the democratic nomination for president.
S07151965 Mariner 4 sends back first close-up photos of the planet Mars.
S07151968 the first direct U.S.-U.S.S.R. commercial flights begin.
S07151975 Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 are launched.  They rendezvous 2 days
S07151975Clater (astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand and Donald
S07151975CK. Slayton).
S07151979 Jerilyn Britz wins the U.S. Women's Open with the lowest score in
S07151979Cthe golf tournament's history, 284.
S07151992 Ohio, "The state that gave us light, the state that gave us
S07151992Cflight, and the state that gave America the great John Glenn,"
S07151992Ccasts the needed votes that nominated William Clinton as the
S07151992CDemocratic Presidential candidate.
S07151994 Chicago manager Gene Lamont requests the bat of Indians' Albert
S07151994CBelle be checked for cork at Comiskey Park.
S07151994 the C.I.A. headquarters in Langley, Va. initiates Dressdown
S07151994CFriday, inviting men to go tieless and women to wear slacks.
S0715     Feast of St. Henry II, Holy Roman emperor (1014-24), confessor.
S0715     Feast of St. Vladimir.
S0715     Dog Days of Summer.
S0715     Clerics' Day.
R0715     It's the Ides of July!
R0715    2Space Week begins.
R0715    3It's Space Week.
R0715    1Captive Nations Week begins.
R0715    1It's National Nude Weekend!
S0715     Saint Swithin's Day (England).
S0715     Old Midsummer Day (celebrated on the Isle of Man).
S0715     Day of Rauni (Finland - Earth goddess).
S0715     Sultan's Birthday (Brunei).
S07161212 the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa establishes the rule of
S07161212CChristian kings on the throne of Spain.
S07161769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, the first mission in
S07161769CCalifornia.
S07161787 the Constitutional Convention accepts the Great Compromise - the
S07161787Capproving of a bicameral legislation.
S07161790 Congress establishes the District of Columbia.
S07161867 D.R. Averill patents ready-mixed paint.
S07161877 the first American general strike begins in Martinsburg, W.Va.
S07161877C(against B & O Railroad).
S07161909 Detroit Tiger's Ed Summers allows 7 hits and pitches all 18
S07161909Cinnings of a 0-0 tie with the Washington Senators, the longest
S07161909Cscoreless game in A.L. history.
S07161934 the first general strike in U.S. history takes place in San
S07161934CFrancisco, California, as an expression of support for the
S07161934Cstriking 12,000 members of the International Longshoremen's
S07161934CAssociation.
S07161935 Oklahoma City becomes first in the U.S. to use parking meters.
S07161941 Yankees' Joe DiMaggio sets a M.L. record for hitting safely in
S07161941Cconsecutive games (56).
S07161942 French police pull Jewish men, women and children from their
S07161942Chomes in Paris.  (They are held for 3 days, then deported to
S07161942CAuschwitz.)
S07161945 the first atomic bomb is exploded at Trinity Site, Alamogordo,
S07161945CN.M.
S07161956 the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus performs its
S07161956Clast show under canvas.
S07161969 Apollo 11, the first manned ship to land on the moon, is
S07161969Claunched (Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael
S07161969CCollins).
S07161973 the existence of tape-recorded conversations between Nixon and
S07161973Cvarious aides is disclosed to the Senate hearings by Alexander
S07161973CButterfield, a former Nixon aide.
S07161988 sisters Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Florence Griffith Joyner set
S07161988Cworld records at the Olympic Trials.
S07161992 Governor William Clinton of Arkansas, launching what he calls the
S07161992C"New Covenant", accepts the democratic nomination for president.
S07161992CFollowing the 54-minute speech, the convention cheers and rocks
S07161992Cto Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow)".
S07161994 the first of 21 asteroids, major fragments of the comet
S07161994CShoemaker-Levy 9 broken-up 2 years earlier, hit Jupiter, creating
S07161994Ca 1200-mile wide fireball 600 miles high.
S07161994 Indians' Dennis Martinez pitches a shut-out against Chicago, 2-0,
S07161994Cin ABC's "Baseball Night in America" premiere.
S07161995 at 12:41 a.m., the Indians beat the A's 7-2, and extend the
S07161995Cclub's record of first place lead to 13 1/2 games (over K.C.).
S07161995 the Indians beat the A's 5-4 in the 12th (with 2 out and 2
S07161995Cstrikes, Manny Ramirez hits a HR), taking a 4-game sweep from
S07161995COakland for the first time, and extending their club record to 14
S07161995C1/2 games (over K.C. and Milwaukee).  Indians go 50-21, the best
S07161995Cshowing in the history of the club.
S0716     Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel.
S0716     Dog Days of Summer.
S0716     National Ice Cream Day.
S0716     The National Blueberry Festival, Montrose, Mich.
R0716    2Space Week begins.
R0716    3It's Space Week.
R0716    4It's Space Week.
R0716    1Captive Nations Week begins.
R0716    2It's Captive Nations Week.
S0716     Birthday of Set (celebrated in Egypt).
S0716     Asalaha Bucha Day (Thailand).
S0716     First Sermon of Lord Buddha (Bhutan).
S0716     La Paz Day (Bolivia).
S0716     Yugoslav People's Army Tank Units Day.
S07171821 Spain cedes Florida to the U.S.
S07171841 the British humor magazine "Punch" is first published.
S07171850 the Harvard Observatory takes the first photograph of a star
S07171850C(Vega).
S07171862 federal law authorizes the acceptance of "persons of African
S07171862Cdescent, for the purpose of constructing intrenchments or
S07171862Cperforming camp competent," into the armed forces of the Union.
S07171867 Harvard establishes its school of Dental Medicine.
S07171877 the first national strike, accompanied by violence, occurs
S07171877C(Baltimore and Ohio railroad workers strike when their wages are
S07171877Ccut 10%, although the company was paying large dividends).
S07171879 the first Hawaiian railroad opens.
S07171890 the first Rocky River Bridge (Ohio) opens.
S07171916 the Federal Farm Loan Act is signed, establishing a land bank
S07171916Csystem for loans to farmers.
S07171917 the British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to
S07171917CWindsor.
S07171933 the National Recovery Act (NRA) goes into effect.
S07171935 Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix" is published.
S07171936 civil war breaks out in Spain, ending five years of democracy.
S07171936 Yankees' pitcher Carl Hubbell's M.L. record 24-game winning
S07171936Cstreak begins, N.Y. beating the Pirates 6-0.
S07171941 Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland, but N.Y.
S07171941Cwins 4-3.
S07171944 the worst military loss of life within the continental U.S. in
S07171944CWorld War II occurs during an explosion of an ammunition dump in
S07171944CPort Chicago, California (now Concord Naval Weapons Station),
S07171944Cdestroying two ammunition ships, leveling much of the town, and
S07171944Ckilling 320, including 202 blacks.
S07171951 Baudouin I of Belgium takes the throne.
S07171954 construction begins on Disneyland.
S07171955 Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County.
S07171955 the first LPGA golf tournament is won by Beverly Hanson.
S07171966 the Indians set a club record by hitting 7 home runs in a 15-2
S07171966Cwin over Detroit in Briggs Stadium.
S07171967 Surveyor IV, part of a U.S. program to develop the technology of
S07171967Csoft landing and provide data about the lunar surface, loses
S07171967Cradio contact with Earth moments before landing on the moon.
S07171975 the U.S. Apollo 18 and the Russian Soyuz 19 dock in space.
S07171980 Marjorie Matthews, a Methodist minister, becomes the first woman
S07171980Cbishop of a church in the U.S.
S07171983 the first United States Football League championship is won by
S07171983Cthe Michigan Panthers, 24-22, over the Philadelphia Stars.
S07171984 President Reagan signs a bill giving states until Oct. 1, 1986,
S07171984Cto raise the legal drinking age to 21, or face a 5% cut in
S07171984Cfederal highway funds.
S07171987 the Dow Jones first closes above 2,500.
S07171987 Don Mattingly becomes the first A.L. player to hit at least one
S07171987Chome run in seven consecutive games.
S07171989 the Stealth bomber is test flown.
S07171990 Minnesota becomes the first team in M.L. history to pull off two
S07171990Ctriple plays in one game, Boston 1, Twins 0.
S07171993 tickets go on sale, by phone only, for the Indians final series
S07171993Cat the Stadium (against Chicago).
S0717     Feast of St. Alexius, confessor.
S0717     Dog Days of Summer.
S0717     Geographers' Day.
R0717    2Space Week begins.
R0717    3It's Space Week.
R0717    4It's Space Week.
R0717    5It's Space Week.
R0717    1Captive Nations Week begins.
R0717    2It's Captive Nations Week.
R0717    3It's Captive Nations Week.
S0717     Iraqi 17th of July Revolution (National Day - 1968).
S0717     South Korean Constitution Day.
S0717     Munoz-Rivera's Birthday (Puerto Rico).
S0717     Birthday of Isis (celebrated in Egypt).
S0717     Festival of Amaterasu (Japanese Sun goddess).
S0718 064 the Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle).
S07181536 Pope's authority is declared void in England.
S07181768 the first American patriotic song, "The Liberty Song," is
S07181768Cpublished in the Boston Gazette.
S07181853 trains begin running over the first North American international
S07181853Crailroad between Portland, Maine and Montreal, Quebec.
S07181872 Britain introduces voting by secret ballot.
S07181897 Chicago's Cap Anson, hits his final M.L. hit in a game against
S07181897CBaltimore, and becomes the first player ever to reach 3,000
S07181897Ccareer hits.
S07181908 the City of Cleveland bans fireworks.
S07181914 the U.S. Army Air Corps is created.
S07181918 the Aisne-Marne offensive is launched by more than 250,000
S07181918CAmericans with French units to counter a German attack (Second
S07181918CBattle of the Marne on July 15).
S07181925 AAA declares women drivers are as competent as men.
S07181925 the dedication of the Firestone Stadium, which houses the Akron
S07181925CSoftball Hall of Fame, occurs before 10,000 fans.
S07181925 Hitler's "Mein Kampf" ("My Battle") is published in Munich.
S07181931 the first air-conditioned ship, the Mariposa, is launched.
S07181938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, who had been forbidden to make a
S07181938Csolo transatlantic flight, lands in Dublin, Ireland (not
S07181938CCalifornia??)
S07181944 Gen. Hideki Tojo is removed from his post as chief of the General
S07181944CStaff for his mismanagement and loss of Saipan.
S07181947 the Presidential Succession Act is signed by Pres. Truman,
S07181947Cdesignating the Speaker of the House and the president of the
S07181947CSenate pro tempore next in succession after the vice president.
S07181954 the first Newport Jazz Festival is held.
S07181966 the Hough Riots break out in Cleveland.
S07181966 Carl Sagan turns one billion seconds old.
S07181966 the Gemini 10 is launched.
S07181968 the Intel Corporation is incorporated.
S07181969 Mary Jo Kopechne is drowned in a car accident with Edward Kennedy
S07181969Con Chappaquiddick Island, Mass.
S07181970 Willie Mays, in his 19th season, becomes the 10th player to reach
S07181970C3,000 career hits (off Montreal's Mike Wegener).
S07181974 an independent legal services corporation is established by
S07181974CCongress to provide legal aid for the poor.
S07181976 14-year-old Nadia Comaneci scores 10 on the uneven bar, a first
S07181976Cin Olympic gymnastics.
S07181980 a federal court voids the Selective Service Act for excluding
S07181980Cwomen.
S07181980 India launches its first satellite, Rohini onboard its Satellite
S07181980CLaunch Vehicle from Sriharikota Island, becoming the eighth
S07181980Ccountry in space.
S07181985 a delegation led by Gov. Richard Celeste and Mayor George
S07181985CVoinovich deliver a multi-media presentation to the Rock and Roll
S07181985Cfoundation in New York to get the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
S07181985CCleveland (greatly impressed the foundation).
S07181986 videotapes are released showing Titanic's sunken remains.
S07181994 Fragment G of the comet Shoemaker-Levy strikes Jupiter, creating
S07181994Ca fireball as large as the Earth.
S07181995 in the bottom of the 9th, Indians' Albert Bell, with the count
S07181995C1-2 and with 1 out, hits a grand slam to beat the Angels 7-5.
S0718     Feast of St. Camillus de Lellis, confessor.
S0718     Antibigot Day.
S0718     Dog Days of Summer.
R0718    2Space Week begins.
R0718    3It's Space Week.
R0718    4It's Space Week.
R0718    5It's Space Week.
R0718    6It's Space Week.
R0718    1Captive Nations Week begins.
R0718    2It's Captive Nations Week.
R0718    3It's Captive Nations Week.
R0718    4It's Captive Nations Week.
S0718     Birthday of Nepthys (Egypt).
S0718     National Uprising Day (Spain).
S0718     Uruguayan Constitution Day.
S07191848 the first Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
S07191867 Congress passes the third Reconstruction Act over President
S07191867CJohnson's veto.
S07191877 the first Wimbledon tennis championships are held.
S07191880 S.F. Public Library allows patrons to start borrowing books.
S07191896 Cleveland celebrates its 100th Anniversary.
S07191899 the National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (now IBEW) Local
S07191899C39, an offspring of Local 38, is organized in Cleveland.
S07191909 Cleveland Nap's Neal Ball makes the first unassisted triple play
S07191909Cin major league history.  (In the same inning, he hits a home
S07191909Crun.)
S07191910 Cy Young registers his 500th career victory as the Cleveland
S07191910CNaps beat the Washington Senators 5-4 in 11 innings.
S07191935 the first parking meters are installed in the Oklahoma City
S07191935Cbusiness district.
S07191939 the first use of fiberglass sutures is by Dr. R.P. Scholz in St.
S07191939CLouis, Mo.
S07191943 Rome is bombed by some 500 Allied planes (spared for 4 years
S07191943Cbecause of its religious significance).
S07191944 the Battle of the Philippine Sea begins.
S07191945 the "U.S.S. Cod" saves 51 sailors from the Dutch submarine O-19,
S07191945C(the only international submarine-to-submarine rescue).
S07191949 President Truman says the Soviet Union will either destroy itself
S07191949Cor abandon aggression.
S07191949 Laos gains independence from France as a conditional monarchy.
S07191951 the Cleveland Indians begin the club's record longest consecutive
S07191951Chome game win streak (16).  (Broken in 1994.)
S07191954 the maiden flight of the Boeing-80, to be called the 707, occurs.
S07191957 the first air-to-air missile with a nuclear warhead is fired at
S07191957CYucca Flat, Nev.
S07191957 Don Bowden becomes the first U.S. runner to break the four-minute
S07191957Cmile, 3:58.7 at Stockton, Ca.
S07191958 the first Atlas three-stage rocket launched explodes after 2
S07191958Cminutes in flight.
S07191961 regular in-flight movies first occur on TWA's N.Y. to L.A.
S07191961Cflights.
S07191962 an U.S. anti-missile missile makes the first successful
S07191962Cinterception of an I.C.B.M.
S07191985 Christie McAuliffe, 36, a high-school teacher and mother of 2
S07191985Cfrom Concord, N.H., is selected from 11,000 applicants to become
S07191985Cthe first teacher to fly aboard a space shuttle (died in the
S07191985CChallenger disaster).
S07191993 President Clinton announces his "don't ask, don't tell, don't
S07191993Cpursue" policy for gays in the military.
S0719     Feast of St. Vincent de Paul, confessor.
S0719     Dog Days of Summer.
R0719    2Space Week begins.
R0719    3It's Space Week.
R0719    4It's Space Week.
R0719    5It's Space Week.
R0719    6It's Space Week.
R0719    7It's Space Week.
R0719    1Captive Nations Week begins.
R0719    2It's Captive Nations Week.
R0719    3It's Captive Nations Week.
R0719    4It's Captive Nations Week.
R0719    5It's Captive Nations Week.
S0719     Burma Martyrs' Day.
S0719     Laos Independence Day.
S0719     Sandanista Revolution Anniversary (Nicaragua).
S0719     Day of Venus (early Roman holiday - before 200 BC - goddess of
S0719       Spring and protectress of vegetation and gardens).
S0719     Festival of Aphrodite and Adonis (Ancient Greek).
S0719     Opet, Ancient Egypt's New Year (Thebes' greatest annual festival
S0719       honoring "the going up of the goddess Sothis," Queen of the
S0719       Constellations - the heliacal rising of the star Sirius - and
S0719       named after the Theban name of Taueret, the hippopotamus
S0719       goddess of childbirth).
S0719     Festival for Isis (Ancient Egyptian - Isis is the most complete
S0719       flowering of the Goddess concept in human history.)
S07201810 Columbia gains it's independence.
S07201872 Mahlon Loomis receives patent for the wireless. The radio is
S07201872Cborn.
S07201858 the first admission fee (50 cents) is charged to see the first
S07201858CAll-Star game played by baseball's first league, the National
S07201858CAssociation of Base Ball Players, at Fashion Race Course on Long
S07201858CIsland, New York All-Stars 22, Brooklyn 18.
S07201861 the Congress of the Confederate States of America moves from
S07201861CMontgomery, Alabama to Richmond, Virginia.
S07201876 the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America
S07201876C(ICAAAA), the earliest significant intercollegiate sports
S07201876Cassociation, is founded at Saratoga, N.Y. by delegates from 14
S07201876Ccolleges participating in crew and track events.
S07201878 the telephone is introduced in Hawaii.
S07201881 Chief Sitting Bull surrenders.
S07201925 Thistledown Racetrack in Cleveland opens.
S07201925 the Goodyear blimp flies over Cleveland's League Park to see the
S07201925CWashington Senators beat the Indians (the first sporting event
S07201925Cthe blimp attends).
S07201940 Billboard publishes its first singles record chart (#1 is "I'll
S07201940CNever Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey.)
S07201944 the plot to assassinate Hitler in his map room at Rastenburg,
S07201944CEast Prussia, fails.
S07201947 the U.N. establishes an international One World Day, inspired by
S07201947CCleveland's Cultural Garden League.
S07201956 prehistoric art is found in a Rouffignac grotto, France.
S07201960 the U.S. sub, the "George Washington," completes the first
S07201960CPolaris missile underwater launch.
S07201964 NASA tests first successful electric rocket engine.
S07201969 Man lands on the Moon, 4:18 p.m. EDT.  (Armstrong and Aldrin walk
S07201969Cwhile Collins orbits above.)
S07201970 the first baby is born on Alcatraz Island.
S07201976 the Viking I lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, and begins
S07201976Ctransmitting pictures.  (The Viking spacecrafts' tests strengthen
S07201976Cthe hint of life on Mars.)
S07201976 Hank Aaron hits his last home run (755).
S07201976 the U.S. completes withdrawal of U.S. troops from Thailand.
S07201993 Indians' Carlos Baerga hits the last grand slam at the Stadium
S07201993Coff Oaklands' Joe Boever.
S07201994 for the 2nd consecutive game, Paul Sorrento hits 2 home runs and
S07201994Cthe Tribe hits 5 home runs, Texas 13, Indians 11 in 14 innings.
S07201995 Inventure Place, home of the National Inventors Hall of Fame,
S07201995Cis dedicated in Akron, Ohio (opens to the public 3 days later).
S0720    1One World Day (celebrated in Cleveland).
S0720     Commemoration of St. Margaret, virgin, martyr, patron saint of
S0720       women in childbirth.
S0720     Feast of St. Jerome Emiliani, confessor.
S0720     Commemoration of Elijah (Elias), greatest of the prophets (Roman
S0720       and Greek Churches).
S0720     Moon Day.
S0720     Dog Days of Summer.
R0720    2Space Week begins.
R0720    3It's Space Week.
R0720    4It's Space Week.
R0720    5It's Space Week.
R0720    6It's Space Week.
R0720    7It's Space Week.
R0720    1It's Space Week.
R0720    1Captive Nations Week begins.
R0720    2It's Captive Nations Week.
R0720    3It's Captive Nations Week.
R0720    4It's Captive Nations Week.
R0720    5It's Captive Nations Week.
R0720    6It's Captive Nations Week.
S0720     Binding of the Wreaths (Lithuania).
S0720     Colombia Independence Day (Spain 1819).
S07211667 New Netherland (New York) is ceded to England by the Dutch by the
S07211667CPeace of Breda.
S07211831 Belgium gains it's independence from the Netherlands, crowning
S07211831CLeopald I its first king.
S07211861 the first major battle of the Civil War occurs at Bull Run, Va.
S07211861C(the South wins.)
S07211866 Mahlon Loomis transmits and receives the first man-made radio
S07211866Csignals.
S07211873 the world's first train robbery occurs (by Jesse James).
S07211921 General William Mitchell demonstrates airplanes can sink ships.
S07211925 John Thomas Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in
S07211925CTennessee, and is fined $100.
S07211928 boxer Gene Tunney retires undefeated at the age thirty.
S07211934 Ohio's highest temperature is recorded near Gallipolis, 113
S07211934Cdegrees.
S07211954 the French sign armistice with the Viet Minh, ending French
S07211954Centanglement in Vietnam.
S07211959 the U.S. launches the world's first atomic merchant ship,
S07211959C"Savannah."
S07211961 Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom is launched.
S07211965 production begins on the second "Star Trek" pilot, "Where No Man
S07211965CHas Gone Before", at the Desilu Studios.
S07211969 Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 a.m. (GMT).
S07211976 an American Legion Convention in Philadelphia, Pa. begins (July
S07211976C21-24).  Over 200 people who attended later catch the
S07211976C"Legionnaires Disease" (29 die).
S07211984 the first documented case of a robot killing a human in the U.S.
S07211984Cis recorded.
S07211985 Drexel Burnham Lambert pleads guilty to insider trading, and
S07211985Cagrees to pay $650 million, the largest settlement by a company.
S07211993 Judge Frank J. Battisti approves, and the Cleveland School Board
S07211993Cpasses, "Vision 21" to improve education and end "forced" busing.
S07211993 the first roof truss is installed for Cleveland's Gateway Arena
S07211993C(Gund Arena).
S07211995 the U.S., Britain, and France pledge a broad and sustained
S07211995Ccampaign of air attacks if the Bosnians Serbs attack the U.N.-
S07211995Cprotected enclave in Eastern Bosnia (formally announced 7/23).
S0721    1One World Day (celebrated in Cleveland).
S0721     Feast of St. Laurence of Brindisi, confessor, doctor.
S0721     Feast of St. Paraxedes, virgin.
S0721     Dog Days of Summer.
R0721    3It's Space Week.
R0721    4It's Space Week.
R0721    5It's Space Week.
R0721    6It's Space Week.
R0721    7It's Space Week.
R0721    1It's Space Week.
R0721    1Captive Nations Week begins.
R0721    2It's Captive Nations Week.
R0721    3It's Captive Nations Week.
R0721    4It's Captive Nations Week.
R0721    5It's Captive Nations Week.
R0721    6It's Captive Nations Week.
R0721    7It's Captive Nations Week.
S0721     Independence Day, celebrated in Belgium.
S0721     Mayan New Year.
S0721     Bolivia Martyrs' Day.
S0721     Death Anniversary of His Late Majesty Jigme Dorji Wangchuck
S0721       (Bhutan).
S0721     Guam Liberation Day.
S0721     Shoelcher Day (French West Indies).
S07221284 the Pied Piper exacts his famous revenge on the town of Hamel, in
S07221284CBrunswick.
S07221796 Moses Cleaveland lands at the future site of Cleveland, Ohio.
S07221864 Gen. Sherman defeats Confederate defenders at the Battle of
S07221864CAtlanta.
S07221933 Wiley Post completes first round-the-world solo flight.
S07221933 the DC-1, first to meet the dead-engine criteria, is test-flown.
S07221934 desperado John Dillinger is gunned down by federal agents in
S07221934CChicago.
S07221937 the Farm Security Administration (FSA) is established through the
S07221937Cpassage of the Bankhead-Jones Act, to aid farm tenants,
S07221937Csharecroppers and laborers in buy land.
S07221939 Jane Bolin becomes the first black woman judge when she is
S07221939Cappointed to the N.Y. City Court of Domestic Relations.
S07221955 the first time a vice-president (Nixon) presides over a cabinet
S07221955Cmeeting takes place.
S07221975 Congress restores citizenship of Confederate General Robert E.
S07221975CLee.
S07221975 police in Milwaukee arrest Jeffrey Dalmer.
S07221994 the last of the large fragments of the comet Shoemaker-Levy
S07221994Cstrikes Jupiter (Fragment W).
S07221994 for the first time at Jacobs Field, the Tribe hits 3 home runs in
S07221994Cthe first inning (Thome, Belle, Sorrento), a player hits 3 home
S07221994Cruns in one game (Jim Thome), and the Tribe hits 6 home runs in
S07221994Cone game (Belle in his 5th consecutive game, Sorrento, Lofton and
S07221994C3 for Thome), Indians 9, White Sox 8.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S07221994C  Tribe hits 3 home runs in the first inning
S07221994C  first player to hit 3 home runs in a game - (Indians) Jim Thome
S07221994C  Tribe hits 6 home runs in a game
S0722     Cleveland's Founders' Day.
S0722    1One World Day (celebrated in Cleveland).
S0722    1National Parents Day.
S0722     Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, penitent.
S0722     Dog Days of Summer.
S0722     Rat-Catchers Day.
S0722     Preparedness Day (San Francisco).
S0722     Spooner's Day.
S0722     Choctaw Festival (Native American).
R0722    4It's Space Week.
R0722    5It's Space Week.
R0722    6It's Space Week.
R0722    7It's Space Week.
R0722    1It's Space Week.
R0722    2It's Captive Nations Week.
R0722    3It's Captive Nations Week.
R0722    4It's Captive Nations Week.
R0722    5It's Captive Nations Week.
R0722    6It's Captive Nations Week.
R0722    7It's Captive Nations Week.
S0722     Dornach Battle Commemoration (Switzerland).
S0722    2Hurricane Supplication Day (Virgin Islands).
S0722     King's Birthday (Swaziland).
S0722     People of Slovenia Uprising Day (Yugoslavia).
S0722     Poland Liberation Day.
S07231715 the Little Brewster Island (Massachusetts) lighthouse is
S07231715Cauthorized (the first lighthouse in North America).
S07231827 swimming is taught at the first U.S. swimming school in Boston.
S07231829 William Austin Burt of Detroit patents his typewriter (the
S07231829Ctypographer).
S07231841 the Bunker Hill Monument is completed.
S07231852 the first interment in the U.S. National Cemetery at Presidio
S07231852Coccurs.
S07231877 the first telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed.
S07231886 Steve Brodie becomes the first person to leap from the Brooklyn
S07231886CBridge.
S07231888 the statue of Moses Cleaveland is unveiled on Public Square.
S07231896 Lakewood's (Ohio) electric lights are first lit.
S07231903 the first Ford Model A is sold.
S07231904 the first ice cream cone is introduced, in St. Louis.
S07231917 the Cleveland Metropolitan Park District is established (later
S07231917Cbecame the Cleveland Metroparks).
S07231920 British East Africa is renamed Kenya.
S07231925 Yankee Lou Gehrig hits the first of his M.L. record 23 grand
S07231925Cslams, N.Y. 11, Washington Senators 7.
S07231937 the isolation of the pituitary hormone is announced.
S07231944 Majdanek near Lublin, Poland becomes the first Nazi death camp
S07231944Cliberated by the Allies (Russians).
S07231959 V.P. Nixon argues with Khruschev, "Kitchen Debate", while on a
S07231959Cdiplomatic visit to Russia.
S07231967 the worst riot in U.S. history erupts in Detroit, Mich.
S07231968 a sniper attack on police in Cleveland, Ohio initiates four days
S07231968Cof rioting.
S07231970 FBI report concludes the National Guard had no cause to fire on
S07231970Cstudents at Kent State.
S07231972 Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS 1), later called
S07231972CLANDSAT, is launched to start its multi-spectral scans of Earth.
S07231973 Nixon refuses to release tapes of White House conversations
S07231973Crelevant to Watergate.
S07231976 the Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the College All-Stars 24-0 in the
S07231976Clast All-Star Game.
S07231982 actor Vic Morrow and two Vietnamese children are killed during
S07231982Cthe filming of a segment of "The Twilight Zone: The Movie".
S07231984 Vanessa Williams, the first black Miss America, relinquishes her
S07231984Ctitle because of nude photographs of her published in Penthouse
S07231984Cwould embarrass the pageant.
S07231986 the FDA approves production of the first genetically altered
S07231986Cvaccine.
S07231986 Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson (Andy and Fergie) wed.
S07231995 Western allies deliver a formal ultimatum to the Bosnian Serbs
S07231995Cdeclaring that attacks on U.N.-protected Eastern Bosnia would
S07231995Cdraw punishing air strikes.
S07231995 the Indians complete a 3-game sweep of the A's in Oakland, 2-0,
S07231995Cand extend their club record lead over Milwaukee to 16 1/2 games.
S07231995 Inventure Place, home of the National Inventors Hall of Fame,
S07231995Copens in Akron, Ohio.
S07231995 Miguel Indurain of Villava, Spain, wins the Tour de France,
S07231995Cbecoming the first to win 5 consecutive times.
S0723    1One World Day (celebrated in Cleveland).
S0723     Feast of St. Apollinaris, first bishop of Ravenna, martyr.
S0723     National Parents Day.
S0723     Dog Days of Summer.
R0723    5It's Space Week.
R0723    6It's Space Week.
R0723    7It's Space Week.
R0723    1It's Space Week.
R0723    3It's Captive Nations Week.
R0723    4It's Captive Nations Week.
R0723    5It's Captive Nations Week.
R0723    6It's Captive Nations Week.
R0723    7It's Captive Nations Week.
S0723     Egyptian Revolution Anniversary (National Day).
S0723     Soma No Umaoi or Wild Horse Chasing (Japan).
S0723    2Hurricane Supplication Day (Virgin Islands).
S0723     Neptunalia (Roman holiday honoring Neptune, the sea god).
S07241534 Jacques Cartier takes possession of the mainland of Canada in the
S07241534Cname of King Francois I of France.
S07241701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds Detroit.
S07241824 the Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results
S07241824Cof first public opinion poll.  Clear lead for Andrew Jackson.
S07241844 Henry R. Worthington patents the independent single direct-acting
S07241844Csteam power pump.
S07241847 the Mormans found Salt Lake City.
S07241847 Richard M. Hoe patents the rotary type printing press.
S07241866 Tennessee becomes the first Confederate state readmitted to the
S07241866CUnion.
S07241911 American Hiram Bingham discovers the Lost City of the Incas,
S07241911CVilcapampa (now called Machu Picchu), where the last Incan
S07241911CEmperors found refuge from the conquistadors.
S07241911 Cleveland's League Park hosts the first unofficial M.L. All-Star
S07241911Cgame (benefit game for Addie Joss' family).  Cleveland Naps lose
S07241911Cto the All-Stars 5-3.
S07241915 more than 800 people are lost when the pleasure steamer,
S07241915CEastland, top-heavy with passengers, rolls over a few feet from a
S07241915CChicago dock (the worst disaster on the Great Lakes).  The
S07241915CEastland had run the Cleveland-Cedar Point route from 1907 to
S07241915C1913.
S07241917 Clevelander Garrett A. Morgan, who invented the gas mask and 3-
S07241917Ccolor traffic light, saves 2 men wearing his gas mask after an
S07241917Cexplosion in a water works tunnel 220 feet under Lake Erie.
S07241944 the first concentration camp is liberated, Maidenek (by the
S07241944CRussians).
S07241950 the first rocket is launched from Cape Canaveral (German V2).
S07241952 "High Noon" starring Gary Cooper debuts.
S07241974 the Supreme Court rules that President Nixon must turn over the
S07241974Cadditional tapes sought by Watergate prosecutor.
S07241980 43 inches of rain in a 24-hour period fall in Houston, Texas,
S07241980Csetting a U.S. record.
S07241983 Yankees beat K.C. as Royals George Brett's homer is nullified for
S07241983Cpine tar on the bat.  (A.L. president Lee McPhail rules on July
S07241983C28 that the home run should count.  The game is completed Aug.
S07241983C18, K.C. 5, Yankees 4.)
S07241991 9 of the 15 Soviet republics agree on a draft treaty that will
S07241991Cdecentralize the system of power-sharing in the Soviet Union.
S07241993 Mets' Anthony Young extends his M.L. losing streak record to 27
S07241993Closses.
S07241995 Suzyn Waldman becomes the first woman to announce a M.L. baseball
S07241995Cgame on network TV (ABC's Monday Night Baseball), Yankees 5,
S07241995CRangers 4.
S0724    1One World Day (celebrated in Cleveland).
S0724     Feast of St. Christina, virgin, martyr.
S0724    1National Parents Day.
S0724     Pioneer Day (Utah).
S0724     Dog Days of Summer.
R0724    6It's Space Week.
R0724    7It's Space Week.
R0724    1It's Space Week.
R0724    4It's Captive Nations Week.
R0724    5It's Captive Nations Week.
R0724    6It's Captive Nations Week.
R0724    7It's Captive Nations Week.
S0724     Simon Bolivar's Day (celebrated in Venezuela).
S0724    2Hurricane Supplication Day (Virgin Islands).
S07251603 James VI of Scotland is crowned James I of England.
S07251814 the first steam locomotive is demonstrated.
S07251850 gold is discovered on the Rogue River in Oregon.
S07251854 Walter Hunt patents the paper collar.
S07251861 volunteers are sanctioned by Congress for use in putting down the
S07251861Cinsurrection in the South ($100 bonus for those who volunteer for
S07251861C2 years).
S07251868 Wyoming Territory is established.
S07251871 Wilhelm Schneider patents the carrousel.
S07251903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes.
S07251909 the first airplane flight across the English Channel occurs.
S07251946 the first subsurface atomic explosion, "Bikini Helen," is
S07251946Cdetonated near the Bikini Islands.
S07251952 Congress establishes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
S07251957 Tunisia becomes a republic.
S07251959 a hovercraft crosses the English Channel for the first time.
S07251960 Woolworth lunch counters are opened to all (sit-ins were
S07251960Csuccessful).
S07251962 the House passes a bill for equal pay regardless of sex.
S07251965 Bob Dylan first goes electric, angering his fans at the Newport
S07251965CFolk Festival.
S07251967 construction begins on S.F. MUNI METRO (Market Street subway).
S07251970 "(They Long to Be) Close to You" (written as a California bank
S07251970Cjingle) reaches #1 on Billboards' Hot 100 chart, the first of the
S07251970CCarpenters' 2 singles to top the chart.
S07251975 "A Chorus Line" opens on Broadway at the Shubert Theater (with
S07251975C6237 performances, becomes the longest running show on Broadway).
S07251978 Baby Louise, the first test-tube baby, is born in London.
S07251984 Soviet Svetlena Savilskaya becomes the first woman to walk in
S07251984Cspace.
S07251991 Jeffrey L. Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee for the serial murder
S07251991Cof 17 people (sentenced Feb. 17, 1992).
S07251992 the Unified Team represents the 12 republics of the former
S07251992CU.S.S.R. for the last time in the Summer Olympics at Barcelona,
S07251992CSpain (athletes will represent their own country in future
S07251992COlympics).
S0725    1One World Day (celebrated in Cleveland).
S0725     Feast of St. James the Great, apostle, patron saint of Spain.
S0725     Feast of St. Christopher, patron saint of travellers and
S0725       protector of all against perils from water and storms.
S0725     Dog Days of Summer.
S0725    1National Parents Day.
R0725    7It's Space Week.
R0725    1It's Space Week.
R0725    5It's Captive Nations Week.
R0725    6It's Captive Nations Week.
R0725    7It's Captive Nations Week.
S0725     Naga Panchami (India).
S0725     Annexation of Guanacaste (Costa Rica).
S0725     Puerto Rican Constitution Day.
S0725     Tunisian Republic Day.
S0725    2Hurricane Supplication Day (Virgin Islands).
S07261775 Benjamin Franklin becomes the first Postmaster General.
S07261779 the first decoration to a foreign national (silver medallion) is
S07261779Cawarded by Congress to Lt. Col. Francois Louis Treisseidre de
S07261779CFleury (commanded part of the American attack and captured the
S07261779CBritish flag at Stony Point).
S07261788 New York becomes the 11th state of the original 13 to ratify the
S07261788CConstitution.
S07261788 Sydney, Australia is settled by British colonists.
S07261835 the first sugar cane plantation in Hawaii is started.
S07261847 Liberia becomes a republic.
S07261847 the first miniature train that children can ride is built by
S07261847CMoses Garrish Farmer in Dover, N.H.
S07261863 Confederate Colonel John Hunt Morgan is captured outside West
S07261863CLisbon in Ohio's first and last real battle of the Civil War.
S07261887 the first Esperanto book is published.
S07261908 the Federal Bureau of Investigation is established.
S07261926 the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Victory, Lackawanna, N.Y., becomes
S07261926Cthe first Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. to be consecrated as
S07261926Ca basilica.
S07261940 Japanese assets in the U.S. are frozen.
S07261947 National Security Act is signed into law, unifying the armed
S07261947Cforces under the Department of Defense. The National Security
S07261947CCouncil and the CIA, under the domain of the NSC, are also
S07261947Cestablished.
S07261952 Mickey Mantle hits his first grand slam.
S07261953 Fidel Castro begins revolution against Batista.
S07261956 the "Andrea Doria" sinks after colliding with the "Stockholm."
S07261957 U.S.S.R. launches first intercontinental multi-stage ballistic
S07261957Cmissile.
S07261958 the U.S. launches Explorer IV to collect cosmic ray data.
S07261962 Milwaukee Braves' Warren Spahn sets a N.L. record for home runs
S07261962Cby a pitcher with 31, Braves 6, Mets 1.
S07261963 the U.S. launches Sycom 2, the first geosynchronous satellite.
S07261965 Maldives gains independence from Britain.
S07261969 scientists get first look at the rocks brought back from the
S07261969Cmoon - look but not touch.
S07261971 the U.S. launches Apollo 15 to the Moon, manned by David R.
S07261971CScott, James B. Irwin, and Alfred M. Worden.
S07261990 President Reagan signs a bill barring discrimination against
S07261990Cpeople with physical or mental disabilities.
S07261992 the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) begins to bar
S07261992Cemployment discrimination based on disability.
S0726    1One World Day (celebrated in Cleveland).
S0726     Feast of St. Anne, mother of Mary, patron saint of Canada,
S0726       housewives and miners.
S0726    1National Parents Day.
S0726     New York Ratification Day.
S0726     The start of the Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree in Athens, Texas.
S0726     Dog Days of Summer.
R0726    1It's Space Week.
R0726    6It's Captive Nations Week.
R0726    7It's Captive Nations Week.
S0726     Pueblo Buffalo and Corn Dances (Native American).
S0726     Celebration of the 26th of July Movement or National Rebellion
S0726       Day (Cuba).
S0726     Liberia Independence Day.
S0726     Maldives Independence Day.
S0726    2Hurricane Supplication Day (Virgin Islands).
S0726     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S07271586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings the first tobacco to England from
S07271586CVirginia.
S07271789 the Department of State is created.
S07271816 American troops destroy the Seminole stronghold of Fort
S07271816CApalachicola to punish the Seminoles for harboring runaway slaves
S07271816C(the First Seminole War 1817-1818 soon followed).
S07271866 Atlantic telegraph cable is successfully laid (1,686 miles long).
S07271888 the first electric automobile, designed by Philip W. Pratt, is
S07271888Cdemonstrated in Boston (tricycle driven by storage batteries).
S07271918 Brooklyn rookie Henry Heitman completes the shortest career in
S07271918CM.L. history.  After giving up 4 consecutive hits to St. Louis,
S07271918Che left the mound and pro ball.
S07271921 insulin is discovered by Canadian biochemists R. Banting and C.
S07271921CBest.
S07271933 the U.S. Central Statistical Board is created.
S07271941 the highest temperature recorded in Cleveland in the month of
S07271941CJuly occurs (103).
S07271949 the world's first jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, debuts in
S07271949CEngland.
S07271953 the Korean Conflict ends and the armistice is signed at
S07271953CPanmunjom.
S07271965 President Johnson signs the law requiring cigarette packages and
S07271965Cads to be printed with health warnings.
S07271971 the first Eisenhower silver dollar is presented to the widow
S07271971CMamie Eisenhower.
S07271974 the House Judiciary Committee votes on the first of three charges
S07271974Cto impeach President Nixon for obstructing justice in the
S07271974CWatergate investigations.
S07271976 the first case of Legionnaires Disease breaks out (29 people
S07271976Clater die).
S07271984 Montreal's Pete Rose passes Ty Cobb for the most singles in a
S07271984Ccareer with number 3,503 against the Phillies.
S07271986 Greg Lemond becomes the first American to win the Tour de France.
S07271988 the surgeon general, in the most comprehensive report on
S07271988Cnutrition and health ever issued by the U.S., says fat is a
S07271988Cleading cause of disease and that its overconsumption is a major
S07271988CAmerican health problem.
S07271993 the government links two more diseases to Agent Orange,
S07271993CHodgkin disease and porphyria cutanea tarda.
S07271993 State Senator Jeffrey D. Johnson introduces a bill to stop state
S07271993Cfunds to sports teams or groups with racial or ethnical demeaning
S07271993Cnames or logos (aimed at the Indians and the Chief Wahoo logo).
S07271995 the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
S0727     Feast of St. Pantaleon, martyr.
S0727    1National Parents Day.
S0727     Dog Days of Summer.
R0727    7It's Captive Nations Week.
S0727     Festival of the Seven Sleepers.
S0727     Jose Barbosa's Birthday (Puerto Rico).
S0727     People of Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina Uprising Day (Yugoslavia).
S0727    2Hurricane Supplication Day (Virgin Islands).
S0727     Day of Hatshepsut (Egyptian).
S0727     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S07281586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe.
S07281821 Peru gains it's independence from Spain.
S07281849 "Memmon" is the first clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days
S07281849Cout of New York.
S07281851 a total solar eclipse is captured on a daguerreotype photograph.
S07281868 the 14th Amendment is ratified, giving citizenship to ex-slaves.
S07281900 the hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut.
S07281914 World War I begins when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
S07281914 the Foxtrot is first danced at the New Amsterdam Roof Garden
S07281914Cin New York City.  Music by Harry Fox (who else?)
S07281927 48 nations sign Geneva Convention governing the treatment of war
S07281927Cprisoners.
S07281931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd National
S07281931CAnthem.
S07281933 the first Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee).
S07281942 Linden A. Thatcher patents a coin operated mailbox.
S07281945 the United Nations Charter is ratified by the U.S. Senate.
S07281945 a B-25 bomber flies into the Empire State Building, becoming
S07281945Clodged between the 78th and 79th floors, and killing 13.
S07281957 rock 'n' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis makes his first TV appearance
S07281957Con "The Steve Allen Show."
S07281964 the U.S. launches Ranger 7 to the Moon.
S07281973 Skylab 3 carries Alan Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma to a
S07281973Crendezvous with the Skylab orbiting laboratory.
S07281976 Capt. Elden W. Joersz, USAF, travels 2193.16 MPH in a Lockheed
S07281976CSR-71 (the fastest a human has gone on Earth.)
S07281977 the 799-mile trans-Alaska pipeline goes into full operation as
S07281977Cthe first oil from Prudhoe Bay arrives at Valdez at 11:02 p.m.
S07281982 San Francisco becomes the first U.S. city to ban handguns.
S07281983 A.L. president Lee McPhail rules that George Brent's "Pine Tar"
S07281983Chome run on July 24 against New York should count.  The game is
S07281983Ccompleted Aug. 18, K.C. 5, Yankees 4.
S07281991 Dennis Martinez pitches the 14th perfect game in major league
S07281991Chistory (96 pitches, 66 strikes), Montreal Expos 2, Dodgers 0.
S07281992 U.S. Olympic gymnastic coaches Bela and Marta Karolyi announce
S07281992Ctheir retirement at the end of the 1992 Games.
S07281993 a violent storm strikes Cleveland (knocks down 1000 trees in
S07281993CEuclid) and gives CEI its worst power failure in its history
S07281993C(over 300,000 customers without power).
S07281993 Mets' pitcher Anthony Young ends his M.L. record losing streak at
S07281993C27 games (7/24/93) when the Mets rally for two runs in the ninth
S07281993Cto beat the Marlins 5-4.
S07281993 in their first season, the expansion team Colorado Rockies set
S07281993CM.L. record by reaching 3 million in attendance faster than any
S07281993Cteam in history.
S07281994 Kenny Rogers pitches the 15th perfect game in M.L. history, and
S07281994Cthe first lefty in A.L. history, Rangers 4, Angels 0.  (A 9th
S07281994Cinning diving catch by Rusty Greer saves the game!)
S07281994 the last steel beam is put in place on Cleveland's Rock and Roll
S07281994CHall of Fame.
S07281994 the Major League Baseball Players Association announces an
S07281994CAugust 12th strike date.
S0728     Feast of SS. Nazarius, Celsus, Victor I, Innocent I.
S0728    1National Parents Day.
S0728     Founder's Day (Volunteers of America).
S0728     Dog Days of Summer.
S0728     Start of Gathering Time (Celtic).
S0728     Peru Independence Day.
S0728    2Hurricane Supplication Day (Virgin Islands).
S0728     Capricornid meteor shower, radiant in Capricorn.
S0728     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S07291812 word of the war arrives in England 41 days after it is declared.
S07291835 the first sugar plantation in Hawaii is established.
S07291845 the New York Yacht Club, the oldest surviving yacht club in the
S07291845CU.S., is founded on board the schooner "Gimcrack."
S07291858 the first commercial treaty between the U.S. and Japan is signed.
S07291870 America's first asphalt pavement is laid in Newark, N.J.
S07291899 the first motorcycle race is ran at Manhattan Beach, N.Y.
S07291907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms the Boy Scouts, in England.
S07291914 the first shots of World War I are fired when Austria bombs
S07291914CBelgrade.
S07291914 the first transcontinental phone link is made. (Between N.Y. City
S07291914Cand San Francisco)
S07291920 the first transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San
S07291920CFrancisco occurs.
S07291927 Bellevue Hospital in N.Y. City installs the first electric
S07291927Crespirator (iron lung).
S07291935 the F.B.I. police training school is initiated in Washington,
S07291935CD.C.
S07291945 returning from delivering the "A" bomb, the "U.S.S. Indianapolis"
S07291945Cis sunk by the Japanese in shark-infested waters (317 survivors
S07291945Care recovered Aug. 2).
S07291952 the first transpacific non-stop flight by jet occurs.
S07291955 plans for the first U.S. artificial satellites are announced.
S07291957 the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is established by
S07291957Cthe U.N. to advance peaceful development of atomic energy.
S07291957 Jack Paar's "Tonight" show premieres.
S07291958 NASA is created, replacing the National Advisory Committee for
S07291958CAeronautics (NACA).
S07291958 Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running.
S07291961 Wallis and Futuna Islands become French overseas territories.
S07291965 the Beatles' movie "Help" opens in Britain.
S07291968 the first ever unassisted triple play to occur at the Stadium is
S07291968Cmade by Washingtons' Ron Hansen, Cleveland 10, Senators 1.
S07291974 the House Judiciary Committee votes on the second of three
S07291974Ccharges to impeach President Nixon for repeatedly failing to
S07291974Ccarry out his oath in a series of abuses of power.
S07291974 the first women Episcopal priests are ordained.
S07291979 the bodies of the first 2 of 28 black children killed in the
S07291979CAtlanta area are found.  (Wayne Williams is arrested on June 21,
S07291979C1981 for the murders.)
S07291981 Congress passes President Reagan's tax-cut legislation, the
S07291981Clargest in the nation's history.
S07291981 Prince Charles and Lady Diana wed.
S07291981 the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated.
S07291993 the groundbreaking ceremonies of the Vietnam Women's Memorial
S07291993Cnear the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington occurs.
S07291993 Israel's Supreme Court overturns John Demjanjuk's conviction as
S07291993CIvan the Terrible of Treblinka.
S0729     Feast of St. Martha, virgin, patron saint of housewives, cooks,
S0729       innkeepers and laundresses.
S0729     Dog Days of Summer.
S0729     Feast of St. Olav.
S0729     Olsok Eve Festival (celebrated in Norway to honor St. Olaf,
S0729       the king who brought Christianity to Norway).
S0729     Vodoun Cermonies (Haitian).
S0729    6Start of Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
S0729     Umutomboko Ceremony (Zambia).
S0729     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S07301619 the House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed.  It is the first
S07301619Celective governing body in a British colony.
S07301733 the Society of Freemasons opens its first American lodge in
S07301733CBoston.
S07301760 three of London's city gates are sold for scrap, marking the end
S07301760Cof London as a walled city (the fourth burns down 20 years
S07301760Clater).
S07301836 Hawaii's first English newspaper is published.
S07301864 General Burnside's near-success at Elliott's Salient in
S07301864CPetersburg, Va. turns to a rebel victory.
S07301898 Kellogg invents corn flakes.
S07301917 the Board of the Commissioners of the Cleveland Metroparks has
S07301917Cits first meeting.
S07301928 the first color motion pictures in the U.S. are exhibited by
S07301928CGeorge Eastman at Rochester, N.Y. (including goldfish, peacocks,
S07301928Cbutterflies and pretty girls in pretty dresses).
S07301939 the Cleveland Cultural Gardens in Rockefeller Park is dedicated.
S07301946 the U.S. joins UNESCO, the United Nations Educational,
S07301946CScientific, and Cultural Organization.
S07301954 Elvis Presley joins the Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local
S07301954C71.
S07301956 the Motto of the U.S. "In God We Trust" is authorized.
S07301965 the Medicare Social Security bill is signed into law.
S07301966 the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating North and South Vietnam
S07301966Cis bombed by U.S. planes for the first time.
S07301974 the House Judiciary Committee votes on the last of three charges
S07301974Cto impeach President Nixon for his unconstitutional defiance
S07301974Cof subcommittee subpoenas.
S07301975 teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa disappears.
S07301976 Bruce Jenner wins gold in the decathlon.
S07301980 the independent Republic of Vanuatu is declared.
S07301992 Yael Arad wins Israel's first Olympic medal, a silver medal in
S07301992Cjudo.
S07301993 the National Postal Museum becomes the Smithsonian Institute's
S07301993C14th museum.
S07301995 the Indians extend their club record lead over Milwaukee to 17
S07301995Cgames, Cleveland 5, Seattle 2.
S0730     Feast of SS. Abdon and Sennen, martyrs.
S0730     Dog Days of Summer.
S0730    6Start of Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
S0730     Vanuata Independence Day (from Britain and France).
S0730     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S07311498 Christopher Columbus discovers the island of Trinidad.
S07311588 the English fleet attacks and defeats the Spanish armada.
S07311774 oxygen is discovered by Joseph Priestley.
S07311777 Frenchman Marquis de Lafayette, 19, is made a major-general of
S07311777Cthe Continental Army.
S07311790 the first U.S. is patent granted to Samuel Hopkins for a potash
S07311790Cprocess.
S07311818 Cleveland's first newspaper, the Cleaveland Gazette and
S07311818CCommercial Register, is published.
S07311846 the Donner party leave Ft. Bridger on the ill-fated Hastings
S07311846CCutoff (claimed to save 350 to 400 miles on the trek to
S07311846CCalifornia).
S07311849 Benjamin Chambers patents the breech loading cannon.
S07311876 the Coast Guard officers' training school is established at New
S07311876CBedford, Mass.
S07311922 an 18 year old, Ralph Samuelson, rides the world's first water
S07311922Cskis at Lake City, Minnesota.
S07311928 Leo the Lion's first roar is heard in MGM's silent movie "White
S07311928CShadow of the South Seas."
S07311932 the first major league baseball game is played at the Cleveland
S07311932CStadium, Philadelphia Athletics 1, Indians 0.  Athletic's Max
S07311932CBishop hits a single in the first, the first hit in the park.
S07311932CBishop also scores the first run (8th inning).  Mule Haas is the
S07311932Cfirst strikeout (by Indians' pitcher Mel harder).
S07311936 the Bandstand at Lakewood Park is dedicated.
S07311940 Indians' Ken Keltner hits the first Indians' grand slam in the
S07311940CStadium off Bostons' Denny Galehouse.
S07311954 a six year research program finds that Los Angeles smog is
S07311954Ccaused by the chemical reaction of sunlight on auto and
S07311954Cindustrial emissions.
S07311959 the first exhibit of bongos at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
S07311959Copens.
S07311961 the season's second All-Star Game ends in a 1-1 tie at Fenway
S07311961CPark due to rain (the only tie in All-Star history).
S07311963 Indians' Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona, and Larry Brown
S07311963Chit consecutive home runs in one inning, setting a club record
S07311963C(vs. California Angels).
S07311964 Ranger 7 takes the first close-up photos of the moon, 4,316
S07311964Cpictures, before crashing into it.
S07311969 Mariner 6 comes within 2,000 miles of Mars.
S07311970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
S07311970C(No more "Goodnight, David", "Goodnight, Chet").
S07311971 Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin take mankind's
S07311971Cfirst ride on the moon (moon rover).
S07311988 an arbitrator finds against the owners of M.L. baseball clubs
S07311988Ccollusion against 79 free agents, violating baseball's collective
S07311988Cbargaining agreement.
S07311990 experiments in gene therapy by the insertion of new genes into
S07311990Cbody cells is approved for the first time by the National
S07311990CInstitute of Health.
S07311990 the Rangers' Nolan Ryan becomes the 10th pitcher to win 300
S07311990Cgames, beating the Brewers 11-3.
S07311990 Yankees owner George Steinbrenner agrees to accept an indefinite
S07311990Csuspension for gambling (lifted Mar. 1, 1993).
S07311991 the U.S. and the Soviets sign the Strategic Arms Reduction
S07311991CTreaty (START), the first treaty to mandate reductions by the
S07311991Csuperpowers.
S07311992 the 49th Shuttle Mission, Atlantis 12 is launched.
S07311992 the month ends as the wettest month on record in Cleveland.
S07311995 Capital Cities/ABC announces a merger with Disney.
S07311995 while taking the day off, the Indians club record lead over
S07311995CMilwaukee and K.C. is extended to 17 1/2 games.
S0731     Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Jesuits, confessor.
S0731     Dog Days of Summer.
S0731     Advice Day.
S0731     Oidche Lugnasia (Celtic).
S0731    6Start of Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
S0731     Congolese Revolution Day.
S0731     Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
R0700     It's National Recreation and Park Month.
R0700     It's National Picnic Month!
R0700     It's National Hitchhiking Month.
R0700     It's National July Belongs to Blueberries Month.
R0700     It's National Baked Beans Month!
R0700     It's National Hot Dog Month!
R0700     It's National Ice Cream Month!
R0700     It's National Anti-Boredom Month!!
R0700     The ruby and onxy are the gems of July.
R0700     The water lily and larkspur are the flowers of July.
R0700     The sentimental meaning of the ruby is for friendship, and the
R0700       water lily and the larkspur are for ardent attachment.
R0700     July's name commemorates the founder of the Julian calendar,
R0700       Julius Caesar.  Before that, July was called Quintilius.
R0700     Before the 20th century, July was pronounced to rhyme with
R0700       "truly."
R0700     The full moon in July is known as the Thunder Moon and the Mead
R0700       Moon.
R07010722 Cancer is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R07010722   Symbol: The Crab.
R07010722   Ruling Planet: Moon.
R07010722   Element: Water.
R07010722   Traits: Maternal, compassionate, thrifty.
R07010722   Body part associated with this sign: The breast.
R07010722   Occupations: Raising children, animals, or plants, history,
R07010722     antiques, caring for the elderly.
R07230731 Leo is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R07230731   Symbol: The Lion.
R07230731   Ruling Planet: Sun.
R07230731   Element: Fire.
R07230731   Traits: Forceful, generous, creative, well-organized.
R07230731   Body part associated with this sign: The heart.
R07230731   Occupations: Supervisor, actor, king, activities requiring
R07230731     physical strength, bartender.
 
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S08011291 the Everlasting League is formed (the basis of the Swiss
S08011291CConfederation, the world's first democracy).
S08011469 the French order of knighthood, the Order of St. Michael, is
S08011469Cinstituted.
S08011584 the first Swiss Confederation Day is observed.
S08011716 the oldest established sculling race, London Bridge to Chelsea,
S08011716Cis first rowed.
S08011753 Lammas Day is first celebrated.
S08011785 Caroline Herschel becomes the first woman discoverer of a comet.
S08011790 the first U.S. Census takes place.
S08011794 the Whisky Rebellion begins.
S08011798 Admiral Horatio Nelson destroys the French fleet at the Battle
S08011798Cof the Nile.
S08011813 Major George Croghan, with 160 men and a six-pound cannon which
S08011813Che shifted about, held off a 1200-man British force at Fort
S08011813CStephenson in Fremont, Ohio.
S08011831 the new London Bridge is opened.
S08011874 Othmar Zeidler announces in Strasbourg his discovery of Dichloro-
S08011874CDiphenyl-Trichloro-ethane (DDT).
S08011876 Colorado becomes the 38th state.
S08011881 the U.S. Quarantine Station is authorized for Angel Island
S08011881C(S.F.).
S08011893 Henry D. Perky and William H. Ford patent a machine for making
S08011893Cshredded wheat biscuits for a breakfast cereal.
S08011901 burial within San Francisco City limits is prohibited.
S08011903 the first coast-to-coast automobile trip (S.F.-N.Y.) is completed
S08011903Cin 52 days.
S08011911 Miss Harriet Quimby is the first woman to received a pilot
S08011911Clicense's in America.
S08011914 Germany declares war on Russia - World War I escalates.
S08011916 Hawaii National Park is established.
S08011939 Louis F. Fieser first synthesizes vitamin K.
S08011941 the U.S. announces an oil embargo against Japan.
S08011943 U.S.S.R. woman fighter pilot Jr. Lt. Lydia Litvak, the world's
S08011943Ctop woman ace (12), is killed in action in the eastern Front
S08011943Ccampaign.
S08011946 President Truman signs the McMahan Act, creating the Atomic
S08011946CEnergy Commission.
S08011953 California introduces it's Sales Tax (for Education).
S08011956 Salk polio vaccine is made available to the public.
S08011957 the first commercial solar-heated building opens in Albuquerque,
S08011957CNM.
S08011960 Dahomey (later renamed Benin) gains independence from France.
S08011966 the Texas tower massacre at the University of Texas in Austin
S08011966Coccurs (13 killed, 31 wounded).
S08011967 Lunar Orbiter 5 is launched to take pictures of possible sites
S08011967Cfor manned Apollo landings.
S08011967 Stokely Carmichael calls for a black revolution in America.
S08011968 the Cleveland Metroparks begins operating the Zoo.
S08011971 former Beatle George Harrison leds an all-star entourage of rock
S08011971Ctalent in a benefit for Bangladesh refugees.
S08011975 the Helsinki Pact, recognizing the sovereignty of individual
S08011975Cnations in Europe and rejecting the use of force, is signed by 35
S08011975Cnations.
S08011975 the New Orleans Superdome, the world's largest indoor sports and
S08011975Centertainment center, is dedicated.
S08011977 a return to bell-bottom trousers, white caps and jumpers for
S08011977Csailors' uniforms is announced by the Navy after an experiment
S08011977Cwith coat-and-shirt uniforms.
S08011980 President Vigdis Finnbogadottir of Iceland became the first
S08011980Cdemocratically elected head of state.
S08011981 MTV premiers.
S08011986 Cleveland sets an A.L. attendance record for a twi-night
S08011986Cdoubleheader, 65,934.
S08011990 Iraq invades Kuwait.
S08011990 Indians' Alex Cole sets a club record with 5 stolen bases in one
S08011990Cgame.
S08011994 Baltimore's Cal Ripken, Jr. plays his 2,000 consecutive game; the
S08011994COrioles winning 1-0 in Minnesota.
S08011995 NATO allies extend the protection of Western air power to all the
S08011995Csafe areas in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
S08011995 CBS, the last independent TV network, announces a merger with
S08011995CWestinghouse Electric Corp.
S08011995 for the first time in club history, tickets for Indians' games
S08011995Care sold out.
S08011996 the EPA's exhaust emission standard for all new small spark-
S08011996Cemission engines goes into effect.
S0801     Sports Day (U.S.) - fosters good sportsmanship.
S0801     Feast of St. Peter's Chains.
S0801     Feast of St. Nicodemus.
S0801     Birthday of the Virgin Mary - Coptic (Egyptian) and Abyssinian
S0801       Churches.
S0801    1Blessing of the Sea (Brittany, France).
S0801     Dog Days of Summer.
S0801    6The start of the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
S0801     National Non-Parenthood Day.
S0801     Civic Holiday (Canada).
S0801     Confederation Day (Commemoration of the Pact of 1291 -
S0801    C  Switzerland).
R0801    7It's Twins Day Weekend (Twinsburg, Ohio).
R0801    2World Breastfeeding Week begins.
R0801     It's International Humor Exchange Week.
R0801     It's National Clown Week.
R0801    2National Smile Week begins.
R0801    1Turtles International Awareness Week begins.
S0801    1American Family Day in Arizona and Michigan.
S0801    2Independence Day celebrated in Jamaica.
S0801     Benin Independence Day.
S0801    2Emancipation Day (Bahamas and Grenada).
S0801     Anniversary of the Angola Peoples's Armed Forces.
S0801     Hari Raya Puasa (Singapore).
S0801     Parent's Day (Zaire).
S0801     Ramazan Bayram (Cyprus).
S0801     Lammas Day - term day in Scotland (end of the farming season).
S0801     Lammas Sunset - Lughnasadh (Wiccan Sabbat - religious festival
S0801       marking the first harvest).
S0801     Festival of Ceres (Roman corn goddess).
S0801     Carman's Festival (Irish goddess).
S08021769 Los Angeles is named for Our Lady of Angels.
S08021776 the Declaration of Independence is formally adopted (only John
S08021776CHancock, president of the Congress, signed July 4th - most of the
S08021776Csignings took place Aug. 2, then continued sporadically until
S08021776C1781).
S08021849 Cleveland Society for Savings is organized (later becomes Society
S08021849CNational Bank).
S08021858 the first street mailboxes appear in Boston, Mass.
S08021865 Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll in published
S08021865Cin London (only 48 copies are sold).
S08021869 Gustav Simon performs the first surgical removal of a kidney.
S08021873 the first trial run of a San Francisco cable car occurs on Clay
S08021873CStreet between Kearny and Jones, downhill all the way, at 4 a.m.
S08021876 Wild Bill Hickok is shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall.
S08021876CThe poker hand he was holding is now known as the
S08021876CDead Man's Hand:  A pair of Aces, and a pair of 8's.
S08021877 the San Francisco Public Library opens with 5000 volumes.
S08021909 the first Lincoln head pennies are minted.
S08021921 due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in the Black
S08021921CSox scandal are acquitted; however Landis throws them out of
S08021921Cbaseball the next day.
S08021922 the first radio sound effects (2 wooden blocks slamming together
S08021922Cto imitate a door slamming) occurs on WGY, Schenectady, N.Y.
S08021939 Einstein writes FDR suggesting the Atomic bomb is feasible.
S08021943 the Pt-109, under the command of Lt. John F. Kennedy, is rammed
S08021943Cand sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amigiri.
S08021943 the Treblinka death camp uprising occurs.
S08021964 North Vietnamese PT boats reportedly fire on the U.S. destroyer
S08021964C"Maddox" (resulting in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution).
S08021965 Morley Safer's sends the first Vietnam report indicating we are
S08021965Closing the war.
S08021975 Billy Martin is named manager of N.Y. Yankees for the first time.
S08021985 Montgomery Ward, the retail giant, announces it will discontinue
S08021985Cpublication of its mail order catalog.
S08021986 TODAY Program is created.
S08021987 the flight record for the handbow of 1,336 yds. 1 ft. 3 in., is
S08021987Cset by Don Brown at Smith Creek, Nevada.
S08021988 a bill requiring notice of plant closings becomes law (passes
S08021988Cwith out President Reagan's signature).
S08021990 Iraqi forces invade Kuwait.
S08021991 the 42nd Shuttle Mission, Atlantic 9 is launched.
S08021993 NATO allies approve U.S. plans to strike Serbian forces in
S08021993Cdefense of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
S08021993 Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes
S08021993Cownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 and WHK-AM/1420.
S08021993 shooting for the film "My Summer Story" begins in Cleveland.
S08021993 an investor group submits a $173 million dollar bid, a record
S08021993Cprice for a sports franchise, to buy the Baltimore Orioles.
S08021995 Paul Sorrento hits his second Grand Slam at Jacobs Field, Indians
S08021995C12, Minnesota 6.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S08021995C  first Indians player to hit 2 grand slams in Jacobs Field -
S08021995C   Paul Sorrento
S0802     Feast of St. Alphonsus Mary de Liguori, bishop of Agata dei Goti.
S0802     Feast of St. Stephen, Pope and martyr.
S0802     St. Elias Day (Orthodox).
S0802     Friendship Day.
S0802     Emancipation Day (Illinois).
S0802     Dog Days of Summer.
R0802    1It's Twins Day Weekend (Twinsburg, Ohio).
R0802    7It's Twins Day Weekend (Twinsburg, Ohio).
R0802    2World Breastfeeding Week begins.
R0802    3It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0802    3It's National Smile Week.
R0802    2It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0802     It's International Humor Exchange Week.
R0802     It's National Clown Week.
R0802    2National Smile Week begins.
R0802    1Turtles International Awareness Week begins.
S0802    1American Family Day in Arizona and Michigan.
S0802    2Independence Day celebrated in Jamaica.
S0802    2Emancipation Day (Bahamas and Grenada).
S0802    1Blessing of the Sea (Brittany, France).
S0802     Chocolate Fest (St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada).
S0802     Feast of Anahita (Persian).
S0802     St. Elias Day or Ilinden (Macedonia).
S0802     Id Alfeter (Ethiopia).
S0802     Discovery Day (Trinidad and Tobago).
S08031492 Columbus sets sail for "the Indies".
S08031596 David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira.
S08031610 Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson Bay, which later claims him.
S08031795 the Greenville Treaty is signed, dividing the Ohio territory
S08031795Cbetween the settlers and the Indians.
S08031852 the first U.S. intercollegiate rowing race occurs (Harvard beats
S08031852CYale by 4 lengths).
S08031864 Saratoga Racetrack opens in upstate N.Y.
S08031880 the American Canoe Association is formed in Lake George, N.Y.
S08031882 the first federal law restricting immigration is passed by
S08031882CCongress.
S08031921 due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in the Black
S08031921CSox scandal were acquitted; however Landis throws them out of
S08031921Cbaseball.
S08031921 the Cleveland Museum of Natural History is dedicated.
S08031921 aerial crop dusting is carried out for the first time over a
S08031921Cfield in Ohio.
S08031936 Jesse Owens wins the 100-m Olympic gold at Berlin, while Hitler
S08031936Cwatches.
S08031945 Japan is blockaded by U.S. and Britain units.
S08031948 Cleveland's Satchel Paige make his first M.L. start and goes 7
S08031948Cinnings, Indians 5, Senators 3.
S08031949 Flag Day is designated by Congress as June 14.
S08031949 the Basketball Association of America and National Basketball
S08031949CLeague merge to form the National Basketball Association.
S08031955 the Automobile Association of America ends its support of
S08031955Cracing.
S08031956 President Eisenhower approves a Congressional resolution changing
S08031956Cthe name of Bedloe's Island, site of the Statue of Liberty, to
S08031956CLiberty Island.
S08031958 the U.S. submarine Nautilus becomes the first ship to cross the
S08031958CNorth pole under the Arctic ice.
S08031960 the first conversion in which voices are bounced off the moon is
S08031960Caccomplished by U.S. scientists.
S08031960 Niger gains independence from France.
S08031961 the Pittsburgh Pirates score a 19-0 victory over the St. Louis
S08031961CCardinals for the largest shutout score in a N.L. night game.
S08031975 New Orleans' Superdome opens.
S08031977 Baltimore's rookie Eddie Murray hits his first of 11 homers from
S08031977Cboth sides of the plate in the same game (against Oakland).
S08031981 12,000 federal air traffic controllers, PAFCO, go on strike in
S08031981Cprotest over obsolete equipment, improper staffing, and pay
S08031981Cscale.
S08031984 the National Dance Hall of Fame is established at Saratoga, N.Y.
S08031987 Joe Niekro is ejected from a game for using sandpaper (caught by
S08031987CTV cameras tossing the board when confronted).
S08031995 Indians beat Minnesota 6-4, extending their club record to 18 1/2
S08031995Cgames over Milwaukee and K.C.
S0803     Commemoration of the Finding of Body of St. Stephen, first
S0803       martyr.
S0803     Dog Days of Summer.
R0803    1It's Twins Day Weekend (Twinsburg, Ohio).
R0803    7It's Twins Day Weekend (Twinsburg, Ohio).
R0803    2World Breastfeeding Week begins.
R0803    3It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0803    4It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0803    3It's National Smile Week.
R0803    4It's National Smile Week.
R0803    2It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0803    3It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0803     It's International Humor Exchange Week.
R0803     It's National Clown Week.
R0803    2National Smile Week begins.
R0803    1Turtles International Awareness Week begins.
S0803    1American Family Day in Arizona and Michigan.
S0803    1Blessing of the Sea (Brittany, France).
S0803    2Independence Day celebrated in Jamaica.
S0803    2Emancipation Day (Bahamas and Grenada).
S0803     Autumn Holiday (Ireland).
S0803     Habib Bourguiba's Birthday (Tunisia).
S0803     Caricom Day (Barbados).
S0803     Equatorial Guinea Army Forces Day.
S0803     Farmer's Day (Zambia).
S0803     Feast of Our Savior (El Salvador).
S0803     Niger Independence Day.
S0803     Summer Holiday (Scotland).
S0803     Martyr's Day (Guinea-Bissau).
S08041693 champagne is invented by Dom Perignon.
S08041777 retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes the
S08041777Cfirst circus.
S08041790 the United States Coast Guard is founded under the Tariff Act of
S08041790C1790.
S08041790 the first interest-bearing government bonds are authorized by
S08041790CCongress (6%).
S08041821 the "Saturday Evening Post" is first published.
S08041873 Newburg requests annexation to the City of Cleveland.
S08041892 Lisbeth "Lizzie" Borden kills her father and step-mother with an
S08041892Chatchett.
S08041916 the U.S. buys the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million,
S08041916Cmaking it a U.S. territory.  The islands are considered important
S08041916Cin the protection of the Panama Canal.
S08041929 the Indians, down to their last out, score nine in the ninth
S08041929Cinning, Cleveland 14, Yankees 6.
S08041932 the Cleveland Indians play their first doubleheader at the
S08041932CStadium, sweeping Boston 8-2, 8-7; its the Tribe's 3rd and 4th
S08041932Cgame and the first win at the new facility.  (The first Indians'
S08041932Crun at the Stadium is scored in Game 1 by Joe Vosmik.)
S08041934 N.Y.'s Mel Ott sets a M.L. record with 6 runs in one game.
S08041936 U.S. sprinter Helen Stephens wins the 100-m dash. (Hitler made a
S08041936Cpass at the 6-foot beauty but she rejected his advances.)
S08041944 Anne Frank, her family and friends are betrayed, and are captured
S08041944Cby the Nazis.
S08041952 the first transatlantic helicopter flight is completed.
S08041954 Hitchcock's "Rear Window" starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly
S08041954Chas its world premiere.
S08041956 Wilhelm Herz becomes the first person to ride a motorcycle in
S08041956Cexcess of 200 m.p.h.
S08041956 "My Prayer" reaches #1 on the Top 100 chart, the first of the
S08041956CPlatters 4 singles to top the charts.
S08041958 first class postage goes up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26
S08041958Cyears).
S08041964 the second attack in three days of North Vietnamese PT boats,
S08041964Csinks two U.S. destroyers in the Tonkin Gulf.
S08041964 the U.S. bombs bases in North Vietnam for the first time.
S08041964 the bodies of three civil rights workers are found in
S08041964CMississippi.
S08041971 the U.S. launches the first satellite into lunar orbit from a
S08041971Cmanned spacecraft.
S08041973 astronomers pierce the clouds of Venus with radar for the first
S08041973Ctime.
S08041977 President Carter signs the act creating the Department of Energy.
S08041978 the first families begin leaving the Love Canal area of Niagara
S08041978CFalls.
S08041978 Fleetwood Mac becomes the first band to fly to Cleveland en masse
S08041978Cto apologize for a concert cancellation.
S08041982 Joel Youngblood becomes the first player in M.L. history to play
S08041982Cand get a base hit for two different teams in two different
S08041982Ccities in the same day (hitting the winning run for the Mets, 7-4
S08041982Cover Chicago, traded to the Expos and gets a hit against the
S08041982CPhillies that night).
S08041985 Rod Carew, in his 19th and final season, becomes the 16th player
S08041985Cto reach 3,000 career hits (off Twins' Frank Viola).
S08041993 White Sox Robin Ventura charges Rangers' Nolan Ryan on the mound
S08041993C(Ryan places him in a head-lock and lands 6 punches).
S08041994 the largest crowd at Jacobs Field in its inaugural year, 41,926,
S08041994Cwatch the Indians beat Detroit 5-0.
S0804     Dog Days of Summer.
S0804     Feast of St. Dominic, confessor.
S0804     Colorado Day.
S0804     Feast of Our Lady of the Snows (Roman).
S0804    1Blessing of the Sea (Brittany, France).
R0804    1It's Twins Day Weekend (Twinsburg, Ohio).
R0804    7It's Twins Day Weekend (Twinsburg, Ohio).
R0804    2World Breastfeeding Week begins.
R0804    3It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0804    4It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0804    5It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0804    3It's National Smile Week.
R0804    4It's National Smile Week.
R0804    5It's National Smile Week.
R0804    2It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0804    3It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0804    4It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0804     It's International Humor Exchange Week.
R0804     It's National Clown Week.
R0804    2National Smile Week begins.
R0804    1Turtles International Awareness Week begins.
S0804    1American Family Day in Arizona and Michigan.
S0804     Lizzie Borden Liberation Day.
S0804     Coast Guard Day.
S0804    2Independence Day celebrated in Jamaica.
S0804    2Emancipation Day (Bahamas and Grenada).
S0804     Cook Island Constitution Day.
S0804     Malawian Public Holiday.
S0804     Anniversary of the Revolution (Burkina Faso's independence from
S0804       France.
S08051775 the first Spanish ship, "San Carlos", enters San Francisco bay.
S08051858 the first Atlantic cable is completed and the first electric
S08051858Csignal is transmitted Aug. 16 (cable fails Sept.1).
S08051861 the U.S. levies it's first Income Tax (3% of incomes over $600,
S08051861C5% of incomes over $10,000) effective Jan. 1.
S08051864 Adminal Farragut defeats the Confederate fleet at Mobile, Ala. -
S08051864C"Damn the torpedoes!  Go ahead!"
S08051864 the spectrum of a comet is observed for the first time, by
S08051864CGiovanni Donati.
S08051884 the cornerstone of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty is laid
S08051884Cat Bedloe's Island.
S08051914 the first traffic light in the U.S. is installed at Euclid Avenue
S08051914Cand East 105th Street in Cleveland, Ohio.
S08051921 Harold Arlin on KDKA Philadelphia makes the first live radio
S08051921Cbroadcast of a M.L. baseball game, Pirates 8, Phillies 5.
S08051923 Henry Sullivan becomes the first American to swim the English
S08051923CChannel.
S08051926 "Don Juan," starring John Barrymore, the first motion picture
S08051926Cwith sound, makes its premier (phonographic sound system, not a
S08051926Csound-on film system).
S08051948 the Cleveland Indians set a club record for the most double plays
S08051948Cin a game (6) vs. Washington (record was tied in 1952 and 1988).
S08051953 "From Here to Eternity", starring Burt Lancaster, premieres.
S08051957 "American Bandstand" hosted by Dick Clark goes national at 3 p.m.
S08051957CEST on ABC ("Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" is the first song)
S08051957Cwith Billy Williams and the Chordettes as the first guests.
S08051960 the Republic of Upper Volta becomes an independent nation.
S08051962 the existence of quasi-stellar radio sources (quasars) is
S08051962Cannounced.
S08051963 the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed by the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and
S08051963CGreat Britain.
S08051964 the Vietnam Era officially begins.
S08051966 Beatle John Lennon says the Beatles are more popular than Jesus,
S08051966Cleading many U.S. radio stations to take their songs off the air.
S08051966 the Beatles' "Revolver" album is released.
S08051967 Lunar Orbiter 5 enters a lunar polar orbit to take pictures of
S08051967Cpossible sites for manned Apollo landings.
S08051967 the AFL scores its first victory over an NFL team as Denver beats
S08051967CDetroit 13-7.
S08051969 Mariner 7 comes within 2,000 miles of Mars.
S08051969 Pittsburgh Willie Stargell becomes the only player to hit a ball
S08051969Cout of Dodger Stadium (506 feet).
S08051974 Nixon releases the three tapes on which he originates the plans
S08051974Cto have the FBI stop its probe of the Watergate break-in for
S08051974Cpolitical as well as national security reasons.
S08051981 President Reagan fires 12,000 striking federal air traffic
S08051981Ccontrollers (PAFCO).
S08051985 the establishment of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is announced by
S08051985Ca group of recording executives.
S08051990 businessman William Pinkney leaves N.Y. harbor on his 32,000
S08051990Ctrip, the first black to sail solo around the world (completed
S08051990CJune 1992).
S08051995 with a 11-7 win over the White Sox (HRs by Belle (2), Baerga
S08051995C(after 11 consecutive foul balls), Lofton, Murray, and Sorrento),
S08051995Cthe Indians set the club record at 19 1/2 game lead over the
S08051995Csecond-place team.
S0805     Dedication of Basilica of Our Lady of the Snow, Rome.
S0805    1Blessing of the Sea (Brittany, France).
S0805     Dog Days of Summer.
S0805     Shoshone-Bannock begins (Native American).
S0805     National Mustard Day.
R0805    1It's Twins Day Weekend (Twinsburg, Ohio).
R0805    7It's Twins Day Weekend (Twinsburg, Ohio).
R0805    2World Breastfeeding Week begins.
R0805    3It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0805    4It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0805    5It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0805    6It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0805     It's International Humor Exchange Week.
R0805     It's National Clown Week.
R0805    2National Smile Week begins.
R0805    1Turtles International Awareness Week begins.
R0805    3It's National Smile Week.
R0805    4It's National Smile Week.
R0805    5It's National Smile Week.
R0805    6It's National Smile Week.
R0805    5It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0805    4It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0805    3It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0805    2It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
S0805    1American Family Day in Arizona and Michigan.
S0805    2Independence Day celebrated in Jamaica.
S0805    2Emancipation Day (Bahamas and Grenada).
S0805     Iranian Constitution Day.
S08061181 a supernova is observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers.
S08061727 an Ursuline convent is established in New Orleans.
S08061762 John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, invents the sandwich.
S08061774 Ann Lee (known as Mother Ann), founder of the American Shakers,
S08061774Carrives in America.
S08061816 the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie is incorporated, the first bank
S08061816Cof Cleveland.
S08061825 Spanish rule in Bolivia ends.
S08061884 Chicago's Cap Anson, with two home runs, becomes the first to hit
S08061884Ca total of 5 home runs in two consecutive games.
S80061890 Cy Young pitches and wins his first game.
S08061890 the first electrocution takes place at N.Y.'s Auburn Prison (the
S08061890Cexecution is botched).
S08061913 British Parliament considers building a tunnel under the English
S08061913CChannel.
S08061926 (Gertrude) Trudy Ederle is the first woman to swim the English
S08061926CChannel (14 hours, 31 minutes).
S08061945 the Atom Bomb is dropped on Hiroshima by the "Enola Gay".
S08061946 the U.S. officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court.
S08061952 Cleveland's Satchel Paige, 47, becomes the oldest pitcher in M.L.
S08061952Chistory pitch a complete game or shutout, Indians 1, Detroit 0 in
S08061952C12 innings.
S08061962 Jamaica wins independence from Britain.
S08061965 the Beatles' "Help" album is released.
S08061965 the Federal Voting Rights Act is signed, prohibiting poll taxes
S08061965Cand literacy test.
S08061972 Atlanta's Hank Aaron hits his 660th and 661st career home run,
S08061972Cbreaking Babe Ruth's for the most home runs with one club,
S08061972Cbeating the Reds 4-3 in the 10th inning.
S08061985 the fifth baseball strike begins (is settled the next day).
S08061990 the U.N. imposes a trade embargo of Iraq in response to its
S08061990Cinvasion of Kuwait.
S08061994 13-year-old Danielle Del Ferraro becomes the first two-time
S08061994Cchampion in the All-American Soap Box Derby (Master Division
S08061994Ctitle, and Kit Car championship in 1993).
S08061995 the U.S. Embassy opens in Vietnam.
S08061995 the Indians and the Browns play in Cleveland on the same day for
S08061995Cthe first time ever; both lose - Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19,
S08061995CBrowns 13.
S0806     Feast of the Transfiguration.
S0806     Dog Days of Summer.
S0806    1Blessing of the Sea (Brittany, France).
R0806    1It's Twins Day Weekend (Twinsburg, Ohio).
R0806    7It's Twins Day Weekend (Twinsburg, Ohio).
R0806    2World Breastfeeding Week begins.
R0806    3It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0806    4It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0806    5It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0806    6It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0806    7It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0806     It's International Humor Exchange Week.
R0806     It's National Clown Week.
R0806    3It's National Smile Week.
R0806    4It's National Smile Week.
R0806    5It's National Smile Week.
R0806    6It's National Smile Week.
R0806    7It's National Smile Week.
R0806    6It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0806    5It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0806    4It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0806    3It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0806    2It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0806    2National Smile Week begins.
R0806    1Turtles International Awareness Week begins.
S0806    1American Family Day in Arizona and Michigan.
S0806     Judge Crater Day.
S0806     Peace Festival at Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Japan.
S0806     Hiroshima Day.
S0806    2Independence Day celebrated in Jamaica.
S0806    2Emancipation Day (Bahamas and Grenada).
S0806     Bolivia Independence Day.
S0806     Founding of Bogoto (Columbia).
S0806     Festival of Diana (Roman holiday).
S08071679 Rene-Robert LaSalle sets sail aboard the Griffin from the River
S08071679CNiagara, the first ship to enter Lake Erie.
S08071782 George Washington creates the Order of the Purple Heart.
S08071786 a federal Indian act is passed by Congress, establishing two
S08071786Cdepartments: a northern department, north of the Ohio River; and
S08071786Ca southern department, south of the Ohio River.
S08071789 the U.S. War Department is established.
S08071820 potatoes are first planted in Hawaii.
S08071825 the locomotive is invented by George Stephenson.
S08071847 Geoge Page patents the disk type plow.
S08071869 the first photograph of a total solar eclipse is made in Mt.
S08071869CPleasant, Iowa.
S08071882 the feud between the Hatfield family of southern WV and the
S08071882CMcCoys of eastern Kentucky breaks out, killing or wounding 100
S08071882Cpeople in 7 and 1/2 years.
S08071888 Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia receives a patent for
S08071888Chis revolving door -- described as a storm door structure.
S08071896 George Harbo and Frank Samuelson complete their 3,500-mile,
S08071896C62-day trip, rowing across the Atlantic Ocean.
S08071927 the Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada is opened.
S08071929 Babe Ruth ties a record by hitting grand slams in consecutive
S08071929Cgames.
S08071932 Cleveland Indians' Johnny Burnett hits the first home run at the
S08071932CStadium, Cleveland 7, Washington 4.
S08071939 Indians' Hall of Famer Lou Boudreau makes his M.L. debut with a
S08071939Ctriple, a single and one RBI, Cleveland 6, St. Louis 5.
S08071942 American troops land on Guadalcanal.
S08071946 the first coin bearing a portrait of Black is authorized.
S08071947 the balsa raft, Kon Tiki, arrives at Papeete, Tahiti.
S08071956 the largest crowd in Minor League history, 57,000, watch 51-year-
S08071956Cold Satchel Paige pitch Miami over Columbus in an International
S08071956CLeague game in the Orange Bowl.
S08071956 the Mechanics and Farmers Savings Bank in Bridgeport, Conn. opens
S08071956Cthe first drive-in window.
S08071959 Explorer 6, called the paddle wheel satellite because of its 4
S08071959Cvanes of solar cells, transmits the first TV photo of earth from
S08071959Cspace.  (It is the first satellite to be handled by NASA from
S08071959Cinitiation to orbit.)
S08071964 Congress approves the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, authorizing the
S08071964Cpresident "for all necessary action" to defend U.S. forces in
S08071964CSoutheast Asia.
S08071970 the first computer chess tournament begins.
S08071978 the Love Canal area of Niagara Falls, N.Y., is declared a
S08071978Cdisaster area by President Carter (former toxic waste dump).
S08071983 the first track and field world championship opens in Helsinki,
S08071983CFinland.
S08071983 the Soviets order harsh punishment for drinking at work.
S08071985 Ted Turner drops his bid to take over CBS (purchases MGM/UA
S08071985CEntertainment Company instead).
S0807     Feast of St. Cajetan, confessor.
S0807     Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (Anglican).
S0807     Dog Days of Summer.
R0807    1It's Twins Day Weekend (Twinsburg, Ohio).
R0807    7It's Twins Day Weekend (Twinsburg, Ohio).
R0807    2World Breastfeeding Week begins.
R0807    3It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0807    4It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0807    5It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0807    6It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0807    7It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0807    1It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0807     It's International Humor Exchange Week.
R0807     It's National Clown Week.
R0807    2National Smile Week begins.
R0807    3It's National Smile Week.
R0807    4It's National Smile Week.
R0807    5It's National Smile Week.
R0807    6It's National Smile Week.
R0807    7It's National Smile Week.
R0807    1It's National Smile Week.
R0807    2It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0807    3It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0807    4It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0807    5It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0807    6It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0807    7It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0807    1Turtles International Awareness Week begins.
S0807    1American Family Day in Arizona and Michigan.
S0807    1Blessing of the Sea (Brittany, France).
S0807    2Independence Day celebrated in Jamaica.
S0807    2Emancipation Day (Bahamas and Grenada).
S0807     Colombian National Holiday (Battle of Boyaca).
S0807     First Day of Crayfish Season (Sweden).
S0807     Ivory Coast Independence Day.
S0807     Lughnassadh (Celtic festival in honor of the Sun God).
S0807     Breaking of the Nile (Egyptian).
S0808 332 B.C. the Phoenician city of Tyre falls to Alexander the Great.
S08081540 Henry VIII marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.
S08081576 Tycho Brahe's observatory in Uraniborg, Denmark is inaugurated.
S08081609 the Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope.
S08081709 the first recorded hot-air balloon flight occurs.
S08081860 the Queen of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in New York
S08081860CCity, the first queen to visit the United States.
S08081865 Samuel P. Calthrorp patents a streamlined railroad train.
S08081876 the mimeograph is patented (Edison - Menlo Park, N.J.).
S08081895 Cleveland's National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (now IBEW)
S08081895CLocal 38 is chartered.
S08081899 Albert T. Marshall patents a household refrigerating machine.
S08081900 the first Davis Cup tennis matches are held in Boston.
S08081918 at Amiens, Allied forces begin a prolonged offensive against the
S08081918CGerman Salient at the Somme River.
S08081920 Detriot's Howard Ehmke pitches the fastest game in A.L. history,
S08081920C1 hour, 13 minutes, Tigers 1, Yankees 0.
S08081931 the "U.S.S. Akron," the first of two giant dirigibles built for
S08081931Cthe Navy by the Goodyear Corp, is christened.
S08081943 John F. Kennedy saves his crew after a Japanese destroyer splits
S08081943Ctheir PT-boat in two.
S08081955 the first test flight of the U.S. spy plane U-2, developed by the
S08081955CCIA, is flown at the newly-built covert base, Watertown Strip,
S08081955Cnear Las Vegas.
S08081960 "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" by Brian Hyland
S08081960Creaches #1 on Billboards' Hot 100 chart (for only one week).
S08081963 the greatest recorded train robbery occurs near Mentmore,
S08081963CBuckinghamshire, England ($6,053,103).
S08081976 the Chicago White Sox make baseball history by playing in shorts.
S08081978 the U.S. launches Pioneer 13 Venus 2 probe toward Venus.
S08081978 one policeman is killed and a city block is burned down in the
S08081978Ceviction of the radical group "MOVE".
S08081983 Christine Craft, anchorwoman demoted for appearance, is awarded
S08081983C$500,000 in suit.
S08081987 Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the U.S. to
S08081987CRussia across the 2.7 mile, 39 degree Bering Strait.
S08081988 Wrigley Field has its first night game (the last N.L. park to get
S08081988Clights), Cubs beating the Mets 6-4.
S08081989 the 30th Space Shuttle Mission, Columbia 8 is launched.
S08081992 Hough Bakeries Inc. closes its 31 stores over-night after 89
S08081992Cyears in business.
S08081993 the Coast Guard stops monitoring the 500 KHZ radio frequency for
S08081993Cdistress call (Morse code messages) with its last broadcast,
S08081993C"Fair winds and following seas with 73s from all of us".
S08081995 British chemist Nigel Parkham emerges from a 100-square-foot
S08081995Csealed chamber after 15 days on relying on 30,000 wheat plants
S08081995Cfor oxygen, the first N.A.S.A. test of its kind.
S0808     Feast of SS. Cyriacus, Largus, Smaragdus, martyrs.
S0808     Shoshone-Bannock ends (Native American).
S0808     Dog Days of Summer.
S0808    2Victory Day (Rhode Island).
S0808    7Old Fiddler's Picnic (Coatesville, PA.)
S0808     International Character Day.
R0808    1It's Twins Day Weekend (Twinsburg, Ohio).
R0808    3It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0808    4It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0808    5It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0808    6It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0808    7It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0808    1It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0808    3It's National Smile Week.
R0808    4It's National Smile Week.
R0808    5It's National Smile Week.
R0808    6It's National Smile Week.
R0808    7It's National Smile Week.
R0808    1It's National Smile Week.
R0808    2It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0808    3It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0808    4It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0808    5It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0808    6It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0808    7It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
S0808     Bonza Bottler Day (Number of Day Matches the Number of the
S0808       Month).
S0808    3Fox Hill Day (Bahamas).
S0808     Jamat-ul-Wida (Bangladesh).
S0808     Upper Volta Independence Day.
S0808    2Youth Day (Zambia).
S0809 480 BC, Persia defeats Spartan king Leonidas at Thermopylae.
S0809 378 BC, the Goths defeat the Romans at Adrianople, Turkey.
S08091174 the construction of the white marble tower of Pisa begins.
S08091638 Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes the first European settler
S08091638Cin what is now known as the Bronx.
S08091673 the Dutch recapture New York from the British (ceded it back on
S08091673CNov. 10, 1674).
S08091803 the first horses arrive in Hawaii.
S08091805 Zebulon Montgomery Pike, commanding 20 men, sets out to find the
S08091805Csource of the Mississippi River.
S08091829 the Stourbridge Lion, the first locomotive to operate in the
S08091829CU.S., is tested.
S08091842 the U.S.-Canada border is defined in Maine and Minnesota by the
S08091842CWebster-Ashburton Treaty.
S08091854 Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden".
S08091859 Nathan Ames obtains a patent for an escalator.
S08091862 Gen. Stonewall Jackson defeats the Union forces at the Battle of
S08091862CCedar Mountain, Va.
S08091910 Alva J. Fisher patents a complete, self-contained, electric
S08091910Cwashing machine.
S08091930 Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon, "Dizzy
S08091930CDishes".
S08091935 the Motor Carrier Act is signed into law, giving the ICC
S08091935Cjurisdiction over all interstate truck and bus traffic.
S08091944 Guam falls to U.S. forces after 20 days of bloody fighting.
S08091945 the atom Bomb is dropped on Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m.
S08091945 the short-lived auto company, Kaiser-Frazer, is formed by the
S08091945Cmerging of the Henry J. Kaiser Co. and Graham-Paige Motors.
S08091965 Singapore leaves the Federation of Malaysia and becomes a
S08091965Cseparate nation.
S08091969 actress Sharon Tate and four others are slain in her home by
S08091969CCharles Manson and his followers.
S08091974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency in wake of Watergate scandal.
S08091974 Gerald R. Ford becomes the 38th President (1974 - 1977).
S08091981 Cleveland hosts its fourth All-Star Game, setting an All-Star
S08091981Cattendance record, N.L. 5, A.L. 4.  Cleveland has the top four
S08091981Ccrowds in All-Star history.
S08091983 the first direct evidence supporting the existence of stellar
S08091983Csystems is reported by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (solid
S08091983Cobjects detected orbiting the star Vega).
S08091988 the Edmonton Oilers trade away eight-time NHL MVP Wayne Gretzky
S08091988Cto the Los Angeles Kings for about $15 million.
S08091989 legislation to rescue the savings and loan industry is signed.
S0809     Feast of St. Denys.
S0809     Feast of St. John-Mary Vianney.
S0809     Feast of St. Romanus, martyr.
S0809     Dog Days of Summer.
S0809    7Old Fiddler's Picnic (Coatesville, PA.)
S0809    2Victory Day (Rhode Island).
R0809    4It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0809    5It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0809    6It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0809    7It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0809    1It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0809    4It's National Smile Week.
R0809    5It's National Smile Week.
R0809    6It's National Smile Week.
R0809    7It's National Smile Week.
R0809    1It's National Smile Week.
R0809    3It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0809    4It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0809    5It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0809    6It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0809    7It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
S0809     Nagasaki Memorial Moment of Silence (Japan).
S0809     Sanusi Army Day (Libya).
S0809     Shab-e-Qadar (Bangladesh).
S0809     Singapore's National Day (independence from Malaysia).
S0809    2Youth Day (Zambia).
S0809    3Fox Hill Day (Bahamas).
S0809     Feast of the Fire Spirits (Druidic).
S08101622 the province of Maine is granted to John Mason and Ferninando
S08101622CGorges.
S08101809 Ecuador gains it's independence from Spain.
S08101813 residents of St. Michaels, Maryland, forewarned of a British
S08101813Cshelling from offshore, fool the British into overshooting their
S08101813Ctown by hoisting lanterns to the masts of ships and among
S08101813Ctreetops.
S08101821 Missouri becomes the 24th state.
S08101831 the term "Old Glory," denoting the U.S. flag, is first used by
S08101831CWilliam Driver, captain of the "Charles Daggett."
S08101833 Chicago is incorporated (pop. 200).
S08101846 the Smithsonian Institute is established.
S08101861 the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri is won by the South.
S08101869 O.B. Brown patents a moving picture projector.
S08101882 snow squalls hit Sandusky, Ohio.
S08101886 Elihu Thomson patents an electric welding process.
S08101926 Northwest Airways incorporates.
S08101934 the millionth Plymouth rolls off the assembly line.
S08101935 the first Soap Box Derby is held at Derby Downs, Akron, Oh.
S08101948 ABC enters network TV at 7 p.m. on WJZ in N.Y.
S08101949 the Department of the Defense is created.
S08101963 "Fingertips - Part 2" reaches #1 on Billboards' Hot 100 chart,
S08101963Cthe first of Stevie Wonder's 7 singles to top the chart.
S08101966 the U.S. Treasury halts the printing of $2 bills.
S08101966 the Lunar Orbiter 1, designed to photograph possibly landing
S08101966Csites on the moon, is launched.
S08101973 the first BART train in San Francisco travels thru transbay tube
S08101973Cto Montgomery St. Station.
S08101981 the production of the Neutron bomb as a warhead for missiles and
S08101981Cartillery is authorized by President Reagan (reverses U.S. policy
S08101981Cset in 1978).
S08101981 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's record of 3630 hits.
S08101986 it is named Billy Martin Day in N.Y.C.; the Yankees retire #1.
S08101988 a bill is signed to give interned Japanese-Americans survivors,
S08101988Cwho were forced into relocation camps during WW II, $20,000 each.
S08101988 the U.S. and Panama agree on basic elements of pact to transfer
S08101988Ccontrol of the canal.
S08101989 Army General Colin Powell becomes the first black chairman of the
S08101989CJoint Chiefs of Staff.
S08101990 Megellan reaches Venus orbit and begins sending back new and
S08101990Castounding information.
S08101993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes the second woman and 107th Supreme
S08101993CCourt justice.
S08101993 President Clinton signs his budget bill, aimed at reducing the
S08101993Cdeficit by $496 billion over the next five years.
S08101995 Jose Mesa becomes the first Indian to save both ends of 2
S08101995Cdoubleheaders in season.
S0810     Feast of St. Laurence, martyr.
S0810     Dog Days of Summer.
S0810    7Old Fiddler's Picnic (Coatesville, PA.)
S0810     Family Day.
S0810     Herbert Hoover's Birthday Celebration.
S0810     Missouri Admission Day.
S0810    2Victory Day (Rhode Island).
R0810    5It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0810    6It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0810    7It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0810    1It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0810    5It's National Smile Week.
R0810    6It's National Smile Week.
R0810    7It's National Smile Week.
R0810    1It's National Smile Week.
R0810    4It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0810    5It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0810    6It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0810    7It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
S0810     Ecuador Independence Day.
S0810    2Youth Day (Zambia).
S0810    3Fox Hill Day (Bahamas).
S0810     Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
S0810     Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
S08111866 the world's first roller rink opens its doors in Newport, R.I.
S08111874 Henry S. Parmelee patents the sprinkler head.
S08111877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon, Deimos.
S08111896 Harvey Hubbell patents an electric light socket with a pull
S08111896Cchain.
S08111897 Eliza Bryant founds the Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People
S08111897C(the first Eliza Bryant Center).
S08111906 the first patent for talking film is issued to Eugene Louste in
S08111906CFrance.
S08111909 the SOS distress signal is first used by an American ship
S08111909C(Arapahoe).
S08111914 John Randolph Bray patents a sound-on-film process.
S08111919 the Green Bay Packers are founded.
S08111920 the first ecumenical conference of European, American and Eastern
S08111920Cchurches is held in Geneva.
S08111929 Babe Ruth becomes the first man in M.L. history to hit 500 home
S08111929Cruns (off Willis Hudin at Cleveland's League Park, Indians 6,
S08111929CYankees 5).
S08111930 the American Lutheran Church is organized.
S08111932 a record 51.5-kg barracuda is caught by Chester Benet in the
S08111932CBahamas.
S08111933 the temperature reaches 58 (136 F) at San Luis Potos, Mex.
S08111933C(world record).
S08111951 the first color baseball game telecast airs.
S08111960 the first payload recovered from orbit is lifted from the Pacific
S08111960COcean by a U.S. helicopter (placed in orbit by Discoverer 13 Aug.
S08111960C10).
S08111960 Chad gains independence from France.
S08111961 pitcher Warren Spahn records his 300th victory.
S08111961 President Kennedy signs a custom bill reducing the value of duty-
S08111961Cfree goods travelers could bring into the country from $500 to
S08111961C$100.
S08111962 Football Hall of Fame ground breaking ceremonies are held in
S08111962CCanton, Ohio.  The St. Louis Cardinals and the N.Y. Giants play
S08111962Cto a 21-21 tie in the first Hall of Fame game.
S08111965 the Watts Riots break out.
S08111972 the last American ground combat unit in Vietnam is deactivated
S08111972C(the 3rd Battlion of the 21st Infantry in Danang).
S08111978 the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta announces the bacterium
S08111978Ccausing legionnaires' disease has been isolated.
S08111984 President Reagan signs bill sanctioning religious or political
S08111984Cgatherings in public schools after hours.
S08111992 the U.S. Justice Department admits to Federal judges that
S08111992Ccritical documents had been withheld from Demjanjuk defense.
S08111993 Dennis Barrie is appointed director of Cleveland's Rock and Roll
S08111993CHall of Fame and Museum.
S08111993 Puritas Road hill, Cleveland's longest-living road project,
S08111993Creopens (closed 1978).
S08111993 Hershey officially unveils the Hug, a Kiss with white chocolate
S08111993Cstripes for added sweetness.
S0811     Feast of SS. Tiburtius and Susanna, martyrs.
S0811     Dog Days of Summer end.  (Originally, the period when Sirius,
S0811       the Dog Star, rose just before or at sunrise.  Ancients
S0811       believed Sirius was the cause of the hot weather.)
S0811    2Victory Day (celebrated in Rhode Island).
S0811    7Old Fiddler's Picnic (Coatesville, PA.)
R0811    6It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0811    7It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0811    1It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0811    6It's National Smile Week.
R0811    7It's National Smile Week.
R0811    1It's National Smile Week.
R0811    5It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0811    6It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0811    7It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
S0811     Puck Fair (celebrated in Ireland).
S0811     Chad Independence Day.
S0811     King's Accession Day (Jordan's King Hussein).
S0811     Zimbabwe Heroes' Day.
S0811    2Youth Day (Zambia).
S0811    3Fox Hill Day (Bahamas).
S0811     Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
S0811     Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia.
S08121508 Ponce de Leon explores and colonizes Puerto Rico.
S08121658 the New Amsterdam (New York) police become the first in America.
S08121676 King Philip's War (1675-1676) in America ends.
S08121851 Issac Merrit Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine
S08121851Cwith a rocking (double) treadle.
S08121879 the first National Archery Association tournament is held in
S08121879CChicago.
S08121888 Bertha, the wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes the first motor
S08121888Ctour.  Without her husband's knowledge, she borrows one of his
S08121888Ccars and travels 180km to visit relatives for 5 days.
S08121896 Gold is discovered in Klondike Creek, Yukon Territory, in
S08121896CNorthwest Canada.
S08121898 the peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War is signed, and
S08121898Cthe U.S. formally takes possession of Hawaii.
S08121908 the first Model T rolls off the Ford Motor Company production
S08121908Cline.
S08121923 K. Reinmuth discovers 1,000th asteroid, names it Giuseppe Piazzi.
S08121934 41,766 watch Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park.
S08121946 the National Air and Space Museum is established.
S08121948 the Cleveland Indians have 29 hits in a 9 inning game, setting a
S08121948Cclub record.
S08121949 the fourth Geneva Convention treaty is signed, providing special
S08121949Csafeguards for wounded soldiers, children, pregnant women and the
S08121949Celderly, and the treatment of prisoners humanely.
S08121953 the Soviet Union explodes its first hydrogen bomb.
S08121953 Ann Davidson, the first woman to sail solo across Atlantic,
S08121953Carrives in Miami.
S08121954 the U.N. Command withdraws from Korea.
S08121960 Echo 1, the first communications satellite, is launched.
S08121964 South Africa is barred from the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in
S08121964Crebuke for its apartheid policy.
S08121970 President Nixon makes the Post Office an independent government
S08121970Cagency.
S08121976 Indians' player/manager Frank Robinson cracks his last bat, a
S08121976Cgame winning pinch single in the ninth at the Stadium, Cleveland
S08121976C5, Texas 4.
S08121977 Space Shuttle Enterprise passes first flight test in the Mojave
S08121977CDesert.
S08121977 a victims' rights bill, granting victims first claim on income
S08121977Cearned by criminals through the sale of their life stories, is
S08121977Csigned in N.Y.
S08121984 President Reagan, during a radio test, jokes about bombing the
S08121984CSoviet Union.
S08121993 President Clinton lifts the ban on rehiring PATCO workers fired
S08121993Cby Reagan.
S08121995 Shannon Faulkner becomes the first woman to move on campus at
S08121995CThe Citadel, South Carolina's all-male military school, in its
S08121995C152-year history (began classes in January 1994 - quits Aug. 18
S08121995Cafter admitted to infirmary the first day of "Hell Week").
S0812     Feast of St. Clare, virgin, founder of the Poor Clare Nuns,
S0812       patron saint of embroidery workers and washerwomen.
S0812    2Victory Day (Rhode Island).
S0812     Indian Day (Massachusetts).
S0812    7Old Fiddler's Picnic (Coatesville, PA.)
R0812    7It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0812    1It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0812    7It's National Smile Week.
R0812    1It's National Smile Week.
R0812    6It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
R0812    7It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
S0812     King Hussein's Accession (Jordan).
S0812     Queen's Birthday (Thailand).
S0812    2Youth Day (Zambia).
S0812    3Fox Hill Day (Bahamas).
S0812     Lychnapsia (Ancient Egyptian festival honoring Isis, the most
S0812       complete flowering of the Goddess concept in human history).
S0812     Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
S0812     Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia.
S08133114 BC the Mayan "long count" calendar system begins.
S08131521 Cortez captures Tenochtitlan, becoming the master of Mexico.
S08131642 Christiaan Huygens discovers the Martian south polar cap.
S08131704 the Battle of Blenheim frees Germany from the French yoke.
S08131728 Captain Vitus Bering lands in Alaska in search of a land bridge
S08131728Cbetween Asia and North America.
S08131847 English astronomer J.R. Hind discovers the asteroid Iris.
S08131876 the Reciprocity Treaty between the U.S. and Hawaii is ratified.
S08131889 William Gray patents the coin operated telephone.
S08131898 the active hostilities of the Spanish-American War end (peace
S08131898Ctreaty is not exchanged until Apr. 11, 1899).
S08131910 the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates play to an 8-8
S08131910Ctie, each team having 38 at-bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors,
S08131910C5 strikeouts, 3 walks, one hit batsman and one passed ball.
S08131917 the 26th Yankee Infantry Division, the nation's first and oldest
S08131917CArmy National Guard division tracing its history back to the
S08131917CMassachusetts Bay Colony in 1636 and to the Battle of Lexington
S08131917Cduring the American Revolution, is formed (deactivated Aug. 28,
S08131917C1993).
S08131919 Man O'War has its only defeat; Upset wins at Saratoga.
S08131932 Marconi successfully tests the first short-wave radio.
S08131934 "Li'l Abner" makes its first appearance as a syndicated comic
S08131934Cstrip.
S08131935 Roller Derby begins.
S08131943 the Thompson Auto Album and Aviation Museum (now the Crawford
S08131943CMuseum) opens.
S08131948 Indians' Satchel Paige, at age 42, pitches his first M.L
S08131948Ccomplete game, Cleveland 5, White Sox 0.
S08131958 Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his M.L. pitching
S08131958Cdebut, hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2.
S08131959 Discoverer 5, a military research satellite, is launched into
S08131959Cpolar orbit from Vandenberg AFB, Ca.
S08131960 the Central African Empire proclaims its independence from
S08131960CFrance.
S08131961 East Germany seals the border of East-West Berlin.
S08131978 Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich beats a recall vote by 236 votes.
S08131979 St. Louis' Lou Brock, in his 18th and final season, becomes the
S08131979C14th player to reach 3,000 career hits (off Cubs' Dennis Lamp).
S08131987 Chris Marshall, 10, is the youngest pilot to fly round-trip
S08131987Cacross country.
S08131991 the Defense Department announces that 35 of the 148 U.S. combat
S08131991Cdeaths in the Persian Gulf War had been the result of friendly
S08131991Cfire.
S0813     Feast of SS. Hypolitus and Cassianus, martyrs.
S0813     International Left-Handers Day.
S0813    2Victory Day (Rhode Island).
S0813    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S0813    7Old Fiddler's Picnic (Coatesville, PA.)
R0813     It's the Ides of August!
R0813    1It's World Breastfeeding Week.
R0813    1It's National Smile Week.
R0813    7It's Turtles International Awareness Week.
S0813     Central African Republic Independence Day.
S0813     Show Day (Queensland, Australia).
S0813     The Three Glorious Days begin (in the People's Republic of the
S0813       Congo).
S0813     Women's Day (Tunisia).
S0813    2Youth Day (Zambia).
S0813    3Fox Hill Day (celebrated in Bahamas).
S0813     Festival of Diane (Roman - the Moon and Nature goddess was
S0813       invoked to protect the harvests from storms).
S0813     Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
S0813     Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia.
S0814 410 Alaric sacks Rome.
S08141457 the earliest surviving exactly dated printed work, the "Psalter",
S08141457Cis completed (3 years after the Gutenberg Bible).
S08141765 Boston colonists challenge British rule by an elm (Liberty Tree).
S08141811 Paraguay proclaims its independence from Spain.
S08141846 Henry David Thoreau is jailed for tax resistance.
S08141848 Oregon Territory is established.
S08141873 "Forest & Stream" magazine begins publishing.
S08141888 the electric meter is patented by Oliver Shallenberger,
S08141888CRochester, PA.
S08141893 France issues first driving licenses, including a required test.
S08141900 the Boxer Rebellion essentially ends when the allies free Peking.
S08141901 Gustave Whitehead makes the first U.S. airplane flight,
S08141901CBridgeport, Conn.
S08141909 the Rainbow Bridge natural stone arch is discovered in Utah.
S08141912 a double-decked streetcar appears on Broadway, N.Y. City.
S08141919 the first airmail service to a steamer at sea, N.Y. City -
S08141919C"Adriatic," occurs.
S08141919 a court finds the Chicago Tribune guilty of libel for calling
S08141919CHenry Ford an anarchist, and awards trial costs and 6 cents in
S08141919Cdamages.
S08141923 "Felix the Cat" premiers as a comic strip (adapted from cartoon).
S08141925 Mount Rushmore figures are proposed.
S08141935 the Social Security Act is signed into law.
S08141937 the Detroit Tigers score 36 runs against the St. Louis Browns in
S08141937Ca doubleheader to set a M.L. record.
S08141941 Roosevelt and Churchill sign the Atlantic Charter.
S08141941 the first single-rotor helicopter flight occurs, Igor Sikorsky.
S08141945 Japanese Emperor Hirohito addresses his nation over the radio,
S08141945Csaying Japan would fight no more.
S08141946 an ice island, T-1, is discovered in the Arctic Ocean.
S08141947 Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for
S08141947C$300,000.
S08141947 Britain grants independence to Pakistan.
S08141951 the Cleveland Indians win their 13th consecutive game, tieing a
S08141951Cteam record.
S08141955 the Cleveland Transit System (now RTA) west side rapid transit
S08141955Cline opens.
S08141958 the Canadian Football League plays its first game.
S08141958 Indians' Vic Power ties a 48-year-old M.L. record by stealing
S08141958Chome twice in a game, Cleveland 10, Detroit 9.
S08141959 the American Football League (AFL) is organized with six teams.
S08141963 the Great Train Robbery in England occurs ($5 million in loot.)
S08141966 the first U.S. Lunar Orbiter begins orbiting the moon to take
S08141966Cpictures of possible sites for manned Apollo landings.
S08141966 the Stadium's first rock concert is held, featuring the Beatles
S08141966Con their second visit to the Cleveland.
S08141969 Britain orders troops into Northern Ireland.
S08141973 Washington officially ends the bombing of Cambodia.
S08141980 Lech Walesa leads a strike at Gdansk shipyard to start a Polish
S08141980Cworker revolt against the Communist state; eventually 10 million
S08141980CPoles join the Solidarity trade union.
S08141982 Pete Rose's 12,365th at-bat passes Hank Aaron to set record.
S08141984 Governor Cuomo signs nation's first bill to curb acid rain.
S08141995 Indians' Alvaro Espinoza hits his first HR of the year (every
S08141995Cmember of the active list now has at least one HR), helping the
S08141995CTribe beat Baltimore 9-6.
S0814    7Old Fiddler's Picnic (Coatesville, PA.)
S0814     Atlantic Charter Day.
S0814     Valentine's Day 2: The Summer Holiday.
S0814     Liberty Tree Day (Massachusetts).
S0814    2Victory Day (Rhode Island).
S0814     Pakistan Independence Day.
S0814     Summer Holiday (San Marino).
S0814    2Youth Day (Zambia).
S0814    3Fox Hill Day (Bahamas).
S0814     Festival of Vesta (Roman festival honoring Vesta, goddess of
S0814       fire, the home and cooking, patron goddess of women).
S0814     Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus, then Draco.
S0814     Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
S0815 778 the Moors destroy the Frankish rear-guard of Charlesmagne under
S0815 778CRoland.
S08151057 Macbeth, King of Scotland, is slain by the son of King Duncan.
S08151748 Henry Melchoir Muklenberg organizes the first United Lutheran
S08151748CChurch synod in the U.S. (Pennsylvania).
S08151790 John Carroll is ordained the first Catholic bishop in the U.S.
S08151790C(highly recommended by Benjamin Franklin).
S08151812 the massacre at Fort Dearborn (now Chicago) occurs.
S08151821 the oldest continuously held U.S. sporting event, the Virginia
S08151821Cjousting tournament, begins.
S08151848 M. Waldo Hanchett patents the dental chair.
S08151888 actor De Wolf Hopper recites "Casey at the Bat" at the Wallack's
S08151888CTheater in N.Y. City, the first of his 10,000 performances.
S08151914 the Panama Canal officially opens.
S08151935 the earliest reported applicant to Social Security, Ernest
S08151935CAckerman, a Cleveland motorman, retires one day after the program
S08151935Cbegins.  (The Social Security deduction on his last check was 5
S08151935Ccents, and he received a lump-sum payment of 17 cents, which was
S08151935Chow benefits were paid until 1940.)
S08151945 VJ Day - Japan surrenders to end World War II.
S08151945 a riot in San Francisco occurs in celebrating end of World War
S08151945CII.
S08151945 South Korea is liberated from Japanese rule.
S08151947 Britain grants independence to India.
S08151950 the Indians make their first triple play at the Stadium, rf Bob
S08151950CKennedy to 2b Ray Boone to 1b Luke Easter, Tigers 4, Cleveland 1.
S08151960 the Congo (Brazzaville) gains it's independence.
S08151962 the U.S. national debt exceeds $300 trillion for the first time
S08151962Cin history.
S08151965 the Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium.
S08151965 the New York Herald Tribune ceases publication.
S08151969 close to 400,000 arrive in the small town of Bethel, N.Y. for the
S08151969Cthree-day long Woodstock Music Festival.
S08151970 Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman pro football player
S08151970C(Orlando).
S08151993 Nolan Ryan, who has struck out more batters than anyone in
S08151993Chistory, pitches his last game at the Stadium, Rangers 4, Indians
S08151993C1 (Ryan's 324th and final M.L. victory).
S08151994 Cleveland's Crooked River Brewing Co., the city's first brewery-
S08151994Conly, begins distributing its Settlers Ale ($7 a six pack).
S08151995 P.M. Tomiichi Murayama offers Japan's first frank apology for the
S08151995Cdamage and suffering inflicted by his country during WW II.
S0815     Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
S0815     Feast of St. Mary the Virgin (Anglican).
S0815     Blessing of the shrimp fleet, Little Caillon, Louisiana.
S0815     National Relaxation Day.
R0815    1It's Mosquito Awareness Weekend.
R0815    7It's Mosquito Awareness Weekend.
S0815    2Discovery Day (Yukon).
S0815    6Hawaii Admission Day.
S0815     Congo Independence Day.
S0815     Founding of Asuncion (Paraguay).
S0815     Sor Herring Premiere (Sweden).
S0815     Moon Festival (celebrated in China).
S0815     India Independence Day.
S0815     South Korean Liberation Day.
S0815     Mothers Day (Costa Rico).
S0815     Festival of Diane (Roman festival honoring Diane, the Moon and
S0815       Nature goddess).
S0815     Sophia's (Wisdom) Day (Gnostic aeon personified as female - gave
S0815       self-induced birth to the whole cosmos).
S0815     Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
S08161743 the earliest boxing code of rules is formulated in England, by
S08161743Cpugilist Jack Broughton.
S08161780 Cornwallis defeats Gates at Camden, South Carolina.
S08161812 General Hull surrenders Detroit to the British (General Brock).
S08161821 day two of the oldest continuously held U.S. sporting event, the
S08161821CVirginia jousting tournament, begins.
S08161858 Queen Victoria of England sends the first cable message across
S08161858Cthe Atlantic Ocean (to President Buchanan).
S08161870 Fred Goldsmith proves the curve ball isn't an optical illusion.
S08161870CIn a public demo at the Capitoline Grounds, Brooklyn, he throws
S08161870Caround 3 posts arranged in a straight line.
S08161898 a roller coaster is patented by Edwin Prescott.
S08161916 the International Migratory Bird Treaty is signed.
S08161920 Yankee Carl Mays's pitch hits Indians' Ray Chapman in the head;
S08161920CChapman dies the next day, the only major-league fatality.
S08161954 "Sports Illustrated" publishes its first issue.
S08161956 Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his first M.L. grand slam, Cleveland
S08161956C5, Tigers 4.
S08161960 the independent Republic of Cyprus is established.
S08161965 AFL awards its first expansion franchise to the Miami Dolphins.
S08161977 Elvis Presley, the King of Rock 'n Roll, dies of a drug overdose.
S08161984 Jaycees vote to admit women to full membership.
S08161987 the Astrological Harmonic Convergence occurs - the Dawn of a New
S08161987CAge.
S08161995 a memorial is dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery to the
S08161995C555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (known as the "Triple Nickels"
S08161995Cand "Smoke-Jumpers" during World War II), America's first black
S08161995Cparatroopers.
S0816     Feast of St. Hyacinthus, confessor.
S0816     Feast of St. Roch, patron saint of all who suffer from contagion,
S0816       including sick animals.
S0816    6Hawaii Admission Day.
S0816    2Discovery Day (Yukon).
R0816    1It's Mosquito Awareness Weekend.
R0816    7It's Mosquito Awareness Weekend.
S0816     Bennington Battle Day (Vermont).
S0816     Festival of Minstrels (European).
S0816     Cyprus Independence Day.
S0816     Restoration of the Republic (Dominican Republic).
S0816     Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
S08171590 John White returns to Roanoke with supplies to find the colony
S08171590Cabandoned.
S08171743 the first elevator in Europe is installed by order of Louis XV.
S08171780 the Colonists under General Gates are defeated by Cornwallis at
S08171780Cthe Battle of Camden.
S08171807 Robert Fulton makes the first practical steamboat trip on his
S08171807CClermont up the Hudson River.
S08171809 the Disciples of Christ are organized.
S08171821 day three of the oldest continuously held U.S. sporting event,
S08171821Cthe Virginia jousting tournament, begins.
S08171835 Solyman Merrick patents the wrench.
S08171858 the first bank in Hawaii opens.
S08171870 Mrs. Esther Morris becomes the first woman magistrate --
S08171870CJustice of the Peace in South Pass, Wyoming.
S08171877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos.
S08171894 John Wadsworth of the N.L.'s Louisville club sets the record for
S08171894Cgiving up the most singles in one game (28).
S08171896 Gold is discovered at Bonanza Creek in Klondike region of the
S08171896CYukon.
S08171908 Bank of Italy opens it's new headquarters at Clay & Montgomery.
S08171915 Charles Franklin Kettering patents the automobile electric self-
S08171915Cstarter.
S08171918 Samuel Riddle buys Man O'War for $5,000.
S08171918 five states adopt the U.S. Bureau of Education's guidelines and
S08171918Cbegin developing kindergarten programs.
S08171938 Henry Armstrong becomes the only fighter to hold 3 world boxing
S08171938Ctitles simultaneously -- featherweight, welterweight, and
S08171938Clightweight.
S08171939 "The Wizard of Oz" opens at the Loew's Capitol Theater in N.Y.C.
S08171942 U.S. bombers stage first independent raid on Europe, attacking
S08171942CRouen, France.
S08171943 the Allies capture Sicily.
S08171950 Indonesia gains it's independence from the Netherlands.
S08171954 the Pope allows U.S. clergy to deliver sacraments in English.
S08171954 Packard and Studebaker approve merger.
S08171958 the first U.S. moon shot fails when the rocket explodes at 50,000
S08171958Cfeet.
S08171960 Gabon gains independence from France.
S08171961 the U.S. Public Health Service licenses Sabin oral polio vaccine.
S08171962 the first person is killed at the Berlin Wall attempting to
S08171962Cescape from East Germany.
S08171965 Robert Manry completes his 3200 mile, 2 1/2 month trip alone
S08171965Cacross the Atlantic Ocean in his 13 1/2-foot sloop, Tinkerbelle.
S08171969 hurricane Camille comes ashore in the U.S., leaving 300 dead.
S08171970 U.S.S.R. launches Venera 7 to Venus.
S08171977 Soviet nuclear icebreaker Arktika reaches the North Pole; the
S08171977Cfirst surface ship to break the ice pack.
S08171978 the first manned balloon crossing of the Atlantic Ocean (Double
S08171978CEagle II) occurs.
S08171995 Dennis Martinez, in his 521st start (30th on the all-time
S08171995Cpitching list) strikes out his 2000th batter, Brewers' Kevin
S08171995CSeitzer, the 45th pitcher to do so, Milwaukee 7, Indians 1.
S08171995 the United Baseball League announces plans to begin its first
S08171995Cseason Mar. 28, with 8 teams playing a 154-game schedule.
S0817     Feast of St. Ethelred
S0817    2Discovery Day (Yukon).
S0817    6Hawaii Admission Day.
R0817    1It's Mosquito Awareness Weekend.
R0817    7It's Mosquito Awareness Weekend.
S0817     Anniversary of General San Martin's Death (Argentina).
S0817     Gabon Independence Day.
S0817     Indonesia Independence Day.
S0817     Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
S08181227 Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan dies.
S08181587 Virginia Dare is the first child of English parents to be born in
S08181587CAmerica.
S08181817 Gloucester, Massachussetts newspapers carry accounts of a wild
S08181817Csea serpent seen offshore: 3 feet in diameter, 100 feet long.
S08181821 day four of the oldest continuously held U.S. sporting event, the
S08181821CVirginia jousting tournament, begins.
S08181840 the American Society of Dental Surgeons is organized.
S08181868 Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during an
S08181868Ceclipse.
S08181872 the first mail-order house catalog is issued (A.M. Ward).
S08181894 the Bureau of Immigration is created by Congress.
S08181913 the Veterans of Foreign Wars is formed in Denver.
S08181914 President Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality.
S08181915 Boston opens Braves Field with a 3-1 victory over the St. Louis
S08181915CCardinals.
S08181917 the first two-way radiotelephone communication between a plane
S08181917Cand the ground is established at Langley Field, Va.
S08181919 the Anti-Cigarette League of America is formed in Chicago.
S08181920 Rep. Harry Burn, 24, the youngest member of the state
S08181920Clegislature of Tennessee, follows is mother's wishes, "Don't
S08181920Cforget to be a good boy and help Mrs. Catt put 'Rat' in
S08181920CRatification," and casts the deciding vote (49-47) to ratify the
S08181920C19th Amendment, allowing women the right to vote (certified Aug.
S08181920C26).
S08181925 "Chauve Souris," the first sound-on-film production, is shown in
S08181925CLondon.
S08181926 the first television picture is a weather map which was telecast
S08181926Cfrom Arlington, Virginia to Washington, D.C.
S08181927 the last piece of steel is hoisted into place on the 52nd floor
S08181927Clevel of Cleveland's Terminal Tower.
S08181931 the American plant patent #1 is granted to Henry F. Bosenberg of
S08181931CNew Brunswick, N.J., for New Dawn, a rose that blooms repeatedly
S08181931Cinstead of only once.
S08181939 "The Wizard of Oz" premieres.
S08181954 Assistant Secretary of Labor James Wilkins becomes the first
S08181954Cblack to attend Cabinet meetings.
S08181956 the Cincinnati Reds hit 8 home runs and the Milwaukee Braves hit
S08181956Ctwo to set an N.L. record for the most home runs by two clubs in
S08181956Ca nine-inning game (score 13-4).
S08181956 Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1 on the Top
S08181956C100, his only two-sided hit record to top the pop charts (and the
S08181956Conly single to hold the #1 spot for 11 weeks).
S08181958 an investigation starts the TV game show scandal.
S08181958 "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, is published.
S08181960 the first photograph is bounced off a satellite (Cedar Rapids,
S08181960CIowa.)
S08181960 the Beatles give their first public performance in a striptease
S08181960Cbar in Hamburg.
S08181960 the first commercial oral contraceptive goes on the market.
S08181963 James Meredith becomes the first black graduate from the
S08181963CUniversity of Mississippi.
S08181964 the Beatles arrive in San Francisco on their second visit to the
S08181964CU.S.
S08181966 the first pictures of Earth taken from moon orbit are sent back
S08181966Cto the United States.
S08181982 NYSE tops 100 million figure for the first time (132.69 million
S08181982Cshares traded.)
S08181983 Samantha Druce, aged 12 years 119 days, becomes the youngest
S08181983Cwoman to swim the English Channel.
S08181993 McDonnell Douglas' 42-foot-tall Delta Clipper-Experimental
S08181993C(DC-X), model for a single-stage rocket needing no lower stages
S08181993Cor boosters, successfully completes its maiden voyage (150 feet
S08181993Cup, 350 feet lateral, and lands).
S08181994 WOIO-TV Channel 19 officially takes control of its new
S08181994Csubsidiary, WUAB-TV Channel 43.
S08181995 Indians' Jose Mesa, with 12 pitches in the 9th at Jacobs Field,
S08181995Cties Dennis Eckersley's record of 36 consecutive saves, Indians
S08181995C7, Milwaukee 5 (38th come-from-behind victory).  Firsts at Jacobs
S08181995CField: the Indians are 70-30 after the first 100 games played at
S08181995C         Jacobs Field.
S08181995        the first M. L. pitching record tied at Jacobs Field
S08181995 13-year-old, 4' 5", 70 lb. Dominique Maceanu becomes the
S08181995Cyoungest-ever U.S. gymnastics champion.
S0818     Feast of St. Agapitus, martyr.
S0818     Feast of St. Helena, mother of Constantine the Great.
S0818    2Discovery Day (Yukon).
S0818    6Hawaii Admission Day.
R0818    1It's Mosquito Awareness Weekend.
R0818    7It's Mosquito Awareness Weekend.
S0818     Old Spanish Days (celebrated in California).
S0818     Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
S0819 312 Roman Emperor Constantine the Great and his army see a burning
S0819 312Ccross in the sky surrounded with the words "In this sign conquer"
S0819 312C(he later ends the persecution of Christians).
S08191812 the frigate U.S.S. Constitution defeats the British frigate
S08191812CGuerriere in its most celebrated victory, emerging without
S08191812Ccritical damage and gaining the nickname Old Ironsides.
S08191821 day five of the oldest continuously held U.S. sporting event, the
S08191821CVirginia jousting tournament, begins.
S08191826 Canada Co. is chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario).
S08191855 the Y.M.C.A. World Alliance is formed.
S08191856 Gail Borden patents condensed milk in the U.S.
S08191888 the world's first beauty contest is held in Spa, Belgium. The
S08191888Cwinner is an 18 year old girl from the West Indies.
S08191891 William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum.
S08191909 the Philadelphia Phillies are rained out for the 10th consecutive
S08191909Cday (major league record).
S08191917 a Sunday benefit baseball game at N.Y.'s Polo Grounds resulted in
S08191917Cthe arrest of N.Y. Giants manager John McGraw and Reds manager
S08191917CChristy Mathewson, for violating blue laws.
S08191921 Detroit's Ty Cobb, 34, in his 16th season, becomes the 4th player
S08191921Cand the youngest, to reach 3,000 career hits (off Boston's Elmer
S08191921CMyers).
S08191929 "Amos 'n' Andy" debuts on NBC radio for Pepsodent.
S08191934 Hitler becomes president of Germany.
S08191942 the first American offensive in the Pacific during WW II begins
S08191942C(Guadalcanal, Solomon Is.)
S08191942 England loses 3,500 mostly Canadian raiders on a disastrous raid
S08191942Con Dieppe.
S08191950 ABC begins the tradition of Saturday morning kid shows.
S08191951 Eddie Gaedel, a 3 ft., 7 inch, 65 lb. midget, wearing number 1/8,
S08191951Cis the lead-off batter for Bill Veech's St. Louis Browns vs
S08191951CDetroit.  (He's walked on four pitches, and the N.L. rules are
S08191951Cchanged the next day).
S08191955 WINS radio, the N.Y. home of Alan Freed, announces it will not
S08191955Cplay "copy" white cover versions of R&B songs (DJs must play Fats
S08191955CDomino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's).
S08191957 the N.Y. Giants announce moving to San Francisco.
S08191959 Discoverer 6, a military research satellite, is launched into
S08191959Cpolar orbit from Vandenberg AFB, Ca.
S08191960 Francis Gary Powers is convicted of spying by the U.S.S.R. (U-2
S08191960Cincident) and is given a ten-year sentence.
S08191960 Sputnik 4 carries 2 dogs and 6 mice into orbit (later recovered
S08191960Calive).
S08191960 a spacecraft is snagged in midair by the USAF.  The 300-lb. space
S08191960Ccapsule is ejected at 10,000 ft. by Discoverer 14 and retrieved
S08191960Cat 8,500 ft.
S08191964 the Beatles' first American Tour begins at the Cow Palace in S.F.
S08191964 Syncom 3, a communications satellite, is launched from Cape
S08191964CKennedy, Fla.
S08191975 the Bond Court Hotel (now the Sheraton Cleveland City Centre) is
S08191975Cdedicated.
S08191977 an earthquake measuring 7.7 - 8.9 hits the Indian Ocean.  It is
S08191977Cbelieved to be the strongest quake ever.
S08191979 "Apocalypse Now" opens.
S08191989 Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki of Poland becomes the first
S08191989Cnon-Communist to head a Eastern bloc nation.
S08191989 Malcolm S. Forbes hosts a party in his palace in Tangier,
S08191989CMorocco, to celebrate his 70th birthday (over 600 rich and famous
S08191989Cguests) at a cost of $2 million.
S08191994 wearing an Atlanta jersey, former 16-year Browns' veteran Clay
S08191994CMatthews plays his last game at the Stadium in an exhibition
S08191994Cgame, Browns 28, Falcons 7.
S0819     Feast of St. John Eudes, confessor.
S0819     Feast of St. Lewis, Bishop of Tolosa, confessor.
S0819     National Aviation Day.
R0819    1Freedom of Enterprise Week begins.
S0819    2Discovery Day (Yukon).
S0819    6Hawaii Admission Day.
R0819    1It's Mosquito Awareness Weekend.
R0819    7It's Mosquito Awareness Weekend.
S0819     Day of the Regaining of the Independence of Afghanistan.
S0819     President Quezon Day (Philippines).
S0819     Uprising of the 28th of Mordad (Iran).
S0819     Day of Venus (early Roman holiday - before 200 BC - goddess of
S0819       Spring and protectress of vegetation and gardens).
S0819     Rustic Vinalia (Roman).
S0819     Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
S08201794 General "Mad Anthony" Wayne defeats the Indians at the Battle of
S08201794CFallen Timbers near Toledo, Ohio (convinced Indians to sue for
S08201794Cpeace).
S08201821 day six of the oldest continuously held U.S. sporting event, the
S08201821CVirginia jousting tournament, begins.
S08201866 the delegates from 60 labor organizations meet in Baltimore and
S08201866Cfound the first national labor organization, National Labor
S08201866CUnion (ceased to exist circa 1873).
S08201887 the American Association of Public Accountants is incorporated.
S08201910 Jacob E. Fickel becomes the first aviator to fire a gun from an
S08201910Cairplane.
S08201917 the first two-way radiotelephone communication between two
S08201917Cairborne planes is established at Langley Field, Va.
S08201920 the first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ, Detroit,
S08201920CMichigan) institutes its first daily scheduled broadcast.
S08201923 the United States' first dirigible is launched at Lakehurst, N.J.
S08201935 Herbert McLean Evans announces pure crystals of vitamin E have
S08201935Cbeen isolated.
S08201940 Churchill utters the famous line "Never before in the history of
S08201940Chuman conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."  He is
S08201940Cspeaking about the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain.
S08201945 the Dodgers' Tommy Brown becomes the youngest M.L. player (17
S08201945Cyears, 8 months, 14 days) to hit a home run, against the Pirates.
S08201948 Cleveland sets an A.L. night game attendance record, 78,382, to
S08201948Cwatch Satchel Paige shutout the White Sox 5 - 0 (ties club record
S08201948Cfor consecutive shutouts (4) set in 1903).
S08201956 the Republicans open their convention at the Cow Palace (S.F.).
S08201961 the East Germans begin to erect a five-foot concrete wall on the
S08201961Cborder in Berlin.
S08201964 President Johnson signs his War on Poverty bill.
S08201968 Chicago police battle demonstrators in and around the Democratic
S08201968CConvention.
S08201968 Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia.
S08201971 INTELSAT (International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium)
S08201971Cis established by 50 nations.
S08201974 Nolan Ryan throws a pitch at a record 100.9 mph.
S08201975 Viking 1 is launched for a soft landing on Mars.
S08201977 Voyager 2 is launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and
S08201977CNeptune.
S08201979 Diana Nyad swims 60 miles from the Bahamas to the U.S.
S08201982 800 U.S. Marines land in Beirut, Lebanon, as part of a
S08201982Cmultinational peacekeeping force to oversee withdrawal of PLO
S08201982Cfighters from the city.
S08201988 Jack Nicklaus becomes the first professional golfer to win more
S08201988Cthe $5 million in tournament play.
S08201991 Estonia proclaims independence from Russia.
S08201993 the world's largest astronomical instrument, the Very Long
S08201993CBaseline Array (VLBA), 10 computer-steered antennas (effectively
S08201993Ca 5,000-mile radio telescope) is dedicated in New Mexico.
S08201994 the Eastern Orthodox Church in America celebrates its 200th
S08201994CAnniversary, when the first monks came to America from Russia
S08201994Cfollowing the Russian traders and trappers who had arrived 50
S08201994Cyears earlier.
S08201995 Indians' Jose Mesa enters the ninth and, with 24 pitches for 4
S08201995Couts (passed ball on the 3rd out), sets a M.L. record with his
S08201995C37th consecutive save, Indians 8, Milwaukee 5.  (The Tribe came
S08201995Cback in the 8th with 5 runs for its 21st last-at-bat win.)
S08201995CFirsts at Jacobs Field:
S08201995C  first M.L. pitching record
S0820     Feast of St. Bernard, abbot of Clairvaux, doctor.
S0820     Hopi Flute Ceremony.
S0820    2Discovery Day (Yukon).
S0820    6Hawaii Admission Day.
R0820    1Freedom of Enterprise Week begins.
R0820    2It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0820    1It's Mosquito Awareness Weekend.
R0820    7It's Mosquito Awareness Weekend.
S0820     Anniversary of the Exile of King Muhammad V (Morocco).
S0820     Hungarian Constitution Day.
S0820     Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
S08211680 Pueblo Indians take possession of Santa Fe.
S08211821 the oldest continuously held U.S. sporting event, the Virginia
S08211821Cjousting tournament, ends.
S08211841 John Hampson patents the venetian blind.
S08211858 the first Lincoln-Douglas debate takes place in Illinois.
S08211863 Quantrill's rangers raid Lawrence, Kansas, killing 150 men, but
S08211863Cmissing the man they wanted, U.S. Senator Jim Lane (who had led
S08211863Craids on Missouri civilians).
S08211878 the American Bar Association is organized at Sarasota, N.Y.
S08211887 Mighty (Dan) Casey STRUCK OUT in a game with the N.Y. Giants!
S08211888 William Seward Burroughs patents his adding machine.
S08211911 the Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre. It is recovered in 1913
S08211911Cin Florence.
S08211923 Kalamazoo, Mich. passes an ordinance forbidding dancers to gaze
S08211923Cinto their partners eyes.
S08211931 Babe Ruth hits his 600th home run.
S08211948 Bob Lemon gives up a two-run homer to Aaron Robinson at the
S08211948CStadium, ending a 47 consecutive scoreless innings streak, an
S08211948CA.L. record, provided by Indians' pitchers Bob Feller, Lemon,
S08211948CGene Bearden, Sam Zoldak, and Satchel Paige.
S08211959 Hawaii became the 50th state.
S08211965 Gemini 5 is launched into earth orbit (2 astronauts).
S08211968 Soviet-bloc troops invade Czechoslovakia to persuade the liberal
S08211968CAlexander Dubcek to abandon his democratic reforms.
S08211972 the U.S. orbiting astronomy observatory, Copernicus, is launched.
S08211982 the banished PLO begin leaving Beirut under the watchful eye of
S08211982Cthe Israelis invasion force.
S08211982 Rollie Fingers becomes the first pitcher to get save #300.
S08211983 opposition leader Benigno Aquino is murdered at Manila Airport on
S08211983Chis return from U.S. exile.
S08211983 "La Cage aux Folles" opens on Broadway at the Palace Theater.
S08211986 Boston scores 24 runs against the Indians, the most scored by an
S08211986Copponent in Cleveland's history.
S08211991 Latvia declares independence from Russia.
S08211992 concrete foundation is poured for Cleveland's Gateway Arena (Gund
S08211992CArena).
S08211993 contact is lost with the Mars Observer three days before the $980
S08211993Cmillion spacecraft was to brake to orbit the Red Planet.
S08211993 the first monument to black soldiers at a national park is
S08211993Cdedicated at Petersburg National Battlefield Park honoring the
S08211993C20,000 plus U.S. Colored Troops during that Civil War battle.
S08212017 the next total solar eclipse visible from North America will
S08212017Coccur.
S0821     Feast of St. Jane Frances Frmiot de Chantal, widow.
S0821    2Discovery Day (Yukon).
S0821    6Hawaii Admission Day.
R0821    1Freedom of Enterprise Week begins.
R0821    2It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0821    3It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0821    1It's Mosquito Awareness Weekend.
R0821    7It's Mosquito Awareness Weekend.
S0821     Hecate's Festival (Greek - goddess of the Moon, of the
S0821       Underworld, and of magic).
S0821     Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S0822 565 A.D. St. Columba records sighting the Loch Ness monster which he
S0822 565Ccalled a "fearsome beast."
S08221485 the death of King Richard III, last of the plantagenets, occurs.
S08221776 the Battle of Long Island begins; Washington is defeated.
S08221787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before
S08221787CFulton builds his steamboat.
S08221822 Peter Force patents a wall paper printing press.
S08221831 Nat Turner leds an uprising of blacks.
S08221851 the yacht "America" wins the first Royal Yacht Squadron Cup, now
S08221851Cknown as the America's Cup, at a regatta in England.
S08221865 William Sheppard patents a liquid form of soap.
S08221902 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President to ride in an
S08221902Cautomobile (Hartford, Conn.).
S08221906 the Victor Talking Machine Company manufactures the first
S08221906Cphonograph with a horn enclosed in the cabinet.
S08221909 the first Rheims International Air Race in France is held.
S08221947 the College All-Star team first beat the NFL champs, 16-0.
S08221956 David Eisenhower, age 8, is named the honorary chairman of the
S08221956CRepublican Convention.
S08221962 President Kennedy announces that a submarine rendezvous beneath
S08221962Cthe North Pole has been effected by two U.S. nuclear subs.
S08221964 "Where Did Our Love Go" reaches #1 on Billboards' Hot 100 chart,
S08221964Cthe first of the Supremes 12 singles to top the chart.
S08221973 at a news conference, CBS anchor Dan Rather, after some applause
S08221973Cby fellow newsmen when he is introduced, is asked by President
S08221973CNixon if he is running for something.  Rather replies, "No, Mr.
S08221973CPresident.  Are you?"
S08221974 President Ford names August 19 "Women's Equality Day".
S08221974 the first drawing of the Ohio Lottery is held at Parmatown.
S08221984 the United States Football League (USFL) votes to switch to a
S08221984Cfall schedule for 1986.
S08221986 Kerr-McGee agrees to $1.3 million settlement in death of nuclear
S08221986Cactivist Karen Silkwood.
S08221989 Nolan Ryan becomes the first M.L. pitcher to strike out 5,000.
S0822     Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
R0822    1Freedom of Enterprise Week begins.
R0822    2It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0822    3It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0822    4It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
S0822     Feast of Montu (Egyptian).
S0822     Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S08231609 Galileo demonstrates his spy-glass to the members of the Venetian
S08231609CSenate.
S08231617 the first one-way streets are established -- in London.
S08231818 the Walk-in-the-Water, the first steam-vessel on Lake Erie,
S08231818Cbegins its maiden voyage from Buffalo to Detroit via Cleveland.
S08231861 Rose O'Neal Greenhow is arrested after supplying advanced
S08231861Cintelligence to the South that led to the Union defeat at Bull
S08231861CRun.
S08231869 the first carload of freight (boots and shoes) arrives in San
S08231869CFrancisco, from Boston, after a 16-day rail trip.
S08231872 the first Japanese commercial ship visits San Francisco with a
S08231872Ccargo of tea.
S08231889 the first ship-to-shore wireless message is received in the U.S.:
S08231889CU.S. lightship to Cliff House (San Francisco, Ca.).
S08231904 Harry D. Weed patents the automobile tire chain.
S08231919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premiers in Chicago Tribune.
S08231936 Cleveland's Bob Feller, in his first M.L. start, strikes out 15,
S08231936Cgives up 6 hits, and walks 4, Indians 5, St. Louis Browns 1.
S08231938 Indians' catcher Frankie Pytlak sets a world altitude baseball-
S08231938Ccatch record (708-feet) when he catches a ball thrown by
S08231938CIndians third baseman Ken Keltner from the top of the Terminal
S08231938CTower on Public Square.
S08231939 the Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact is signed.
S08231953 Washington announces 30 million will enter school in the fall,
S08231953Cten million too many.
S08231957 Northfield Park outside Cleveland opens.
S08231957 the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) is founded.
S08231963 the Beatles' "She Loves You" is released.
S08231966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of earth from a
S08231966Cspacecraft.
S08231968 the Yanks and the Tigers play a 3-3 tie in 19 innings due to a 1
S08231968Ca.m. curfew.
S08231971 Chris Evert upsets Virginia Wade, 6-1, 6-1, to give the U.S. the
S08231971CWightman Cup at the Harold T. Clark courts in Cleveland Heights,
S08231971COhio.
S08231973 the Intelsat communications satellite is launched.
S08231977 the first man-powered flight (Bryan Allen in "Gossamer Condor")
S08231977Cis accomplished (the 77 lb. aircraft is flown over a mile on a
S08231977Cfigure-eight course at Shafter, Ca.).
S08231977 Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial Day is observed in Massachusetts on
S08231977Cthe 50th anniversary of the execution of the two anarchists.
S08231985 the TVA shuts down its last nuclear plant, the Sequoyah facility
S08231985Cat Daisy, Tenn., because of doubts of the safety of nuclear
S08231985Cpower.
S08231990 East Germany agrees to formal unification with West Germany
S08231990Ceffective October 3.
S08231993 the National Archive releases hundreds of thousands of
S08231993Cgovernment documents on J.F.K.'s assassination.
S08231995 with 11 pitches in the 9th, Indians' Jose Mesa sets a M.L. record
S08231995Cof 38 consecutive saves, Indians 6, Toronto 5.
S0823     Feast of St. Philip Beniti, confessor.
R0823    1Freedom of Enterprise Week begins.
R0823    2It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0823    3It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0823    4It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0823    5It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
S0823     Hug Your Boyfriend or Girlfriend Day.
S0823     Romania Liberation Day.
S0823     Festival of Juturna (Roman - a nymph loved by Jupiter, who made
S0823       her a goddess of lakes and springs).
S0823     Festival of Nemesis (Ancient Greek goddess of divine anger).
S0823     Days of Moria (Greek).
S0823     Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S0824 079 Mt. Vesuvius erupts, burying Pompeii and Herculaneum.
S08241572 the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France is carried out.
S08241583 St. Bartholomew's Day is observed.
S08241814 the British burn the Capitol and the White House.
S08241853 the Stockbridge (Massachusetts) Village Improvement Society is
S08241853Corganized (first such society in the U.S.).
S08241853 the first potato chips are prepared by Chef George Crum in
S08241853CSaratoga Springs, New York.  Nobody could eat just one!
S08241869 the Waffle Iron is invented by Cornelius Swarthout.
S08241875 Matthew Webb of Dawley, Shropshire becomes the first to swim the
S08241875CEnglish Channel (21 hours, 45 minutes).
S08241891 a patent for a motion picture camera, the first in its field in
S08241891Cthe U.S., is filed by Thomas A. Edison.
S08241903 the filly Lou Dillon becomes the first U.S. horse to trot a mile
S08241903Cin under two minute.
S08241909 workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
S08241912 the Territory of Alaska is organized.
S08241932 the first transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, A.E.
S08241932CPutnam, occurs.
S08241939 the first successful flight of a jet aircraft is made in Germany.
S08241949 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established.
S08241951 the St. Louis Browns owner Bill Veeck gives more than 1,000 fans
S08241951Cbehind his dugout YES and No placards, to be used when the
S08241951Ccoaches ask what the Browns should do (must have worked - Browns
S08241951C5, Philadelphia Athletics 3).
S08241954 the Communist Party is outlawed in the U.S.
S08241956 the first non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrives in
S08241956CWashington, DC.
S08241960 the FDA approves the Sabin polio vaccine for use.
S08241960 the temperature drops to -88 (-127 F) at Vostok, Antarctica
S08241960C(world record).
S08241963 Don Schollander of Santa Clara, Ca., becomes the first person to
S08241963Cbreak the 2-minute mark for the 200-meter freestyle (1:58.4).
S08241963 the Little League World Series is first telecast by ABC.
S08241971 Ernie Banks hits his 512th and final home run, off Jim McGlothin
S08241971Cin the first, as the Cubs beats the Reds 5-4.
S08241973 John Adams - and his drum - first becomes a right-field fixture
S08241973Cin Cleveland Stadium.
S08241987 the garbage barge Mobro unloads its refuse after 155 days
S08241987Csearching for a port that would take it.
S08241989 Voyager II flies past Neptune.
S08241989 Pete Rose is banned from baseball for life for betting.
S08241991 the 74 year reign of the Communist Party ends as changes sweep
S08241991Cthe government of U.S.S.R., including the former republics Russia
S08241991Cand Ukraine declaring their independence.
S08241992 Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Florida and continues towards
S08241992CLouisiana (causes $15 billion in damages in the South).
S08241992 the first structural steel beams are erected for the new ballpark
S08241992Cat Gateway (Jacobs Field).
S08241992 the Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56 - 3,
S08241992Cto the Vikings (worst margin of defeat in the club's history).
S08241995 Microsoft's new Windows 95 is released.
S0824     Feast of St. Bartholomew, apostle, patron saint of plasterers.
S0824     St. Bartholomew's Day (Coney Island of medieval England until
S0824       1855).
R0824    1Freedom of Enterprise Week begins.
R0824    2It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0824    3It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0824    4It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0824    5It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0824    6It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
S0824     Liberian National Flag Day.
S0824     Vesuvius Day.
S0824     Opening Mundus Cereris (Roman festival honoring Ceres, the corn
S0824       goddess).
S0824     First Egyptian Intercalary Day (Ancient Egyptian festival
S0824       honoring Nut, the sky mother goddess and protectress of the
S0824       dead).
S0824     Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S08251689 Montreal is taken by the Iroquois.
S08251718 the City of New Orleans is founded.
S08251800 Trumbull County, Ohio is organized, to which Cleveland belonged,
S08251800Cwhen the first Court of Quarter Sessions of Trumbull is held in
S08251800CWarren.
S08251804 Alice Meynell becomes the first woman jockey, in England.
S08251818 the Walk-in-the-Water, the first steam-vessel to anchor at
S08251818CCleveland, arrives in Cleveland on her maiden voyage (the first
S08251818Csteam-vessel to sail on the Great Lakes).
S08251825 the Republic of Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
S08251840 Joseph Gibbons patents a seeding machine.
S08251886 the first international polo meet in the U.S. is held.
S08251916 the National Park Service is established as part of the
S08251916CDepartment of Interior.
S08251918 the U.S. War Industries Board declares moving pictures an
S08251918C"essential industry."
S08251922 the Cubs beat the Phillies 26-23 in the highest scoring major
S08251922Cleague game.
S08251944 Paris is liberated from Nazi occupation by the Allies.
S08251949 RCA announces the invention of a system for broadcasting color
S08251949CTV.
S08251951 the Cleveland Indians set a club record for the longest
S08251951Cconsecutive home game winning streak (16).  (Broken in 1994.)
S08251956 the South African government orders 100,000 non-white people to
S08251956Cleave their Johannesburg homes within a year to make room for
S08251956Cwhites.
S08251958 the first presidential pension law becomes effective, granting
S08251958Cpensions to former U.S. presidents.
S08251966 the Apollo test craft makes a successful 18,000 mile flight.
S08251973 doctors in London report using the first CAT scan.
S08251977 the U.S. Attorney's office in Cleveland files suit to revoke John
S08251977CDemjanjuk's citizenship because, they alleged, he had lied about
S08251977Chis whereabouts during World War II.
S08251980 "42nd Street" opens on Broadway (3486 performances).
S08251985 New York's Dwight Gooden becomes the youngest pitcher ever to win
S08251985C20 games with a 9-3 victory over the Padres (20 years, 9 months).
S08251986 1,200 are killed by a toxic cloud that erupted from Lake Nios in
S08251986CCameroon.
S08251993 Superman returns from the dead in Superman No. 82 after a much-
S08251993Cpublicized death 10 months earlier.
S08251995 Detroit's Chad Curtis ends Jose Mesa's save streak with a HR in
S08251995Cthe 9th (with 2 outs).  The Indians win 6-5 in the 11th, their
S08251995C22nd last at-bat, 37th come-from-behind victory.
S0825     Feast of St. Louis IX, king of France, confessor, patron saint of
S0825       France and of barbers.
S0825    1Feast of Christ the King (Protestant).
R0825    2It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0825    3It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0825    4It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0825    5It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0825    6It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0825    7It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0825    1Freedom of Enterprise Week begins.
S0825     Kiss and Make-Up Day.
S0825     Summer Holiday (Britain).
S0825     Festival of Ganesha (Hindu).
S0825    2Late Summer Holiday (United Kingdom).
S0825    2Hong Kong Liberation Day.
S0825     Constitution Day (Paraquay).
S0825    1Umhlanga Day or Reed Dance Day (Swaziland).
S0825     Uraguay Independence Day.
S0825     Second Egyptian Intercalary Day (Ancient Egyptian festival
S0825       honoring Nut, the sky mother goddess and protectress of the
S0825       dead).
S0825     Opeconsiva (Roman festival that worshiped Ops, goddess of
S0825       fertility, sowing and reaping, while touching the ground).
S0825     Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S0826 055 B.C., Roman forces under Julius Caesar invade Britain.
S08261346 English longbows defeat the French in Battle of Crcy.
S08261601 Olivier van Noort, the first Dutchman to circle the globe,
S08261601Creturns with one ship and 45 crew members (left in 1598 with four
S08261601Cships and 248 crewman.
S08261629 the Cambridge Agreement is pledged.  Massachusetts Bay Co.
S08261629Cstockholders agree to emigrate to New England.
S08261791 John Fitch is granted a U.S. patent for his working steamboat.
S08261843 Charles Thurber patents the first successful typewriter.
S08261846 W. A. Bartlett is appointed the first U.S. mayor of Yerba Buena
S08261846C(San Francisco).
S08261884 Ottmar Mergenthaler patents the linotype machine.
S08261903 the Phillies walk seventeen Dodgers in a game.
S08261907 Houdini escapes from chains while underwater at Aquatic Park
S08261907C(S.F.) in 57 seconds.
S08261920 the 19th Amendment passes - Women's Suffrage is granted (about
S08261920Ctime!)
S08261935 the Public Utilities Act, known as the Wheeler-Rayburn Act, is
S08261935Csigned into law, requiring utilities to register with the SEC and
S08261935Csetting corporation limits.
S08261935 the CCC camp opens in the Brecksville Reservation of the
S08261935CCleveland Metroparks.
S08261939 the first major league baseball game is telecast - Reds vs
S08261939CBrooklyn Dodgers on W2XBS N.Y.(NBC-TV)
S08261947 the first black baseball pitcher, Don Bankhead, hits a home run
S08261947Con his first at bat.
S08261952 fluoridation of San Francisco water begins.
S08261957 the Ford Motor Co. reveals the Edsel.
S08261961 the Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto.
S08261961 Burma becomes the world's first Buddhist republic.
S08261968 the Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, the most
S08261968Cviolent in U.S. history.
S08261971 the N.Y. Giants announce the team will move to New Jersey in
S08261971C1975.
S08261973 the first Women's Equality Day is observed.
S08261973 University of Texas at Arlington becomes the first accredited
S08261973Cschool to offer a course in belly dancing.
S08261978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I.
S08261981 Voyager II reaches its closest approach to Saturn enroute to
S08261981CUranus and Neptune, 63,000 miles (discovers thousands of rings).
S08261982 Johns-Manville Corporation, ruined by over 10,000 asbestos suits,
S08261982Cfiles for bankruptcy.
S08261992 Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Louisiana after leaving
S08261992CFlorida two days earlier ($15 billion in damages in the South).
S08261992 the U.N. coalition, led by the U.S., Britain and France,
S08261992Cannounce a "No-fly Zone" below the 32 parallel in Iraq to protect
S08261992Cthe Shiite muslim in the southern region, effective Aug.27.
S08261992 reduced busing begins in Cleveland after fulfilling desegregation
S08261992Crequirements.
S0826     Feast of St. Zephirinus, pope (198-217), martyr.
S0826    1Feast of Christ the King (Protestant).
S0826     Women's Equality Day.
S0826     Susan B. Anthony Day (Massachusetts).
R0826    2It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0826    3It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0826    4It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0826    5It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0826    6It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0826    7It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
S0826     Feast Days of Ilmatar (Finland).
S0826     Krakatoa Day.
S0826     Namibia Day.
S0826    2Late Summer Holiday (United Kingdom).
S0826    2Hong Kong Liberation Day.
S0826     Third Egyptian Intercalary Day (Ancient Egyptian festival
S0826       honoring Nut, the sky mother goddess and protectress of the
S0826       dead).
S0826     Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S08271665 the first play performed in the North American colonies, "Ye Bare
S08271665Cand Ye Cubb," is presented at Acomac, Va.
S08271776 the Americans are defeated by the British in the Battle of Long
S08271776CIsland.
S08271776 William Alexander, leading 400 Marylands against 6-to-1 odds,
S08271776Cattacks the English at the Battle of Long Island, allowing
S08271776CWashington to evacuate the bulk of his command (9 men escaped in
S08271776Cthe charge).
S08271883 Krakatoa erupts, the greatest explosion in modern times.
S08271783 J.A.C. Charles tests the first hydrogen balloon (without
S08271783Cpassengers).
S08271789 the French National Assembly issues the Declaration of the Rights
S08271789Cof Man and Citizen.
S08271832 Black Hawk surrenders at Prairie du Chien.
S08271890 Miss Zee Gayton sets out to walk from S.F. to N.Y. (accomplished
S08271890Cin 226 days).
S08271896 the shortest war occurs (9:02 a.m. to 9:40 a.m. between the U.K.
S08271896Cand Zanzibar.)
S08271909 Dr. Sigmund Freud visits the U.S.
S08271910 Thomas Edison demonstrates his latest invention, the talking
S08271910Cmotion picture.
S08271912 Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan of the Apes" is published.
S08271912 about 5,000 Ohio women from across the state march for suffrage
S08271912Cin Columbus.
S08271917 the Indians set a club record by stealing eight bases in a 11-9
S08271917Closs to Washington in League Park.
S08271921 the Green Bay Packers are granted a NFL franchise.
S08271928 62 nations sign the Kellogg-Briand Pact, agreeing to outlaw war.
S08271933 Earl Averill becomes the second Cleveland ballplayer to hit for
S08271933Cthe cycle, and the only Indians' player to do so at the Stadium.
S08271939 Erich Wahrsitz makes the first jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel
S08271939CHe-178).
S08271946 the pilot-ejector seat is tested successfully at Wright Field.
S08271948 the highest temperature ever experienced in Cleveland in the
S08271948Cmonth of August is recorded, 102 degrees.
S08271962 Mariner 2, the first interplanetary space craft, is launched for
S08271962Cthe first planet flyby (Venus).
S08271966 an Ohio poll shows 54% think the U.S. role in Vietnam a mistake.
S08271979 agents of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) murder Lord Louis
S08271979CMountbatten.
S08271982 Rickey Henderson records his 119th steal to break Lou Brock's
S08271982Cmodern stolen-base record.
S08271985 the 20th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 6 is launched.
S08271986 a report indicates the U.S. accidentally dropped a 42,000 lb.
S08271986CH-bomb on New Mexico in 1957.
S08271991 the Republic of Moldova declares its independence from the
S08271991CU.S.S.R.
S08271992 a "No-fly Zone" below the 32 parallel in Iraq, to protect the
S08271992CShiite muslim in the southern region, becomes effective, enforced
S08271992Cby the U.N. coalition of the U.S., Britain and France.
S08271993 Long Beach, Calif. beats Panama 3-2 to win the Little League
S08271993CWorld Series (first U.S. team to win two straight titles).
S0827     Feast of St. Joseph Calasanctius, confessor.
S0827    1Feast of Christ the King (Protestant).
S0827     Festival of Krishna (celebrated in India).
S0827     Lyndon Johnson's Birthday (Texas).
R0827    3It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0827    4It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0827    5It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0827    6It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0827    7It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
S0827     Sri Chinmoy Birthday Celebration Day.
S0827    2Late Summer Holiday (United Kingdom).
S0827    2Hong Kong Liberation Day.
S0827     Festival for Isis (Ancient Egyptian - Isis is the most complete
S0827       flowering of the Goddess concept in human history.)
S0827     Fourth Egyptian Intercalary Day (Ancient Egyptian festival
S0827       honoring Nut, the sky mother goddess and protectress of the
S0827       dead).
S0827     Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S08281565 Spanish soldiers land on the Florida coast and establish St.
S08281565CAugustine, America's oldest community.
S08281609 the Delaware Bay is explored by Henry Hudson for the Netherlands.
S08281789 William Herschel discovers Enceladus, a satellite of Saturn.
S08281850 the first undersea telegraph cable is completed, crossing the
S08281850CEnglish Channel.
S08281859 Edwin Drake strikes oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania, the first
S08281859Cdeliberate attempt to tap underground oil.
S08281862 the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is created to design and
S08281862Cprint financial papers for the federal government (5 employees).
S08281887 Star Pointer becomes the first trotter to break 2-min/mi barrier,
S08281887C1:59.
S08281899 the first President and Clerk of the Board of Health of the
S08281899CHamlet of Lakewood, Ohio, are elected.
S08281904 the first person is throw in jail for speeding in an automobile
S08281904C(which had been operating at the blinding speed of 15 or 20
S08281904Cm.p.h.).
S08281907 the United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle.
S08281917 10 suffragists are arrested as they picket the White House.
S08281919 the Associated Actors and Artists of America is incorporated.
S08281922 the use of perfume is banned from the Miss America Pageant
S08281922Cbecause its seductive aromas may influence the judges.
S08281922 WEAF in N.Y. City airs the first radio commercial.  Queensboro
S08281922CRealty Company of Jackson Heights pays $100 for 10 minutes of air
S08281922Ctime.
S08281922 the Walker Cup, the oldest American international team golf
S08281922Cmatch, is established with opening of play in Southampton, N.Y.
S08281922C(U.S. team won).
S08281938 Northwestern University awards an honorary degree to Edgar
S08281938CBergen's dummy Charlie McCarthy.
S08281955 L.A. defeats N.Y. 23-17 in the NFL's first sudden-death game.
S08281963 Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his "I have a dream speech" at
S08281963Cthe Lincoln Memorial.
S08281964 WEWS-TV Channel 5's "Upbeat" (originally "Big 5"), hosted by Don
S08281964CWebster, debuts (predecessor to "Hullabaloo", syndicated in 50
S08281964Ccities, and Cleveland's most successful show).
S08281968 Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Democratic
S08281968CNational Convention (Hubert H. Humphrey is nominated.)
S08281975 an official of the EPA says that Cleveland has the filthiest air
S08281975Cof the major cities in a 6-state region.
S08281976 the first synthesis of a bacterial gene is accomplished at MIT.
S08281983 U.S. Marines, part of the peacekeeping force in Lebanon, shoot
S08281983Cback for the first time in battle near the Beirut Airport.
S08281992 federal assistance arrives in Florida, four days after Hurricane
S08281992CAndrew.
S08281994 Tiger Woods, 18 years 8 months, becomes the youngest to win the
S08281994CU.S. Amateur Golf Championship.
S0828     Feast of St. Augustine of Hippo, bishop, confessor, doctor,
S0828       patron saint of theologians.
S0828     Confucius' Birthday, celebrated in the Republic of China
S0828       (Taiwan).
S0828    1Feast of Christ the King (Protestant).
R0828    4It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0828    5It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0828    6It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0828    7It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
S0828     Norse Harvest Festival.
S0828    2Late Summer Holiday (United Kingdom).
S0828    2Hong Kong Liberation Day.
S0828     Fifth (last) Egyptian Intercalary Day (Ancient Egyptian festival
S0828       honoring Nut, the sky mother goddess and protectress of the
S0828       dead).
S0828     Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S08291533 the last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa, is murdered by Spanish
S08291533Cconquerors led by Francisco Pizarro.
S08291817 the "Philanthropist," an abolitionist newspaper, begins
S08291817Cpublication in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio.
S08291844 the first white-Indian lacrosse game is held in Montral (Indians
S08291844Cwin.)
S08291864 William Huggins discovers the chemical composition of a nebulae.
S08291862 the second Battle of Bull Run begins.
S08291885 Gottlieb Daimler receives a German patent for a motorcycle.
S08291885 the first world heavyweight title fight is held (John L. Sullivan
S08291885Cvs Dominick McCaffrey.)
S08291893 the "Clasp-Locker and Unlocker for Shoes" is patented by Whitcomb
S08291893CL. Judson (developed into the zipper).
S08291896 the chef of a visiting Chinese Ambassador, Li Hung-Chang, invents
S08291896Cchop suey in N.Y. City.  The word means "hash" in Chinese.
S08291911 Ishi of the Yahi clan of the Yana Indian nation, the last Stone
S08291911CAge man of North America, is discovered.
S08291914 the "Arizonan" is the first vessel to arrive in S.F. via the
S08291914CPanama Canal.
S08291937 Philadelphia's Bob Johnson sets a M.L. record for the most RBIs
S08291937Cin one inning (6) after the RBI is officially adopted.  (First
S08291937Caccomplished by Fred Merkle on May 13, 1911.)
S08291949 the U.S.S.R. explodes its first atomic bomb.
S08291954 San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens.
S08291957 Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina ends his 24 hour, 19
S08291957Cminute filibuster, the longest speech in the history of the
S08291957CSenate (interrupted briefly by the swearing-in of a new senator).
S08291957 "The Pajama Game" starring Doris Day opens in New York.
S08291964 Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" is released.
S08291966 the Beatles' farewell concert rocks Candlestick Park, San
S08291966CFrancisco.
S08291967 the final television episode of "The Fugitive" airs.
S08291973 Judge Sirica calls for the surrender of the Watergate Tapes
S08291973C(Nixon refuses).
S08291974 Moses Malone becomes the first player to go from high school into
S08291974Cpro basketball.
S08291976 the 12th emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah,
S08291976Cdissolves the Parliament, becoming absolute ruler.
S08291982 the first surface polar circumnavigation of the earth is
S08291982Ccompleted.
S08291982 the longest recorded kite flight lasts 180 hours, 17 minutes, in
S08291982CWashington.
S08291982 the lowest temperature ever experienced in Cleveland in the month
S08291982Cof August is recorded, 38 degrees.
S08291991 the Soviet parliament votes to suspend all activities of the
S08291991CCommunist Party.
S08291991 the Republic of Uzbekistan declares its independence from the
S08291991CU.S.S.R.
S08291994 the former CBS television station, Cleveland's WJW-TV Channel 8,
S08291994Cjoins the Fox network.
S08291995 with Mark Clark's complete game, the Indians extend their club
S08291995Crecord and set a A.L. record with their 20 1/2-game lead over
S08291995CK.C., Indians 4, Toronto 1.
S0829     Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist.
S0829    1Feast of Christ the King (Protestant).
S0829     According to Hoyle Day.
R0829    5It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0829    6It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0829    7It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
S0829     Pardon of the Sea (Brittany).
S0829    2Late Summer Holiday (United Kingdom).
S0829    2Hong Kong Liberation Day.
S0829     Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S08301637 Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts for traducing the
S08301637Cclergy.
S08301837 pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins of Worcester, England
S08301837Cbegin the manufacturing of Worcester Sauce.
S08301842 Congress prohibits "The importation of all indecent and obscene
S08301842Cprints, paintings, lithographs, engravings and transparencies."
S08301842 Congress places an import tariff of 75 cents a pound on opium.
S08301850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city.
S08301862 Lee defeats Pope at the second Battle of Bull Run.
S08301884 Jack Dempsey wins the middleweight title in the first match with
S08301884Cboxing gloves.
S08301905 Ty Cobb makes his M.L. debut for Detroit with a double, Tigers 5,
S08301905CN.Y. Highlanders 3.
S08301919 the American Communist Party is founded in Chicago.
S08301926 the first Hambletonian Stakes, the premier event in harness
S08301926Cracing, is won at Syracuse, N.Y., by Guy McKinney in two straight
S08301926Cheats (the driver was Nat Ray).
S08301928 Jawaharla Nehru founds the Independence of India League.
S08301945 the occupation of Japan begins when Gen. MacArthur lands at
S08301945CAtsugi, Japan.
S08301952 Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome House goes on display at the
S08301952CMuseum of Modern Art in N.Y.
S08301954 President Eisenhower signs the Atomic Energy Act, opening the
S08301954Cdoor to private exploitation of nuclear power.
S08301957C a new filibuster record is set by Sen. Strom Thurmond (D), of
S08301957CSouth Carolina, who held the floor for 24 hrs., 27 min. arguing
S08301957Ccivil rights legislation.
S08301960 the Japan Stationery Company markets the first felt-tipped pen.
S08301961 James B. Parsons becomes the first black judge to be confirmed as
S08301961Ca judge in a U.S. District Court.
S08301963 a 24-hour hot line is installed between Washington and Moscow.
S08301967 Thurgood Marshall is the first black appointed to the Supreme
S08301967CCourt.
S08301972 John Lennon and Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden.
S08301979 the first recorded occurrence of a comet hitting the sun takes
S08301979Cplace (the energy released was about equal to 1 million hydrogen
S08301979Cbombs).
S08301980 Poland gives workers the right to independent unions.
S08301983 the 8th Space Shuttle Mission (STS-8) - Challenger 3 is launched
S08301983C(Truly, Brandenstein, Thorton, Gardner, and Guion Bluford, the
S08301983Cfirst U.S. black in space).  It is the first night launch and
S08301983Clanding (Sept. 5).
S08301984 the 12th Space Shuttle Mission (STS-12), Discovery is launched on
S08301984Cits maiden voyage (Hartsfield, Jr., Coats, Hawley, Resnik,
S08301984CMullane, and Walker).
S08301993 the "Late Show with David Letterman" premieres at 11:30 p.m. on
S08301993CCBS.
S08301995 NATO attack planes retaliate on Serb targets for a mortar attack
S08301995Con the "safe-zone" city of Sarajevo (largest military operation
S08301995Cin NATO's history.
S08301995 Albert Belle rocks Cleveland with a 14th inning HR to beat
S08301995CToronto 4-3 (Tribes 23rd last-at-bat win, 8 ending with a HR, and
S08301995C10-0 in extra inning games), extending their A.L. record to a
S08301995C21 1/2-game lead over K.C.
S0830     Feast of St. Rose of Lima, virgin, patron of Latin America.
S0830     St. Rose of Lima Day (Peru).
S0830     The Feast of St. Fiacre, hermit, patron saint of cab drivers,
S0830       (horse-drawn cabs in France are called fiacres because of the
S0830       taxi business started in Paris at the Hotel de St. Fiacre.
S0830    1Feast of Christ the King (Protestant).
S0830     Huey Long's Birthday (Louisiana).
R0830    6It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0830    7It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
S0830     Victory Day (Turkey).
S0830    2Late Summer Holiday (United Kingdom).
S0830    2Hong Kong Liberation Day.
S0830     Feast of Yasodhara (Wife of the Buddha).
S0830     Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S08311842 Congress authorizes the U.S. Naval Observatory.
S08311842 Micah Rugg patents a nut and bolt machine.
S08311881 Richard D. Sears wins the first men's singles tennis championship
S08311881Cunder the newly created U.S. Lawn Tennis Association rules held
S08311881Cat Newport, R.I.
S08311886 the first major earthquake is recorded in the eastern U.S. at
S08311886CCharleston, S.C.
S08311888 Mary Ann Nichols of London's East End becomes Jack the Ripper's
S08311888Cfirst victim.
S08311889 the first meeting of the trustees of the hamlet of Lakewood, Ohio
S08311889Ctakes place 3-and-a-half years after incorporating due to legal
S08311889Cdifficulties.
S08311889 the first ordinance of the hamlet of Lakewood is a speed limit of
S08311889C8 MPH.
S08311889 the first police chief of Lakewood is appointed (the department
S08311889Cis reorganized under civil service in 1911.)
S08311895 John Brailier becomes the first "pro" football player when he
S08311895Creceives $10 for expenses in a game at Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
S08311902 split skirts are first worn by horse rider Mrs. Adolph Landeburg.
S08311904 the barrel-jump race is included in the Olympics for the first
S08311904Cand last time.
S08311910 Glenn H. Curtis flies his Albany Flyer from Cleveland's Euclid
S08311910CBeach Park to Sandusky's Cedar Point in 1 hour, 17 minutes,
S08311910Csetting a new world's record for flying over open water (65
S08311910Cmiles).
S08311920 radio station 8MK (now WWJ), Detroit broadcasts the first radio
S08311920Cnews program.
S08311933 a New York Grand Jury asks for the flogging of three thugs; wants
S08311933Cpublic whipping post to be restored.
S08311934 the Chicago Bears play the All-Stars to a 0-0 tie in the first
S08311934CFootball All-Star Game.
S08311951 Duetsche Grammophone introduces the first 33 LP.
S08311955 the first microwave television station is operated at Lufkin,
S08311955CTexas.
S08311955 the first solar-powered automobile (15 inches) is demonstrated by
S08311955CGeneral Motors in Chicago, Illinois.
S08311962 Trinidad and Tobago win independence from Britain.
S08311965 the U.S. begins to pay G.I.s in Vietnam in military scrip
S08311965C(M.P.C.) to curb black market of U.S. dollars.
S08311967 Herman's Hermits, and their warm-up act The Who, play their first
S08311967CCleveland performance at Music Hall.
S08311974 the Citizens Freedom Foundation is organized to provide
S08311974Cdeprogramming from cult influence.
S08311976 Judge Frank J. Battisti finds in Reed vs. Rhodes the Ohio and
S08311976CCleveland Boards of Education liable for maintaining a racially
S08311976Csegregated school system (crosstown busing begins in Cleveland in
S08311976C1979 as a result).
S08311978 the first woman on trial for self-induced abortion is found not
S08311978Cgulty by reason of insanity.
S08311980 Solidarity Labor Union in Poland is founded.
S08311991 the Republic of Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the
S08311991CU.S.S.R.
S08311993 the Cleveland Indians set a club record for the longest game in
S08311993Cinnings played (22), losing in Minnesota 4-5.
S08311993 groundbreaking ceremonies are held for the National Inventors
S08311993CHall of Fame, Inventure Place, in Akron, Ohio.
S08311994 after waging a 25-year campaign of bloodshed and terror, the
S08311994CIrish Republican Army (IRA) declares a cease-fire in favor of
S08311994Cpeace talks on the future of Northern Ireland.
S08311994 the Russian army formerly ends its half-century presence in
S08311994CGermany and its 54-year military operation in the Baltic.
S08311995 the 7th District Court of Appeals overturns a lower court
S08311995Cdecision and upholds a requirement that union labor be used for
S08311995Cpublic construction (Jefferson County jail). (It is the first
S08311995Ctime a court has said local governments in Ohio can insist in
S08311995Cunion labor.)
S08311995 Albert Belle, for the second evening in a row (3rd time this
S08311995Cseason), ends the game with a home run (bottom of 10th, 24th
S08311995Clast-at-bat win, 9th ending with a HR, 11-0 in extra innings),
S08311995Cbeating Toronto 6-4.
S0831     Feast of St. Raymundus Nonnatus, confessor.
S0831    1Feast of Christ the King (Protestant).
S0831     Apache Sunrise Dance (Native American).
S0831     Sweet Corn Festival (Millersport, Ohio).
R0831    7It's Freedom of Enterprise Week.
R0831     Deadline for baseball's post-season player roster.
S0831    2Late Summer Holiday (United Kingdom).
S0831     Commemoration of the 1942 General Strike (Luxembourg).
S0831     (British) Commonwealth Day (Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago).
S0831     Malaysia's Merdeka Day or National Day (independence from Britain
S0831       1960).
S0831     Pushtoonistan Day (Afghanistan).
S0831     Trinidad and Tobago Independence Day.
S0831    2Hong Kong Liberation Day.
S0831     Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
R0800     It's Romance Awareness Month!
R0800     It's National Water Quality Month.
R0800     It's Good Nutrition Month!
R0800     It's Sandwich Month!
R0800     The gems of August are sardonyx, peridot and carnelian.
R0800     The poppy and the gladiolus are the flowers of August.
R0800     The sentimental meaning of the sardonyx and peridot is for
R0800       felicity, and the poppy and the gradiolus are for beauty in
R0800       retirement.
R0800     Emperor Augustus named August after himself and made it 31 days
R0800       long.  Its original name was Sextilis, the sixth month in
R0800       Latin.
R0800     The Saxon name for August was Weod Monath, which means "weed-
R0800       month".
R0800     The full moon in August is known as the Maize or Corn Moon, the
R0800       Sturgeon Moon and the Wyrt (green plant) Moon.
R08010822 Leo is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R08010822   Symbol: The Lion.
R08010822   Ruling Planet: Sun.
R08010822   Element: Fire.
R08010822   Traits: Forceful, generous, creative, well-organized.
R08010822   Body part associated with this sign: The heart.
R08010822   Occupations: Supervisor, actor, king, activities requiring
R08010822     physical strength, bartender.
R08230831 Virgo is the zodiac sign for this day.
R08230831   Symbol: The Virgin.
R08230831   Ruling Planet: Mercury.
R08230831   Element: Earth.
R08230831   Traits: Analytical, discriminating, modest, neat.
R08230831   Body part associated with this sign: The belly.
R08230831   Occupations: Editor, medicine, chemistry, research, accounting.
 
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S09011689 a graduated tax on beards is imposed in Russia.
S09011772 the Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in California.
S09011799 the first sermon is given in the Western Reserve after its
S09011799Csettlement (in Youngstown, Ohio) by the Reverend William Wick.
S09011819 John J. Wood patents a plow with interchangeable parts.
S09011852 Robert E. Lee is appointed superintendent of West Point.
S09011859 the first pullman sleeping car is put in service.
S09011859 R.C. Carrington and R. Hodgson make the first observation of a
S09011859Csolar flare.
S09011862 the federal government begins taxing tobacco.
S09011864 General Sherman captures Atlanta.
S09011870 Napoleon III is captured at Sedan.
S09011878 the first woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in
S09011878CBoston).
S09011890 the first baseball tripleheader is played - Boston vs Pittsburgh.
S09011901 the cornerstone for the N.Y. Stock Exchange on Broad Street is
S09011901Claid.
S09011902 Clifton Boulevard opens in Lakewood, Ohio.
S09011914 the last passenger pigeon, Martha, dies in captivity at the
S09011914CCincinnati Zoo.
S09011916 the federal child labor law is enacted.
S09011916 the international migratory bird treaty is ratified.
S09011924 the Dawes Plan goes into effect for the reconstruction of German
S09011924Cfinances after World War I (V.P. Charles Dawes wins the 1925
S09011924CNobel Peace Prize).
S09011925 Benjamin D. Chamberlin patents a glass light bulb machine.
S09011937 the All-Stars beat the NFL Champions for the first time in the
S09011937C4th All-Star Game, All-Stars 6, Green Bay 0.
S09011939 Germany invades Poland, dividing the country with Russia, which
S09011939Cattacked Poland Sept.17.
S09011939 Switzerland proclaims its neutrality which it is able to maintain
S09011939Cthroughout World War II.
S09011939 black holes are first dealt with in the Physical Review issue.
S09011946 the first U.S. Women's Open Golf tournament is won by Patty Berg
S09011946Cin Spokane, Wash.
S09011949 the first network detective series, "Private Eyes", premieres.
S09011953 the highest temperature in Cleveland in September occurs, 101
S09011953Cdegrees (101 degrees is reached 3 days in a row).
S09011969 Col. Moammar Gadhafi rises to power by deposing of Libya's King
S09011969CIdris I in a bloodless coup.
S09011970 the world's first computer chess tournament opens.
S09011971 Qatar declares itself independent.
S09011972 Bobby Fischer wins the world championship of chess by defeating
S09011972Cthe Russian master, Boris Spassky..
S09011975 Mets' Tom Seaver sets a new M.L. record of 8 consecutive years
S09011975Cwith 200 strikeouts or more in a season.
S09011976 Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D) of Ohio resigns after an affair with a
S09011976Cformer employee, Elizabeth Ray, is made public.
S09011977 the first TRS-80 Model I computer is sold.
S09011978 Indians' Sammy Stewart tosses 7 consecutive strikeouts, setting a
S09011978Cclub record (vs. Baltimore).
S09011979 Pioneer 2 flies past Saturn, discovering 2 new rings and an 11th
S09011979Cmoon.
S09011982 the Department of Transportation mandates the maximum range of
S09011982Cautomobile speedometers could not exceed 140/km/h or 85 mph.
S09011983 a Korean Boeing 747, Flight 007, strays into Soviet air space and
S09011983Cis shot down by a Soviet jet fighter (U.S. admits a spy plane was
S09011983Cin the same area two hours before the airliner).
S09011984 a solar power array is deployed by the space shuttle.
S09011985 the Titanic, sunk in 1912, is found by French and American
S09011985Cscientists.
S09011993 new federal regulations, the 1992 Cable Television Act covering
S09011993Ccable TV, becomes effective.
S09011994 former Who member Roger Daltry ends an era at the Coliseum in
S09011994CRichfield, Ohio by performing the last rock concert.
S09011994 the endangered purple cat's paw mussel is found in Killbuck
S09011994CCreek, north of Columbus, Ohio (thought to be gone from Ohio for
S09011994Cmore than 130 years).
S09011995 Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated.
S09011995 Lakewood's Millers Dining Room is gutted by fire.
S0901    2Labor Day, a legal holiday.
S0901    1Labor Sunday.
S0901     Feast of St. Drithelm of Northumbria, c. 700.
S0901     Feast of St. Giles, abbot, patron saint of cripples.
S0901     Birthday of the Virgin Mary - Coptic (Egyptian) and Abyssinian
S0901       Churches.
S0901     The first day of the week-long Virgin of the Remedies Festival
S0901       (Mexico).
S0901     Beginning of Orthodox church year.
R0901    5National Spanish Green Olive Week begins.
S0901    1Garland Sunday (Ireland).
S0901     Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1969) Independence Day.
S0901     Qatar Independence Day.
S0901    2Settler's Day (South Africa).
S0901     Day of Radha (Hindu holiday honoring Radha, Krishna's chief human
S0901       lover).
S0901     Braderie (Luxembourg).
S0902 031 BC Battle of Actium -  Octavian defeats the fleet of Antony and
S0902 031CCleopatra and becomes Emperor Augustus.
S09021660 Belgium's most famous bell, Klokke Roelant, is consecrated in
S09021660CGhent (weighs 13,310 pounds).
S09021666 the Great Fire of London starts at 1 a.m. inside a baker's shop;
S09021666Cdestroys St. Paul's Church.
S09021752 was the last day of Julian calendar in Britain and the British
S09021752Ccolonies.
S09021789 the U.S. Treasury Department is established by Congress.
S09021804 K. L. Harding discovers Juno, the third known asteroid.
S09021859 gas lighting is introduced to Hawaii.
S09021898 the machine gun is used for the first time in a large-scale
S09021898Cconflict at the battle of Omdurman in Sudan (20 English guns
S09021898Cversus ten's of thousands of Sudanese calvary).
S09021901 Vice-President Teddy Roosevelt quotes an African proverb, "Speak
S09021901Csoftly and carry a big stick, you will go far."
S09021924 Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in New York
S09021924CCity, including the famous "Indian Love Call."
S09021929 James Doolittle makes his first emergency jump during the
S09021929CCleveland National Air Races when his plane's wings fall off over
S09021929COlmsted Falls.
S09021937 the National Housing Act, also called the Wagner-Steagall Act, is
S09021937Csigned, creating the U.S. Housing Authority.
S09021940 the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is dedicated.
S09021945 Japan formally surrenders unconditionally.
S09021945 Vietnam declares independence from France (National Day).
S09021952 Dr. Floyd J. Lewis performs the first heart operation in which
S09021952Cthe deep freeze technique is used.
S09021953 the highest temperature in Cleveland in September is tied, 101
S09021953Cdegrees (101 degrees is reached for the 2nd day in a row).
S09021957 Milwaukee Brave's Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game.
S09021958 the National Defense Education Act is signed, providing students
S09021958Cloans and aid for technical education.
S09021963 Gov. Wallace calls state troopers to prevent integration at a
S09021963CTuskegee, Alabama high school. (JFK counters by federalizing the
S09021963CAlabama National Guard on September 10 to insure integration.)
S09021963 CBS and NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes.
S09021966 the Dolphins lose to the Oakland Raiders 23-14 in their first
S09021966Cregular season game.
S09021974 the Employee Retirement Income Security Act is signed by
S09021974CPresident Ford, bringing private pension plans under federal
S09021974Cregulation.
S09021987 Houston's Kevin Bass becomes the first N.L. player to homer from
S09021987Cboth sides of the plate in one game twice in one season.
S09021990 Toronto's Dave Stieb sets a M.L. record by pitching his ninth no-
S09021990Chitter in a season (beating Cleveland 3-0 in the last no-hitter
S09021990Cat the Stadium).
S09021995 the Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, starring numerous
S09021995Crock stars, old and new, performs for over 6 1/2 hours at the
S09021995CStadium.
S0902    2Labor Day, a legal holiday.
S0902    1Labor Sunday.
S0902     Feast of St. William, c. 1070, English bishop, apostle to Danes.
S0902     Feast of St. Stephen, first King of Hungary.
R0902    5National Spanish Green Olive Week begins.
R0902    6It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
S0902     The second day of the week-long Virgin of the Remedies Festival
S0902       (Mexico).
S0902    1Garland Sunday (Ireland).
S0902    2Settler's Day (South Africa).
S0902     Vietnam Independence Day.
S0902     Grape Vines Festival (Greece).
S09031609 Henry Hudson first enters New York harbor and begins sailing up
S09031609Cthe river that carries his name in search for the Northwest
S09031609CPassage.
S09031697 King William's War (1689-1697) in America ends by the Treaty of
S09031697CRyswick (France and England get back all lands they lost to
S09031697Ceach other).
S09031777 the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the U.S. flag becomes
S09031777Ceffective.
S09031783 the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War, is signed.
S09031838 Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
S09031849 the California State Constitutional Convention convenes in
S09031849CMonterey.
S09031895 the first professional football game is played between Latrobe,
S09031895CPennsylvania and Jeanette, Pa.
S09031910 the sunday before Labor Day is first observed as Labor Sunday.
S09031912 a women's suffrage amendment is defeated in 64 of Ohio's 88
S09031912Ccounties.
S09031912 the world's first cannery opens in England to supply food to the
S09031912Cnavy.
S09031916 the Allies turn back the Germans in World War I's Battle of
S09031916CVerdun.
S09031930 an experimental electric passenger train is installed by Thomas
S09031930CEdison on the Lackawanna Railroad between Hoboken and Montclair,
S09031930CN.J.
S09031932 Major James H. Doolittle surpasses official and unofficial world
S09031932Cland plane speed records at the Cleveland National Air Races with
S09031932Ca record 296.287 M.P.H.
S09031935 the first automobile to exceed 300 mph is driven by Sir Malcolm
S09031935CCampbell.
S09031936 the All-Stars tie the NFL Champions (Detroit) for the first time
S09031936Cin the 3rd All-Star Game.
S09031939 Britain declares war on Germany.  France follows six hours later,
S09031939Cand is quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and
S09031939CCanada.
S09031940 the first showing of high definition color TV is presented.
S09031943 Allied troops invade Italy (Italy signs a secret surrender which
S09031943Cis announced on Sept. 8).
S09031949 John Cade publishes results of lithium's first clinical trial on
S09031949Cmental patients.
S09031951 "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS television.
S09031953 the highest temperature in Cleveland in September is tied, 101
S09031953Cdegrees for the 3rd consecutive day.
S09031954 the Espionage and Sabotage Act of 1954 is signed, authorizing the
S09031954Cdeath penalty for peacetime sabotage and removing the statue of
S09031954Climitations for these crimes.
S09031964 a bill establishing a permanent national wilderness system
S09031964Ccomprising of 9,200,000 acres is signed into law.
S09031966 the first public showing of "Star Trek" (the first and second
S09031966Cpilot episodes "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before")
S09031966Coccurs at Tricon, a World Science Fiction Convention, held in
S09031966CCleveland.
S09031967 Lt. Gen. Ngyuen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam.
S09031971 the Plumbers burglarize the office of Daniel Ellsberg's
S09031971Cpsychiatrist.
S09031976 U.S. Viking 2 lands on Mars at Utopia. (Viking spacecrafts' tests
S09031976Cstrengthen the hint of life on Mars.)
S09031978 the crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29.
S09031983 the U.S. Census reports the world population at 4.72 billion.
S09031994 at 8 a.m., Cleveland's WJW-TV Channel 8 ends its 40-year
S09031994Caffiliation with CBS, and joins the Fox network.
S0903    2Labor Day, a legal holiday.
S0903    1Labor Sunday.
S0903     Feast of St. Pius X, pope (1903-14).
S0903     Feast of St. Simeon Stylites, confessor.
S0903     The third day of the week-long Virgin of the Remedies Festival
S0903       (Mexico).
R0903    5National Spanish Green Olive Week begins.
R0903    6It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0903    7It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
S0903     Lakon (Hopi holiday).
S0903    1Garland Sunday (Ireland).
S0903    2Settler's Day (South Africa).
S0903     Qatar Independence Day (Britain 1971).
S0903     Liberation of Monaco.
S0903     St. Marinus Day (San Marino).
S0904 476 A.D. Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the west, is deposed
S0904 476Cand the Roman Empire comes to an end.
S09041682 Halley gets his only look at the comet that will bear his name.
S09041781 Los Angeles is founded in the Valley of Smokes (Indian Name).
S09041807 Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat on the Hudson River.
S09041813 the first religious weekly in America, "Religious Remembrancer,"
S09041813Cis founded in Philadelphia (became the "Christian Observer").
S09041833 the first newsboy in the U.S. is hired (Barney Flaherty) by the
S09041833CN.Y. Sun.
S09041841 the first congregation of Lakewood, Ohio is organized by James
S09041841CNicholson (First Society of Rockport).  The church on Detroit and
S09041841CAndrews is completed in 1848 (the First New Jerusalem Church of
S09041841CRockport).
S09041866 the first daily newspaper in Hawaii is published.
S09041870 the French republic is proclaimed.
S09041882 New York's Pearl Street Station becomes the first district lit by
S09041882Celectricity.
S09041885 the first cafeteria opens for business, in New York City.
S09041886 the Apache chief, Geronimo, surrenders, ending the last major
S09041886CU.S.-Indian war.
S09041888 George Eastman patents first roll-film camera and registers
S09041888C"Kodak".
S09041918 U.S. troops land in Archangel, Russia, and stay 10 months.
S09041928 the first cargo of Cleveland-made goods departs for Europe via
S09041928Cdirect ship.
S09041935 the National Labor Relations Board holds its first meeting.
S09041950 the first helicopter rescue of an American pilot behind enemy
S09041950Clines occurs.
S09041951 President Truman makes the first transcontinental TV broadcast.
S09041951 NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network.
S09041964 NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1).
S09041970 George Harrison releases the single "My Sweet Lord".
S09041974 the U.S. establishes diplomatic relations with East Germany.
S09041977 four cases of the mysterious Legionnaires disease is confirmed in
S09041977COhio.
S09041980 Dr. Stephen Synott announces the discovery of Jupiter's 16th
S09041980Cmoon, tentatively designated 1980-J3.
S09041986 the 400 millionth visitor is welcomed to the Football Hall
S09041986Cof Fame.
S09041987 the National Cancer Institute reports the first known case of a
S09041987Cresearcher getting AIDS in the lab.
S09041994 the Cleveland Browns become the first team in NFL history to
S09041994Cscore a 2-point conversion when holder Tom Tupa takes the snap
S09041994Cand scores from the 2-yard line. Browns' Eric Metcalf sets a team
S09041994Crecord with his 92 yard punt return, Browns 28, Bengals 20.
S09041995 the U.N. World Conference On Women, and the tandem Non-
S09041995CGovernmental Organization Forum, with a combined delegation of
S09041995Cover 50,000, opens in Beijing and Huairou, China.
S0904    2Labor Day, a legal holiday.
S0904    1Labor Sunday.
S0904     Feast of St. Rosalia, virgin.
S0904     The fourth day of the week-long Virgin of the Remedies Festival
S0904       (Mexico).
S0904     Newspaper Carrier Day.
R0904    5National Spanish Green Olive Week begins.
R0904    6It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0904    7It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0904    1It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
S0904    1Garland Sunday (Ireland).
S0904    2Settler's Day (South Africa).
S0904     Cahambal (Mayan holiday).
S09051774 the first Continental Congress is held in Philadelphia.
S09051781 at the Battle of Virginia Capes, the French Fleet defeats the
S09051781CBritish rescue fleet, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown.
S09051836 Sam Houston is elected president of the Republic of Texas.
S09051859 the first novel by a black to appear in the U.S., "Our Nig; or
S09051859CSketches from the Life of a Free Black" by Harriet E. Wilson, is
S09051859Cissued in Boston.
S09051882 10,000 workers marched in the first Labor Day parade in N.Y.
S09051882CCity, sponsored by the Knights of Labor.
S09051885 the first gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer.
S09051905 the Treaty of Portsmouth is signed ending the Russian-Japanese
S09051905CWar.
S09051918 in Game 1 of the World Series at Comiskey, during the 7th inning
S09051918Cstretch, the Star Spangle Banner is first played, starting the
S09051918Cbaseball tradition because it was so well received.
S09051922 Yankees play their final game at the Polo Grounds, after 7 years.
S09051923 Thomas B. Hines demonstrates the smoke screen.
S09051923 Flyweights Gene LaRue and  Kid Pancho KO each other
S09051923Csimultaneously.
S09051939 the U.S. declares its neutrality in the European war.
S09051947 the highest scoring opening-day football game is played,
S09051947CPhiladelphia 45, Washington 42.
S09051950 North Korean troops make their farthest advance south during the
S09051950CKorean War.
S09051953 the first privately operated atomic reactor goes on line in
S09051953CRaleigh, N.C.
S09051958 the first color video recording on magnetic tape is presented in
S09051958CCharlotte, N.C.
S09051961 the U.S. makes airline hijacking a federal offense.
S09051972 11 Israeli athletes are slain by members of the Black September
S09051972Cgroup at the Munich Olympics.
S09051972 American swimmer Mark Spitz becomes the first athlete to win 7
S09051972COlympic gold medals.
S09051973 White House aide John Ehrlichman, and G. Gordon Liddy are
S09051973Cindicted along with two others for stealing Daniel Ellsberg's
S09051973Cpsychiatric records.
S09051975 Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme is arrested after agents save
S09051975CPresident Ford by pulling a gun from her hand.
S09051977 the Cleveland Indians stage the first "I hate the Yankee Hanky
S09051977CNight".
S09051977 Voyager 1 is launched for a fly-by of Jupiter and Saturn.
S09051978 Sadat, Begin and Carter open a peace conference at Camp David,
S09051978CMd.
S09051980 World's longest auto tunnel, St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens.
S09051986 the U.S. launches an unmanned rocket on a secret mission to the
S09051986Cmoon, the first since the Challenger.
S09051994 S.F.'s Jerry Rice becomes the NFL's career touchdown leader,
S09051994C127th TDs (7 of them rushing), S.F. 44, Raiders 14.
S09051995 Baltimore's Cal Ripken ties Lou Gehrig's record by playing in
S09051995Chis 2,130th consecutive game, and the Orioles beat the Angels 8-0
S09051995C(Ripken hits a HR).
S0905    2Labor Day, a legal holiday.
S0905    1Labor Sunday.
S0905     Feast of St. Laurence Justinian, bishop of Venice, confessor.
S0905     The fifth day of the week-long Virgin of the Remedies Festival
S0905       (Mexico).
S0905     Day of Nanda Devi (East Indian holiday).
S0905     Be Late For Something Day.
S0905    1Garland Sunday (Ireland).
S0905    2Settler's Day (South Africa).
R0905    5National Spanish Green Olive Week begins.
R0905    7It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0905    1It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0905    2It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0905    3It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
S09061522 the Victoria, the only ship left of Magellan's five-ship fleet,
S09061522Creturns to Spain with 18 of the original 277 men, and after
S09061522Ctravelling 42,000 miles.
S09061628 Puritans land at Salem, and form the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
S09061716 the first lighthouse in the U.S. is built, in Boston.
S09061776 the first submarine attack occurs when the first American sub
S09061776Cbuilt, the Turtle, piloted by Sgt. Ezra Lee, attacks the British
S09061776Cwarship Eagle in N.Y. harbor.  The mission ends in failure
S09061776Cbecause he is unable to drill a screw into the ship's copper-
S09061776Ccladded bottom - to hang the bomb from.  (The Turtle is later
S09061776Clost when a ship sinks on top of it.)
S09061819 Thomas Blanchard patents the lathe.
S09061838 the Cleveland Grays' first appearance in their gray uniforms
S09061838Coccurs during a parade.
S09061869 the first westbound train arrives in San Francisco.
S09061873 regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street (S.F.).
S09061876 Southern Pacific line from Los Angeles to San Francisco is
S09061876Ccompleted.
S09061901 President William McKinley is shot in Buffalo, N.Y., (dies
S09061901CSept.14).
S09061905 Chicago's Frank Smith pitches the most lop-sided no-hitter in
S09061905CM.L. history, White Sox 15, Tigers 0.
S09061907 the Liner Lusitania leaves London on its maiden voyage.
S09061913 Dr. Noguchi isolates rabies germ.
S09061924 St. Louis's Urban Shocker pitches two complete game victories
S09061924Cover the White Sox, and won both by the score of 6-2.
S09061941 the Nazis issue an order requiring the Star of David to be warn
S09061941Cby Jews.
S09061943 Philadelphia A's pitcher Carl Scheib becomes the youngest player
S09061943C(16 years, eight months, five days), to appear in an A.L. game.
S09061946 the Cleveland Browns play their first regular season game in the
S09061946Cthird All-American Conference, Browns 44, Miami 0.
S09061954 Yankees record a record with 10 pinch hitters.
S09061958 the Miss America title is won by Mary Ann Mobley, 21, from
S09061958CMississippi.
S09061968 Swaziland gains independence from Britain.
S09061972 John and Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.
S09061975 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for asylum in the U.S.
S09061976 a Soviet pilot lands a highly advanced MIG-25 in Japan and asks
S09061976Cfor U.S. political asylum.
S09061978 the House Select Committee on Assassination opens hearings into
S09061978Cthe assassinations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
S09061978 a doctor in California develops a successful method of choosing
S09061978Ca child's sex.
S09061991 the new State Council of Russia recognizes the independence of
S09061991CEstonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
S09061992 a F-14 Tomcat loses an engine at the Cleveland Air Show and makes
S09061992Can emergency landing at Burke Lakefront Airport.  The pilot
S09061992Cstates had it been the other engine, the plane would have crashed
S09061992Cinto the boats on the lake watching the show.
S09061996 Cal Ripken plays in his 2,131 consecutive game, breaking Lou
S09061995CGehrig's record (and hits a HR for the 3rd night in a row),
S09061995COrioles 4, Angels 2.  (Camden Yards cheers for 22 minutes, 15
S09061995Cseconds as Ripken does several curtain calls and a thank-you lap
S09061995Caround the ballpark.)
S09061995 the Indians beat Milwaukee 12-2, and extend their A.L. record to
S09061995Ca 22-game lead over the K.C.
S0906    2Labor Day, a legal holiday.
S0906    1Labor Sunday.
S0906     Feast of the Transfiguration.
S0906     Feast of St. Onesiphorus, martyr.
S0906     Feast of St. Zachariah, minor prophet of the Old Testament.
R0906    5National Spanish Green Olive Week begins.
R0906    6It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0906    7It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0906    1It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0906    2It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0906    3It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
S0906     The sixth day of the week-long Virgin of the Remedies Festival
S0906       (Mexico).
S0906    1Garland Sunday (Ireland).
S0906    2Settler's Day (South Africa).
S0906     Defense of Pakistan Day.
S0906     Sao Tome and Principe Dia dos Martires da Liberdade (Liberation
S0906       of Martyrs).
S0906     Swaziland Independence Day (Britain 1968) or Somhlolo.
S09071822 Brazil declares its independence from Portugal.
S09071876 John McTammany patents a piano player.
S09071880 George Ligowsky of Cincinnati is granted a patent for his device
S09071880Cto throw clay pigeons for trapshooters.
S09071888 Jesse James' pulls his last holdup.
S09071892 the first gloved match under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules
S09071892Coccurs in New Orleans.
S09071896 the first closed-circuit auto race is ran in Cranston, R.I.
S09071911 Cy Young closes out his career (with the Boston Braves) with a
S09071911C1-0 loss against the Phillies.
S09071915 a patent is granted to John B. Gruelle, a former cartoonist for
S09071915Cthe Cleveland Press, for his Raggedy Ann doll.
S09071916 the U.S. Congress activates Workmen's Compensation Act,
S09071916Cencompassing 500,000 federal employees.
S09071916 the N.Y. Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 4-1 to start their 26-
S09071916Cgame winning streak, an all-time M.L. record.
S09071921 Miss America, the first bathing beauty contest, is won by fifteen
S09071921Cyear old Margaret Gorman in Atlantic City.
S09071923 the Miss America title is won for the second time by Mary
S09071923CCampbell, 17, from Columbus, Ohio (the only Miss America to serve
S09071923Ctwo consecutive years).
S09071931 Severance Hall, home of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, is
S09071931Cdedicated.
S09071948 the first use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete occurs
S09071948Cin Akron, Oh.
S09071950 "Truth or Consequences" premieres on TV.
S09071962 L.A.'s Maury Wills steals 4 bases and sets an N.L. record with 82
S09071962Cfor the season (Dodgers lost to the Pirates 10-1).
S09071963 the Football Hall of Fame is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
S09071971 the BBC bars "Sesame Street" because of alleged authoritarian
S09071971Caims.
S09071974 California's Nolan Ryan has a pitch officially clocked at 100.8
S09071974Cmph in a game against the White Sox (first to be recorded
S09071974Cbreaking the 100-mph mark).
S09071977 the treaty is signed giving the Panama Canal to Panama in 1999.
S09071978 scientists produce insulin through genetic engineering.
S09071979 President Carter announces plan to deploy 200 MX missiles.
S09071981 Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets a club record with 57 pass
S09071981Cattempts (completing 31), San Diego 44, Browns 14.
S09071984 the Mets' Dwight Gooden sets a N.L. strikeout record for a rookie
S09071984Cwith #228 in the second inning (against Ron Cey), and beats the
S09071984CCub's 10-0.
S09071986 the Cleveland Browns becomes the first team in NFL history to
S09071986Chave a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31.
S09071990 the Grateful Dead play at the Richfield Coliseum, the first time
S09071990Cthe group had a set list in its 25-year history.
S09071992 a F-14 Tomcat, the second in two days, loses an engine at the
S09071992CCleveland Air Show and makes an emergency landing at Burke
S09071992CLakefront Airport.
S09071992 the Pinzone Pavilion at the Cleveland Children's Museum is
S09071992Cdedicated.
S09071992 Baseball Commissioner Vincent resigns.
S09071993 St. Louis Cardinals' Mark Whiten, traded from Cleveland earlier
S09071993Cin the season, has the most prolific single-game offensive in
S09071993CM.L. history, becoming the only player to hit 4 HRs and drive in
S09071993C12 runs in one game.
S09071994 groundbreaking for the African American Civil War Memorial in
S09071994CWashington, D.C. takes place.
S09071995 the Indians beat Seattle 4-1, extending their A.L. record to a
S09071995C22 1/2-game lead over the K.C. and clinching a playoff wild card
S09071995Cspot.
S09071995 the NBA players vote to keep their union.
S0907    2Labor Day, a legal holiday.
S0907     Feast of St. Regina, virgin and martyr.
S0907     The last day of the week-long Virgin of the Remedies Festival
S0907       (Mexico).
S0907    1National Grandparents' Day.
R0907    6It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0907    7It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0907    1It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0907    2It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0907    3It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0907    4It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
S0907     Feast of Durga (Bengalese).
S0907     Brazil's Independence Day (Portugal 1822).
S0907    1Garland Sunday (Ireland).
S0907    2Settler's Day (South Africa).
R0907    5National Spanish Green Olive Week begins.
S09081565 the first permanent settlement in the U.S. is founded at St.
S09081565CAugustine, Florida, and the first American Roman Catholic parish
S09081565Cis established there.
S09081664 the Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (New York) to the English,
S09081664Crecapture it in 1673, then ceded it back in 1674.
S09081760 England's Jeffrey Amherst accepts the final surrender of the
S09081760CFrench Army at Montreal, ending the French-Indian War.  (Canada
S09081760Cfalls under English rule; the war continues in other parts of
S09081760Cthe world until Feb. 10, 1763.)
S09081771 the Mission San Gabriel Archangel is founded in California.
S09081858 Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people.
S09081868 the New York Athletic Club is organized (held first amateur track
S09081868Cand field meet, established rules for meets and built the first
S09081868Ccinder track).
S09081883 Northern Pacific Railroad's last spike is driven at Independence
S09081883CCreek, Mont.
S09081898 the East Ohio Gas Company is incorporated.
S09081900 a hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas, killing between 6,000 and
S09081900C7,200 people, mainly in a 20-foot-high tidal surge (the deadliest
S09081900Cstorm in U.S. history).
S09081905 the Pittsburgh Pirates set a N.L. record for men left on base
S09081905C(18) in a 8-3 loss to the Reds.
S09081914 the German armies reach the point of their furthest advance
S09081914Cduring World War I.
S09081920 the first U.S. Air Mail service begins.
S09081922 at the second Miss America pageant, Mary Campbell, 16, of
S09081922CColumbus, Ohio, wins the title.  (She also wins the following
S09081922Cyear, the only Miss America to serve two consecutive years).
S09081924 Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes first woman ambassador.
S09081931 the Higbee Company store (now Dillard's), part of Cleveland's
S09081931CTerminal Tower Complex, opens.
S09081939 the Yankees beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7 innings (game is called because
S09081939Cof lightning).
S09081941 Ho Chi Minh forms the League for the Independence of Vietnam
S09081941C(Viet Minh) which leads resistance to the occupying Japanese.
S09081943 Italy's surrender to the allies in WW II is announced (they had
S09081943Csigned a secret surrender five days earlier).
S09081944 the Nazis' new remote-controlled rockets, the V-2's, are first
S09081944Cdirected at London (the first strike in the suburb of Barnes) and
S09081944CAntwerp.
S09081945 Tokyo Rose (Los Angeles-born Iva Togori) is arrested in Yokohama.
S09081954 the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is formed.
S09081954 lured away from Cleveland to N.Y. City, Alan Freed begins
S09081954Cbroadcasting on WINS the "Alan Freed Rock 'n' Roll Show."
S09081961 in a report in the "Journal of the American Medical Association",
S09081961Cit is held that there is statistical evidence connecting smoking
S09081961Cand heart disease.
S09081962 the Miss American title is won by Jacquelyn Jeanne Mayer, 20,
S09081962Cfrom Sandusky, Ohio.
S09081962 the richest purse in thoroughbred racing history, $357,250, is
S09081962Coffered in the Arlington-Washington Futurity, a race for 2-year-
S09081962Colds (the winner, Candy Spots, received $142,250).
S09081966 the first Star Trek episode, "Man Trap," airs on NBC.
S09081967 Surveyor 5 is launched to the moon.
S09081967 Uganda is proclaimed a republic.
S09081968 Virginia Wade of England wins the first U.S. Open tennis
S09081968Cchampionship in the women's singles division.
S09081968 the first Miss Black America pageant is won by Saundra Williams,
S09081968C19, of Philadelphia in Atlantic City, N.J.
S09081971 the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opens in
S09081971CWashington, D.C.
S09081974 President Gerald Ford pardons former president Richard Nixon.
S09081974 Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to rocket across the Snake
S09081974CRiver.
S09081976 artist Christo unveils his $2 million, 24-mile environmental art
S09081976Cwork, "The Running Fence".
S09081977 Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy.
S09081978 Pan Am and National Airlines agree to a $350 million merger.
S09081982 three of the five Lutheran denominations in America vote to
S09081982Cmerge, creating the third largest Protestant Church in the U.S.
S09081983 a Czech family escapes from the Austria in a hot air balloon
S09081983Cmade of raincoats.
S09081990 Ellis Island opens as a museum of immigration.
S09081993 baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format wins A.L.
S09081993Csupport after Cleveland and Detroit agree to switch divisions,
S09081993CIndians moving to the Central and the Tigers staying in the East.
S09081995 Orel Hershiser starts and Jose Mesa closes (13 pitches and his
S09081995C40th save) a 3-2 win over Baltimore, and the Indians clinch the
S09081995Cfirst Central League Championship with a record of 86-37
S09081995C(earliest any team has clinched an A.L. title and the Tribe's
S09081995Cfirst in 41 years).  Tribe extends its A.L. record to a 23-game
S09081995Clead over K.C.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S09081995C  first league championship
S09081995 the Young President's Organization throws a reception at the Rock
S09081995Cand Roll Hall of Fame, the Rock Hall's first outside booking.
S0908     Feast of the Nativity of Mary.
S0908    1National Grandparents' Day.
S0908    2National Boss/Employee Exchange Day.
R0908    6It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0908    7It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0908    1It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0908    2It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0908    3It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0908    4It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
S0908     Pinnhut Festival (Native American).
S0908     International Literacy Day.
S0908     Our Lady of Meritxell Day (Andorra).
S0908     Two Sieges and Regatta Day (Malta).
S09091776 the Continental Congress authorizes the name "United States".
S09091839 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
S09091850 California becomes the 31st state.
S09091850 the Territories of New Mexico and Utah are created.
S09091867 Luxembourg gains independence.
S09091892 E.E. Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, the fifth Jupiter moon.
S09091895 the American Bowling Congress is formed in New York City.
S09091904 mounted police are used for the first time in New York City.
S09091926 NBC is created by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
S09091932 N.Y. A's Frank Crosetti ties the record by striking out twice in
S09091932C1 inning.
S09091942 the first bombing on continental U.S. soil in WW II occurs at
S09091942CMount Emily, Oregon (Japanese balloon bomb).
S09091943 the Allies invade Salerno, Italy.
S09091948 North Korea proclaims its independence as the Democratic People's
S09091948CRepublic of Korea.
S09091950 the first use of TV laugh track is employed by Hank McCune.
S09091950 the Miss America title is won by Yolande Betbeze, 21, from
S09091950CAlabama (title was for the coming year, 1951, consequently there
S09091950Cwas no Miss America for 1950).
S09091951 a peace treaty with Japan is signed in San Francisco by delegates
S09091951Cof 48 nations (U.S.S.R., Poland and Czechoslovakia did not sign).
S09091951 "Love of Life" debuts on CBS.
S09091954 the Indians becomes the first Cleveland team to win 100 games,
S09091954Cdefeating Philadelphia 5-4 at the Stadium (attendance was 5,143).
S09091956 Elvis Presley appears on Ed Sullivan's "Toast of the Town" for
S09091956Cthe first time.
S09091957 "Diana" reaches #1 on the Top 100 chart, the first of Paul Anka's
S09091957C3 singles (as a singer) to top the charts.
S09091960 the fourth American Football League plays its first game
S09091960C(Denver 13, Boston 10).
S09091964 William Willis, a 71-year-old American explorer and author,
S09091964Ccompletes a two-stage, 9,800-mile, 200 day drift across the
S09091964CPacific Ocean from Peru to Queensland, Australia.
S09091965 the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is created.
S09091965 Sandy Koufax pitches the ninth perfect game, and becomes the
S09091965Cfirst to pitch four no-hitters.
S09091966 LBJ signs a car safety bill, creating the National Traffic Safety
S09091966CAgency.
S09091968 the first U.S. Open tennis championship in the men's singles
S09091968Cdivision is won by Arthur Ashe (the first black male to win a
S09091968Cmajor tennis tournament).
S09091971 John Lennon releases the "Imagine" album.
S09091975 Viking 2 is launched toward Mars.
S09091979 Karen Stevenson, 22, a graduate of the University of North
S09091979CCarolina, becomes the first black American woman to win a Rhodes
S09091979Cscholarship.
S09091979 Tracy Austin, 16, becomes the youngest player to win the U.S.
S09091979COpen tennis women's singles title.
S09091982 "Conestoga I", the first private rocket, is launched.
S09091985 President Reagan, in reversal, authorizes limited sanctions
S09091985Cagainst South Africa.
S09091991 the Republic of Tajikstan declares its independence from the
S09091991CU.S.S.R.
S09091992 Milwaukees' Robin Yount, in his 18th season, becomes the 17th
S09091992Cplayer in M.L. history to get 3,000 career hits, off Indians'
S09091992Cpitcher Jose Mesa.  (He also got his 1,000 and 2,000 hits off
S09091992CCleveland pitchers.)
S09091993 Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) take the
S09091993Cfirst step to peace by recognizing each other's legitimacy and
S09091993Crenouncing acts of violence (the accord is formally signed 9/10).
S09091994 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched carrying the first U.S.
S09091994Crobot in space (a new jet pack is to be tested also).
S09091995 the Indians beat Baltimore 2-1 at Jacobs, extending their A.L.
S09091995Cand club record lead over the second-place team (K.C.) to 24 1/2
S09091995Cgames.
S0909     Admission Day, a California Holiday.
S0909     Feast of St. Gorgonius, martyr.
S0909    1National Grandparents' Day.
S0909     California Admission Day.
S0909    2National Boss/Employee Exchange Day.
R0909    1It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0909    2It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0909    3It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0909    4It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0909    7It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
S0909     Bonza Bottler Day (Number of Day Matches the Number of the
S0909       Month).
S0909     Horned Dance (celebrated in England).
S0909     Bulgaria National Liberation Day.
S0909     Founding of the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea.
S0909     Luxembourg Liberation Day.
S0909     People of the Istria, Trieste and the Slovene Littoral Uprising
S0909       Day (Yugoslavia).
S09101608 John Smith is elected president of the Jamestown colony council.
S09101813 the Battle of Lake Erie is won by Commodore Oliver Perry.
S09101815 the keel is laid for the first double decker steamboat, the
S09101815CWashington, in Wheeling, Virginia.
S09101846 Elias Howe receives a patent for his sewing machine.
S09101847 the first theater opens in Hawaii.
S09101860 Commodore Perry's statue is the first monument erected on
S09101860CCleveland's Public Square.
S09101860 the Hower and Higbee store opens (later is became the  Higbee
S09101860CCo.).
S09101869 a Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan to
S09101869Chelp his invalid wife get about.
S09101875 the American Forestry Association was founded in Chicago.
S09101884 the American Historical Association is founded.
S09101894 the Cleveland Trust Company (later Ameritrust) is organized.
S09101897 George Smith of London, after 2 or 3 beers, drives his cab into a
S09101897Cbuilding entrance (becoming the world's first convicted drunk
S09101897Cdriver).
S09101913 Lincoln Highway, America's first paved coast-to-coast highway,
S09101913Copens.
S09101919 the treaty of Saint-Germain is signed in Austria forcing
S09101919Crecognition of Czech, Polish, Hungarian, and Yugoslavian
S09101919Cindependence.
S09101934 Aristed Van Grosse isolates Proaclinium, element 91, in
S09101934CCleveland.
S09101937 the first American Football League plays its first game (L.A. 21,
S09101937CPittsburgh 0).
S09101938 the Miss America title is won by Marilyn Meseke, 21, from Marion,
S09101938COhio, at the annual pageant in Atlantic City, N.J.
S09101953 an underground explosion blows up 3/4 of a mile of West 117th
S09101953CStreet.  (The cause is never determined.)
S09101953 Swanson sells it's first "TV Dinner".
S09101955 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS television.
S09101960 Mickey Mantle's home run in Detroit over the right field roof is
S09101960Cmeasured trigonometrically in 1985 to have traveled 643 feet.
S09101963 President Kennedy federalizes Alabama National Guard to insure
S09101963Cintegration of schools in Alabama.
S09101967 Surveyor V soft-lands on the moon, and sends photos back to the
S09101967CU.S., providing data about the lunar surface.
S09101967 the Denver Broncos gain a total of -5 yards against the Oakland
S09101967CRaiders (NFL record).
S09101974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
S09101974 Cardinals' Lou Brock breaks the record for stolen bases in
S09101974Ca season with his 105th, against Philadelphia.
S09101977 the Miss America title is won by Susan Yvonne Perkins, 23, of
S09101977CColumbus, Ohio.
S09101978 President Carter promulgates the first Grandparents' Day.
S09101979 the first of three phases of desegregation starts in Cleveland
S09101979Cwith 33 schools and 13,500 pupils (crosstown busing).
S09101979 Britain ends production of the MG sportscar.
S09101985 Karl Hassel of Plain City, Ohio is awarded a patent for his
S09101985Cbuilt-in child's car seat.
S09101989 in the most lop-sided victory ever for an NFL head coach in his
S09101989Cfirst game, Bud Carson's defense records 8 turnovers, 7 sacks and
S09101989Climits offense to 53 yards (team record), Cleveland 51,
S09101989CPittsburgh 0.
S09101992 the NFL free-agent system is ruled illegal by a federal court
S09101992Cjury.
S09101993 the Indians play their last doubleheader at the Stadium,
S09101993Cwinning 7-4 and losing 5-4 (11 innings) against Boston.
S09101995 the Browns and the Indians play simultaneous regular season games
S09101995Cin Cleveland for the first time, Browns 22-6 over Tampa, Indians
S09101995C5-3 over the Orioles.  The Indians, in their 43rd come-from-
S09101995Cbehind and 10th last-at-bat homer win, extend their A.L. record
S09101995Cto a 25 1/2 game lead over K.C.
S0910     Feast of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, confessor.
S0910    1National Grandparents' Day.
S0910    2National Boss/Employee Exchange Day.
R0910    1It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0910    2It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0910    3It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0910    4It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
S0910     Egyptian Day of Queens.
S0910     Bulgaria National Liberation Day.
S0910     Belize's National Day or St. George's Day.
S0910     Yugoslav Navy Day.
S09111777 the British under Howe defeats Washington at the Battle of
S09111777CBrandywine, Pa.
S09111782 British attack Fort Henry, Wheeling, WV., the last battle of the
S09111782CAmerican Revolution, eleven months after the war.
S09111814 the Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Lake Champlain.
S09111841 John Rand patents the collapsible tube for oil paints.
S09111850 the "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives her first concert.
S09111875 "Professor Tigwissel's Burglar Alarm," the first newspaper
S09111875Ccartoon strip, is published in the New York Daily Graphic.
S09111910 the first commercially successful electric bus line opens, in
S09111910CHollywood.
S09111912 Phillies' Edward T. Collins sets the modern record for the most
S09111912Cstolen bases in a game with 6.
S09111915 the British Women's Institute is founded in Wales at
S09111915CLlanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllandysiliogogogoch (no
S09111915Ckidding, that's how it is spelled).
S09111926 Aloha Tower is dedicated (in Honolulu).
S09111929 Mayor Rolph inaugurates a new pedestrian traffic light system
S09111929C(S.F.).
S09111941 an order to attack on sight is issued by Pres. Roosevelt, to
S09111941Capply to German and Italian vessels found in U.S. defensive
S09111941Cwaters, after a number of U.S. vessels had been sunk or fired
S09111941Cupon by submarines.
S09111950 the "Dick Tracy" TV show sparks uproar concerning violence.
S09111950 the first typesetting machine to dispense with metal type is
S09111950Cexhibited.
S09111954 the first Miss America Contest is broadcasted on TV; the title is
S09111954Cwon be Lee Meriwether, 19, from California.
S09111959 a bill is passed by Congress authorizing food stamps in a program
S09111959Cto distribute surplus food to impoverished Americans.
S09111971 the Miss America title is won by Laurie Lea Schaefer, 22, of
S09111971CBexley, Ohio.
S09111972 BART begins service with a 26 mile line from Oakland to Fremont.
S09111973 Chilean President Allende is killed in a C.I.A.-backed coup.
S09111973 fixed brokers' commission rates are abolished by the SEC.
S09111981 Interior Secretary James Watt announces major cutbacks in the EPA
S09111981Cresources.
S09111984 Secretary of State Shultz says the U.S. will admit thousands of
S09111984CVietnamese children fathered by U.S. servicemen.
S09111985 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose hits his 4,192 base hit (a single),
S09111985Csurpassing Ty Cobb's record.
S09111986 Congress approves the use of the military to curb drug imports.
S09111987 CBS Anchor Dan Rather, angry over news delay due to a tennis
S09111987Cmatch, walks off set, leaving seven minutes of dead air.
S09111995 Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims the day "Cleveland Indians
S09111995CDay."
S0911     Feast of SS. Protus and Hyacinthus, martyrs.
S0911    1National Grandparents' Day.
S0911    2National Boss/Employee Exchange Day.
S0911     No News is Good News Day.
R0911    2It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0911    3It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0911    4It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
S0911     Jinnah or Anniversary of the Death of Quad-i-Azam (Pakistan).
S0911     Ethiopian New Year.
S0911     Reunion of Eritrea with Ethiopia.
S0912 490 BC the Athenians defeat the second Persian invasion of Greece in
S0912 490Cthe Battle of Marathon.
S09121624 the first submarine, designed by Cornelius Drebbel, is tested in
S09121624Cthe River Thames.
S09121758 Charles Messier observes the Crab Nebula and begins a catalog.
S09121776 Captain Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights on Manhattan Island to
S09121776Cbegin his ill-fated mission.
S09121848 Switzerland adopts a new federal constitution patterned after the
S09121848CU.S.
S09121866 the first long-running musical on Broadway, heralding the coming
S09121866Cof burlesque, "The Black Crook," opens at Niblo's Garden.
S09121910 A.S. Wells becomes the first U.S. policewoman (L.A.P.D.).
S09121922 the House of Bishops of the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church vote
S09121922Cto delete the word "obey" from the marriage ceremony.
S09121928 Katharine Hepburn makes her New York stage debut in
S09121928C"Night Hostess."
S09121944 the first American engagement on German soil occurs (U.S. First
S09121944CArmy pushed 5 miles into west central Germany).
S09121947 Pittsburgh's Ralph Kiner becomes the first player to hit a total
S09121947Cof 5 home runs in 2 consecutive games twice in a season.
S09121948 "Meet the Press" first airs weekly on NBC.
S09121953 John F. Kennedy weds Miss Jaqueline Lee Bouvier.
S09121954 the Indians sweep the Yanks at Municipal Stadium.  Fans sets club
S09121954Cand major league attendance records for a day doubleheader,
S09121954C84,587.
S09121954 Tator Tots go on sale.
S09121959 "Bonanza" premieres.
S09121964 six persons win $100,000 each at Rockingham Park in Salem, N.H.,
S09121964Cthe first legal sweepstakes in U.S. horse racing history.
S09121966 Gemini 11 is launched with Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon and
S09121966Cdocks with an Agena target vehicle.
S09121966 "The Monkees" premieres.
S09121970 the Miss America title is won by Phyllis Ann George, 21, from
S09121970CTexas.
S09121979 Boston's Carl Yastrzemski, in his 19th season, becomes the 15th
S09121979Cplayer to reach 3,000 career hits (off Yankees' Jim Beattie).
S09121980 the Chevy Chevette, the Ford Escort, and the Mercury Lynx are the
S09121980Cfirst U.S. cars to record 30 mpg.
S09121985 the U.S. ends policy of checking draft registration through
S09121985Ccollege records.
S09121988 Baltimore's Eddie Murray hits his 2,000 career hit off Bostons'
S09121988CBruce Hurst.
S09121991 the 43rd Shuttle Mission, Discovery 13 is launched.
S09121992 the 50th Shuttle Mission, the Endeavour, the $2 billion
S09121992Creplacement for the Challenger, is launched on it's second
S09121992Cmission, carrying the first married couple and the first black
S09121992Cwoman into space, and the first Japanese to fly on a U.S.
S09121992Cspacecraft.
S09121993 the 57th Shuttle Mission, the Discovery 18 is launch, and
S09121993Creleases the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS)
S09121993Cmade by Cleveland's Lewis Research Center by Cleveland astronaut
S09121993CCarl Walt.
S09121993 Paramount Communications and Viacom International merge.
S09121995 the Harlem Globetrotters lose 91-85 to a team led by Kareem
S09121995CAbdul-Jabbar in Vienna, Austria, ending a 8,829-game winning
S09121995Cstreak (they last lost on Jan. 15, 1971).
S0912     Feast of the Holy Name of Mary.
S0912    1National Grandparents' Day.
S0912     Defender's Day (Maryland).
S0912    2National Boss/Employee Exchange Day.
R0912    3It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
R0912    4It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
S0912     Cape Verde National Day.
S0912     Ethiopian Popular Revolution Commemoration Day.
S0912     Guinea-Bissau's National Holiday.
S0912     Mid-Autumn Festival (Macoa).
S0912     Occupation Day (Rhodesia).
S0912     Saudi Arabia's National Day.
S0912     Virgin's Fair (Greece).
S09131513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa crosses the isthmus of Panama and
S09131513C"discovers" the Pacific Ocean.
S09131583 Dante Alighieri Day is first observed.
S09131759 Wolfe defeats Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham, capturing
S09131759CQuebec (Canada becomes English) - both generals are killed.
S09131786 the Connecticut Act of Cession is signed, ceding all Connecticut
S09131786Cclaims to lands of Ohio, except the Western Reserve, to the
S09131786CFederal government.
S09131788 New York City becomes the capitol of the United States.
S09131789 the U.S. receives its first loan, negotiated with the Bank of
S09131789CNew York and the Bank of North America, to pay the salaries of
S09131789Cthe President and the members of congress (the action was
S09131789Cillegal).
S09131845 the Knickerbocker Club, which codified baseball rules, is founded
S09131845Cin New York City.
S09131861 the first naval engagement of the Civil War takes place at
S09131861CPensacola, Fla.  A contingent from the Union frigate "Colorado,"
S09131861Cled by Lt. John Henry Russell, sink the privateer "Judah" after
S09131861Chand-to-hand fighting.
S09131882 J.H. Wade donates land to Cleveland (later becomes Wade Park).
S09131883 Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City),
S09131883Ctosses a 1-0 no-hitter against Philadelphia.
S09131898 Hannibal W. Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
S09131905 the Cleveland News premiers.
S09131922 the world's highest shade temperature is recorded at Al' Aziziyah
S09131922C(El Azizia), Libya (136.4 degrees F).
S09131936 Indians' Bob Feller, at only 17, fans 17 Athletics for an A.L.
S09131936Crecord, at Cleveland's League Park, Cleveland 5, Philadelphia 2.
S09131949 the Ladies Professional Golfers Association (LPGA) is formed.
S09131953 NBC votes to ban crime shows before 9:30 p.m.
S09131953 Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist
S09131953CParty.
S09131959 the Soviet's Lunak II becomes the first man-made spacecraft on
S09131959Cthe moon.
S09131961 an unmanned Mercury capsule orbits and is recovered in a test for
S09131961Cthe first manned flight.
S09131961 "Car 54 Where are You?" premieres.
S09131963 "The Outer Limits" premieres.
S09131963 Mary Kay, the direct-sales cosmetic company, is founded by nine
S09131963Cpeople gathered around Mary Kay Ash's kitchen table.
S09131965 the Beatles' "Yesterday" is released.
S09131965 Willie Mays hits his 500th career home run.
S09131970 the first N.Y. City Marathon is won by Gary Muhrcke of the
S09131970CMillrose Athletic Association (2 hrs., 31 min., 38.2 sec.).
S09131970 IBM announces the System 370 computer.
S09131971 the World Hockey Association is formed.
S09131976 the National Academy of Sciences backs curbs on fluorocarbon
S09131976Cgases as propellants in aerosol spray cans.
S09131976 the California Legislature approves the Natural Death Act, the
S09131976Cnation's first right-to-die law, permitting a terminally ill
S09131976Cperson to avoid life-prolonging treatment.
S09131977 the first TV viewer discretion warning is employed for "Soap".
S09131977 the first U.S. diesel automobiles are introduced by GM.
S09131979 Venda, an unrecognized nation, is granted independence by South
S09131979CAfrica.
S09131985 the first anti-satellite rocket, fired from a F-15 at a satellite
S09131985C290 miles above the earth, is tested successfully.
S09131993 the Declaration of Principles for establishing Palenstinian
S09131993Cself-rule in the Israeli-occupied Goza Strip and West Bank town
S09131993Cof Jericho is signed.
S09131993 classes begins at the newly opened Irish Music Academy of
S09131993CCleveland.
S09131994 groundbreaking for Cleveland's Great Lakes Museum of Science,
S09131994CEnvironment and Technology occurs.
S09131999 atomic waste stored on the dark side of the moon explodes,
S09131999Churling the moon into deep space (according to "Space: 1999" TV
S09131999Cshow).
S0913    1National Grandparents' Day.
S0913    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S0913     Feast of St. Amatus, abbot.
S0913    2National Boss/Employee Exchange Day.
S0913     Barry Day.
R0913     It's the Ides of September!
R0913    4It's National Spanish Green Olive Week.
S0913     Lighting the Fire (Egyptian celebration).
S09141716 the first lighthouse in the U.S. is lit on Little Brewster
S09141716CIsland, Mass.
S09141752 England and its colonies adopt the Gregorian calendar (11 days
S09141752Cdisappear).
S09141814 the Star Spangle Banner is written by Francis Scott Key while the
S09141814CBritish bombard Fort McHenry.  (Originally titled "Defense of
S09141814CFort McHenry".)
S09141847 General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
S09141848 Alexander Stewart opens the first department store in the U.S.
S09141886 the typewriter ribbon is patented by George K. Anderson.
S09141892 A.P. Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo.
S09141899 while in New York, Henry Bliss becomes the first automobile
S09141899Cfatality.
S09141914 a Cleveland Industrial League baseball game is play at Brookside
S09141914CStadium before a reputed 100,000 fans, Telling Strollers 8, Hanna
S09141914CCleaners 3.
S09141923 Red Sox first baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple
S09141923Cplay against the Cleveland Indians.
S09141939 the first practical helicopter, the VS300, is test flown.
S09141940 Congress passes the first peace time draft law.
S09141948 Milton Berle starts his TV career on the Texaco Star Theater.
S09141956 the first prefrontal lobotomy is performed, Washington, D.C.
S09141960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait and Saudia Arabia form OPEC.
S09141964 Walt Disney is awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House.
S09141965 "F-Troop" premieres.
S09141968 Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers wins his 30th game, the first
S09141968Cto do so since Dizzy Dean in 1934.
S09141972 Pope Paul VI abolishes the tonsure, the circular shaving of the
S09141972Chead of aspirants to the priesthood.
S09141974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, the 13th satellite of Jupiter.
S09141975 the first U.S.-born saint, Mother Elizabeth Ann Baylor Seton
S09141975C(1774-1821) is canonized.
S09141981 "Entertainment Tonight" premieres.
S09141987 the Nielson Co. introduces a new method of measuring TV
S09141987Caudiences, viewers' push buttons on "people meters" to register
S09141987Copinions.
S09141990 Ken Griffey and his son hit back-to-back homers in the 1st inning
S09141990Cof Seattle's 7-5 loss to the Angels, off Kirk McCasskill.
S09141993 Israel and Jordan sign an agreement fixing the borders between
S09141993Cthe two, laying the foundation to put an end to the 1967 Six-Day
S09141993CWar.
S09141994 President Clinton signs the Crime Bill into law.
S09141994 the club owners, because of the players strike, officially end
S09141994Cthe '94 baseball season, including the World Series.
S0914     Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.
S0914     St. Cornelius, pope (251-252).
S0914     St. Cornely's Day (Brittany).
S0914     National Anthem Day (Maryland).
S0914    2National Boss/Employee Exchange Day.
S0914     Holy Rood Day.
S0914     Battle of Jan Jacinto Day (Nicaragua).
S09151534 the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) is founded by Ignatius Loyola.
S09151789 the Department of Foreign Affairs is renamed the Department of
S09151789CState.
S09151821 Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatamala, Honduras and Nicaragua all
S09151821Cgain their independence.
S09151835 Darwin arrives at the Galapagos Islands aboard the Beagle.
S09151857 Timothy Alden patents a typesetting machine.
S09151858 a mob of about 1,000 in Wellington, Ohio rescue a runaway slave
S09151858Cwho had been captured earlier in Oberlin.
S09151862 General "Stonewall" Jackson captures Harper's Ferry, W.V.
S09151882 Jeptha Wade donates 73 acres to create the original Cleveland
S09151882CZoo.
S09151916 Britain first uses the tank in the Battle of the Somme, the
S09151916Cbloodiest battle in all history.
S09151917 Russia is proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky.
S09151928 Alexander Fleming reports discovering a bacteria-killing compound
S09151928C(penicillin).
S09151930 the first international bridge match is held in London. The
S09151930CU.S. team defeats Great Britain.
S09151935 Germany's Nuremberg Laws, new Reich laws, deprive German Jews of
S09151935Ccitizenship and make the swastika the official symbol of Nazi
S09151935CGermany.
S09151940 the second American Football League plays its first game
S09151940C(Milwaukee 14, Columbus 2).
S09151944 U.S. Marines land on Peleliu, and capture the island two months
S09151944Clater at the cost of 1,800 American lives.  (Historians now say
S09151944Cthe invasion was unnecessary.)
S09151946 the Bulgarian People's Republic is proclaimed.
S09151947 the first 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane is tested in
S09151947CColumbus, Oh.
S09151950 U.N. forces make an amphibious landing at Seoul's port city of
S09151950CInchon to cutoff North Korean forces in the south.
S09151957 "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres.
S09151960 the People's Republic of the Congo gains independence.
S09151964 the Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland.
S09151965 "Lost in Space" premieres.
S09151967 Jim Morrison and the Doors' first Cleveland appearance occurs at
S09151967Cthe Musicarnival in Warrensville Hts.  (The first sound Cleveland
S09151967Cheard from Morrison was a burp, after a good supply of beer.)
S09151968 Cleveland's WUAB Channel 43 goes on the air.
S09151972 two former White House aides, Hunt and Liddy, and five others are
S09151972Cindicted for the Watergate break-in.
S09151981 the first International Peace Day is observed.
S09151993 Ohio Bell officially becomes Ameritech.
S0915     Feast of the 7 Sorrows of Mary.
S0915     Old Peoples's Day.
S0915    3International Day of Peace (UN observance).
S0915     Felt Hat Day, when men of fashion put away their straw hats.
S0915     Battle of Britain Day (England).
S0915     Respect-for-the Aged Day (Japan).
S0915     Costa Rica Independence Day (Spain 1821).
S0915     El Salvador Independence Day (Spain 1821).
S0915     Guatemala Independence Day (Spain 1821).
S0915     Honduras Independence Day (Spain 1821).
S0915     Nicaragua Independence Day (Spain 1821).
S0915     Thimphu Domchoe (Bhutan).
S09161620 the Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 149 pilgrims.
S09161630 Shawmut, Massachusetts, changes its name to Boston.
S09161782 the Great Seal of the United States is used for the first time
S09161782C(on a document granting Washington the authority to consult with
S09161782Cthe British about prisoner exchanges).
S09161810 Mexico first declares independence from Spain (National Day).
S09161830 Oliver Wendell Holmes writes the poem "Old Ironsides" for
S09161830CBoston's "Daily Advertiser," stirred by the notice that the
S09161830C"Constitution" would be dismantled.  (Became so popular that the
S09161830Corder was rescinded.)
S09161853 the first U.S.-made Steinweg (now Steinway) is sold.
S09161893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opens to white settlement homesteaders.
S09161908 William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors.
S09161915 Haiti becomes a U.S. protectorate.
S09161919 American Legion is incorporated by an act of Congress.
S09161924 St. Louis Cardinals' Jim Bottomley becomes the first to have 12
S09161924CRBIs in one game (M.L. record).
S09161925 "No, No, Nanette" premieres at the Globe Theater in N.Y. City (it
S09161925Cincluded the hit song "Tea for Two").
S09161940 the first peace-time draft in the U.S., the Selective Service
S09161940CAct, is enacted.
S09161950 the Cleveland Browns play their first regular season game in the
S09161950CNational Football League, Browns 35, Philadelphia 10.
S09161953 the shift of the St. Louis Browns baseball franchise to
S09161953CBaltimore, Md., is approved by the A.L.
S09161963 the Federation of Malaysia is formed by Malaya, Singapore,
S09161963CSarawak and North Borneo (Singapore later withdraws).
S09161964 "Shindig" premieres.
S09161966 the new Metropolitan Opera House in N.Y. opens.
S09161968 Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-In."
S09161974 President Ford announces conditional amnesty for draft evaders
S09161974Cproviding they agree to work two years in public service.
S09161974 Mary Louise Smith of Iowa becomes the first woman to head the
S09161974CRepublican National Committee.
S09161974 BART begins regular transbay service.
S09161975 Rhodes Scholarship administrators announce fellowships will be
S09161975Coffered to women.
S09161975 Pittsburgh Pirate's Rennie Stennett sets a M.L. record for the
S09161975Cmost hits in one game (7).
S09161975 Papua New Guinea gains independence.
S09161976 the Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests and
S09161976Cbishops.
S09161984 "Miami Vice" premieres.
S09161987 70 nations sign an accord, the Montreal Protocol, to save the
S09161987Cozone layer.
S09161987 Indians' Joe Carter, with his career high 30th stolen base,
S09161987Cbecomes the 9th player to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in
S09161987Cthe same season, Cleveland 3, Seattle 5.
S09161988 Reds' Tom Browning pitches the 13th perfect in M.L. history
S09161988Cagainst the L.A. Dodgers, 1-0.
S09161993 Minnesota's Dave Winfield, in his 20th season, becomes the 19th
S09161993Cplayer in M.L. history to get 3,000 career hits (off Oaklands'
S09161993CDennis Eckersley).
S09161995 Jose Mesa breaks the team record for saves in a single season,
S09161995C44, Indians 6, Boston 5.
S09161995 Indians fans, seeking tickets to the team's first post-season
S09161995Cgames in 41 years, cripple the Cleveland-area telephone system
S09161995Cfor 5 hours (8 a.m. and 1 p.m.).
S09161995Ccompetition during the Miss America 75th Anniversary Pageant
S09161995C(Oklahoma's Shawntel Smith wins).
S09161995 Meat Loaf becomes the first rock star to promote a new album at
S09161995CCleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (a private party).
S0916     Feast of SS. Cornelius, pope (251-53), and Cyprian, bishop,
S0916       martyrs.
S0916     St. Ninian's Day.
S0916     Cherokee Strip Day.
S0916    3International Day of Peace (U.N. observance).
S0916     Mexico Independence Day (Spain 1821).
S0916     Papua New Guinea Independence Day.
S0916     Singapore Independence Day (Britain 1963).
S09171630 the settlement of Trimountain is named Boston.
S09171776 the Presidio of San Francisco is founded as a Spanish fort.
S09171787 the U.S. Constitution is adopted.
S09171789 William Herschel discovers Mimas, a satellite of Saturn.
S09171819 the first whaling ship arrives in Hawaii.
S09171862 the Battle of Antietam, Md. occurs, the bloodiest day of the
S09171862CCivil War (23,100 killed, wounded or missing); Confederate forces
S09171862Cretreat.
S09171872 Philip W. Pratt patents a sprinkler system for putting out fires.
S09171884 the American Kennel Club is founded.
S09171901 Peter C. Hewitt patents the mercury vapor lamp.
S09171908 the first person dies in an airplane crash (Thomas Selfridge).
S09171911 C.P. Rogers begins the first transcontinental airplane flight.
S09171911CHe travels from New York City to Pasadena in 82 air-hours.
S09171920 owners of professional football teams meet in Canton to form the
S09171920CAmerican Professional Football Association (APFA) - later became
S09171920Cthe N.F.L.
S09171922 the first public presentation of sound on film occurs in Berlin,
S09171922CGermany.
S09171930 Earl Averill becomes the first Indians' player to homer three
S09171930Ctimes in one game.  (He did it in consecutive at-bats!)  Earl
S09171930CAverill also sets an A.L. and team record with 11 RBI's in a
S09171930Cdoubleheader.
S09171939 Russia attacks Poland.
S09171944 an unsuccessful airborne invasion of Holland, code name Operation
S09171944CMarket-Garden, is staged by British and U.S. forces (to capture
S09171944Cfive bridges across the Rhine).
S09171947 the Department of Defense is established, uniting all branches of
S09171947Cthe armed services.  James Forrestal is sworn in as the first
S09171947CSecretary of Defense.
S09171953 Carolyn and Catherine Mouton are the first siamese twins to be
S09171953Csuccessfully separated by surgery.
S09171961 Philadelphia Eagles' Tim Brown runs back the first kick-off in
S09171961Cthe first game of the season 105 yards for a TD (NFL record).
S09171962 the U.S. Justice Department files the first federal suit to end
S09171962Cracial segregation in public schools.
S09171963 "The Fugitive" premieres.
S09171964 the Harold T. Clark courts in Cleveland Heights, Ohio holds its
S09171964Cfirst Davis Cup match (Australian Roy Emerson beats American
S09171964CChuck McKinley).
S09171964 "Bewitched" premieres on ABC.
S09171967 the Saints lose the L.A. Rams 27-13 in their first regular season
S09171967Cgame.
S09171967 "Mission Impossible" premieres.
S09171972 "M*A*S*H" premieres on CBS.
S09171972 BART begins passenger service.
S09171976 NASA unveils the Space Shuttle.
S09171978 Begin, Sadat and Carter sign the Camp David Accord.
S09171978 Mohammad Ali, in a decision over Leon Spinks, becomes the first
S09171978Cto win the heavyweight title three times.
S09171983 Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America
S09171983C(relinquishes the title Jul. 23, 1984 because of nude photos in
S09171983CPenthouse magazine).
S09171984 Reggie Jackson becomes the 13th player in M.L. history to record
S09171984C500 home runs (the homer comes exactly 17 years after he got his
S09171984Cfirst career hit).
S09171992 for the first time in its history, Little League Baseball strips
S09171992Ca team of its title, the Zamboanga (Philippines) team for using
S09171992Cplayers from other teams.
S09171992 operation of the World League of American football is suspended
S09171992Cby the NFL after 2 years of play.
S09171994 Heather Whitestone of Birmingham, Alabama becomes the first
S09171994Cwoman with a disability (deaf) to be crowned Miss America.
S09171994 Michel Peissel, a French ethnologist and writer, leading a 7-man
S09171994Cexpedition, first discovers the source of the Mekong River in the
S09171994CRup-sa Pass on the Central Asian plateau near the China-Tibet
S09171994Cborder.
S0917     Constitution Day.
S0917     Citizenship Day.
S0917     Impression of the Stigmata of St. Francis.
S0917     St. Lambert's Day (Anglican).
S0917     Festival of Sobek (Egyptian).
S0917    3International Day of Peace (United Nations observance).
S0917     National Hero Day.
S09181769 John Harris introduces the first piano.
S09181777 when the British were about to occupy Philadelphia, the Liberty
S09181777CBell is moved to Allentown, Pa.
S09181793 Washington lays the cornerstone of the North Wing of the Capitol
S09181793CBuilding.
S09181810 Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day).
S09181830 B&O locomotive Tom Thumb, the first locomotive built in America,
S09181830Closes a 14-km race to a horse due to a boiler leak.
S09181846 the last exchange of letters occurs between poets Elizabeth
S09181846CBarrett and Robert Browning before they slip aboard a train and
S09181846Cbegin their legendary marriage.
S09181850 the Fugitive Slave Bill, part of the Compromise of 1850, is
S09181850Cpassed by Congress (known as the second Fugitive Slave Bill).
S09181851 "The New York Times" goes on sale, at 2 cents a copy.
S09181882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board).
S09181895 D.D. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes the first chiropractor.
S09181900 the first direct primary in the U.S. is tried in Hennepin Count,
S09181900CMinn.
S09181915 the first asphalt covered automobile race track is opened in
S09181915CCranston, R.I.
S09181927 the Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (now CBS) transmits
S09181927Cits first program.
S09181927 airplane passenger service between Cleveland and Detroit is
S09181927Cstarted by Stout Air Services.
S09181944 U.S. planes drop arms and supplies for partisans fighting the
S09181944CNazis in Warsaw.
S09181954 the Cleveland Indians win the American League pennant.
S09181954 the Saturday Evening Post prints an article proclaiming Hiram
S09181954CCollege (Ohio) the "happiest college in the land".
S09181957 "Wagon Train" premieres.
S09181959 Vanguard 3, the 12th successful U.S. satellite, is launched from
S09181959CCape Canaveral, Fla.
S09181961 U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold is killed in Northern
S09181961CRhodesia in an plane crash.
S09181965 "Get Smart" premieres.
S09181975 Pattie Hearst, Symbionese Liberation Army hostage/accomplice, is
S09181975Capprehended.
S09181977 the U.S. Voyager I takes the first space photograph of the earth
S09181977Cand moon together.
S09181984 Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the
S09181984CAtlantic.
S09181986 Cleveland's brilliant skyline (more than 130 downtown buildings)
S09181986Cis showcased during a nationally-televised Browns-Bengals game,
S09181986Ccalled "Light Up Cleveland Night."
S09181991 John Hart becomes general manager of the Cleveland Indians.
S09181993 the last Russian troops leave Poland.  The first time in 54 years
S09181993Cthe country is free of a foreign garrison.
S09181994 in an eleventh hour agreement with a U.S. delegation led by
S09181994Cformer-President Jimmy Carter, Haitian dictator Cedras steps down
S09181994Cas U.S. led U.N. forces prepare to invade.
S09181994 "Baseball" premieres on PBS.
S09181994 Jungle Larry's Safari, the longest-running attraction of its kind
S09181994Cat an amusement park, closes at Cedar Point after 30 years.
S0918     Feast of St. Joseph of Cupertino, confessor, patron saint of
S0918       aviators.
S0918    3International Day of Peace (United Nations observance).
R0918    1National Banned Books Week begins.
S0918     Chile Independence Day (Spain 1818).
S0918     Victory of Uprona (Burundi).
S09191356 the English defeat the French at the Battle of Poitiers.
S09191665 weekly deaths in London are reported at 10,000.
S09191777 the Continental Congress flees Philadelphia which is threatened
S09191777Cby the British.
S09191796 George Washington delivers his farewell address as president.
S09191812 Napoleon's retreat from Russia begins.
S09191820 Cleveland's second church society, the First Presbyterian Church,
S09191820Cis organized (built the first Old Stone Church in 1834).
S09191838 Ephraim Morris patents the railroad brake.
S09191848 Bond (U.S.) and Lassell (England) independently discover
S09191848CHyperion.
S09191849 the first commercial laundry is established, in Oakland, Cal.
S09191854 Henry B. Meyer patents the carpet sweeper.
S09191873 Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co. fails, causing a securities panic.
S09191881 President James A. Garfield dies from a gun-shot wound.
S09191888 the first recognized beauty contest is won in Spa, Belgium by
S09191888CBertha Soucaret, an eighteen-year black woman.
S09191898 the N.Y. State College of Forestry is established at Cornell
S09191898CUniversity.
S09191928 Mickey Mouse makes his screen debut in "Steamboat Willie."
S09191955 President Peron of Argentina is overthrown by rebels.
S09191955 the Cubs' Ernie Banks sets a M.L. record with his 5th grand slam
S09191955Cof the season in a 12-inning, 6-5 lose to the St. Louis
S09191955CCardinals.
S09191957 the first underground nuclear test is set off at the proving
S09191957Cgrounds near Las Vegas, Nev.
S09191960 "The Twist" reaches #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, the first of
S09191960CChubby Checkers' 2 hits to top the chart; it reenters as #1 on
S09191960CJan. 13, 1962, the only song by the same artist to do so in
S09191960Cdifferent years.
S09191961 Betty and Barney Hill are (allegedly) picked up and examined by
S09191961Cfive beings in a flying saucer.
S09191968 a baby is born on Golden Gate Bridge (those Marin County folk!).
S09191970 "The Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres.
S09191975 undersea explorers find wreckage of early Bronze Age ships off
S09191975Cthe coast of Greece.
S09191977 Jacqueline Onassis negotiates settlement with her late husband's
S09191977Cdaughter for $20 million.
S09191981 Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel perform a reunion concert in Central
S09191981CPark, New York.
S09191982 streetcars stop running on Market St. in San Francisco after 122
S09191982Cyears of service.
S09191983 top commodity trader Marc Rich is indicted on $48 million tax
S09191983Cevasion, the biggest in U.S. history.
S09191983 the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis is created.
S09191986 "Captain EO" permieres at Disney World.
S09191988 Israel launches its first satellite, Horizon 1 onboard a Shavit
S09191988Crocket from the Negev Desert, becoming the ninth country in
S09191988Cspace.
S09191989 an appeals court restores the America's Cup to the U.S.
S09191989CThe New York Supreme Court took it away when New Zealand
S09191989Cprotested the U.S.'s use of a catamaran in the race.
S09191991 the Iceman, a Stone Age wanderer and the most ancient human being
S09191991Cever found, is discovered in the Similaun glacier in the Alps on
S09191991Cthe Italian-Austrian border
S09191995 Albert Belle hits his 42nd, 43rd, and 44th home run (in 114
S09191995Cgames), setting a Indians' record for the most HRs in a season,
S09191995Cand tieing a M.L. record by hitting a total of 5 HRs in 2
S09191995Cconsecutive games.  (The team record for the most home runs in a
S09191995Cseason, 187 in 1987, is broken, 188.)
S0919     National Aviation Day.
S0919     Feast of St. Januarius, Bishop of Benevento, patron of Naples,
S0919       and his companions, martyrs.
S0919     St. Gennaro Day (celebrated in Italy).
R0919    1National Banned Books Week begins.
R0919    2It's National Banned Books Week.
S0919     Day of Gula (Babylonian).
S0919    3International Day of Peace (United Nations observance).
S0919     Saint Kitts and Nevis Independence Day (Britain 1983).
S0919     Chilean Armed Forces Day.
S0919     Thimphu Tsechu begins (three day festival in Bhutan).
S09201519 Magellan starts the first successful circumnavigation of the
S09201519Cworld.
S09201818 patent leather is manufactured in the U.S. for the first time by
S09201818CSeth Boyden in Newark, N.J.
S09201848 the American Association for the Advancement of Science is
S09201848Corganized.
S09201859 a patent is granted to George B. Simpson for the electric range.
S09201860 the Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VII, becomes
S09201860Cthe first British royalty to visit the United States.
S09201863 the Confederate Army under Bragg and Longstreet defeats the Union
S09201863Cunder Rosecran at the Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga,
S09201863CTenn.
S09201880 Western Reserve College moves to Cleveland.
S09201884 the Equal Rights Party founding convention in San Francisco
S09201884Cnominates female candidates for President and Vice President.
S09201892 Frank Schuman patents wire glass.
S09201913 Francis Ouimet becomes the first amateur in history to win the
S09201913CU.S. Open golf tournament.
S09201936 the American Legion Peace Garden unit of Cleveland's Cultural
S09201936CGardens is dedicated.
S09201946 rock slides into the Niagara Gorge turns the American Falls into
S09201946Cthe Horseshoe Falls.
S09201946 the first Cannes Film Festival is held on the French Riviera.
S09201952 Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase publish a report confirming DNA
S09201952Cholds hereditary data.
S09201952 "The Jackie Gleason Show" premieres on CBS.
S09201954 the first FORTRAN computer program is ran.
S09201961 after 84 1/3 innings, Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls.
S09201961 Roger Maris hits home run # 59 and barely misses # 60 in game 154
S09201961Cof the season.
S09201966 Surveyor 2 is launched (crashes into the moon 2 days later).
S09201967 the "HMS Queen Mary" makes her final voyage.
S09201968 Mickey Mantle (8th all-time slugger) hits his 536th and last home
S09201968Crun against the Red Sox.
S09201973 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in straight sets in the battle-
S09201973Cof-sexes tennis match in Houston, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.
S09201976 the Playboy interview with Jimmy Carter in the November issue of
S09201976C"Playboy" (released early) provokes considerable controversy.
S09201976C("[I have] committed adultery in my heart many time.")
S09201982 NFL players begin the first strike during the season in its 63-
S09201982Cyear history.
S09201984 "The Cosby Show" premieres, the most popular situation comedy
S09201984Cever to appear on TV.
S09201985 Whitney Houston performs her first Cleveland concert at the Front
S09201985CRow Theatre.
S09201987 Walter Payton scores his 107th rushing touchdown to break the
S09201987CNFL record of 106 held by Jim Brown.
S09201988 Lauro F. Cavazos becomes the first Hispanic member of a
S09201988Cpresident's Cabinet (Secretary of Education).
S09201992 Eric Metcalf scores 4 TDs in the Browns 28-16 win over the
S09201992CRaiders (first Brown to do so since Leroy Kelly on Dec. 1, 1968).
S09201992 Phillies' Mickey Morandini makes the 8th unassisted triple play
S09201992Cin regular-season M.L. baseball history (against the Pirates).
S0920     Feast of St. Eustace and his companions, martyrs.
R0920    1National Banned Books Week begins.
R0920    2It's National Banned Books Week.
R0920    3It's National Banned Books Week.
S0920     Birthday of Quetzacoatl (Incan holiday).
S0920    3International Day of Peace (United Nations observance).
S09211776 Captain Nathan Hale is captured by the British.
S09211784 the first successful daily newspaper in the U.S. begins
S09211784Cpublication, the Pennsylvania Packet and General Advertiser.
S09211792 the first French Republic is declared.
S09211841 the first Masonic organization in Cleveland, City Lodge No. 15,
S09211841CF. and A.M., is granted its charter.
S09211872 James H. Conyers becomes the first black midshipman at the U.S.
S09211872CNaval Academy.
S09211875 Thaddeus S.C. Lowe patents a process for water gas production of
S09211875C"illuminating or heating gas."
S09211895 the first auto manufacturer opens, Duryea Motor Wagon Company.
S09211903 the first western movies, "Kit Carson" and "The Pioneers," are
S09211903Ccopyrighted.
S09211915 the famous stones at Stonehenge, England, are sold at auction
S09211915Cto C.H.E. Chubb of Salisbury, England for 6,600 pounds.
S09211930 Johann Ostermeyer patents his invention, the flashbulb.
S09211938 the Great New England hurricane strikes the eastern seaboard,
S09211938Ccausing one of the worst disasters in U.S. history (600 deaths).
S09211938 the first production Mercury comes off the assembly line in
S09211938CRichmond, Ca.
S09211945 President Truman approves recommendation by Secretary of War
S09211945CHenry Stimson to designate the war as "World War II".
S09211946 the Indians play their final game in League Park, ending a 55-
S09211946Cyear stay, losing to the Tigers 5-3.
S09211949 the People's Republic of China is proclaimed.
S09211954 Cleveland honors the Indians in a parade from the far East Side
S09211954Cto the far West Side.  (Indians lose to the Sox 9-7 afterwards.)
S09211954 the first nuclear submarine, the "Nautilus," is commissioned.
S09211957 "Perry Mason" premieres.
S09211964 Malta gains independence from Britain.
S09211969 the last episode of "The Prisoner" airs.
S09211969 N.Y. Jets' Steve O'Neal sets a NFL record for the longest punt
S09211969Cwith a 98 yard kick against Denver.
S09211970 "Monday Night Football" premieres on ABC, broadcasted from
S09211970CCleveland, Ohio; Browns' Gary Collins scores the first TD
S09211970Cbefore the largest crowd ever to witness a Browns' game (85,703),
S09211970CBrowns 31, Jets 21.
S09211971 the U.S. reveals eight unanswered 1945 letters from Ho Chi Minh
S09211971Cseeking aid against French colonial rule.
S09211980 N.Y. Jets' Richard Todd sets a NFL record for the most completed
S09211980Cpasses (42) in a game (broken in 1994).
S09211981 Sandra Day O'Connor is the first woman appointed to the Supreme
S09211981CCourt.
S09211981 Belige gains independence from Britain.
S09211982 the cable cars in S.F. cease operations for 2 years of repairs.
S09211992 former Secretaries of State Melvin Laird and James Schlennger
S09211992Ctell the Select Committee on POW-MIA Affairs they belive POW's
S09211992C(133's fate is still unknown) were left behind in Vietnam.
S09211992C(Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig, the next day, refute the
S09211992Ctestimony, but the Committee concludes on Jan. 5, 1993 that POWs
S09211992Cwere "probably" left.)
S09211994 the pneumonic and bubonic plagues break out in Surat, India.
S0921     Feast of St. Matthew, apostle, evangelist.
S0921     Feast of Divine Life (Egyptian).
S0921    3International Day of Peace (United Nations observance)
R0921    1National Banned Books Week begins.
R0921    2It's National Banned Books Week.
R0921    3It's National Banned Books Week.
R0921    4It's National Banned Books Week.
S0921     Autumn Holiday (Scotland).
S0921     Blessed Rainy Day (Bhutan).
S0921     Belize Independence Day (Britain 1981).
S0921     Maltese Independence Day (Britain 1964).
S09221656 history's first all-female jury is convened in Maryland.
S09221692 the last eight witches are hanged in Salem, Mass.
S09221776 Captain Nathan Hale is executed as a spy by the British.
S09221780 the first recorded lynching occurs; named after William Lynch who
S09221780Cterrorized British sympathizers and loyalists.
S09221789 the U.S. Post Office is established.
S09221792 the First Republic of France is declared.  (France is governed by
S09221792Cthe Fifth Republic since 1958).
S09221862 President Lincoln reads the Emancipation Proclamation to his
S09221862Ccabinet (delays making it public until a big Union victory),
S09221862Callowing the Confederate states to keep their slaves if they
S09221862Csurrender within 100 days.
S09221872 Reverend S.H. McCallister is inaugurated as the first president
S09221872Cof Buchtel College, now the University of Akron, and the college
S09221872Cis officially opened.
S09221886 Miss Annie Hathaway Brown's School for Girls opens in Cleveland.
S09221893 the first auto built in the U.S. runs in Springfield (built by
S09221893Cthe Duryea brothers.)
S09221903 Italo Marchiony is granted a patent for the ice cream cone.
S09221911 Cy Young, at the age of 44, beats the Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0 for
S09221911Chis 511th and final M.L. victory.
S09221918 the first transcontinental trucking run (22 days) arrives in San
S09221918CFrancisco from Boston.
S09221927 during the famous "long count" fight, Dempsey loses boxing title
S09221927Cto Tunney.
S09221936 the Detriot Tigers sweep the St. Louis Browns 12-0 and 14-0 to
S09221936Crecord the biggest double shutout in M.L. history.
S09221951 a Stockholm court fines a sailor for kissing his girl in public,
S09221951Ccalling the offense "obnoxious behavior repulsive to public
S09221951Cmorals."
S09221953 Red Skelton's first television show is aired.
S09221953 the International Longshoremen's Association is expelled from the
S09221953CAFL for refusing to get rid of racketeers in its ranks
S09221953C(readmitted Sept. 1959).
S09221954 Brooklyns' Karl Spooner becomes the first pitcher in M.L. history
S09221954Cto strike out 15 in his first M.L. game, Dodgers 3, N.Y. Giants
S09221954C0.
S09221959 the first telephone cable linking Europe and the U.S.  is
S09221959Cinaugurated.
S09221961 the Peace Corps is formally established.
S09221961 Frank J. Battisti's appointment to the federal bench is confirmed
S09221961Cby the U.S. Senate (at the time, the youngest man ever
S09221961Cappointed).
S09221964 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre,
S09221964Cstarring Zero Mostel.
S09221964 "The Man from UNCLE" premieres.
S09221969 S.F. Giants' Willie Mays hits his 600th home run, becoming the
S09221969Conly player other than Babe Ruth to reach that mark.
S09221970 a bill authorizing a nonvoting representative to the House of
S09221970CRepresentatives for the District of Columbia is signed into law.
S09221972 David Bowie belts out "Ziggy Stardust" at Cleveland's Music Hall
S09221972Cin his first U.S. performance.
S09221975 President Ford escapes possible assassination by Sara Jane Moore.
S09221980 Proctor and Gamble recalls a brand of tampons that is linked to
S09221980CToxic Shock Syndrome.
S09221980 workers in Gdansk, Poland, led by Lech Walesa, create the new
S09221980Cunion Solidarnosc, or Solidarity.
S09221980 the 8-year-long Iran-Iraq War begins over a dispute of the Shatt
S09221980Cal Arab waterway.
S09221981 the bullet-nosed 160 mph train called the TGV makes its French
S09221981Cdebut.
S09221983 Interior Secretary James Watt apologizes for a remark about "a
S09221983Cblack, a woman, two Jews and a cripple" (forced to resign
S09221983COct. 9).
S09221987 the second regular-season National Football League player strike
S09221987Cbegins.
S09221988 following a disputed boxing decision in the Seoul Olympics,
S09221988CSouth Korean coaches attack a New Zealand referee and
S09221988Cprompts one of the biggest riots in Olympic history.  Mean-
S09221988Cwhile, the Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in.
S09221991 the Huntington Library in San Marcos, California decides to open
S09221991Cits collection of film negatives of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
S09221992 the U.N. expels (seat vacant) Yugoslavia because of its
S09221992Cinvolvement in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the first time a
S09221992Cmember is removed from the organization.
S09221992 the oldest structures ever found, 12,000-year-old prehistoric
S09221992CIndians, are discovered in Sharon County, Ohio.
S09221993 President Clinton, in a televised speech, unveils his long
S09221993Cawaited Health Care Reform package in an address to Congress.
S09221993 John Demjanjuk returns to the U.S. and Ohio, almost 7 years, 7
S09221993Cmonths after being extradited to Israel (Feb. 28, 1986).
S09221993 the worst train accident in Amtrak's history occurs near Mobile,
S09221993CAla. (47 killed).
S09221993 a torn ligament in his pitching elbow ends Nolan Ryans' M.L.
S09221993Ccareer 10 games before the end of the season when he planned to
S09221993Cretire.  (Career records include 7 no-hitters, 324-292 record,
S09221993C3.19 ERA, 5,714 strikeouts.)
S09221994 Arena-vision is officially unveiled at Cleveland's Gateway Arena
S09221994C(Gund Arena).
S09221995 the Indians extend their A.L. record to 26 games over the second-
S09221995Cplace K.C., beating the Royals 5-3; Jose Mesa extends his club
S09221995Crecord to 45 saves.
S0922     Autumn Equinox.
S0922     Feast of St. Thomas of Villanova, bishop of Valencia, confessor.
S0922     Autumn Harvest Festival (in Wheaton, Illinois).
S0922    7Kid's Day.
S0922    6Native American Day.
R0922    1National Banned Books Week begins.
R0922    5It's National Banned Books Week.
R0922    4It's National Banned Books Week.
R0922    3It's National Banned Books Week.
R0922    2It's National Banned Books Week.
S0922     The first day of the New Year (Ancient Egypt).
S0922     Mali Independence Day (France 1960).
S0922     Day of Mielikki (Finland).
S0922     Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga.
S0923 063 BC - Augustus becomes the first Roman Emperor.
S09231779 John Paul Jones on the Bon Homme Richard defeats the H.M.S.
S09231779CSerepis and Countess of Scarborough.
S09231780 John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point.
S09231845 the first official set of rules for baseball, proposed by
S09231845CAlexander J. Cartwright of N.Y., is adopted.
S09231846 Johann Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune.
S09231897 Frontier Day is celebrated for the first time in Cheyenne, Wy.
S09231908 Fred "Bonehead" Merkle misses 2nd base, costing the N.Y. Giants
S09231908Cthe pennant.
S09231912 the first Mack Sennett "Keystone Cop Comedy" movie is released.
S09231916 eight-year-old Anthony Farrer receives the Albert Medal for
S09231916Cfighting off a cougar to save a girl.
S09231932 the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is formed (National Day).
S09231932 Joseph V. McCarthy becomes the first baseball manager to win a
S09231932Cpennant in both leagues.
S09231936 first baseman Hal Trosky hits his 42nd home run to set a Indians
S09231936Crecord that stood for 17 years, Cleveland 17, Chicago 2 (Al Rosen
S09231936Cset a new record in 1953 which Albert Belle broke in 1995).
S09231949 owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury the 1948 pennant
S09231949Cbehind center-field fence as the Indians are eliminated from the
S09231949Cpennant race.
S09231950 the McCarren Internal Security Act is passed by Congress,
S09231950Cproviding for the registration of members of groups the Attorney
S09231950CGeneral determines to be Communist fronts, and the establishing
S09231950Cof emergency concentration camps.
S09231952 Richard Nixon makes his famous "Checkers" speech.
S09231952 the first closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event is
S09231952Cseen.
S09231957 "That'll Be the Day" by Buddy Holly and the Crickets reaches #1
S09231957C(their only single to top the charts).
S09231962 ABC's first color TV series premieres, "The Jetsons".
S09231963 Cuyahoga Community College (CCC) opens.
S09231966 the U.S. military announces that aerial defoliation of areas
S09231966Csouth of the DMZ in South Vietnam have begun to deprive
S09231966Cinfiltrating North Vietnamese of protective cover.
S09231973 the largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049 - 1, is discovered.
S09231976 the first Ford-Carter TV debate is broadcasted.
S09231977 Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on "Charlie's Angels".
S09231979 St. Louis Cardinal Lou Brock, in his last New York appearance as
S09231979Ca player, steals his 938th base, a major league record.
S09231981 it is announced that a 1971 tape links Nixon to a plan to use
S09231981CTeamsters "thugs" against war protesters.
S09231983 workers at the Weirton Steel Works in W. Va. vote to buy the
S09231983Cplant from National Steel Corporation after the company announced
S09231983Cplans to close (the largest employee buyout in U.S. history).
S09231988 Jose Canseco becomes the first M.L. player to hit 40 homers and
S09231988Csteal 40 bases (41st home run, 40th base).
S09231991 the Republic of Armenia declares its independence from the
S09231991CU.S.S.R.
S09231992 Manon Rheaume becomes the first woman to play in one of the 4
S09231992Cmajor professional sports when she appears a goaltender for the
S09231992CTampa Bay Lightning in an exhibition hockey game (played 1
S09231992Cperiod, faced 9 shots, allowed 2 goals).
S09231993 Clevelandopoly, a localized Monopoly game, makes its debut.
S09231995 the Indians extend their A.L. record to 27 games over second-
S09231995Cplace K.C., beating the Royals 7-3; Albert Belle sets a club
S09231995Crecord for extra-base hits (97) and extends his club record of
S09231995Chome runs in a single season with HRs 45 and 46; and the team
S09231995Crecord is extended for the most home runs in a season to 190.
S0923     The first day of Fall.
S0923     Feast of St. Linus, 2nd pope (c 67-c 76), martyr.
S0923    6Native American Day.
S0923    7Kid's Day.
R0923    1National Banned Books Week begins.
R0923    6It's National Banned Books Week.
R0923    5It's National Banned Books Week.
R0923    4It's National Banned Books Week.
R0923    3It's National Banned Books Week.
R0923    2It's National Banned Books Week.
S0923     Autumnal Equinox Day (Japan).
S0923     First Day of the Naked Festival (Japan - two-day festival).
S0923     Saudi Arabia Unification Day.
S0923     Mabon (Celtic - Wiccan Sabbat - religious festival marking the
S0923       second harvest).
S0923     Festival of Ceres begins (Roman week-long festival honoring
S0923       Ceres, the corn goddess).
S0923     Festival of the Greater Eleusian Mysteries begins (Ancient Greek
S0923       week-long festival honoring Demeter's - Earth-goddess-mother,
S0923       goddess of the fruitful earth - departure for the Underworld,
S0923       confined to married women).
S09241789 Congress' Federal Judiciary Act creates the position of Attorney
S09241789CGeneral and the Supreme Court.
S09241845 the first baseball team is organized.
S09241852 a new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated.
S09241853 the first round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt) is
S09241853Cmade.
S09241869 Black Friday: crashing gold prices causes stock market panic.
S09241889 Alexander Dey patents the dial time recorder.
S09241895 the first round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle occurs
S09241895C(took 15 months.)
S09241903 Bill Bradley becomes the first Cleveland baseball player
S09241903C(Cleveland Naps) to hit for the cycle.
S09241906 Devil's Tower Wyoming is established as a national monument.
S09241908 Robert B. Rhoads becomes the first Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland
S09241908CNaps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1.
S09241929 Lt. James H. Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over
S09241929CMitchell Field in N.Y. in the first all-instrument flight.
S09241934 Babe Ruth makes his last home appearance as a Yankee (his final
S09241934Cgame as a Yankee occurs a week later).
S09241941 the French Resistance National Council forms to organize
S09241941Canti-Nazi efforts in Europe.
S09241950 the Philadelphia Eagles intercept eight passes thrown by Jim
S09241950CHardy of the Chicago Cardinals (record).
S09241956 the world's first transatlantic telephone cable system begins
S09241956Coperating (Clarenville, Newfoundland to Oban, Scotland).
S09241957 Eisenhower orders U.S. troops to desegregate Little Rock schools.
S09241957 the Dodgers play their last game in Brooklyn before moving to
S09241957CL.A.
S09241960 the first atomic powered aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Enterprise,
S09241960Cis launched.
S09241960 after 13 years and 2543 shows, Howdy Doody's last show airs, and
S09241960CClarabelle finally talks.  ("Goodbye, kids.")
S09241964 "The Munsters" premieres.
S09241964 the first Minuteman II ICBM is tested.
S09241967 Jim Bakken kicks seven field goals for the St. Louis Cardinals
S09241967C(a NFL record).
S09241968 "60 Minutes" premieres.
S09241969 the trial of the "Chicago 8" begins.
S09241970 the Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth, completing the first unmanned
S09241970Cround trip to the moon.
S09241974 Detroit's Al Kaline, in his 21st and final season, becomes the
S09241974C12th player to reach 3,000 career hits (off Baltimore's Dave
S09241974CMcNally).
S09241976 newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is sentenced to 7 years for her
S09241976Cpart in a 1974 bank robbery. She is released after 22 months by
S09241976CPresident Carter.
S09241979 CompuServe system is started.
S09241988 Rev. Barbara C. Harris become the first woman elected a bishop of
S09241988Cthe Episcopal Church (Diocese of Massachusetts).
S09241994 tickets go on sale for the Cleveland Cavaliers' first exhibition
S09241994Cgame at the Gateway Arena (Gund Arena).
S09241994 the last-ever event at the Richfield Coliseum, the Cleveland
S09241994CLumberjacks lose 5-4 to the Detroit Vipers in an exhibition game,
S09241994Coccurs.
S09241995 Israel and the Palestinians conclude a major agreement on
S09241995Ctransferring control of much of the occupied West Bank to its
S09241995CArab residents (officially signed Sept. 28).
S09241995 Indians' rookie Brian Giles hits his first M.L. home run (pinch-
S09241995Chit), and extends the team record for the most HRs in a season to
S09241995C191, Indians 2, Royals 4.
S09241995 Cristina Sanchez becomes the first woman bullfighter to perform
S09241995Cin Plaza Mexico, the world's largest bullfighting arena.
S0924     Feast of Our Lady of Ransom.
S0924     Feast of Our Lady of Mercy (Dominican Republic).
S0924     Thanksgiving Day for the Pennsylvania Dutch (Schwenkenfelders).
S0924     Harvest Home - the Feast of the Ingathering (English).
S0924    6Native American Day.
S0924    7Kid's Day.
R0924    1National Banned Books Week begins.
R0924    2It's National Banned Books Week.
R0924    3It's National Banned Books Week.
R0924    4It's National Banned Books Week.
R0924    5It's National Banned Books Week.
R0924    6It's National Banned Books Week.
R0924    7It's National Banned Books Week.
S0924     Last Day of the Naked Festival (Japan - two-day festival).
S0924     Succoth (Hebrew).
S0924     Establishemnt of the Republic (Guinea-Bissau).
S0924     New Caledonia Territorial Day.
S0924     Third Republic Day (Ghana).
S0924     Trinidadian and Tobagonian Republic Day.
S0924     Festival of Ceres (Roman corn goddess, week-long festival).
S0924     Festival of the Greater Eleusian Mysteries (Ancient Greek week-
S0924       long festival honoring Demeter's - Earth-goddess-mother,
S0924       goddess of the fruitful earth - departure for the Underworld,
S0924       confined to married women).
S09251513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa becomes the first European to see the
S09251513CPacific Ocean.
S09251639 the first printing press is operating in America.
S09251690 the "Publick Occurrences", the first American newspaper,
S09251690Cpublishes its first and last edition.
S09251775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen is captured.
S09251780 Benedict Arnold joins the British.
S09251789 Congress submits the Bill of Rights to the states for
S09251789Cratification.
S09251846 the discovery of Neptune is announced (discovered two days
S09251846Cearlier).
S09251872 Cleveland's Union Club is organized.
S09251882 the first M.L. double header is played between Providence and
S09251882CWorchester.
S09251890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park.
S09251904 Charles Follis becomes the first black to play in pro football
S09251904Cwhen he signs with the Shelby, Ohio, Blues.
S09251942 the Maritime Commission announces 488 ships were built in the
S09251942Cpast year.
S09251949 owner Bill Veeck transports the flagpole, with Charley Lupica
S09251949Cperched on top on a 4-foot-square platform for 117 days, to the
S09251949CStadium where Charley can descend after the Indians are
S09251949Cstatistically eliminated from the pennant race.  He had vowed to
S09251949Cstay until the Tribe had clinched the pennant.
S09251954 the Indians become the winningest team in M.L. history as Early
S09251954CWynn pitches a two-hitter to beat the Tigers 11-1, the team's
S09251954C111th victory.
S09251956 the first transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation,
S09251956CNewfoundland to Scotland.
S09251964 the Davis Cup international challenge round is played in
S09251964CCleveland, Ohio, the first time ever played on clay courts
S09251964C(Australian team beats the U.S.).
S09251965 Satchel Paige, 60, becomes the oldest player ever in M.L.
S09251965Cbaseball, pitching 3 scoreless innings for K.C. against the Red
S09251965CSox.
S09251974 scientists first report freon gases released from aerosol spray
S09251974Ccans are destroying the ozone layer.
S09251975 the Senate makes public 238 illegal FBI burglaries against
S09251975Cdissident groups.
S09251975 the FCC lifts the equal time ruling requiring radio and TV
S09251975Cstations to offer equal broadcast time for all political
S09251975Ccandidates.
S09251979 "Evita" opens on Broadway at the Broadway Theater.
S09251981 Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first female Supreme Court
S09251981Cjustice.
S09251991 the Republic of Belarus declares its independence from the
S09251991CU.S.S.R.
S09251992 NASA launches the Mars Observer (contact is lost Aug. 21, 1992).
S09251992 a 12-year-old boy wins a suit in a Florida court ending the
S09251992Cparental rights of his natural mother and allowing his foster
S09251992Cparents to adopt him.
S0925     Feast of St. Cleophus, martyr.
S0925     Feast of Saint Sergius of Radonezh (Russian Orthodox).
S0925     Birthday of Sedna (Eskimo observance).
S0925    6Native American Day.
S0925    7Kid's Day.
R0925    2It's National Banned Books Week.
R0925    3It's National Banned Books Week.
R0925    4It's National Banned Books Week.
R0925    5It's National Banned Books Week.
R0925    6It's National Banned Books Week.
R0925    7It's National Banned Books Week.
S0925     Kamarampaka Day (Rwanda).
S0925     Show Day (Victoria, Australia).
S0925     Festival of Ceres (Roman week-long festival for Ceres, the corn
S0925       goddess).
S0925     Festival of the Greater Eleusian Mysteries (Ancient Greek week-
S0925       long festival honoring Demeter's - Earth-goddess-mother,
S0925       goddess of the fruitful earth - departure for the Underworld,
S0925       confined to married women).
S09261687 the Parthenon is destroyed in the war between the Turks and
S09261687CVenetians.
S09261781 Washington and Rochambeau join forces at Williamsburg and prepare
S09261781Cfor the siege of Yorktown.
S09261789 Jefferson is appointed the first Secretary of State, John Jay the
S09261789Cfirst Chief Justice, Samuel Osgood the first Postmaster, and
S09261789CEdmund J. Randolph the first Attorney General.
S09261824 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) and lives.
S09261871 David O. Saylor patents cement.
S09261874 the first Grand International Rifle match is held in Creedmoor,
S09261874CLong Island between America and Ireland, U.S. 934, Ireland 931.
S09261896 John Philip Sousa leads band's first performance in Plainfield,
S09261896CNew Jersey.
S09261903 Alabama passes a law making it illegal to conduct a boycott.
S09261908 Ed Ruelbach of the Chicago Cubs becomes the only pitcher to throw
S09261908Ctwo shutouts in a doubleheader, beating the Dodgers 5-0 and 3-0
S09261908Cin two nine-inning games.
S09261914 the Federal Trade Commission is organized.
S09261918 the Battle of Meuse-Argonne begins, where 1,200,000 U.S. troops
S09261918Care committed to the attack (the largest number in army history).
S09261926 scientists find the skull of a prehistoric man in Java, believed
S09261926Cto be the "missing link".
S09261934 the Queen Mary is launched (her maiden voyage begins 5/27/1936).
S09261940 the U.S. bans iron exports to Japan.
S09261945 Camus' play "Caligula" has world premiere in Paris.
S09261955 actress Debbie Reynolds marries singer Eddie Fisher (daughter
S09261955CCarrie is born 13 months later).
S09261957 the musical "The West Side Story" opens on Broadway.
S09261957 "Three Faces of Eve" starring Joanne Woodward opens.
S09261960 the first of four TV Nixon and Kennedy debates take place in
S09261960CChicago.
S09261961 Roger Maris ties Babes Ruth's 34-year-old record with his 60th
S09261961Chome run off Baltimore's Jack Fisher.
S09261962 the TV comedy "The Beverly Hillbillies" premieres on CBS.
S09261962 Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed (National Day).
S09261964 "Gilligan's Island" debuts on CBS.
S09261965 Queen Elizabeth decorates the Beatles with the Order of the
S09261965CBritish Empire.
S09261966 the Staten Island is the first icebreaker to enter San Francisco
S09261966CBay.
S09261969 Beatles' "Abbey Road" album is released.
S09261972 the American Museum of Immigration is opened at the base of the
S09261972CStatue of Liberty.
S09261976 Denver's Rick Upchurch returns 2 punts for TDs against
S09261976CCleveland, the most in one game in Browns' history, Broncos 44,
S09261976CBrowns 13.
S09261977 the Cleveland Browns play their first overtime game, Browns 30,
S09261977CPatriots 27.
S09261977 Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service from London
S09261977Cto New York.
S09261983 Australia wins America's Cup, ending a 132-year U.S. reign.
S09261990 the movie rating system is revised by the Motion Picture
S09261990CAssociation of America (replacing "X" with "NC-17" and clarifying
S09261990C"R").
S09261991 the self-reliance and ecological harmony experiment of Biosphere
S09261991C2 begins (ends two years later).
S09261993 the Indians win their last game at Cleveland Stadium, beating the
S09261993CBrewers 6-4.
S09261995 Sandy Alomar hits 2 home runs and Albert Belle hits home run #47
S09261995Cto extend the team record for the most HRs in a season to 194
S09261995C(now the fourth best home run hitting team in M.L. history,
S09261995Cbehind the '61 Yankees, the '47 Giants, and the '56 Reds),
S09261995CIndians 4, Minnesota 13.
S0926     In 802,701 A.D. the time traveller in H.G. Wells' "The Time
S0926       Machine" arrives among the Eloi.
S0926     Feast of SS. Cyprian and Justina, martyrs.
S0926     Feast of St. Cosmas and Damian.
S0926     Feast of North American Martyrs SS. J. de Brebeuf, I. Jogues, A.
S0926       Daniel, G. Lalemand, C. Garnier, N. Chabanel, R. Goupil and J.
S0926       Laliande, canonized in 1930.
S0926    6Native American Day.
S0926    7Kid's Day.
R0926    3It's National Banned Books Week.
R0926    4It's National Banned Books Week.
R0926    5It's National Banned Books Week.
R0926    6It's National Banned Books Week.
R0926    7It's National Banned Books Week.
S0926     Yemen Arab Republic's Proclamation of the Republic Day.
S0926     Divali (India).
S0926     Festival of Ceres (Roman week-long festival for Ceres, the corn
S0926       goddess).
S0926     Festival of the Greater Eleusian Mysteries (Ancient Greek week-
S0926       long festival honoring Demeter's - Earth-goddess-mother,
S0926       goddess of the fruitful earth - departure for the Underworld,
S0926       confined to married women).
S09271777 at the Battle of Germantown, Washington is defeated by the
S09271777CBritish.
S09271825 the first public railroad using steam locomotion is completed
S09271825Cin England.
S09271855 George F. Bristow's "Rip Van Winkle," the second American grand
S09271855Copera, opens at Niblo's Garden in New York City.
S09271892 book matches are patented by the Diamond Match Company of
S09271892CBarberton, Ohio.
S09271914 Indians' Nap Lajoie, in his 18th season, becomes the 3rd player
S09271914Cto reach 3,000 career hits (and he did it against the Yankees!).
S09271917 the Lakewood Press first appears (later became the Lakewood
S09271917CPost, and now the Lakewood Sun-Post).
S09271919 the Democratic National Committee votes to admit women.
S09271923 Lou Gehrig hits his first home run in the majors, off Bill Piercy
S09271923Cof the Red Sox.  (Exactly 15 years later, he hits his 493rd and
S09271923Clast homer, off Dutch Leonard of the Senators.)
S09271930 Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur championship at Philadelphia,
S09271930Ccompleting a sweep of all four major titles (U.S. Open, the
S09271930CBritish Open, and the British Amateur championship), the only
S09271930Cplayer in golf ever to make the "grand slam."
S09271937 a Santa Claus school is opened in Albion, N.Y.
S09271938 Bob Hope's first success in radio, the "Pepsodent Show" on NBC,
S09271938Cdebuts.
S09271938 the HMS Queen Elizabeth is launched on her maiden voyage.
S09271939 Warsaw falls to the Nazis (17,000 gallant Polish warriors, the
S09271939Clast of strong resistance, surrender the Kock garrison Oct. 7).
S09271940 Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite (Axis) Pact.
S09271940 a fist-swinging, jeering crowd of 45,553, more than half women,
S09271940Cshower the Tigers with apples, oranges, tomatos and the remains
S09271940Cof lunches at Cleveland Stadium, Detroit 2, Indians 0.
S09271941 the first WW II liberty ship, the freighter Patrick Henry, is
S09271941Claunched.
S09271954 Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" premieres.
S09271964 the Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
S09271976 the first presidential TV debate between an incumbent and a
S09271976Cchallenger, President Ford and Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter,
S09271976Coccurs.
S09271979 Congress approves the creation of the Department of Education.
S09271986 the Senate approves the most comprehensive tax reform bill since
S09271986CWW II.
S09271987 the 50 millionth VCR is shipped to market.
S09271995 Indians beat Minnesota 9-6 (Jose Mesa's 46th team record save).
S09271995CAlbert Belle extends the club record with his 48th home run, sets
S09271995Ca M.L. record of 30 HRs in 2 months (held by Babe Ruth and Roger
S09271995CMaris, 28), and becomes the 8th player in M.L. history to have
S09271995C100 extra-base hits.  Eddie Murray hits 2 HRs, moving him into
S09271995C16th place on the All-Time Home Run Hitters list, and the tribe
S09271995Cextends its home run season total record to 199.
S0927     Feast of SS. Cosmas and Damian, martyrs.
S0927     Feast of the Finding of the True Cross (Ethiopia).
S0927     Ancestor Appreciation Day.
S0927    6Native American Day.
S0927    7Kid's Day.
R0927    4It's National Banned Books Week.
R0927    5It's National Banned Books Week.
R0927    6It's National Banned Books Week.
R0927    7It's National Banned Books Week.
S0927     Day of Willows (Mesopotamian holiday).
S0927     Festival of Ceres (Roman week-long festival for Ceres, the corn
S0927       goddess).
S0927     Festival of the Greater Eleusian Mysteries (Ancient Greek week-
S0927       long festival honoring Demeter's - Earth-goddess-mother,
S0927       goddess of the fruitful earth - departure for the Underworld,
S0927       confined to married women).
S09281066 William the Conqueror lands in England.
S09281542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California when he lands at San
S09281542CDiego Bay.
S09281785 Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in
S09281785CParis (42 in a class of 51).
S09281787 the Constitution is submitted to the states for ratification.
S09281800 New York City imports America's first fireboat.
S09281850 flogging in the U.S. Navy and on merchant vessels is abolished.
S09281858 Donati's comet becomes the first to be photographed.
S09281904 a woman is arrested for smoking a cigarette in an open car on 5th
S09281804CAvenue, N.Y.C.
S09281919 the N.Y. Giants beat the Phillies 6-1 in the shortest M.L.
S09281919Cbaseball game ever played (51 min.).
S09281920 a grand jury indicts 8 Chicago White Sox for throwing the 1919
S09281920CWorld Series with the Cincinnati Reds, baseball's biggest
S09281920Cscandal.
S09281923 the groundbreaking ceremony for Cleveland's Terminal Tower
S09281923CComplex is held.
S09281924 the first circumnavigation of the earth by air is completed by
S09281924Ctwo U.S. Army Douglas DWC amphibians.
S09281937 the Bonneville Dam, on the Columbia River in Oregon, is
S09281937Cofficially dedicated.
S09281941 Ted Williams assures his 400 avg. on the last day with 6 hits.
S09281945 Robert T. Duncan appears as Tonio in "I Pagliacci" and becomes
S09281945Cthe first black man to sing a white operatic role with a white
S09281945Ccast.
S09281951 L.A. Rams' Norm Van Brocklin passes for 554 yards, a NFL record.
S09281955 the World Series is broadcasted in color for the first time.
S09281958 the U.S. Air Force selects the Thor over the Jupiter rocket for
S09281958Cmass production as ICBM's.
S09281959 Explorer VI takes the first TV pictures of Earth.
S09281960 Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 at his last turn at bat.
S09281962 Alouette, the first spacecraft designed and built by a nation
S09281962Cother than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., is launched from Point
S09281962CArguelllo, California to study the ionosphere.
S09281966 the N.Y. Whitney Museum, home for American Art, opens.
S09281967 Walter Marshall is sworn in as commissioner of the District of
S09281967CColumbia, the first black to head a major city government.
S09281968 the first North American Soccer League (NASL) championship is won
S09281968Cby the Atlanta Chiefs, who beat the San Diego Toros 3-0.
S09281969 Euclid Beach Park in Cleveland closes.
S09281971 Cardinal Mindszenty, after a 15-year confinement in the U.S.
S09281971CEmbassy in Budapest, accepts exile in Rome.
S09281975 a bill authorizing admission of women to the military academies
S09281975Cof the 3 major services is passed by Congress.
S09281976 the Toxic Substances Control Act, prohibiting the marketing of
S09281976Cnew chemical compounds before testing their impact on human
S09281976Chealth and the environment, is passed by Congress.
S09281982 the first reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol
S09281982Ccapsules.
S09281984 down by 10 runs, the Cleveland Indians come back to beat
S09281984CMinnesota 11-10, a club record for the largest deficit to
S09281984Covercome.
S09281986 Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the
S09281986Clongest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24,
S09281986CDetroit 21.
S09281987 the Arthur M. Sackler Museum for Asian and Near East Art opens as
S09281987Cpart of the Smithsonian Institute.
S09281993 Montreal's Dennis Martinez becomes the 7th pitcher in history to
S09281993Cwin 100 games in the A.L. and the N.L. (defeating the Marlins).
S09281994 "Cats" has its 5,000th Broadway performance (topped only by "A
S09281994CChorus Line" and "Oh! Calcutta!")
S09281995 Dennis Martinez breaks Kirby Puckett's jaw in the Indians 12-4
S09281995Cwin over Minnesota, and home runs by Alvaro Espinoza and Eddie
S09281995CMurray extends the team home run season record to 201.
S0928     Feast of St. Wenceslas, duke and patron of Bohemia, martyr.
S0928     Birthday of Confucius/Teacher's Day (Republic of China-Taiwan).
S0928     National Good Neighbor Day.
S0928     Frances Willard Day (Minnesota).
S0928    6Native American Day.
S0928    7Kid's Day.
R0928    5It's National Banned Books Week.
R0928    6It's National Banned Books Week.
R0928    7It's National Banned Books Week.
S0928     Day of Saleeb (Egyptian observance).
S0928     Festival of Ceres (Roman week-long festival for Ceres, the corn
S0928       goddess).
S0928     Festival of the Greater Eleusian Mysteries (Ancient Greek week-
S0928       long festival honoring Demeter's - Earth-goddess-mother,
S0928       goddess of the fruitful earth - departure for the Underworld,
S0928       confined to married women).
S0928     Festival of Iambe (Greek, goddess Iambe, daughter of Pan and
S0928       Echo, said to invented Iambic verse).
S0928     Feast of Themis (Ancient Greek Titaness who personified the Law
S0928       which regulates both the physical and moral order).
S09291650 Henry Robinson opens the first marriage bureau, in England.
S09291752 Michaelmas is first observed.
S09291829 Scotland Yard is formed in London.
S09291892 Cleveland General Electric Company (later C.E.I.) is organized.
S09291892 the first night football game is played in Mansfield, Penn.
S09291915 the first transcontinental radio telephone message is sent.
S09291923 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public.
S09291928 the Yanks (17) and the Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45).
S09291928CTigers win 19-10
S09291930 New York City College offers the first course in radio
S09291930Cadvertising.
S09291936 the radio is used for the first time in a presidential campaign.
S09291938 the Munich Pact is signed by Great Britain, France, Italy and
S09291938CGermany, turning Czechoslovakia over to Germany.
S09291938 Columbia University offers the first course designed to train
S09291938Cstudents as archivists.
S09291942 the lowest temperature ever experienced in Cleveland in the month
S09291942Cof September, and the earliest it has ever reached freezing,
S09291942Cis recorded (32 degrees).
S09291943 Hitler's "Mein Kampf" is published in the U.S.
S09291951 the first color telecast of football game airs on network TV.
S09291951 S. Nicholson discovers the 4th and the 12th satellite of Jupiter.
S09291954 the Cleveland Indians lose Game One of the World Series in N.Y.,
S09291954Caided by Willie Mays spectacular catch at the centerfield wall of
S09291954CVic Wertz's long bid for a triple.  (Wertz hit for .500 average
S09291954Cto lead both clubs).
S09291957 the fans chase the Giants to the clubhouse after the last game
S09291957Cbefore the move to California.
S09291969 "Love American Style" premieres.
S09291971 the Orbiting Solar Observatory VII is launched to study a solar
S09291971Cflare through x-ray observation.
S09291980 the third and final phase of desegregation (crosstown busing)
S09291980Cinvolving the remaining schools in Cleveland begins.
S09291982 cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills seven in Chicago.
S09291986 the House overrides Reagan's veto on South African sanctions.
S09291986 Indians' Jay Bell, on his first appearance at the plate, hits a
S09291986Chome run.
S09291987 Yankees' Don Mattingly sets the M.L. record with his sixth grand
S09291987Cslam in a season.
S09291988 the 26th Shuttle Mission (STS-26), Discovery 7 is launched, the
S09291988Cfirst shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster in 1986.
S09291992 Magic Johnson announces he will return to the Lakers.  He
S09291992Cannounced he was retiring Nov. 7, 1991 because he had contracted
S09291992Cthe AIDS virus.  His first game in uniform was October 10.
S09291995 the Indians set a M.L. record (held by the 1902 Pirates, 27 1/2
S09291995Cgames) for the largest lead over a second-place team (K.C.)
S09291995Cwith their 9-2 win over the Royals at Jacobs (28 games).  Two
S09291995Chome runs by Paul Sorrento and one by Eddie Murray (479th career
S09291995Cand 10th in all-time total bases, 5,104) extends the team season
S09291995Crecord to 204 HRs.  The 1995 team becomes the 2nd winningest team
S09291995Cin Indians' history (98-44), second only to the 1954 club (111-
S09291995C43).
S0929     All Angels Day.
S0929     Feast of the Archangels SS. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.
S0929     Michaelmas (Feast of St. Michael - celebrating the end of
S0929       harvest).
S0929     Quarter day in medieval England and Scotland.
R0929    6It's National Banned Books Week.
R0929    7It's National Banned Books Week.
S0929     Feast of Nemesis (Greek).
S0929     Battle of Boqueron Day (Paraguay).
S0929     Brunei Constitution Day.
S0929     Festival of Ceres (Roman week-long festival for Ceres, the corn
S0929       goddess).
S0929     Festival of the Greater Eleusian Mysteries (Ancient Greek week-
S0929       long festival honoring Demeter's - Earth-goddess-mother,
S0929       goddess of the fruitful earth - departure for the Underworld,
S0929       confined to married women).
S09301452 the first book is published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible.
S09301659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe).
S09301659 the first mention of tennis in America appears in a proclamation
S09301659Cby Gov. Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherland (New York) forbidding
S09301659Cthe playing of tennis on certain days.
S09301796 41 of Moses Cleaveland's surveyors, chain bearers and
S09301796Ctechnicians, unhappy with their work conditions, settle for equal
S09301796Cshares in township No. 8 in Ohio's (and Cleveland's) first labor
S09301796Cdispute settlement.
S09301846 the first tooth extraction is done under anesthetics in
S09301846CCharlestown, Mass., by William T. G. Morton.
S09301878 the first immigrants from Portugal arrive in Hawaii.
S09301880 Henry Draper takes the first photograph of the Orion Nebula.
S09301898 the City of New York is established.
S09301908 Dr. Jacques Brandenberger of Zurich patents cellophane.
S09301916 the longest baseball winning streak on record is stopped at 26
S09301916Cgames when the N.Y. Giants are beaten 8-3 by the Boston Braves in
S09301916Cthe second game of a doubleheader.
S09301927 Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run, off Senators' Tom Zachary,
S09301927CYankees 4, Washington 2.
S09301929 the first rocket plane makes successful test flight.
S09301934 in Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, he goes 0 for 3 (in
S09301934CWashington).
S09301935 "Porgy & Bess" premieres in Boston (not New York).
S09301939 the first televised college football game airs, Fordham vs
S09301939CWaynesburg.
S09301946 the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal adjourns.
S09301947 the first World Series game is televised, Yankees 5, Brooklyn 3.
S09301949 the Berlin airlift is officially halted after 277,264 flights
S09301949C(the blockade ended May 12, 1949).
S09301951 Ram's quarterback Norm Van Brocklin throws for a record 554
S09301951Cyards in the opening-day game, Los Angeles 54, New York Yanks 14.
S09301952 Cinerama, a new film projection system with wide-angle screen,
S09301952Cis displayed to the public.
S09301953 President Eisenhower chooses California Governor Earl Warren as
S09301953CChief Justice of the Supreme Court.
S09301955 actor James Dean dies in a car wreck at the age of 24.
S09301960 "The Flintstones" premieres.
S09301961 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
S09301961Cis established.
S09301965 the Federal Aid to the Arts Act, establishing the National
S09301965CFoundation on the Arts and the Humanities, is signed by President
S09301965CJohnson.
S09301966 Botswana gains independence from Britain.
S09301970 the "New American Bible," the first Roman Catholic-sponsored
S09301970Ctranslation in English created directly from original sources, is
S09301970Cpublished.
S09301971 in the last Washington Senator home game, the Yankees win career
S09301971Cfifth forfeit.  With the Yankees trailing 4-2 in the 9th with 2
S09301971Couts, the fans rush the field.
S09301972 Pirates' Roberto Clemente, in his 18th and last season, becomes
S09301972Cthe 11th player to reach 3,000 career hits (off Mets' John
S09301972CMatlock).
S09301976 the first state right-to-die law is passed in California
S09301976C(effective Jan.1, 1977).
S09301978 John Paul I dies after just a month as Pope, the second shortest
S09301978Creign in the Church's history.
S09301982 H. Ross Perot and Jay Colburn complete the first circumnavigation
S09301982Cof the world in a helicopter (Spirit of Texas).
S09301982 the TV show "Cheers" premieres on NBC.
S09301984 Michael Witt pitches the twelfth perfect game in major league
S09301984Chistory, Angels 1, Texas 0.
S09301984 the Browns set a team record for allowing the most sacks (11),
S09301984CK.C. 10, Browns 6.
S09301985 the Soviets offer a 50% cut in arms in return for Star Wars
S09301985Ccurbs.
S09301988 Dodgers' Orel Hershiser breaks Don Drysdale's record of 58
S09301988Cconsecutive scoreless innings by shutting out San Diego for 10
S09301988Cinnings (59).  (Padres win in the 16th, 2-1).
S09301992 Kansas City's George Brett, in his 20th season, becomes the 18th
S09301992Cplayer to reach 3,000 career hits (off California's Tim
S09301992CFortugno).
S09301994 the NHL postpones the start of its season for at least 2 weeks.
S09301995 Albert Belle hits his 50th home run (sets a team record),
S09301995Cbecoming the only player to hit 50 HRs and 50 or more doubles
S09301995C(52) in M.L. history, setting a record for the most HRs in 2
S09301995Cmonths (31), and tieing Babe Ruth for the most HRs in September
S09301995C(17).  Indians beat K.C. 3-2 in 10 innings (13-0 in extra-inning
S09301995Cgames), extending their M.L. record for the lead over a second-
S09301995Cplace team (K.C.) to 29, and extending their club season record
S09301995Cto 205 HRs.
S09301995 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame holds its first benefit, for its
S09301995Ceducational endowment fund.
S0930     Feast of St. Jerome, doctor, patron saint of scholars and
S0930       librarians.
R0930    7It's National Banned Books Week.
S0930     Ask a "Stupid" Question Day.
S0930     Huey P. Long Day in Louisiana.
S0930     Botswana Independence Day.
S0930     Dias das Nacionalizacoes das Empresas Agricolas (Sao Tome and
S0930       Principe).
S0930     Festival of Ceres (Roman corn goddess, week-long festival).
S0930     Medetrinalia (Roman holiday).
S0930     Festival of the Greater Eleusian Mysteries (Ancient Greek week-
S0930       long festival honoring Demeter's - Earth-goddess-mother,
S0930       goddess of the fruitful earth - departure for the Underworld,
S0930       confined to married women).
R0900     It's Women's Health Month!
R0900     It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month!
R0900     It's National Courtesy Month!
R0900     It's Classical Music Month.
R0900     It's Cable Television Month.
R0900     It's Philatelic Publications Month.
R0900     It's National Bed Check Month!
R0900     It's Bourbon Month!!
R0900     The gems for September are the sapphire and chrysolite.
R0900     The morning-glory and aster are the flowers of September.
R0900     The sentimental meaning of the sapphire is for wisdom, and the
R0900       morning glory and the aster are for the promise of happiness.
R0900     September comes from the Latin word septem, seven, to indicate
R0900       the seventh month.
R0900     The full moon in September is known as the Harvest Moon and the
R0900       Barley Moon.
R09010922 Virgo is the zodiac sign for this day.
R09010922   Symbol: The Virgin.
R09010922   Ruling Planet: Mercury.
R09010922   Element: Earth.
R09010922   Traits: Analytical, discriminating, modest, neat.
R09010922   Body part associated with this sign: The belly.
R09010922   Occupations: Editor, medicine, chemistry, research, accounting.
R09230930 Libra is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R09230930   Symbol: The Balance.
R09230930   Ruling Planet: Venus.
R09230930   Element: Air.
R09230930   Traits: Charming, diplomatic, idealistic, indecisive.
R09230930   Body part associated with this sign: Reins.
R09230930   Occupations: Acting, the arts, law and legal activities,
R09230930     politics.
R09230930   The abbreviation of pound (lb.) comes from the word Libra
R09230930     because of the scales she holds.


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S1001 331 BC, Macedonians and Greeks under Alexander the Great defeat the
S1001 331CPersians at Arbela.
S10011661 yachting in England begins with a race between King Charles II
S10011661Cand his brother, James, Duke of York, on the Thames.  (Of course,
S10011661Cthe king won!)
S10011785 the first city directory in the U.S. is published (Philadelphia).
S10011800 the territory of Louisiana is ceded by Spain to France in the
S10011800Csecret treaty of San Ildefonso.
S10011810 the Berkshire Cattle Show in Pittsfield, Mass., the forerunner of
S10011810CAmerica's most popular institutions, the county fair, opens.
S10011847 Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet.
S10011851 the first Hawaiian stamps are issued.
S10011861 the U.S. Balloon Corps is organized.
S10011869 the first postcards are issued in Vienna.
S10011888 the beginnings of federal labor arbitration is marked by
S10011888Ccongressional authorization of a commission to mediate disputes
S10011888Cbetween interstate railroads and their workers.
S10011888 the first National Geographic magazine is issued.
S10011890 the Weather Bureau is created in the Dept. of Agriculture by an
S10011890Cact of Congress.
S10011890 Congress passes the McKinley Tariff Act (among other items, it
S10011890Ctaxed opium at $10 a lb. if manufactured for smoking).
S10011896 Yosemite becomes a National Park.
S10011896 Rural free postal delivery is established.
S10011898 Henry Huntington buys the Los Angeles Railway.
S10011903 the first World Series game is played; Jimmy Sebring hits the
S10011903Cfirst Series home run, Pittsburgh Pirates 7, Boston Red Sox 3.
S10011908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car, priced at $850.
S10011919 game one of the Black Sox Scandal World Series is played.
S10011921 the Yankees win their first pennant.
S10011932 Babe Ruth, as legend has it, in the fifth inning of Game 3 of the
S10011932CWorld Series, points towards right-center field, then hits the
S10011932Cnext pitch into the right field seats off Chicago Cubs' Charlie
S10011932CRoot, N.Y. 7, Cubs 5.
S10011934 in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler expands the
S10011934CGerman army and navy, and creates an air force.
S10011934 the New York Stock Exchange registers with the SEC.
S10011936 Generalissimo Franco becomes Chief of State of Spain.
S10011939 six autonomous Unions form Cleveland's Operating Engineers Local
S10011939C18.
S10011940 the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a pioneer toll thruway, opens.
S10011942 the first U.S. jet aircraft, the XP-59, is tested at Muroc Army
S10011942CBase, Calif., by Robert Stanley, of Bell Aircraft Corporation.
S10011944 the Declaration of Independence and other historic documents sent
S10011944Caway from Washington, D.C., for safekeeping in Dec. 1941 are put
S10011944Con display at the Library of Congress.
S10011946 the first game of a playoff series to determine a league
S10011946Cchampionship (Pennant) is played, St. Louis Cardinals 4, Brooklyn
S10011946C2.
S10011947 the first helicopter air mail and express service is established
S10011947Cin Los Angeles, Ca.
S10011947 the U.S. Air Force becomes independent of the Army.
S10011949 the People's (Communist) Republic of China is proclaimed; Chou
S10011949CEn-lai is appointed Premier.
S10011950 the Browns lose to the Giants, setting a club record for the
S10011950Cfewest points scored by both teams (tied in 1979), N.Y. 6,
S10011950CCleveland 0.
S10011951 the first treaty is signed by a woman ambassador (Eugenie
S10011951CAnderson).
S10011958 the Vanguard Project is transferred from the military to NASA.
S10011960 Nigeria becomes an independent nation within the British
S10011960CCommonwealth.
S10011961 N.Y. Yankee Roger Maris hits his record 61st homer of the season,
S10011961Coff of Tracy Sallard (162-game season).
S10011961 the Mets end the season with the worst record in the 20th
S10011961CCentury, 40 wins, 120 losses.
S10011961 "Mr. Ed" debuts on CBS.
S10011962 Johnny Carson hosts his first "Tonight Show".
S10011962 the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory gets a 300' radio
S10011962Ctelescope.
S10011962 "The Lucy Show" premieres.
S10011962 James Meredith becomes the first black student at the University
S10011962Cof Mississippi after 3,000 troops put down riots.
S10011963 Nigeria is proclaimed a republic.
S10011964 an equal time ruling is issued by the FCC (equal time for other
S10011964Cpresidential candidates).
S10011964 San Francisco's Cable Cars are declared a National Landmark.
S10011966 the world's first known white gorilla is discovered in Rio Muni.
S10011971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens.
S10011974 the Watergate cover-up trial begins.
S10011975 during the "Thrilla in Manila", Muhammad Ali T.K.O.'s Joe Frazier
S10011975Cafter 14 rounds.
S10011977 the soccer superstar Pele plays his farewell game, playing the
S10011977Cfirst half with the N.Y. Cosmos and the second half with his
S10011977Cformer team, the Santos of Brazil.
S10011978 the Yankees, in the greatest comeback in M.L. history (coming
S10011978Cfrom 14 games behind), beat the Red Sox in a playoff game for the
S10011978CA.L. East Championship (they go on to win the A.L. Pennant and
S10011978Cthe World Series).
S10011978 Tuvala (formerly Ellice Islands) becomes independent from
S10011978CBritain.
S10011979 the U.S. returns the Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but
S10011979Cnot the canal).
S10011982 the EPCOT Center opens.
S10011982 the FDA warns against Tylenol capsules after seven die from its
S10011982Cuse in three days. (All capsules are recalled on the 5th.  The
S10011982Cincident results in regulations requiring tamper-resistant
S10011982Cpackaging for all over-the-counter medication, and for many other
S10011982Citems.)
S10011983 the Job Training Partnership (JTPA) is enacted, providing job
S10011983Ctraining and employment services to disadvantaged or dislocated
S10011983Cworkers.
S10011988 Mikhail Gorbachev became president of the U.S.S.R.
S10011992 H. Ross Perot declares his presidential candidacy as an
S10011992Cindependant for the second time.
S10011992 the U.S. becomes a metric country with the official adoption of
S10011992Cthe International Unit of Measure by the 1991 Presidential
S10011992CExecutive Order 12770.
S10011993 the Cleveland Indians play the last night game at the Stadium;
S10011993CCarlos Baerga hits his 200th hit of the season, the fourth
S10011993CIndians' player to hit 200 two years in a roll, and the first
S10011993Csince 1949, White Sox 4, Indians 2.
S10011995 the Indians end the shorten regular season (144 games) with a
S10011995C100-44 record, beating K.C. 17-7, becoming the second winningest
S10011995Cteam in Tribe history, and the winningest team in M.L. history
S10011995Csince the 1954 Indians.  The Indians set a M.L. record with a 30
S10011995Cgame lead over the second-place team (K.C.), and set a club
S10011995Crecord with 207 home runs in a season (led the majors).  Other
S10011995Caccomplishments: led the A.L. in team ERA (3.83), led the majors
S10011995Cin batting average (.290), come from behind wins (48), 13-0 in
S10011995Cextra innings, and won 27 games in their last at-bat, 11
S10011995Cwith a home run.  Albert Belle led the majors in HRs (50, club
S10011995Crecord), total bases (377), extra-base hits (103, club record),
S10011995Cand slugging percentage (.690); tied for first place in the M.L.
S10011995Cin doubles (52); and tied for first place in A.L. in runs (121),
S10011995Cand RBIs (126).  Kenny Lofton led the M.L. in triples (13), and
S10011995Cled the A.L. in stolen bases (54).  Jose Mesa led the M.L. in
S10011995Csaves (46, club record), and Julian Travarez led the M.L. with 10
S10011995Crelief wins and the A.L. with a 2.44 ERA.
S1001     Feast of St. Remigius, bishop of Rheims, confessor.
S1001     Fiscal year begins for Federal Government.
S1001     One of the two most popular days for moving into new houses
S1001       in the U.S. (the other is May 1).
S1001     Birthday of the Virgin Mary - Coptic (Egyptian) and Abyssinian
S1001       Churches.
S1001    2Child Health Day.
S1001    2Universal Children's Day.
S1001     Saxon New Year.
R1001    1National Employ the Handicapped Week begins.
R1001    1It's Newspaper Week begins.
S1001     Festival of Penha (Brazil).
S1001     National Day in Cyprus and Tuvalu.
S1001     World Vegetarian Day.
S1001     Captain Regents Day (San Marino).
S1001     Clerk's Holiday (Barbados).
S1001     Korean Armed Forces Day.
S1001     Nigeria Independence Day.
S1001     People's Republic of China's Foundation of the Republic.
S1001     Unification Day (Cameroon).
S1001     Festival of Ceres ends (Roman corn goddess, week-long festival).
S1001     Festival of the Greater Eleusian Mysteries ends (Ancient Greek
S1001       week-long festival honoring Demeter's - Earth-goddess-mother,
S1001       goddess of the fruitful earth - departure for the Underworld,
S1001       confined to married women).
S1002 322 BC Aristotle dies of indigestion.
S10021608 Johannes Lippershey offers the Dutch government a new invention,
S10021608Cthe prototype of modern telescopes.
S10021780 Major John Andre, Benedict Arnold's English accomplice, is
S10021780Changed.
S10021833 the New York Anti-Slavery Society is organized.
S10021836 Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle.
S10021866 J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
S10021870 Italy annexes Rome and the Papal States; Rome is made the Italian
S10021870Ccapital.
S10021893 John Hopkins School of Medicine opens.
S10021889 the first Pan American conference opens.
S10021908 Cleveland Naps' Addie Joss' perfect game, the fourth in major
S10021908Cleague history, stops Chicago's Ed Walsh 1-0 in League Park
S10021908C(Walsh had won 40 in a row).
S10021920 the last major league triple header is played (Forbes Field).
S10021935 the N.Y. Hayden Planetarium, the fourth in the U.S., opens.
S10021936 the first alcohol power plant is established in Atchison, Kansas.
S10021937 Drs. William H. Stewart, William J. Hoffman and Grancis H.
S10021937CGhiselin exhibit the first successful x-ray motion pictures of
S10021937Chuman organs at a convention of the American Roentgen Ray
S10021937CSociety.
S10021938 Indians' all-time pitching great Bob Feller (age 19) sets club
S10021938Crecords for the most strikeouts in a game (18) and the most
S10021938Cconsecutive strikeouts (6), Tigers 4, Cleveland 1.
S10021939 birdbaths are installed in Union Square in San Francisco.
S10021942 the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is demonstrated
S10021942Cin Chicago.
S10021947 Yogi Berra become the first player to pinch hit a World Series
S10021947Chomer.
S10021950 the comic strip "Peanuts" first appears, in 9 newspapers.
S10021950 Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets a NFL record with 5 TD
S10021950Ccatches.
S10021954 West Germany joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
S10021955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres.
S10021956 the Atomicron, the first atomic powered clock, is unveiled
S10021956Cat the Overseas Press Club in New York City.
S10021958 Guinea gains independence from France (National Day)
S10021959 Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS.
S10021961 "Ben Casey" premieres.
S10021967 Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black Supreme Court Justice.
S10021968 Bob Gibson sets a World Series record of 17 strikeouts in opener.
S10021969 "Monty Python's Flying Circus" debuts, and over the next 3 1/2
S10021969Cyears 45 episodes are produced.
S10021971 a homing pigeon averages 133 kph (record) in 1100-km Australian
S10021971Crace.
S10021975 the 70-story Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Ga., the tallest
S10021975Cbuilding in the South, is completed.
S10021986 the Senate overrides President Reagan's veto, and imposes
S10021986Csanctions on South Africa for its apartheid policy.
S10021988 Red Sox' Wade Boggs sets modern record at Cleveland with 200-or-
S10021988Cmore hits for the 6th consecutive season.
S10021992 Cleveland Indians' Carlos Baerga becomes the first 2nd baseman in
S10021992CAmerican League history to bat .300, and have 200 hits, 100
S10021992CRBI's and 20 home runs (finished the season two days later with a
S10021992C.312 average, 205 hits, 105 RBIs and 20 home runs).
S10021993 in their second last game at the Stadium, Indians' Kenny Lofton
S10021993Csets a team and N.L. record for the most stolen bases in a season
S10021993C(70); Indians' Albert Belle hits home run 39, the last HR at the
S10021993CStadium, Chicago 4, Cleveland 2.
S10021994 the first father/son game in NFL history occurs with Don Shula's
S10021994CDolphins beating his son Don's Bengals 23-7.
S1002     Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday, celebrated in India.
S1002     Feast of the Guardian Angels.
S1002    2Child Health Day.
S1002    2Universal Children's Day.
R1002    1National Employ the Handicapped Week begins.
R1002    1It's Newspaper Week begins.
R1002    2It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1002    2It's Newspaper Week.
S1002     Birthday of the Monkey God.
S1002     Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday, celebrated in India.
S1002     Guinea Independence Day.
S1002     Id Al Adaha (Ethiopia).
S1002     Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Botes.
S10031789 Washington proclaims the first national Thanksgiving Day on Nov.
S10031789C26.
S10031824 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N.Y., is established
S10031824C(the first private technical school in the U.S.).
S10031863 Lincoln designates the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving
S10031863CDay.
S10031888 the Cleveland Yachting Association is incorporated as the
S10031888CCleveland Yacht Club.
S10031899 the motor-driven vacuum cleaner is patented by John S. Thurman.
S10031906 the first conference on wireless telegraphy adopts SOS as a
S10031906Cwarning signal.
S10031913 the Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%), effective
S10031913COct. 31, 1913.
S10031920 the NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays their
S10031920Cfirst games.
S10031922 Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia becomes the first woman U.S.
S10031922CSenator.
S10031938 the play "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" first opens in Washington,
S10031938CD.C.
S10031940 the U.S. adopts parachute troops (paratroopers).
S10031941 "The Maltese Falcon" opens, starring Humphrey Bogart.  (It is
S10031941CJohn Huston's first directing job.)
S10031942 the first A-4/V-2 rocket is launched to an altitude of 53 miles.
S10031947 the first telescope lens 200 inches in diameter is completed.
S10031948 the NFL becomes the "sport of the week" for the first time.
S10031950 the first black lead (Ethel Waters) appears on TV - "Beulah".
S10031951 after coming from behind 13 1/2 games, the N.Y. Giants beat the
S10031951CBrooklyn Dodgers 5-4 in the final game of the 3-game playoff with
S10031951Ca dramatic 9th-inning 3 run HR by Bobby Thomson ("miracle home
S10031951Crun," also known as "the shot heard round the world").
S10031954 "Father Knows Best" premieres on CBS.
S10031955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS.  Good Morning, Captain!
S10031955 "The Mickey Mouse Club" premieres.
S10031960 San Francisco's White House department store is first to accept
S10031960Cthe BankAmericard in lieu of cash.
S10031960 "Andy Griffith", later called "Mayberry R.F.D.", debuts on CBS.
S10031961 "The Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres.
S10031962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 is launched into earth orbit.
S10031972 the U.S. and the Soviets sign Salt I.
S10031972 the Indians set a team record for the lowest team batting
S10031972Caverage, .234.
S10031972 Bloomingdale in New York City opens.
S10031974 the Cleveland Indians name Frank Robinson manager, the first
S10031974Cblack manager in major league baseball.
S10031984 over 10,000 migrating caribou drown in the swollen Caniapiscau
S10031984Cand Koksoak Rivers.
S10031985 the space shuttle Atlantis makes its all-military maiden flight.
S10031990 the formal unification of East and West Germany takes place.
S10031991 it is announced that the bank that serves members of the House,
S10031991Cbecause of over-draft abuse, will close.
S10031993 political violence flares in Moscow as opponents of President
S10031993CBoris Yeltsin storm parliament and three TV stations.
S10031993 a Marine Ranger Task Force in Mogadishu is attacked, leaving 18
S10031993Cdead and 75 wounded.  This convinces U.S. to change policy and
S10031993Cwithdraw from Somalia.
S10031993 the Indians play their last game at the Stadium in front of
S10031993C72,390, finishing with 2,234 wins, 1,951 losses; Indians' Albert
S10031993CBelle wins the RBI title with 129 and Mark Lewis makes the final
S10031993Cout, Chicago 4, Cleveland 0.  An attendance record for a three-
S10031993Cgame series is set at 216,904, and the season attendance record
S10031993Cat the Stadium is set at 4,394,173.
S10031995 in the "trial of the century," and history's most-watched trial,
S10031995CO.J. Simpson is found not guilty of the murder of ex-wife Nicole
S10031995CSimpson and Ronald Goldman.
S10031995 in game 1 of the A.L. Divisional Playoffs, the Indians win their
S10031995Cfirst post-season game at Jacobs Field, and their first in
S10031995CCleveland in 47 years (1948), beating the Red Sox 5-4 in the 13
S10031995Cinnings (home run by Tony Pena), and setting a M.L. record for
S10031995Cthe longest playoff game, 5:01 (broken the next night
S10031995Cin N.Y.).  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S10031995C  first post-season game played
S10031995C  first Indians post-season win
S10031995C  first home run in post-season - (Boston) John Valentin (3rd
S10031995C    inning)
S10031995C  first Indians home run in post-season - Albert Belle (11th
S10031995C    inning)
S10031995C  first post-season game-winning RBI - Tony Pena (home run)
S10031995C  first M.L. playoff record - longest game in playoff history
S1003     Feast of St. Francis Borgia, Confessor.
S1003     Feast of St. Thrse of the Child Jesus--the Little Flower.
S1003     Feast of St. Candidus, martyr.
S1003    2Child Health Day.
S1003    2Universal Children's Day.
R1003    1National Employ the Handicapped Week begins.
R1003    2It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1003    3It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1003    2It's Newspaper Week.
R1003    3It's Newspaper Week.
R1003    1It's Newspaper Week begins.
S1003     Moroccan New Year.
S1003     Day of German Unity.
S1003     Francisco Morazan Day (Honduras).
S1003     Kaechonjol or (South) Korean National Foundation Day.
S1003     Leiden Ontzet or Leyden Day (Netherlands).
S1003     Luxembourg Moselle Wine Festival in Steinsel.
S10041636 the first code of law for Plymouth Colony is drafted.
S10041648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes America's first volunteer firemen.
S10041777 Washington attacks Howe in a brilliantly planned but poorly
S10041777Cexecuted maneuver at Germantown (Pa.), and is defeated.
S10041824 Mexico becomes a republic.
S10041830 Belgium secedes from the Netherlands.
S10041861 construction of the "Monitor" is authorized by the U.S. Navy.
S10041880 the University of California is founded at Los Angeles, Ca.
S10041881 Carl G.P. deLaval patents a continuous flow centrifugal cream
S10041881Cseparator.
S10041883 the "Orient Express" begins its first run, linking Turkey to
S10041883CEurope by rail.
S10041890 the Mormons renounce polygamy.
S10041895 Horace Rawlins wins the first official U.S. Open golf tournament
S10041895Cat the Newport, R.I. Country Club.
S10041926 the dahlia is officially designated as the City Flower in S.F.
S10041931 the comic strip "Dick Tracy" debuts.
S10041934 Enrico Fermi measures the speed of a neutron.
S10041948 the Cleveland Indians play the first championship playoff game in
S10041948CA.L. history (and the second in M.L. history), beating the
S10041948CBoston Red Sox 8 -3.  They go on to win the World Series.
S10041949 the permanent U.N. headquarters in New York City is dedicated.
S10041955 the Brooklyn Dodgers win their only World Series, beating the
S10041955CYankees.
S10041957 U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik I, the first man-made earth satellite.
S10041957 "Leave It to Beaver" debuts on CBS.
S10041959 Cleveland Browns' Jim Brown makes 37 rushing attempts, a club
S10041959Crecord, Browns 34, Chicago 7.
S10041960 the U.S. launches the first active telecommunications satellite,
S10041960CCourier I-B.
S10041966 Lesotho (formerly Basutoland) gains independence from Britain
S10041966C(National Day).
S10041969 the U.N. starts issuing postage stamps at its Geneva
S10041969Cheadquarters.
S10041976 the Supreme Court lifts ban on the death penalty in murder cases
S10041976C(found death penalty unconstitutional on June 29, 1972).
S10041976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after a racial "joke".
S10041986 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands opens Ooslerscheldedam, the most
S10041986Cadvance sea barrier in Europe.
S10041985 the 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis is launched on its
S10041985Cmaiden voyage.
S10041987 James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns
S10041987Cwithout making an interception.  (He scored on laterals.)
S10041991 24 countries sign an agreement barring mineral and oil
S10041991Cexploration in Antarctica for 50 years.
S10041993 Russian troops squelch a coup de tat by President Yeltsin's
S10041993Copponents.
S10041995 Orel Hershiser leads the Indians to a 4-0 win over Boston in Game
S10041995C2 of the A.L. Divisional Playoffs.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S10041995C  first post-season shutout
S10041995 in the longest game in playoff history, 5:13 (breaking the record
S10041995Cset the night before in Cleveland), the Yankees defeat the
S10041995CMariners 7-5 in 15 innings in N.Y.
S10042363 the U.F.P. Starship Enterprise NCC 1701-D is commissioned.
S1004     Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, confessor.
S1004    2Child Health Day.
S1004    2Universal Children's Day.
S1004     World Day for Animals.
R1004    1National Employ the Handicapped Week begins.
R1004    2It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1004    3It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1004    4It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1004    2It's Newspaper Week.
R1004    3It's Newspaper Week.
R1004    4It's Newspaper Week.
R1004    1It's Newspaper Week begins.
S1004     Lesotho Independence Day.
S1004     Vanuata National Unity Day.
S1004     Festival of Ceres (Roman corn goddess).
S1004     Festival of Demeter and Persephone (Ancient Greek festival
S1004       honoring Demeter, Earth-goddess-mother, goddess of the fruitful
S1004       earth, and her daughter Persephone, a corn-seed goddess ).
S10051582 the Gregorian calendar is introduced (Oct. 5 became Oct. 15).
S10051813 Gen. Harrison defeats the British at the Battle of the Thames,
S10051813Cbreaking the Indian alliance with England and making the Detroit
S10051813Cfrontier safe.
S10051836 the first Cleveland Board of School Managers are appointed.
S10051853 Antioch College opens in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
S10051857 the First American Chess Congress is held in New York City.
S10051869 the greatest single weather prediction of all times is fulfilled
S10051869Cwhen a full blown hurricane (Saxby Gale) drowns the Middle
S10051869CAtlantic and New England states (over 12.35 inches reported in
S10051869Csome areas).  It was predicted in Nov. of 1868 by Lt. S.M. Saxby,
S10051869Calthough he missed the storm's center by 100 miles and the time
S10051869Cby 12 hours.
S10051877 Chief Joseph of the Nez Perc capitulates to General Nelson A.
S10051877CMiles, saying, "I will fight no more forever," ending the Nez
S10051877CPerc War.
S10051892 the Dalton Gang ends in a shoot-out in a Coffeeville, Kansas bank
S10051892Choldup.
S10051908 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey.
S10051910 Portugal overthrows the monarchy and proclaims itself a republic.
S10051921 the first World Series game is broadcasted on radio; the Yankees
S10051921Close to the N.Y. Giants.
S10051922 the Yankees and Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie World Series
S10051922Cgame.
S10051923 Edwin Hubble identifies the Cepheid variable star.
S10051930 CBS begins airing Sunday radio broadcasts of the N.Y.
S10051930CPhilharmonic Symphony Orchestra (first live symphony broadcasts).
S10051931 the first nonstop transpacific flight occurs, Japan to Wenatchee,
S10051931CWash.
S10051947 the first Presidential address televised from White House airs
S10051947C(Harry S. Truman).
S10051949 the United Nations flag is raised over its new N.Y. headquarters.
S10051964 the San Francisco Fire Department Museum is dedicated.
S10051969 a Cuban defector lands a Mig-17 at Homestead AFB near Miami where
S10051969CPres. Nixon's plane is waiting to return the president to
S10051969CWashington, D.C.
S10051970 PBS becomes a network.
S10051980 the Yankees set the A.L. attendance mark at 2,627,417.
S10051982 an unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph (record) at White
S10051982CSands, New Mexico.
S10051982 Johnson and Johnson recalls all Tylenol capsules after the eighth
S10051982Cdeath caused by deliberate contamination.  (The incident results
S10051982Cin regulations requiring tamper-resistant packaging for all over-
S10051982Cthe-counter medications, and for many other items.)
S10051984 the 13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 is launched.
S10051985 Eddie Robinson of Grambling State University becomes the
S10051985Cwinningest college football coach, 324 wins, 106 loses, 15 ties.
S10051986 Cleveland Browns' Gerald "The Ice Cube" McNeil sets a club record
S10051986Cfor the highest kickoff return average (48.3 yards in 3 returns),
S10051986Cand after 16 straight losses at Three Rivers Stadium, the Browns
S10051986Cbeat Pittsburgh 27-24.
S10051991 Championship Auto Racing Teams, Inc. (CART kna IndyCar) announces
S10051991Cthe Cleveland Budweiser-500 would not be on the 1992 schedule.
S10051993 Amtrak's German-made high-speed train, the InterCityExpress
S10051993C(ICE), capable of 175 MPH, debuts on its Washington-New York run.
S1005     Feast of St. Flora of Beaulieu, Virgin, (A.D. 1347).
S1005     Feast of St. Placid and his companions, martyrs.
S1005     Day of the Holy Spirit (Gnostic).
S1005    2Child Health Day.
S1005    2Universal Children's Day.
R1005    1National Employ the Handicapped Week begins.
R1005    5It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1005    4It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1005    3It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1005    2It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1005    5It's Newspaper Week.
R1005    4It's Newspaper Week.
R1005    3It's Newspaper Week.
R1005    2It's Newspaper Week.
R1005    1It's Newspaper Week begins.
S1005     Indonesian Army Day.
S1005     Macanese Republic Day.
S1005     Madeiran Republic Day.
S1005     Portugal Republic Day.
S1005     Solomon Islands' Day.
S1005     United Nations Day (Barbados).
S1005     Festival of Ceres (Roman corn goddess).
S10061683 the first German settlers in America, and the first Mennonites,
S10061683Carrive at Philadelphia from Krefeld.
S10061781 the siege of Yorktown begins.
S10061783 Benjamin Hanks patents a self-winding clock.
S10061852 the American Pharmaceutical Association is founded in
S10061852CPhiladelphia.
S10061857 the American Chess Association is organized at the first American
S10061857CChess Congress, held in New York City.
S10061860 the East Cleveland Railroad Company breaks ground for the first
S10061860Cstreet railroad in Cleveland and in Ohio.
S10061863 Dr. Charles H. Sheppard opens the first public bath, in Brooklyn.
S10061868 William H. Remington patents a nickel plating process.
S10061876 the American Library Association is established in Philadelphia.
S10061879 the first classes begin at the Carlisle Indian School, the first
S10061879CIndian school, in unused Army barracks in Carlisle, Pa. (formally
S10061879Cauthorized by Congress and founded by Richard Henry Pratt).
S10061882 the first professional interleague post-season game is played.
S10061882CThe first-year "Beer and Whiskey League" American Association
S10061882Cchampion Cincinnati beats the N.L. winner Chicago White Stockings
S10061882C4-0.
S10061884 the Naval War College is established at Newport, R.I.
S10061889 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
S10061890 polygamy is renounced by the Mormons.
S10061927 "The Jazz Singer", the first movie with a sound track, premieres.
S10061935 the Czech Cultural Garden unit of Cleveland's Cultural Gardens is
S10061935Cdedicated.
S10061935 Market Street Railway (S.F.) starts using trackless trolley
S10061935Ccoaches.
S10061939 the Main Avenue Bridge is opened in Cleveland.
S10061946 the highest-ever temperature enjoyed in Cleveland in October (90
S10061946Cdegrees) occurs.
S10061949 Tokyo Rose (Mrs. I. Toguri D'Aquino) is sentenced to ten years
S10061949Cand a $10,000 fine (paroled in 1956 and pardoned in 1977).
S10061953 Casey Stengel's Yankees win their 5th consecutive World Series.
S10061965 Patricia Harris becomes the first U.S. black ambassador
S10061965C(Luxenbourgh).
S10061973 Egypt and Syria invade Israel - The Yom Kippur War.
S10061978 the record for the most HR's by both teams in A.L. playoff
S10061978Chistory is set, N.Y. (2) beats K.C. (3) 6-5.
S10061978 the first woman university president in the U.S., Hannah H. Gray,
S10061978Cis inaugurated at the University of Chicago.
S10061979 John Paul II becomes the first pope to be received at the White
S10061979CHouse.
S10061981 Anwar Sadat is assassinated; Hosnai Mubarak becomes Egyptian
S10061981Cpresident.
S10061990 the 36th Shuttle Mission, Discovery 11 is launched.  The shuttle
S10061990Ccrew launches Ulysses to study the southern hemisphere of the
S10061990Csun.
S10061991 Anita Hill submits an affidavit to the Judiciary Committee
S10061991Cconcerning sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas, associate
S10061991CSupreme Court justice nominee.
S10061993 Michael Jordon, after 9 years in the NBA and leading scorer,
S10061993Cofficially announces his retirement (informed Commissioner Stern
S10061993C10/5).
S10061995 the Indians sweep the Red Sox 8-2 in Game 3 of the A.L.
S10061995CDivisional Playoffs (Boston's 13 consecutive loss in post-
S10061995Cseason), to go on to the A.L. Championship series.
S10061995 the first discovery of a planet around a star similar to the sun
S10061995Cis announced (about 160 times the mass of the Earth around the
S10061995Cstar 51 Pegasus).
S1006     Feast of St. Bruno, Blsd. Marie-Rose Durocher.
S1006     St. Faith's Day (Anglican).
S1006     Feast of Zapopan Virgin (Mexican).
S1006    2Child Health Day.
S1006    2Universal Children's Day.
R1006    1National Employ the Handicapped Week begins.
R1006    6It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1006    5It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1006    4It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1006    3It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1006    2It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1006    6It's Newspaper Week.
R1006    5It's Newspaper Week.
R1006    4It's Newspaper Week.
R1006    3It's Newspaper Week.
R1006    2It's Newspaper Week.
R1006    1It's Newspaper Week begins.
S1006     Ivy Day (celebrated in Ireland.)
S1006     Chung Yeung Festival.
S1006     Egyptian Armed Forces Day.
S1006     Eight Hour Day (New South Wales).
S1006     Labour Day (Australian Capital Territory).
S1006     Lesotho's National Sports Day.
S10071765 delegates from 9 colonies meet in N.Y. at Stamp Act Congress,
S10071765Cadopting the Declaration of Rights that opposes taxation without
S10071765Crepresentation.
S10071777 frontiersmen with Kentucky rifles become the decisive factor in
S10071777Cthe American victory at the Battle of Saratoga.
S10071780 the backwoods militia defeat the British at the Battle of King's
S10071780CMountain.
S10071806 Ralph Wedgwood secures a patent for carbon paper.
S10071826 Granite Railway (first chartered railway in the U.S.) begins
S10071826Coperations.
S10071856 the first practical folding machine to fold book and newspaper
S10071856Csheets is patented by Cyrus Chambers, Jr. of Pennsylvania.
S10071892 the National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 38 is formed
S10071892Cin Albany, N.Y. (now defunct).
S10071908 Crete unites with Greece.
S10071913 Henry Ford establishes a moving assembly line.
S10071916 Georgia Tech's football team defeats Cumberland College of
S10071916CLebanon, Tennessee 222-0 (record).
S10071918 Lakewood High School on Bunts and Franklin is opened.  Classes
S10071918Care started 6 weeks later due to a flu epidemic.
S10071919 Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, blesses the founding of KLM
S10071919Cairline.
S10071931 the first infra-red photograph is taken in Rochester, N.Y.
S10071949 the Democratic Republic of Germany (East) is formed.
S10071950 the U.S. forces invade North Korea by crossing the 38th parallel.
S10071952 the first "Bandstand" is broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV
S10071952C(Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host).
S10071954 IBM displays the first all-transistor calculator.
S10071955 the aircraft carrier "U.S.S. Saratoga," the world's most powerful
S10071955Cwarship, is launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
S10071959 the first pictures of the moon's hidden side are taken by
S10071959CSoviets Lunik III.
S10071960 Kennedy and Nixon meet in second TV debate.
S10071960 "Route 66" premieres.
S10071963 a treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests is signed by the U.S.,
S10071963CBritain, and the U.S.S.R.
S10071965 Robert Mitera aces the 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha,
S10071965CNebr.
S10071968 the Motion Picture Association of America adopts a film rating
S10071968Csystem.
S10071968 BankAmerica Corporation is organized as a holding company to
S10071968Cacquire the stock of Bank of America.
S10071979 Cleveland Browns' Dino Hall sets two club records with 9 kickoff
S10071979Creturns for 172 yards, and Pittsburgh rushes for 361 yards, the
S10071979Cmost rushing yards gained by an opponent in the Browns' history,
S10071979CPittsburgh 51, Browns 35.
S10071982 Lloyd Weber's "Cats," based on T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of
S10071982CPractical Cats", opens on Broadway at the Winter Garden.
S10071985 the U.S. announces it would no longer comply automatically with
S10071985CWorld Court decisions (due to the dispute over the
S10071985CNicaraguan/contra case).
S10071985 terrorists seize the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro at sea.
S10071993 Toni Morrison is awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, becoming
S10071993Cthe first black American and the eighth woman so honored.
S10071993 the records for the most HR's by both teams and the most runs
S10071993Cscored by one team in M.L. playoff history is set when Atlanta
S10071993C(4) beats Philadelphia (2) 14-3.
S10071995 Michael Belkin, VP of Belkin Productions, and Michele Wafalosky
S10071995Cexchange vows at the first wedding ceremony held at Cleveland's
S10071995CRock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
S1007     Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary and of St. Osith, Saxon virgin.
S1007     Feast of the Holy Rosary.
S1007     Feast of St. Mark, Pope and confessor.
S1007    2Child Health Day.
S1007    2Universal Children's Day.
R1007    7National Fire Safety Week begins.
R1007    1National Employ the Handicapped Week begins.
R1007    2It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1007    3It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1007    4It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1007    5It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1007    6It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1007    7It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1007    2It's Newspaper Week.
R1007    3It's Newspaper Week.
R1007    4It's Newspaper Week.
R1007    5It's Newspaper Week.
R1007    6It's Newspaper Week.
R1007    7It's Newspaper Week.
R1007    1It's Newspaper Week begins.
S1007     Feast of the Dead (Balinese).
S1007     Founding of the German Democratic Republic Holiday.
S1007     Libya Evacuation Day (Fascist Italians).
S1007     Yugoslav Peoples' Army Artillery Day.
S1007     Libyan Constitution Day.
S10081604 the supernova called "Kepler's nova" is first sighted.
S10081840 the first Hawaiian constitution is proclaimed.
S10081860 a telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
S10081871 the Great Fire destroys over 4 square miles of Chicago.
S10081896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks.
S10081904 automobile racing as an organized sport begins as George Heath
S10081904Cwins the first Vanderbilt Cup.
S10081906 Karl Nessler demonstrates the first "permanent wave" for hair,
S10081906Cin London.
S10081918 Sgt. Alvin York single-handedly kills 25 Germans and captures
S10081918C132.  He is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
S10081933 Coit Tower is dedicated in San Francisco, a monument to
S10081933Cfirefighters.
S10081935 Ozzie and Harriet Nelson are married.
S10081944 the "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debut on CBS radio.
S10081948 the Indians record the first of only two postseason victories
S10081948Cwon at the Stadium, Cleveland 2, Boston Braves 0.
S10081950 the Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for the first time, beating
S10081950Cthe Steelers 30-17 (at Forbes Field).
S10081956 Donald Larsen pitches the seventh perfect game in major league
S10081956Chistory, and the only World Series perfect game, Yankees 2,
S10081956CBrooklyn 0.
S10081957 the Brooklyn Dodgers announce they will move to Los Angeles.
S10081960 "An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May" opens to rave
S10081960Creviews on Broadway at the St. James Theatre.
S10081961 Cleveland Browns' Bobby Mitchell sets the club record for the
S10081961Cbest punt return average (27.7 yards in 3 returns), Browns 31,
S10081961CWashington 7.
S10081961 Yankees' Whitey Ford sets record for consecutive scoreless World
S10081961CSeries innings (32), breaking Babe Ruth's record (29 2/3) set in
S10081961C1918, Game 4 Yankees 7, Cincinnati 0.
S10081978 Kenneth Warby sets the world speed record on water (514 kph).
S10081981 a ban on commercial reprocessing of nuclear fuel is lifted by
S10081981CPresident Reagan (ban had been ordered by Pres. Carter in 1977).
S10081982 the Polish Parliament approves a law banning Solidarity.
S10081989 Exxon agrees to pay an extra $25 million penalty for the "Exxon
S10081989CValdez" oil spill.
S1008    2Columbus Day.
S1008     Feast of St. Bridget, widow and St. Keyne, virgin (6th Century).
S1008    1Feast of St. Dismas, the Good Thief.
S1008     Feast of St. Thais (Greek Church).
S1008    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.)
S1008    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day.
S1008    6National Bookkeeper's Day.
S1008    2White Sunday (American Samoa).
R1008    7National Fire Safety Week begins.
R1008    1It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1008    2It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1008    3It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1008    4It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1008    5It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1008    6It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1008    7It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1008    2It's Newspaper Week.
R1008    3It's Newspaper Week.
R1008    4It's Newspaper Week.
R1008    5It's Newspaper Week.
R1008    6It's Newspaper Week.
R1008    7It's Newspaper Week.
R1008    2National Y-Teen Week begins.
R1008    2National School Lunch Week begins.
S1008     Start of Fading Time (Celtic).
S1008    2Day of the Race (Spain - honoring Columbus' discovery of the New
S1008    2  World on behalf of Spain).
S1008    1Feast of Cirio de Nazare (Brazil).
S1008    2Fiji Day.
S1008    2Friendship Day (Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands).
S1008     Hari Raya Haji (Singapore).
S1008     Kurban Bayram (Cyprus).
S10091000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England).
S10091635 religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the
S10091635CMassachusetts Bay Colony.
S10091701 the Collegiate School of Connecticut (Yale), is chartered in
S10091701CNew Haven.
S10091776 Mission Delores is founded by San Francisco Bay.
S10091855 Joshua C. Stoddard of Worcester, Mass. patents the first steam
S10091855Ccalliope.
S10091858 the stage inaugurating the first overland mail service connecting
S10091858Cthe West and East coasts reaches St. Louis from S.F. after 23
S10091858Cdays, 4 hrs. (went by train the rest of the way).
S10091865 the first underground oil pipeline is laid between Oil Creek and
S10091865CPithole, Pa.
S10091876 the first 2-way telephone conversation occurs.
S10091877 the American Humane Association is organized.
S10091888 the Washington Monument opens to the public.
S10091921 Babe Ruth hits his first World Series homer.
S10091922 President Harding establishes Fire Prevention Week.
S10091922 the first transcontinental flight by a woman (Lilian Gatlin)
S10091922Clands.
S10091922 "R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)," a play by Czech writer
S10091922CKarel Capek, opens at the Garrick Theater in N.Y.  (The play
S10091922Cintroduced the term "robot," with the meaning "automaton.")
S10091938 the altimeter is first demonstrated in New York.
S10091946 the Simmons Company of Petersburg, Va., offers the first
S10091946C"electronic" blanket for sale.
S10091946 the play "The Iceman Cometh" by Eugene O'Neill opens on Broadway
S10091946Cat the Martin Beck Theatre in N.Y. City.
S10091947 the first telephone conversation between automobile and plane
S10091947Ctakes place.
S10091948 the Indians record the second of only two postseason victories
S10091948Cwon at the Stadium, Cleveland 2, Boston Braves 1.
S10091949 Harvard Law School begins to admit women.
S10091960 Dallas Cowboys' Eddie LeBaron throws the shortest touchdown pass,
S10091960C2 inches.
S10091962 Uganda gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S10091980 "Private Benjamin" opens with Goldie Hawn.
S10091983 James Watt resigns as Secretary of the Interior.
S10091992 the U.N. Security Council bans all military flights, a "no-fly"
S10091992Czone, over Bosnia by Serbian warplanes (gives no orders to shoot
S10091992Cdown violators).
S10091992 the spacecraft Pioneer 12 ceases operation after 14 years
S10091992C(originally expected to send back data from orbit over Venus for
S10091992C1 year).
S1009    2Columbus Day.
S1009     Feast of St. John Leonardi, confessor.
S1009     Feast of St. Dionysius and Companions, martyrs.
S1009     Feast of St. Denis, first Bishop of Paris, patron of France.
S1009     St. Denys's Day (Anglican).
S1009    1Feast of St. Dismas, the Good Thief.
S1009    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.)
S1009    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day.
S1009     Leif Ericson Day (Iceland and the United States).
S1009    6National Bookkeeper's Day.
S1009    2White Sunday (American Samoa).
R1009    7National Fire Safety Week begins.
R1009    3It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1009    4It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1009    5It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1009    6It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1009    7It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1009    1It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1009    2It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1009    1Sweetest Week begins!
R1009    3It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1009    3It's National School Lunch Week.
R1009    3It's Newspaper Week.
R1009    4It's Newspaper Week.
R1009    5It's Newspaper Week.
R1009    6It's Newspaper Week.
R1009    7It's Newspaper Week.
R1009    2National Y-Teen Week begins.
R1009    2National School Lunch Week begins.
S1009     Universal Postal Union Day.
S1009     Hangul or Korean Alphabet Day.
S1009    2Day of the Race (Spain - honoring Columbus' discovery of the New
S1009    2  World on behalf of Spain).
S1009     Independence of Guayaquil (Ecuador).
S1009     Peruvian Day of National Dignity.
S1009     Uganda Independence Day.
S1009    1Feast of Cirio de Nazare (Brazil).
S1009    2Fiji Day.
S1009    2Friendship Day (Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands).
S1009     Day of Venus (early Roman holiday - before 200 BC - goddess of
S1009       Spring and protectress of vegetation and gardens).
S1009     Day of Felicitas (Roman holiday).
S1009     Giacobinid meteor shower, radiant in Draco.
S10101774 the Battle of Point Pleasant, the only major engagement of
S10101774CDunmore's War, occurs (considered, by some, "The First Battle of
S10101774Cthe American Revolution" because the Indian nations along the
S10101774Cwestern boundaries of the colonies were quiet during the first
S10101774Ctwo years of the war for independence).
S10101845 the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis) is founded as a Naval School.
S10101846 Neptune's moon, Triton, is discovered by William Lassell.
S10101865 John W. Hyatt patents a billiard ball of a composition material
S10101865Cwhich resembles ivory.
S10101886 Griswold Lorillard wears the first dinner jacket to the
S10101886CAutumn Ball at the Tuxedo Park Country Club (thus the name
S10101886C"tuxedo").
S10101911 the Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China.
S10101913 the Pacific and the Atlantic mix as engineers blow Gamboa Dam,
S10101913Copening the Panama Canal.
S10101920 in the 5th game of the World Series against Brooklyn, Indians'
S10101920CElmer Smith hits baseball's first post-season grand slam,
S10101920CIndians' Jim Bagby becomes the first pitcher to hit a home run,
S10101920Cand Indians' Bill Wambsganss of Lakewood, Ohio makes the first
S10101920Cunassisted triple play in World Series history.
S10101930 Transcontinental and Western Air Inc. (TWA) forms through merger
S10101930Cof three airlines.
S10101933 the first synthetic detergent for home use is marketed.
S10101935 George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" opens in New York.
S10101943 Chiang Kai-shek takes the oath of office as president of China.
S10101947 the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) opens inquiry
S10101947Cinto the alleged radicalism in the film industry.
S10101948 86,288 fans watch Game 5 of the World Series, the largest crowd
S10101948Cfor a sporting event in Cleveland Stadium's history (M.L.
S10101948Crecord), Indians 5, Boston Braves 11.
S10101957 President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana,
S10101957CKomla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover,
S10101957CDelware restaurant.
S10101959 Pan American World Airways announces the initiation of the first
S10101959Cpassenger service circling the globe.
S10101961 "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller is published.
S10101964 the 18th Summer Olympic Games opens in Tokyo.
S10101970 the 800 islands of Fiji gain independence from Britain (National
S10101970CDay).
S10101971 the London Bridge, bought for Arizona's Lake Havasu City by
S10101971CRobert McCullock for $10 million, opens.
S10101972 the Washington Post uncovers a massive effort on the part of
S10101972CCREEP to disrupt the democratic campaign.
S10101973 Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns and avoids prison for tax
S10101973Cevasion.
S10101974 legislation providing for public funding of presidential
S10101974Cprimaries and elections is passed by Congress.
S10101975 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt.
S10101976 Cleveland's defensive end Joe "Turkey" Jones bounces Steelers' QB
S10101976CTerry Bradshaw on his head at the Stadium, and the Browns' QB
S10101976CDavid Mays comes off the bench to rally the Browns to a 18-16
S10101976Cwin.
S10101976 the $68 million Meadowlands Stadium (Giants) opens in N.J.
S10101976 an American student publishes an article detailing how to build
S10101976Can atomic bomb.
S10101978 President Carter signs the bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony
S10101978Cdollar.
S10101980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network is dedicated in
S10101980CN.M.
S10101982 Pope John Paul II proclaims Rev. M. Kolbe, who volunteered to die
S10101982Cin place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a
S10101982Csaint.
S10101985 U.S. fighter jets force the Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers
S10101985Cof the Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy; gunmen are
S10101985Cplaced in custody.
S10101987 the Garfield Park Nature Center opens, the latest in the
S10101987CCleveland Metroparks.
S10101992 Cuyahoga County, Ohio declines to prosecute a woman who had
S10101992Cregistered her cat, Morris, to vote.
S10101993 the records for the most runners left on base in M.L. playoff
S10101993Chistory by one team and both teams are set, Philadelphia (15) 2,
S10101993CAtlanta (11) 1.
S10101993 Browns' cornerback Najee Mustafaa sets a club record for the
S10101993Clongest interception return (97 yards), Miami 24, Cleveland 14.
S1010    2Columbus Day.
S1010     Feast of St. Francis Borgia, Confessor (A.D. 1572).
S1010    1Feast of St. Dismas, the Good Thief.
S1010     Old Michaelmas Day (ganging day).
S1010    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.)
S1010    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day.
S1010    6National Bookkeeper's Day.
S1010     Oklahoma Historical Day.
S1010     Bonza Bottler Day (Number of Day Matches the Number of the
S1010       Month).
S1010     Sports Day, or Physical Education Day (Japan).
S1010    2Day of the Race (Spain - honoring Columbus' discovery of the New
S1010    2  World on behalf of Spain).
S1010    2White Sunday (American Samoa).
R1010    7National Fire Safety Week begins.
R1010    4It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1010    5It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1010    6It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1010    7It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1010    1It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1010    2It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1010    3It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1010    1Sweetest Week begins!
R1010    2It's Sweetest Week!
R1010    3It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1010    4It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1010    3It's National School Lunch Week.
R1010    4It's National School Lunch Week.
R1010    4It's Newspaper Week.
R1010    5It's Newspaper Week.
R1010    6It's Newspaper Week.
R1010    7It's Newspaper Week.
R1010    2National Y-Teen Week begins.
R1010    2National School Lunch Week begins.
S1010     Republic of China's National Day (Taiwan).
S1010    1Feast of Cirio de Nazare (Brazil).
S1010    2Fiji Day.
S1010    2Friendship Day (Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands).
S10111776 Gen. Benedict Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet is defeated at
S10111776CValcour, but the British returned to Canada.
S10111797 the British naval forces defeat the Dutch off Camperdown, the
S10111797CNetherlands.
S10111803 the first election under the Ohio Constitution is held in
S10111803CCleveland.
S10111811 the Juliana, the first steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation
S10111811Cbetween Hoboken and New York City.
S10111881 David H. Houston patents roll film for cameras.
S10111887 Dorr E. Felt patents the first adding machine which is
S10111887C"absolutely accurate at all times."
S10111890 the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
S10111890 John Owen breaks the 10 second mark for the first time in the 100
S10111890Cyard dash (9.8).
S10111899 the Boer War breaks out in South Africa between Britain and the
S10111899CDutch settlers (Boer).
S10111919 the first in-flight meal is served when lunch boxes are given out
S10111919Con a London-to-Paris flight.
S10111922 the first woman FBI "special investigator" is appointed (Alaska
S10111922CDavidson).
S10111936 the Lithuanian Cultural Garden unit of Cleveland's Cultural
S10111936CGardens is dedicated.
S10111938 Games Slayter and John H. Thomas patent glass wool and the
S10111938Cmachinery to make it.
S10111948 the Cleveland Indians win the World Series by defeating the
S10111948CBoston Braves in Game 6 (4 - 3).
S10111958 NASA launches its first spacecraft, the Pioneer I, in an attempt
S10111958Cto circle the moon (mission fails Oct. 12).
S10111968 Apollo 7 is launched with Commander Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn
S10111968CF. Eisele, and Walter Cunningham, the first manned flight of the
S10111968CCommand and Service modules.
S10111975 "Saturday Night Live "premieres.
S10111984 Dr. Kathryn Sullivan becomes the first American woman to walk in
S10111984Cspace.
S10111994 scientists order the Magellan spacecraft to dive into Venus to
S10111994Cgain information, ending its 4-year mapping mission.
S10111995 Manny Ramirez (4-for-4 with 2 HRs, 2 singles) leads the Indians
S10111995Cto a 5-2 win over the Mariners (in Seattle) in Game 2 of the A.L.
S10111995CChampionship series, tieing the series 1-1.
S1011    2Columbus Day.
S1011     Feast of the Motherhood of Mary.
S1011     Feast of St. Mary Soledad, Foundress of Handmaidens of Mary.
S1011     Feast of St. Germanus, Bishop and martyr.
S1011    1Feast of St. Dismas, the Good Thief.
S1011    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.)
S1011    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day
S1011     General Pulaski Memorial Day (anniversary of his death in 1779).
S1011    6National Bookkeeper's Day.
S1011     National Coming Out Day.
S1011    2White Sunday (American Samoa).
R1011    7National Fire Safety Week begins.
R1011    5It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1011    6It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1011    7It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1011    1It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1011    2It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1011    3It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1011    4It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1011    1Sweetest Week begins!
R1011    2It's Sweetest Week!
R1011    3It's Sweetest Week!
R1011    3It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1011    4It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1011    5It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1011    3It's National School Lunch Week.
R1011    4It's National School Lunch Week.
R1011    5It's National School Lunch Week.
R1011    5It's Newspaper Week.
R1011    6It's Newspaper Week.
R1011    7It's Newspaper Week.
R1011    2National Y-Teen Week begins.
R1011    2National School Lunch Week begins.
S1011     Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners (U.N.
S1011       observance).
S1011    2Day of the Race (Spain - honoring Columbus' discovery of the New
S1011    2  World on behalf of Spain).
S1011     Birthday of Athena (Ancient Greek).
S1011    1Feast of Cirio de Nazare (Brazil).
S1011    2Fiji Day.
S1011    2Friendship Day (Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands).
S1011     Anniversary of the Revolution (Panama).
S1011     People of Macedonia Uprising Day (Yugoslavia).
S10121492 Christopher Columbus lands on the isle of San Salvador in the
S10121492Cpresent-day Bahamas.
S10121609 "Three Blind Mice" is first published.
S10121792 the first celebration of Columbus Day in America is held in N.Y.
S10121792CCity.
S10121823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling his raincoats.
S10121850 classes begin at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, the
S10121850Cfirst medical school entirely for women.
S10121853 John C. Morrissey wins the heavyweight boxing championship over
S10121853CYankee Sullivan on a technicality.  Sullivan, leaving the ring
S10121853Cbetween rounds to slug a few Morrissey supporters who had heckled
S10121853Chim, failed to get back into the ring to answer the bell for the
S10121853Cnext round.
S10121891 Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated.
S10121892 the grounds of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago,
S10121892Ccelebrating the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, is
S10121892Cdedicated.
S10121901 President Theodore Roosevelt renames the Executive Mansion
S10121901C"The White House".
S10121910 the Detroit-Rocky River Bridge is dedicated.
S10121915 Edith Cavell, a British nurse at a Red Cross hospital, is
S10121915Cexecuted by a German firing squad for aiding POW's to escape.
S10121920 the Cleveland Indians win their first World Series, beating the
S10121920CBrooklyn Dodgers in Game 7 (3 - 0).
S10121920 Man O'War runs his last race, defeating Sir Barton at Kenilworth
S10121920CPark.
S10121925 Lakewood's (Ohio) Hayes Elementary School opens.
S10121928 the first commercial iron lung is used at Children's Hospital
S10121928Cin Boston.
S10121929 the Cubs blow a 8-0 World Series lead when the A's score 10 in 1
S10121929Cinning.
S10121930 the Italian Cultural Garden unit of Cleveland's Cultural Gardens
S10121930Cformally opens.
S10121933 Alcatraz becomes a federal maximum security prison
S10121933C(unofficially).
S10121933 John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County, Ohio jail.
S10121934 the cheeseburger is born at Kaelin's Tavern in Louisville, KY.
S10121943 the Blue Network (formerly NBC-Blue) becomes the American
S10121943CBroadcasting Company (ABC).
S10121948 the largest parade in Cleveland is held to honor the Indians, the
S10121948C1948 World Series Champions.
S10121949 Eugenie Anderson, the first woman ambassador, is appointed to
S10121949CDenmark.
S10121950 "The Burns and Allen Show" debuts on CBS.
S10121957 the first commercial flight between California and Antarctica
S10121957Coccurs.
S10121960 Nikita Khrushchev bangs his desk with his shoe at an U.N.
S10121960CGeneral Assembly session.
S10121963 at 4 a.m., the traffic on Bay Bridge becomes 1-way on each deck.
S10121967 Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in one World Series.
S10121968 Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.
S10121969 Sonja Henie wins her tenth individual figure skating title to
S10121969Cset the record for the most individual titles held by a woman.
S10121972 Mariner 9 takes pictures of the Martian north pole.
S10121973 Gerald Rudolph Ford becomes the first appointed vice president
S10121973Cunder the 25th Amendment (Spiro Agnew's successor).
S10121976 swine flu vaccinations are halted in nine states when three
S10121976Cpeople die after getting shots (suspended nationally December
S10121976C16).
S10121982 Milwaukee's Paul Molitor becomes the first player to get 5 hits
S10121982Cin a World Series game.
S10121992 Art Monk of the Washington Redskins catches his 820th NFL pass,
S10121992Cbreaking Steve Largent's record.
S10121995 the warring parties in Bosnia sign a cease-fire effective at 1
S10121995Cminute pass midnight (did not stop the fighting).
S1012     The REAL Columbus Day.
S1012     Feast of St. Wilfrid, Bishop of York (A.D. 709).
S1012    1Feast of St. Dismas, the Good Thief.
S1012    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.)
S1012    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day.
S1012     International Moment of Frustration Scream Day.
S1012    6National Bookkeeper's Day.
S1012    2White Sunday (American Samoa).
R1012    7National Fire Safety Week begins.
R1012    6It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1012    7It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1012    1It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1012    2It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1012    3It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1012    4It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1012    5It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1012    1Sweetest Week begins!
R1012    2It's Sweetest Week!
R1012    3It's Sweetest Week!
R1012    4It's Sweetest Week!
R1012    3It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1012    4It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1012    5It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1012    6It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1012    3It's National School Lunch Week.
R1012    4It's National School Lunch Week.
R1012    5It's National School Lunch Week.
R1012    6It's National School Lunch Week.
R1012    6It's Newspaper Week.
R1012    7It's Newspaper Week.
R1012    2National Y-Teen Week begins.
R1012    2National School Lunch Week begins.
S1012     Pioneers Day (South Dakota)
S1012    1Feast of Cirio de Nazare (Brazil).
S1012    2Fiji Day.
S1012    2Friendship Day (Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands).
S1012     Proerosa (Greek holiday).
S1012     Day of the Polish Army.
S1012    2Day of the Race (Spain - honoring Columbus' discovery of the New
S1012    2  World on behalf of Spain).
S1012     Dia de la Raza (Mexico).
S1012     Discovery Day (Bahamas).
S1012     Equatorial Guinea's Independence Day.
S1012     Hispanic Day (Canary Islands).
S1012     Samoa's National Day.
S1012     Somali Flag Day.
S1012     Sudanese Republic Day.
S10131778 the First Masonic Grand Lodge is organized at Williamsburg, Va.
S10131792 George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Executive Mansion.
S10131843 B'nai B'rith is founded in N.Y.
S10131860 the first successful aerial photograph in the U.S. is taken from
S10131860Ca balloon in Boston.
S10131880 the Boers (Dutch settlers in South Africa) declare independence
S10131880Cfrom Great Britain and proclaim the Transvaal Republic.
S10131903 the American League wins 3 - 0 (Boston Pilgrims vs. Pittsburgh
S10131903CPirates) in the first World Series (5 games out of 8.)
S10131920 the Cleveland Music Conservatory Company (Cleveland Institute of
S10131920CMusic) is formed with renowned composer Ernest Bloch as its first
S10131920Cdirector; it is housed in the Hotel Statler downtown.
S10131932 the cornerstone for the Supreme Court Building in Washington is
S10131932Claid.
S10131936 an explosion caused by leaking gas rips out section 12 of
S10131936CCleveland Stadium, injuring 4 men.
S10131943 Italy declares war on its former ally, Germany.
S10131947 "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" premieres.
S10131951 a rubber covered football is used for the first time in a major
S10131951Ccollegiate game in Atlanta, Ga.
S10131953 the burglar alarm - ultrasonic or radio waves - is patented by
S10131953CSamuel Bagno.
S10131954 the U.S. Air Force authorizes the B-58, the first supersonic
S10131954Cbomber.
S10131960 Kennedy and Nixon meet in the third TV debate.
S10131960 Pirate's Bill Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats the
S10131960CYankees 10-9 in game 7 of World Series (first time the World
S10131960CSeries ends on a HR).
S10131968 Tinker Creek Gorge of the Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated as a
S10131968CNational Landmark.
S10131971 the first World Series night game is played (Pitts 4 - Balt 3).
S10131972 an Uruguayan plane crashes in the Andes where the 16 survivors,
S10131972Cduring the 69-day ordeal, resort to cannibalism.
S10131982 the International Olympic Committee restores 2 gold medals
S10131982Crevoked from Jim Thorpe in 1912 posthumously.  The medals were
S10131982Ctaken away because he played baseball for pay.
S10131984 John Henry becomes the first thoroughbred to win $6 million.
S10131985 the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, the
S10131985Cworld's largest atom smasher, opens.
S10131987 the first military use of trained dolphins takes place by the
S10131987CU.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf.
S10131987 eighteen-month-old Jessica McClure falls down a Midland Texas
S10131987Cwell shaft (rescued 57 hours later).
S10131992 Cleveland sports bar owners vote to boycott Anheuser-Busch beer
S10131992Cin protest of the NFL blackout policy.
S10131994 the Northern Irish pro-British Combined Loyalist Military
S10131994CCommand announces a cease-fire.
S10131995 the Indians lose to Seattle 5-2, falling to 1-2 in Game 3 of the
S10131995CA.L. Championship series.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S10131995C  first Indians post-season loss
S1013    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S1013    2Columbus Day.
S1013     Feast of St. Edward the Confessor, king of England (1042-66),
S1013       earlier patron saint of England.
S1013    1Feast of St. Dismas, the Good Thief.
S1013    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.)
S1013    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day
S1013    6National Bookkeeper's Day.
S1013    2White Sunday (American Samoa).
R1013    7National Fire Safety Week begins.
R1013    7It's National Employ the Handicapped Week.
R1013    1It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1013    2It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1013    3It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1013    4It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1013    5It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1013    6It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1013    1Sweetest Week begins!
R1013    5It's Sweetest Week!
R1013    4It's Sweetest Week!
R1013    3It's Sweetest Week!
R1013    2It's Sweetest Week!
R1013    2National Y-Teen Week begins.
R1013    2National School Lunch Week begins.
R1013    3It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1013    4It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1013    5It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1013    6It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1013    7It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1013    3It's National School Lunch Week.
R1013    4It's National School Lunch Week.
R1013    5It's National School Lunch Week.
R1013    6It's National School Lunch Week.
R1013    7It's National School Lunch Week.
R1013    7It's Newspaper Week.
S1013     St. Edwards Day.
S1013     Floating of the Lamps (Siamese).
S1013    1Feast of Cirio de Nazare (Brazil).
S1013    2Day of the Race (Spain - honoring Columbus' discovery of the New
S1013    2  World on behalf of Spain).
S1013    2Fiji Day.
S1013     Eight Hour Day (South Australia).
S1013     Queen's Birthday (Western Australia).
S1013    2Friendship Day (Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands).
S1013     Assassination of the Hero of the Nation (Prince Louis Rwagasore
S1013       in Burundi).
S10141066 the Battle of Hastings occurs, in which William the Conqueror
S10141066Cwins England.
S10141774 the first declaration of colonial rights in America is declared.
S10141843 the British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for
S10141843Cconspiracy.
S10141884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
S10141905 regulations for the control of official records (world records)
S10141905Cof the International Aeronautical Federation is signed.
S10141912 Theodore Roosevelt is shot in the chest in Milwaukee while
S10141912Ccampaigning for President with the Bull Moose Party.
S10141922 the first automated telephones, the Pennsylvania exchange in N.Y.
S10141922CCity, become operational.
S10141922 Lester J. Maitland pilots an aircraft in excess of 200 m.p.h.
S10141943 U.S. 8th Air Force fights the most savage air battle ever fought,
S10141943CMission #115, the raid on Schweinfurt, known as "Black Thursday"
S10141943C(65 bombers and 650 American airmen downed).
S10141944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than
S10141944Cface trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler.
S10141947 the first supersonic flight (Mach 1.015 at 42,000 feet) is
S10141947Cperformed in an U.S. Bell XS-1 rocket plane (Glamorous Glennis)
S10141947Cby Capt. Charles "Chuck" Yeagar.
S10141954 "White Christmas" starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye premieres.
S10141957 "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1 on the Top 100 chart, the first
S10141957Cof the Everly Brothers' 4 singles to top the charts.
S10141964 the Rev. Martin Luther King receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
S10141966 a bill establishing a 12-mile U.S. fishing zone is signed.
S10141967 the U.S. charges North Vietnam of the mistreatment of U.S.
S10141967Cprisoners, in violation of the 1949 Geneva Convention.
S10141970 the new NBA expansion team Cleveland Cavaliers (one of 3 teams)
S10141970Close their first exhibition game 107-92 in Buffalo.
S10141975 Rep. Ronald M. Mottl nominates Lila E. Schwartz, a student at
S10141975CNormandy High School in Parma, to attend West Point, the first
S10141975COhio woman nominated to a service academy.
S10141978 the first TV movie from a TV series, "Rescue from Gilligan's
S10141978CIsland", airs.
S10141983 the National Council of Churches release a new translation of
S10141983Ccertain Bible passages in which gender references to God are
S10141983Cblurred or omitted.
S10141984 Cleveland Browns' Ozzie Newsome, "The Wizard of Oz", sets two
S10141984Cclub records with 14 receptions for 191 yards, Jets 24,
S10141984CBrowns 20.
S10141992 for the first time in the history of major league baseball, a
S10141992Cteam goes from losing to winning a National League Championship
S10141992Cwith the final pitch, Braves 3, Pirates 2.
S10141993 Dr. Michael J. Walsh of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
S10141993Cannounces that cystic fibrosis can be corrected by gene therapy.
S10141994 Cleveland's Gund Arena (Gateway Arena) is dedicated.
S10141995C with Albert Belle and Sandy Alomar on the bench, and home runs
S10141995Cby Eddie Murray and Jim Thome, the Indians shut-out the Mariners
S10141995C7-0 and tie the series 2-2 in Game 4 of A.L. Championship.
S10141995C(Slider the mascot is injured falling off the right field wall.)
S1014    2Columbus Day.
S1014     Feast of St. Callistus I, pope (217-222), martyr.
S1014    1Feast of St. Dismas, the Good Thief.
S1014    2Discoverer's Day (celebrated in Hawaii.)
S1014    2Canadian Thanksgiving Day.
S1014     Commemoration of William Penn's Birthday (Quaker).
S1014     Frump Day.
S1014    6National Bookkeeper's Day.
S1014    2White Sunday (American Samoa).
R1014    7National Fire Safety Week begins.
R1014    1It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1014    2It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1014    3It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1014    4It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1014    5It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1014    6It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1014    1Sweetest Week begins!
R1014    6It's Sweetest Week!
R1014    5It's Sweetest Week!
R1014    4It's Sweetest Week!
R1014    3It's Sweetest Week!
R1014    2It's Sweetest Week!
R1014    3It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1014    4It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1014    5It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1014    6It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1014    7It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1014    1It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1014    3It's National School Lunch Week.
R1014    4It's National School Lunch Week.
R1014    5It's National School Lunch Week.
R1014    6It's National School Lunch Week.
R1014    7It's National School Lunch Week.
R1014    1It's National School Lunch Week.
R1014    2National Y-Teen Week begins.
R1014    2National School Lunch Week begins.
S1014    2Day of the Race (Spain - honoring Columbus' discovery of the New
S1014    2  World on behalf of Spain).
S1014    1Feast of Cirio de Nazare (Brazil).
S1014     Durga Puja (India).
S1014    2Fiji Day.
S1014    2Friendship Day (Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands).
S1014     People's Democratic Republic of Yemen's (South Yemen) National
S1014       Day.
S1014     Quarrel Festival (Himeji, Japan).
S1014     Madagascar's National Day.
S10151520 King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes to be built
S10151520Cat Whitehall, in London.
S10151582 Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, cutting 10 prior
S10151582Cdays (October 5 became October 15).
S10151764 Edward Gibbon conceives "The Decline and Fall of the Roman
S10151764CEmpire" while in Rome (completes the classic June 27, 1787).
S10151783 Jean Piltre de Rozier makes a captive-balloon ascent, becoming
S10151583Cthe first man to leave the earth.
S10151814 the Township of Newburgh, Ohio is organized.
S10151815 Napoleon arrives at his final place of exile, St. Helena.
S10151860 Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln to tell him to grow a beard.
S10151878 Thomas Edison establishes the Edison Electric Light Company in
S10151878CN.Y. City.
S10151881 the first American fishing journal, American Angler, is published
S10151881Cin Philadelphia (William C. Harris, owner and publisher).
S10151898 Cleveland's Steam and Hot Water Fitters and Helpers' Local 120
S10151898C(now called the Pipefitters Union) is organized.
S10151900 Billy Bolden is reputed to have formed the first jazz band.
S10151914 the Clayton Act is enacted, giving organized labor the right to
S10151914Cstrike and picket.
S10151917 Mata Hari is shot by a French firing squad for espionage.
S10151917 the U.S. Army grants its first commissions to graduates of its
S10151917Ccamp for training black officers in Des Moines, Iowa.
S10151923 the Yanks win their first world championship, beating the Giants.
S10151939 LaGuardia Airport opens in N.Y. City.
S10151939 the first 99-yard pass completion, a NFL record, is accomplished
S10151939Cby Redskins' Frank Filchok to Andy Farkas.
S10151946 Enos Slaughter scores from first on a single in the World Series.
S10151948 Frances L. Willoughby becomes the first woman doctor in the
S10151948Cregular U.S. Navy.
S10151950 Aircall, Inc. institutes a radio-paging service in N.Y. City.
S10151951 "I Love Lucy" premieres on CBS.
S10151957 the new Lakewood YMCA opens.
S10151959 "The Untouchables" premieres.
S10151964 Kosygin and Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
S10151965 N.Y. police make the first arrest under the new Federal draft-
S10151965Ccard-burning law.
S10151966 the Department of Transportation is created (12th Cabinet Dept.).
S10151966 a 75-year-old man receives 10 traffic summonses when he drives on
S10151966Cthe wrong side of the road four times, commits four hit-and-run
S10151966Coffenses, and causes six accidents, all within 20 minutes, in
S10151966CMcKinney, Texas.
S10151969 the Vietnam Moratorium, the first nationally coordinated
S10151969Cdemonstration against the Vietnam War, is held.
S10151969 Congress votes to coin a new dollar honoring Eisenhower.
S10151970 the Organized Crime Control Act is signed by President Nixon.
S10151988 injured Kirk Gibson in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, with 2
S10151988Couts in the 9th inning, hits the winning home run (his only
S10151988Cappearance in the series) to beat Oakland 5-4. (Dodgers go on to
S10151988Cwin the series.)
S10151989 Wayne Gretzky becomes the highest scorer in NHL history,
S10151989Cregistering his 1850th point.
S10151991 despite the charges of sexual harassment brought by Anita Hill,
S10151991CClarence Thomas is confirmed as associate Supreme Court justice.
S10151994 individual game tickets for the Cleveland Cavaliers' opening
S10151994Cseason at the Gund Arena (Gateway Arena) go on sale.
S10151995 Orel Hershiser sets a M.L. record (7-0 in post-season starts),
S10151995Cand, aided by Jim Thome's 2 run homer, the Indians win Game 5 of
S10151995Cthe A.L. Championship series 3-2 over the Mariners (the Tribe
S10151995Cleads the series 3-2).  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S10151995C  first M.L. post-season record set
S1015    7Sweetest Day.
S1015     Mushroom Day.  Stay in the dark!
S1015     National Grouch Day. Cheer down!
S1015     Feast of St. Teresa of Avila, first woman doctor of the church.
S1015     Feast of St. Gerard Majekla, patron saint of mothers, "the saint
S1015       of happy childbirth".
R1015     It's the Ides of October!
R1015    1It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1015    2It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1015    3It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1015    4It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1015    5It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1015    6It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1015    1Sweetest Week begins!
R1015    2It's Sweetest Week!
R1015    3It's Sweetest Week!
R1015    4It's Sweetest Week!
R1015    5It's Sweetest Week!
R1015    6It's Sweetest Week!
R1015    3It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1015    4It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1015    5It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1015    6It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1015    7It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1015    1It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1015    3It's National School Lunch Week.
R1015    4It's National School Lunch Week.
R1015    5It's National School Lunch Week.
R1015    6It's National School Lunch Week.
R1015    7It's National School Lunch Week.
R1015    1It's National School Lunch Week.
S1015     Winter Night (Norse New Year).
S1015     White Cane Safety Day.
S1015     World Poetry Day.
S1015    2Hurricane Thanksgiving Day (Virgin Islands).
S1015     King's Birthday (Afghanistan).
S1015     Tunisia Evacuation Day.
S10161793 Maria Antoinette's last words before meeting the guillotine are,
S10161793C"Pardon, sir.  I did not do it on purpose."
S10161846 dentist William T. G. Morton demonstrates the effectiveness of
S10161846Cether during a major surgical operation in Boston.
S10161859 John Brown seizes the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry.
S10161861 the Confederacy starts selling postage stamps.
S10161829 the Tremont Hotel opens in Boston, featuring washbowls in each
S10161829Croom, and 8 bathrooms in the basement (the first to have indoor
S10161829Cplumbing).
S10161908 General Motors is organized by William Crapo Durant, combining
S10161908CBuick and Oldsmobile.
S10161916 Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn,
S10161916CNew York.
S10161917 E.G. Good of Cedar Falls, Iowa pays $47,500 for a 7-year-old
S10161917CBelgian stallion, "Farceur," the highest price for a draught
S10161917Chorse.
S10161923 the Disney Company is founded.
S10161923 John Harwood patents the self-winding watch in Switzerland.
S10161925 the evolutionary theory is prohibited by the Texas State Text
S10161925CBook Board in any of its school textbooks.
S10161934 Mao Tse-tung and his 25,000-man army begin the Liang Wan Wu-
S10161934CCh'ien-Li Ch'ang Ch'eng - the Long March (6,000 miles).
S10161941 Gordo (by Gus Arriola) first appears in newspapers.
S10161943 Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system.
S10161946 beginning at 1:14 a.m., 10 of the 12 Nazi leaders, sentenced to
S10161946Cdeath at the Nuremberg trials, are hanged.
S10161946 Gordie Howe plays in his first N.H.L. game for the Detroit Red
S10161946CWings.
S10161957 the first American objects launched into space are two aluminium
S10161957Cpellets lofted by the U.S. Air Force.
S10161961 the first nuclear-powered surface warship, the "U.S.S. Long
S10161961CBeach," is displayed.
S10161962 Cuban missile crisis begins as JFK becomes aware of missiles in
S10161962CCuba.
S10161963 two U.S. military satellites are secretly launched from Cape
S10161963CCanaveral for the detection of any violation of the treaty
S10161963Cbanning nuclear tests in space.
S10161964 Brezhnev and Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia (First
S10161964CSecretary and Soviet Premier).
S10161964 China becomes the world's 5th nuclear power.
S10161964 the Indians' directors vote to keep the franchise in Cleveland,
S10161964Crejecting bids by Seattle, Oakland and Dallas.
S10161969 the N.Y. Mets win their first World Series (after 8 years in the
S10161969Cleague).
S10161970 the new NBA expansion team Cleveland Cavaliers (one of 3 teams)
S10161970Close their inaugural game 115-112 in Portland.
S10161973 the first black mayor of a major southern city, Maynard Jackson,
S10161973Cis elected to office in Atlanta, Ga.
S10161978 Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pope since 1522.
S10161982 the Mt. Palomar Observatory is the first to detect Halley's comet
S10161982Con its 13th return.
S10161984 a baboon heart transplant to a human, the first operation of its
S10161984Ckind, is performed on a 15-day-old baby girl (Baby Fae).
S10161985 Intel introduces the 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
S10161987 18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued 57 hours after she fell
S10161987C22 feet into a well shaft in Midland, TX.
S10161988 the sculptured tree trunk in front of Lakewood's fire station on
S10161988CWarren Rd., honoring firemen who have lost their lives saving
S10161988Cothers, is dedicated.
S10161992 the Burton (formerly the Main Avenue) Bridge reopens after a 18-
S10161992Cmonth overhaul.  Renamed Burton after a former mayor of
S10161992CCleveland, and later a U.S. Senator and U.S. Supreme Court
S10161992Cjustice.
S10161992 Magic Johnson plays his first professional games since coming out
S10161992Cof retirement.
S10161994 a free, public open house is held at the newly completed
S10161994CCleveland's Gund Arena (Gateway Arena).
S10161995 the Million Man March (estimated at 400,000) takes place in
S10161995CWashington, D.C.
S1016    7Sweetest Day.
S1016     Feast of St. Lullus, Bishop of Ments.
S1016     World Food Day.
S1016     National Hunger Awareness Day.
S1016     National Boss Day.
R1016    2It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1016    3It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1016    4It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1016    5It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1016    6It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1016    2It's Sweetest Week!
R1016    3It's Sweetest Week!
R1016    4It's Sweetest Week!
R1016    5It's Sweetest Week!
R1016    6It's Sweetest Week!
R1016    4It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1016    5It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1016    6It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1016    7It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1016    1It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1016    4It's National School Lunch Week.
R1016    5It's National School Lunch Week.
R1016    6It's National School Lunch Week.
R1016    7It's National School Lunch Week.
R1016    1It's National School Lunch Week.
S1016     Cera Festival (Irish).
S1016     World Food Day (U.N. observance).
S1016    2Hurricane Thanksgiving Day (Virgin Islands).
S10171777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders to General Gates at
S10171777CSaratoga, N.Y.
S10171796 Moses Cleaveland finishes surveying the land around the Cuyahoga
S10171796CRiver and starts back for Connecticut.
S10171850 Knickerbocker Engine Co. Number 5 is organized.
S10171855 the first conference of rabbis in the U.S. meet at Medical
S10171855CCollege in Cleveland, Ohio.
S10171860 the first professional golf tournament is held, in Scotland.
S10171861 the eastern section of the first transcontinental telegraph
S10171861Cline is completed, S.F. to Salt Lake City.
S10171894 an Ohio national guard unit kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a
S10171894Cblack man.
S10171895 James Pullinger is ticketed for driving a "locomotive
S10171895C(automobile) during prohibited hours."
S10171899 Sutro RR is sold to Robert F. Morrow for $215,000.
S10171904 the Bank of Italy in San Francisco (now BankAmerica Corporation)
S10171904Copens its doors.
S10171919 RCA (Radio Corporation of America) is created.
S10171920 Michael Fitzgerald, after a 68-day fast, becomes the first hunger
S10171920Cstriker to die in prison.
S10171926 Canadian-born St. Andre Grasset de Saint-Gauveur and 190
S10171926Ccontemporaries are canonized.
S10171933 Albert Einstein arrives in the U.S., a refugee from Nazi Germany.
S10171941 the first American warship torpedoed in WW 2, the "U.S.S.
S10171941CKearny," is damaged off the Iceland coast (11 killed).
S10171943 Chicago's first subway is formally opened.
S10171943 the Detroit Lions set a record by rushing for a negative fifty-
S10171943Cthree yards against the Chicago Cardinals.
S10171948 "Pat" Harder of the Chicago Cardinals kicks nine "PAT's" against
S10171948Cthe N.Y. Giants (record).
S10171949 Northwest Airlines becomes the first in the U.S. to serve
S10171949Calcoholic beverages in flight.
S10171954 Pittsburgh intercepts 6 passes and scores 8 TDs against
S10171954CCleveland, the most ever made by opponents in Browns' history,
S10171954Cand Steelers' Ray Matthews scores 4 TDs, the most TDs and
S10171954Cpoints scored against the Browns by one player, Steelers 55,
S10171954CBrowns 27.
S10171956 the world's first full scale nuclear power plant opens in Calder
S10171956CHall, England.
S10171959 the Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River
S10171959CReservation is dedicated.
S10171970 the Grateful Dead make their first Cleveland appearance at the
S10171970CCleveland Music Hall.
S10171971 Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Nature Center opens.
S10171978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla is elected supreme pontiff - John
S10171978CPaul II.
S10171979 a bill creating the Department of Education, the 13th Cabinet-
S10171979Clevel agency, is signed by Pres. Carter (the Department of H.E.W.
S10171979Cbecomes the Department of Health and Human Services).
S10171987 the first World Series game is played in a covered stadium
S10171987C(Minnesota Metrodome).
S10171989 minutes before game 3 of the World Series begins between the
S10171989CGiants and the Athletics, an earthquake strikes the Bay area.
S10171991 the U.S. Navy reverses its position on the cause of the explosion
S10171991Con the battleship Iowa, and apologizes to the Clayton Hartwig
S10171991Cfamily of Lakewood.
S10171994 Billy Joel performs the opening concert at Cleveland's Gund Arena
S10171994C(Gateway Arena).
S10171995 Dennis Martinez, "El Presidente," with the help of a home run by
S10171995CCarlos Baerga and aggressive base-running by Kenny Lofton, leads
S10171995Cthe Indians to a 4-0 win over Seattle in Game 6, and win
S10171995CCleveland's first A.L. Championship in 41 years.  Firsts at
S10171995CJacobs Field:
S10171995C  first A.L. Championship
S1017    7Sweetest Day.
S1017     Feast of St. Ignatius of Antioch
S1017     Feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin.
S1017     Feast of St. Hedwiges, widow.
R1017    3It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1017    4It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1017    5It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1017    6It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1017    3It's Sweetest Week!
R1017    4It's Sweetest Week!
R1017    5It's Sweetest Week!
R1017    6It's Sweetest Week!
R1017    5It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1017    6It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1017    7It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1017    1It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1017    5It's National School Lunch Week.
R1017    6It's National School Lunch Week.
R1017    7It's National School Lunch Week.
R1017    1It's National School Lunch Week.
S1017     St. Ethelred's Day (Anglican).
S1017     Festival of Departed Worthies (Tibetan).
S1017     Dessalines Memorial Day (Haiti).
S1017     Durga Puji begins (Bangladesh).
S1017     Mother's Day (Malawi).
S1017    2Hurricane Thanksgiving Day (Virgin Islands).
S10181648 the "shoomakers of Boston" become the first group to have a
S10181648Cauthorized labor organization in the U.S.
S10181776 the back of a bar in New York is decorated with birds' tail
S10181776Cfeathers.  A customer jokingly asked for a glass of those
S10181776C"cock tails," and a tradition was born!
S10181847 English astronomer J.K. Hind discovers Flor, his second asteroid.
S10181869 the United States takes possession of Alaska.
S10181870 Benjamin C. Tilghman patents a sand blasting process.
S10181873 the Ivy League establishes rules for college football.
S10181892 the first commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago -
S10181892CNew York).
S10181896 one of the earliest newspaper comic strip, "The Yellow Kid", is
S10181896Cfirst published in the New York Journal.
S10181922 the British Broadcasting Corporation is established.
S10181924 Harold "Red" Grange (the Galloping Ghost) returns the opening
S10181924Ckickoff 95 yards against the Wolverines (later scores 3 more TDs
S10181924C - final: Illinois 39, Michigan 14).
S10181939 all U.S. ports and waters are closed to belligerent submarines by
S10181939Cpresidential order.
S10181953 Willie Thrower becomes the first black NFL quarterback in modern
S10181953Ctimes.
S10181955 a new atomic subparticle called a negative proton (antiproton) is
S10181955Cdiscovered at U.C. Berkeley.
S10181959 Lakewood's new Administration and Civic center opens.
S10181962 Ranger V is launched to test structure and composition of the
S10181962Cmoon (shortly after, fails when its battery goes dead).
S10181965 the first person, David Miller, is arrested for burning his draft
S10181965Ccard under a new federal law.
S10181967 Soviet Venera 4 becomes the first probe to send data back from
S10181967CVenus.
S10181967 the first space observatory, the U.S. Orbiting Solar observatory,
S10181967Cis launched.
S10181967 Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released.
S10181968 Tommie Smith and John Carlos are suspended by the U.S. Olympics
S10181968CCommittee for raising fists in the "black power" salute while
S10181968Creceiving their medals.
S10181968 Circus Circus in Las Vegas opens.
S10181969 the U.S. bans cyclamates as an artificial sweetener (modified
S10181969CDec. 20 to permit use of specified amounts, except in soft
S10181969Cdrinks).
S10181971 the House orders President Nixon not to cut funds for school
S10181971Clunch programs.
S10181972 the Water Pollution Control Act is passed by Congress over
S10181972CPresident Nixon's veto.
S10181977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu,
S10181977CSomalia, freeing  all 86 hostages aboard and killing three of the
S10181977Cfour hijackers.
S10181977 Yankees' Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers (off 3
S10181977Cdifferent pitchers), tying Ruth's World Series record.
S10181977 the most distant asteroid, 2060 Chiron, is detected between
S10181977CSaturn and Uranus by Charles Kowal.
S10181988 Congress passes a bill raising the Veterans Administration to
S10181988CCabinet level.
S10181989 the 31st Shuttle Mission, Atlantis 5 is launched.  The Galileo is
S10181989Claunched on a roundabout trip to Jupiter by the astronauts aboard
S10181989Cthe space shuttle Atlantis.
S10181993 the Space Shuttle Columbia blasts off on the longest ever
S10181993Cplanned mission, 14 days.
S1018    7Sweetest Day.
S1018     Feast of St. Luke, evangelist, the beloved physician, patron
S1018       saint of artists.
S1018     Alaska Day.
R1018    4It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1018    5It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1018    6It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1018    4It's Sweetest Week!
R1018    5It's Sweetest Week!
R1018    6It's Sweetest Week!
R1018    6It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1018    7It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1018    1It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1018    6It's National School Lunch Week.
R1018    7It's National School Lunch Week.
R1018    1It's National School Lunch Week.
S1018    2Hurricane Thanksgiving Day (Virgin Islands).
S1018     Harvest Moon (China).
S1018     The start of the Moslem New Year.
S1018     Festival of Herne (Celtic).
S1018     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S10191781 General Charles Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 p.m.
S10191812 Napoleon begins his disastrous retreat from Moscow.
S10191817 the Cleaveland Herald, Cleveland's second newspaper, is first
S10191817Cpublished.
S10191845 Wagner's opera "Tannhauser" is performed for first time.
S10191853 first flour mill in Hawaii begins operations.
S10191859 Wilhelm Tempel discovers a diffuse nebula around the Pleid star
S10191859CMerope.
S10191864 the northernmost engagement of the Civil War occurs (St. Albans,
S10191864CVt.).  After robbing 3 banks, the raiders, led by Lt. Bennett H.
S10191864CYoung, are caught at the Canadian border, and later released.
S10191864 the Confederates are beaten at the Battle of Cedar Creek, Va.,
S10191864Cthe last in the Shenandoah Valley.
S10191904 the American Tobacco Company is formed by a merger of its two
S10191904Csubsidiaries, the Consolidated and the American & Continental
S10191904Ctobacco companies.
S10191926 John C. Garand patents a semi-automatic rifle.
S10191944 the play "I Remember Mama" by John Van Druten opens on Broadway
S10191944Cat the Music Box.
S10191950 the Bird Building at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated.
S10191953 singer Julius LaRosa is fired on television by Arthur Godfrey.
S10191959 Congress hears testimony that TV quiz shows have been fixed for
S10191959Cyears.
S10191959 "The Miracle Worker" opens on Broadway at the Playhouse, with
S10191959CAnne Bancroft playing the leading role of the teacher, Anne
S10191959CSullivan Macy.
S10191963 the Beatles' record "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is released.
S10191967 Mariner 5 flies by Venus, its closest proximity (2480 miles), and
S10191967Csends back data indicating that the planet had no magnetic field
S10191967Cand that its surface was unfit for human habitation.
S10191968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars.
S10191971 the final issue of "Look" magazine reaches the newsstands.
S10191973 the Arab oil embargo begins. It will last until March, 1974.
S10191975 Cleveland Browns' Don Cockroft kicks 5 field goals, a club
S10191975Crecord, Denver 16, Browns 15.
S10191978 President Carter orders production of elements of the neutron
S10191978Cbomb.
S10191987 the U.S. destroys three Iranian offshore oil platforms in
S10191987Cretaliation for attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf.
S10191987 Black Monday - the Dow Jones loses 508.32 points (22.6%), more
S10191987Cthan 4 times the previous record, plunging to 1,738.74.
S10191987 Bernhard Goetz is sentenced to six months in jail on a gun
S10191987Ccharge.
S1019    7Sweetest Day.
S1019     Feast of St. Peter of Alcantara, confessor.
S1019     Yorktown Day.
R1019    5It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1019    6It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1019    5It's Sweetest Week!
R1019    6It's Sweetest Week!
R1019    7It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1019    1It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1019    7It's National School Lunch Week.
R1019    1It's National School Lunch Week.
R1019     National Cleaner Air Week begins.
S1019     Fair of Ebisu (Japan).
S1019     Jamaica National Heroes Day.
S1019    2Hurricane Thanksgiving Day (Virgin Islands).
S1019     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S10201600 the Battle of Sekigahara occurs, establishing the Tokugawa clan
S10201600Cas rulers of Japan (SHOGUN) until 1865 (basis of Clavell's
S10201600Cnovel).
S10201786 the first astronomical field expedition in America is organized
S10201786C(a party from Harvard observe a total eclipse of the sun at
S10201786CPenobscot, Maine).
S10201817 the first "Showboat" leaves Nashville, Tennessee, to give shows
S10201817Calong the Mississippi.  It is a converted keelboat.
S10201818 Britain and the U.S. agree that their mutual boundary should run
S10201818Cwestward "from the Lake of Woods (in Minnesota), along the 49th
S10201818Cparallel of north latitude" to the Rocky Mountains.
S10201827 the Turko-Eqyptian fleet is demolished by the navies of France,
S10201827CRussia and Great Britain at Navarino Bay (forces the Turks to
S10201827Crelinquished control of Greece).
S10201906 Dr. Lee De Forest gives a demonstration of his radio tube, the
S10201906Cthree element triode.
S10201922 Lt. Harold Harris becomes the first member of the Caterpillar
S10201922CClub by parachuting from a defective airplane during a test
S10201922Cflight in Dayton, Ohio.  (Members of the Caterpillar Club are
S10201922Cthose who escape death by using a parachute.)
S10201939 "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" starring James Stewart opens at
S10201939Cthe N.Y. Music Hall.
S10201944 two tanks filled with liquid natural gas at the East Ohio Gas Co.
S10201944CNo. 2 works explode, causing Cleveland's most disastrous fire.
S10201944CThe fire engulfed more than one-square mile, and nearly leveled 3
S10201944Cblocks near East 62nd, killing 130, and destroying 79 homes, 12
S10201944Cworkplaces and 217 autos.
S10201944 Gen. MacArthur, fulfilling a 1942 promise, returns to the
S10201944CPhillippines.
S10201945 the Arab League is formed (Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon).
S10201946 Frank Seno, of the Chicago Cardinals, returns a kick-off 105
S10201946Cyards against the N.Y. Giants.
S10201947 the House Un-American Activities Committee opens hearings into
S10201947Callege Communist influence in the Hollywood movie industry.
S10201951 Corporal Max Klinger of M.A.S.H 4077 is evaluated for a section
S10201951Ceight discharge by Divisional Psychiatrist Major Sidney Friedman.
S10201953 Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" is published.
S10201954 "Peter Pan" with Mary Martin opens on Broadway.
S10201955 a little known singer, Elvis Presley, plays at a sock hop at
S10201955CBrooklyn High School (a Cleveland suburb) in his first appearance
S10201955Coutside his native South (along with Pat Boone and Bill Haley and
S10201955Cthe Comets).
S10201960 an embargo on exports to Cuba is declared by the U.S. (some
S10201960Cmedicines and foods are excluded).
S10201960 the first fully mechanized post office opens in Providence, RI.
S10201961 the UAW ends the first company-wide strike against Ford after 17
S10201961Cdays.
S10201967 the Shah of Iran is crowned.
S10201968 Jacqueline Kennedy weds shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
S10201970 after a three year absence, Muhammad Ali TKO's Jerry Quarry in
S10201970Cthe 3rd round.
S10201973 the Saturday Night Massacre -  Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox
S10201973Cis dismissed by President Nixon, Attorney General Richardson
S10201973Cresigns and Deputy Attorney General G. Ruckelshaus is fired.
S10201975 the Supreme Court rules that teachers could spank students if the
S10201975Cstudents were told in advance of the behavior that would warrant
S10201975Csuch punishment.
S10201979 the John F. Kennedy Library is dedicated in Boston.
S10201980 the FDA asks mandatory labels on tampon packages warning of toxic
S10201980Cshock syndrome.
S10201984 Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are
S10201984Ccompleted.
S10201984 the world's largest aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, Ca.
S10201992 Blue Jays' Kelly Gruber ends the longest major league post-season
S10201992Cbatting drought, 0-23, with a home run in game 3 against the
S10201992CBraves' Steve Avery.
S10201993 Toronto and Philadelphia play the longest World Series Game (and
S10201993Cpost-season game) in M.L. history (4:14), setting records for the
S10201993Cmost runs scored by both teams (29), the most bases by both teams
S10201993C(85), and the most runs scored in the first 4 games of series
S10201993C(65), Jays 15, Phillies 14.
S10201993 the last piece of structural steel is set on Cleveland's Gateway
S10201993CArena (Gund Arena).
S1020    7Sweetest Day.
S1020     Feast of St. John Cantius, Confessor and St. Bertilla Boscardin.
R1020     National Cleaner Air Week begins.
R1020    6It's National Fire Safety Week.
R1020    6It's Sweetest Week!
R1020    1It's National Y-Teen Week.
R1020    1It's National School Lunch Week.
R1020    2It's National Cleaner Air Week.
S1020    2Hurricane Thanksgiving Day (Virgin Islands).
S1020     Chung Yeung (China).
S1020     Beograd Liberation Day (Yugoslavia).
S1020     Kenyatta Day (Kenya).
S1020     1944 Revolution Anniversary (Guatemala).
S1020     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S10211520 Magellan enters the Magellan strait.
S10211797 the frigate "U.S.S. Constitution" (Old Ironsides) is launched in
S10211797CBoston a month later than scheduled (the incline had to be
S10211797Csteepened).
S10211805 during the Battle of Trafalgar,  Admiral Nelson defeats the
S10211805Ccombined French and Spanish fleet and establishes British naval
S10211805Csupremacy for the next century.
S10211842 the U.S. naval forces restore Monterrey to Mexican control with
S10211842Capologies ("We thought we were at war!").
S10211869 the first shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from
S10211869CBaltimore.
S10211879 Thomas A. Edison successfully demonstrates the first durable and
S10211879Ccommercially practical electric light bulb.
S10211915 the first transatlantic radiotelephone communication is made from
S10211915CArlington, Va., to the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
S10211917 the first American division to enter the World War I trenches do
S10211917Cso near Nancy, France.
S10211918 a new typewriting speed record is established by Margaret B.
S10211918COwen in New York City (170 words a minute with no errors).
S10211922 Herbert Birch Kingston, a philanthropist and candy company
S10211922Cemployee in Cleveland, inaugurates the first Sweetest Day.
S10211923 the first modern projection planetarium, Walther Bauersfeld's
S10211923CZeiss Planetarium, opens at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
S10211925 Westinghouse first demonstrates a photoelectric cell at the
S10211925CElectrical Show in New York City.
S10211934 the Hungarian Cultural Garden unit of Cleveland's Cultural
S10211934CGardens is dedicated.
S10211948 facsimile high-speed radio transmission is demonstrated in
S10211948CWashington, D.C.
S10211959 the Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in
S10211959CN.Y.
S10211960 Kennedy and Nixon meet in their fourth and last TV debate.
S10211962 JFK and other high officials review information on missile sites
S10211962Cin Cuba (U.S. forces maneuver off Puerto Rico).
S10211964 the U.S. Supreme Court declines to review a lower court's
S10211964Cdecision that there had been no copyright infringement on the
S10211964Csongs of Irving Berlin, which were parodied in "Mad" magazine.
S10211967 thousands opposing the Vietnam War try to storm the Pentagon.
S10211975 in what is considered the best World Series game ever played,
S10211975CBoston's lead off batter in the bottom of the 12th, Carlton Fisk,
S10211975Chits a HR, and Boston beats Cincinnati 7-6 in Game 6, tieing the
S10211975Cseries.
S10211980 the Philadelphia Phillies win their first World Series in 98
S10211980Cyears.
S10211984 Cleveland Browns' Steve Cox sets a club record with a 60-yard
S10211984Cfield goal, Cincinnati 12, Browns 9.
S10211986 the Republic of the Marshall Islands enters a free association
S10211986Cwith the U.S. as a sovereign-self-governing state.
S10211992 rock singer Madonna's book, "Sex", is released under a flurry of
S10211992Ccontroversy.
S10211994 the Cleveland Cavaliers play their first game at Gund Arena
S10211994C(Gateway Arena), an exhibition against the NBA champion Houston
S10211994CRockets, Houston 107, Cleveland 95.
S10211995 in Orel Hershiser's first career post-season loss (7-1), the
S10211995CIndians lose 3-1 to the Atlanta Braves in Game 1 of the World
S10211995CSeries in Atlanta (set the record for the latest World Series
S10211995Cstarting date).
S1021    7Sweetest Day.
S1021     Feast of St. Hilarion, an ascetic and lover of solitude and
S1021       penance.
S1021     Day of St. Ursula, patron saint of brides.
S1021    1World Order Sunday.
R1021     National Cleaner Air Week begins.
R1021    2It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1021    3It's National Cleaner Air Week.
S1021    2Hurricane Thanksgiving Day (Virgin Islands).
S1021     Marshall Islands Independence Day.
S1021     Day of Orsel (Slavic).
S1021     Anniversary of the Somali Revolution (1969).
S1021     Honduran Armed Forces Day.
S1021     Shah's Birthday (Iran).
S1021     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S10222137 B.C. the first recorded solar eclipse occurs (China).
S10221746 Princeton University in New Jersey receives its charter.
S10221797 Andr-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute jump (from a
S10221797Cballoon in Paris).
S10221836 Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first elected president of
S10221836Cthe Republic of Texas.
S10221861 the western section of the transcontinental telegraph line is
S10221861Cfinished, completing the first transcontinental line.
S10221883 the original Metropolitan Opera House in N.Y. holds its grand
S10221883Copening.
S10221883 the first annual N.Y. Horse Show opens at Gilmore's Garden, N.Y.
S10221883CCity.
S10221895 Schwinn is founded on Chicago's West Side by German engineer
S10221895CIgnaz Schwinn.
S10221934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd is gunned down by the FBI in a
S10221934Ccornfield near East Liverpool, Ohio.
S10221936 the first commercial flight from the mainland to Hawaii occurs.
S10221939 the first football game shown on TV is aired in New York City
S10221939Cbetween the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Eagles from
S10221939CEbbets Field.
S10221954 President Eisenhower approves plan for the intensive training of
S10221954Cthe South Vietnamese army.
S10221954 the governor shuts Los Angeles' oil refineries on the 16th day
S10221954Cof heavy smog (first time such action is taken in the world).
S10221960 Cassius Clay fights his first bout as a professional.
S10221962 President Kennedy reveals the presence of missile sites in Cuba;
S10221962Corders a naval and air quarantine of offensive military
S10221962Cequipment.
S10221975 the Soviet's Venera 9 lands on Venus and begins sending photos.
S10221975 the World Football League is disbanded 12 weeks into its second
S10221975Cseason.
S10221976 the FDA bans the use of Red Dye #4.
S10221981 the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization is
S10221981Cdecertified.
S10221981 the U.S. national debt tops $1 TRILLION (nothing to celebrate).
S10221994 the Cleveland Lumberjacks play their first game at Gund Arena
S10221994C(Gateway Arena), losing to the Detroit Vipers 4-3.  (Jacks' Brad
S10221994CLauer scores the inaugural goal.)
S10221995 the Indians lose 4-3 to the Atlanta Braves in Game 2 of the World
S10221995CSeries in Atlanta (down 0-2 in the series).
S1022     Feast of SS. Mark, Bishop of Jeruselem, and Philip, Bishop of
S1022     Feast of St. Mary Salome, mother of Apostles James and John.
S1022       Heraclea, and his companions, martyrs.
S1022     Vatican City National Day.
S1022    1World Order Sunday.
S1022    7Winter Saturday.
S1022     World's End Day.
R1022     National Cleaner Air Week begins.
R1022    2It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1022    3It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1022    4It's National Cleaner Air Week.
S1022    2Labour Day (New Zealand).
S1022     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S10234004 B.C. the universe is created at 8:00 p.m., according to the 1650
S10234004Cpronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Ussher.
S10231814 the first modern plastic surgery operation is performed in
S10231814CChelsea, England.
S10231885 Bryn Mawr College opens.
S10231893 Gordon Park is donated to Cleveland.
S10231894 the Euclid Beach Park Company is incorporated.
S10231911 the first wartime reconnaissance flight is made by the Italian
S10231911CArmy Aviation Corps in Libya.
S10231915 25,000 New York City women demonstrate, demanding voting rights.
S10231915 the U.S. Horseshoe Pitchers' Association holds its first national
S10231915Cchampionship in Kellerton, Iowa.
S10231924 U.S. tax returns are first made public under a new law.
S10231929 the first train entered the Terminal Tower depot in Cleveland.
S10231932 the Slovak Cultural Garden unit of Cleveland's Cultural Gardens
S10231932Cis dedicated.
S10231941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" opens in New York.
S10231944 the largest naval battle in history, the Battle of Leyte Gulf
S10231944Cbetween the U.S. and Japan, begins.
S10231945 the Brooklyn Dodgers announce that Jackie Robinson will play for
S10231945Ctheir farm club, the Montreal Royals.
S10231946 the U.N. General Assembly convenes for first time in Flushing
S10231946CMeadow, N.Y.
S10231956 the ill-fated revolt in Communist Hungary starts, later crushed
S10231956Cby Soviet tanks (Nov. 4).
S10231956 the first video recording on magnetic tape is televised coast-to-
S10231956Ccoast.
S10231962 the U.S. orders the interception of 25 Soviet vessels in defiance
S10231962Cof Moscow threat.
S10231973 President Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings.
S10231974 Lake Isaac in the Cleveland Metroparks' Big Creek Reservation is
S10231974Cdedicated.
S10231977 paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces discovery of one-celled
S10231977Cfossils 3.4 billion years old, earth's earliest life forms.
S10231980 the U.S. Open Pinball Championship (the first of its kind) begins
S10231980Cin Hartford, Conn.
S10231983 241 U.S. Marines and sailors, members of a U.N. peacekeeping
S10231983Cforce, die in a terrorist suicide attack in Beirut.
S10231989 Cleveland Browns' Bernie Kosar sets a club record with a
S10231989C97-yard TD pass to Webster Slaughter, Browns 27, Bears 7.
S10231991 despite the charges of sexual harassment brought by Anita Hill,
S10231991CClarence Thomas is sworn in as the nation's 106th Supreme Court
S10231991CJustice.
S10231995 the Cleveland Indians sponsor a gala at the Rock and Roll Hall of
S10231995Cfame to highlight the 1995 World Series.
S1023     United States Day.
S1023     Feast of St. John of Capistrano (A.D. 1456)
S1023     Feast of St. Ignatius, Bishop of Constantinople, martyr.
S1023     St. James of Jerusalem Day (Orthodox, Anglican).
S1023     Swallows leave San Juan Capistrano.
S1023    1World Order Sunday.
S1023    7Winter Saturday.
S1023    1Winter Sunday.
S1023     TV Talk Show Host Day.
R1023     National Cleaner Air Week begins.
R1023    2It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1023    3It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1023    4It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1023    5It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1023    1It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
S1023    2Labour Day (New Zealand).
S1023     Chulalongkorn Day (Thailand).
S1023     Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
S10241537 Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, dies.
S10241648 the Treaties of Westphalia are concluded and Switzerland receives
S10241648Cformal recognition as an independent nation.
S10241836 the match is patented by Alonzo D. Phillips.
S10241851 William Lassell discovers Ariel and Umbriel, satellites of
S10241851CUnranus.
S10241861 the first transcontinental telegram is sent from San Francisco to
S10241861CPresident Lincoln (the Pony Express service ends two days later).
S10241861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia and creates a new state,
S10241861Cfirst called Kanawha.
S10241882 Dr. Robert Koch discovers the tuberculosis germ.
S10241901 Eastman Kodak Company incorporates.
S10241901 Anna Edson Taylor is the first person to go over Niagara Falls
S10241901Cin a barrel.
S10241929 the Stock Market collapses - Black Thursday.
S10241931 the George Washington Bridge in N.Y. opens.
S10241931 "Scarface" Al Capone is sentenced to eleven years in prison for
S10241931Ctax evasion.
S10241938 the first Mercury is publicly shown in Dearborn, Mich.
S10241940 the 40-hour work week, part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of
S10241940C1938, goes into effect.
S10241944 the Japanese battleship Musaski, one of the 2 largest battleships
S10241944Cever commissioned (sister-ship Yamato), is sunk.
S10241945 United Nations Charter goes into effect.
S10241948 the term "cold war" is given national prominence during a speech
S10241948Cby Bernard Baruch before the Senate War Investigating Committee.
S10241951 the state of war with Germany is declared officially ended by
S10241951CPresident Truman (the wheels in Washington, D.C. turn slowly).
S10241964 Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) becomes an independent
S10241964Crepublic within the British Commonwealth.
S10241970 Nancy Walker creates her Ida Morgenstein role on the Mary Tyler
S10241970CMoore Show.
S10241973 Security Council Resolution 338, a cease fire, is observed,
S10241973Cending the Yom Kippur War (Israel is 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from
S10241973CDamascus).
S10241976 Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets the club record for the highest
S10241976Cpassing percentage with 82.1% (broken by Vinny Testaverde in
S10241976C1993), Browns 24, San Diego 17.
S10241976 Elvis Presley's last performance at the Coliseum in Richfield,
S10241976COhio takes place.
S10241977 17-year-old Steve Cauthen becomes the first jockey to ride for $5
S10241977Cmillion in purses in a year.
S10241979 Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman.
S10241987 Bork's Supreme Court nomination is rejected by the Senate.
S10241991 the Skull and Bones, Yale's secret society founded in 1832, votes
S10241991Cto admit women.
S10241993 Browns' Eric Metcalf sets a team record and ties a NFL record by
S10241993Creturning 2 punts (91 and 75 yards) for TDs, Cleveland 28,
S10241993CPittsburgh 23.
S10241995 the Indians win Game 3 of the World Series (down 1-2) on a hit by
S10241995CEddie Murray in the 11th inning, the first Tribe Series win in 47
S10241995Cyears, Cleveland 7, Atlanta 6.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S10241995C  first World Series game played
S10241995C  first Indians World Series game victory
S10241995C  first World Series record set - longest night game, 4:09
S10241995C  first World Series home run - (Braves) Fred McGriff (6th
S10241995C    inning)
R1024    6set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time
R1024    6ends).
S1024     Feast of St. Raphael the Archangel, the Healer.
S1024     Feast of St.  Anthony Claret.
S1024     Feast of St. Magloire, Bishop.
S1024     Feast of the Spirits of the Air.
S1024    1World Order Sunday.
S1024    7Winter Saturday.
S1024    1Winter Sunday.
S1024     United Nations Day.
S1024     World Development Information Day (U.N. observance).
R1024     National Cleaner Air Week begins.
R1024    2It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1024    3It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1024    4It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1024    5It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1024    6It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1024    1It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1024    2It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
S1024    2Labour Day (New Zealand).
S1024     Suez National Day (Egypt).
S1024     Zambia Independence Day.
S10251415 King Henry V of England beats the French at the Battle of
S10251415CAgincourt (where the Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight),
S10251415Copening the door to the conquest of Normandy.  In 3 hours, 8,000
S10251415CEnglish including 1,000 bowmen (500 loss) defeat the 30,000
S10251415Cstrong French force (10,000 killed).
S10251616 Dutchman Dirk Hartog is the first European to reach the vicinity
S10251616Cof Australia when he lands on an island off the west coast of
S10251616Cthat continent.
S10251671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, one of Saturn's moons.
S10251760 George III ascends the British throne.
S10251803 the Louisiana Purchase is ratified by Congress.
S10251854 at 11 a.m. the Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava during
S10251854Cthe Crimean War) because of a misunderstanding of orders.
S10251881 Leslie L. Curtis patents the air brush.
S10251884 in the first fully sanctioned interleague playoff series (post-
S10251884CWorld Series), the N.L.'s Providence wins the series by sweeping
S10251884Cthe American Association's N.Y. Mets in three.
S10251890 the first high school football game in Cleveland is played
S10251890C(University School 20, Central 0).
S10251923 the Senate begins investigating the Teapot Dome scandals of the
S10251923CHarding administration.
S10251939 nylon stockings go on sale in the U.S. for the first time.
S10251945 President Truman issues an executive order depicting the new
S10251945CGreat Seal and president's flag.
S10251953 Cleveland Browns' QB Otto Graham sets a club record with 4
S10251953Cfumbles in the same game, Browns 7, Giants 0.
S10251954 the first televised Cabinet meeting occurs.
S10251960 the first electronic wrist watch goes on sale (N.Y. City).
S10251962 Stevenson demands U.S.S.R. ambassador Zorin's answer regarding
S10251962Cmissile bases in Cuba, saying "I am prepared to wait for my
S10251962Canswer until hell freezes over."
S10251971 the U.N. General Assembly admits Mainland China and expels
S10251971CTaiwan.
S10251971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World.
S10251974 the U.S. Air Force successfully fires the first ICBM from a
S10251974Cplane.
S10251975 "A Chorus Line" opens on Broadway (the longest running show to
S10251975Cdate).
S10251975 the new Winterhurst Municipal Ice Rink, a year-round facility, is
S10251975Cdedicated in Lakewood.
S10251980 the Pope says divorced Catholics who remarry can only receive
S10251980Ccommunion if they abstain from sex.
S10251983 U.S. Marines and Rangers, and a small force from six Caribbean
S10251983Cnations, invade Grenada.
S10251984 the Hepatitus virus is identified, a medical breakthrough.
S10251990 the first transplant operation of a lung from a live donor to a
S10251990Crecipient is performed at Stanford's Medical School (mother to
S10251990Cher 12-year-old daughter).
S10251992 for the first time in baseball's history, the World Champions
S10251992Cbanner flies north of the border as the Toronto Blue Jays, in
S10251992Ctheir 16th year, beat the Atlanta Braves.
S10251995 the Indians lose Game 4 of the World Series (down 1-3), Atlanta
S10251995C5, Cleveland 2.  Firsts at Jacobs Field:
S10251995C  first Indians World Series game loss
S10251995C  first Indians World Series home run - Albert Belle (6th inning)
R1025    6set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time
R1025    6ends).
R1025    7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.)
S1025    1Feast of Christ the King.
S1025     Feast of St. Gaudentius, bishop of Brescia.
S1025     Feast of SS. Chrysanthus and Daria, martyrs.
S1025     Feast of SS. Crispin and Crispinian, brothers, martyrs.
S1025     St. Crispin's Day (Anglican), patron saint of shoemakers.
S1025     Crispin's Feast (Roman celebration).
S1025    1World Order Sunday.
S1025    7Winter Saturday.
S1025    1Winter Sunday.
R1025     National Cleaner Air Week begins.
R1025    2It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1025    3It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1025    4It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1025    5It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1025    6It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1025    7It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1025    1It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1025    2It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1025    3It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
S1025     Sourest Day.
S1025    2Labour Day (New Zealand).
S1025     Taiwan Restoration Day.
S1025     Festival of the Thesmophoria - ancient Greek fertility festival.
S10261774 the first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
S10261825 the Erie Canal officially opens.
S10261858 Hamilton E. Smith patents a rotary motion washing machine.
S10261861 the Pony Express service ends, two days after the first
S10261861Ctranscontinental telegram is sent (from San Francisco to
S10261861CPresident Lincoln).
S10261863 soccer becomes standardized with the formation of the Football
S10261863CAssociation in England.
S10261881 the shootout at the O.K. Corral occurs in Tombstone, Arizona.
S10261882 Adelbert College of Western Reserve University is dedicated.
S10261903 the "Yerba Buena" is the first Key System ferry to cross San
S10261903CFrancisco Bay.
S10261917 Felix the Cat debuts.
S10261931 Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra" opens in New York.
S10261936 Stalin says reports of his death are true and asks to be left
S10261936Cin peace.
S10261941 the Japanese fleet sails to attack Pearl Harbor.
S10261942 during the Battle of Santa Cruz, the "U.S.S. South Dakota," the
S10261942CNavy's most decorated ship of World War II, shoots down a record
S10261942C32 enemy planes (ship took a hit from a 500-pound bomb).
S10261944 the 4-day Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with the Japanese suffering
S10261944Cheavy losses in attempting to halt the U.S. invasion of the
S10261944CPhilippines (largest naval battle of the war).
S10261954 Chevrolet introduces the V-8 engines.
S10261956 the International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
S10261957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting.
S10261958 Pan American World Airways begins regular transatlantic jet
S10261958Cservice, New York to Paris.
S10261966 LBJ pays a surprize visit to Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam.
S10261967 the cancellation of draft deferments of college students who
S10261967Cviolate draft laws or interfere with recruiting is ordered by the
S10261967CSelective Service.
S10261969 Gen. Mohammed Siad Barre takes control of Samalia in a coup and
S10261969Csuspends the Constitution, renaming the country Somali Democratic
S10261969CRepublic.
S10261970 the "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers.
S10261972 guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begins.
S10261974 the largest cash theft in U.S. history occurs in Chicago when
S10261974Cburglars remove $4.3 million from Purolator Security's vaults.
S10261975 Anwar Sudat becomes the first Egyptian president to visit the
S10261975CU.S.
S10261976 Transkei, an unrecognized nation, is granted independence by
S10261976CSouth Africa.
S10261977 the fifth and final test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise occurs.
S10261980 trailing 26-14 entering the fourth quarter, Browns' QB Brian Sipe
S10261980Cleads the Kardiac Kids to two TDs for a 27-26 win over the
S10261980CSteelers at the Stadium.
S10261982 the Polish Parliament approves a measure outlawing Solidarity.
S10261982C(The U.S. responds by suspending Poland's most-favored-nation
S10261982Cstatus.)
S10261983 President Reagan bars reporters from covering Grenada.
S10261989 the Powerhouse at Nautica in the Flats (Cleveland) opens.
S10261993 the NFL owners award the league's 29th franchise to Charlotte,
S10261993CN.C.
S10261995 the Indians win Game 5 of the World Series (down 2-3) with home
S10261995Cruns by Albert Belle and Jim Thome, Cleveland 5, Atlanta 4.
S10261995CFirsts at Jacobs Field:
S10261995C  first World Series 2-run home run - (Indians) Albert Belle (1st
S10261995C    inning)
R1026    6set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time
R1026    6ends).
R1026    7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.)
S1026    1Feast of Christ the King.
S1026     Feast of St. Demetrios the Martyr (Orthodox).
S1026     Feast of St. Evaristus, 5th pope (c. 97-c. 107), martyr.
S1026    1World Order Sunday.
S1026     Festival of the Families (Greek).
S1026    7Winter Saturday.
S1026    1Winter Sunday.
R1026    2It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1026    3It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1026    4It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1026    5It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1026    6It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1026    7It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1026    1It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1026    2It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1026    3It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1026    4It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
S1026     Austrian National Day.
S1026    2Labour Day (New Zealand).
S1026     Beninese Armed Forces Day.
S1026     Deepavali (Singapore).
S1026     Gospel Day (Cook Islands).
S1026     Rwandan Armed Forces Day.
S1026     South Vietnamese Republic Day.
S10271787 the Federalist letters begin appearing in N.Y. newspapers.
S10271795 the U.S. and Spain sign the Treaty of San Lorenzo (Pinckney's
S10271795CTreaty), providing free navigation of the Mississippi and use of
S10271795Cthe port of New Orleans.
S10271836 the "Bridge War" between Cleveland and Ohio City over the
S10271836CColumbus Street Bridge culminates in violence.
S10271858 R.H. Macy & Co. opens first store, on 6th Avenue, New York City
S10271858C(gross receipts of $1,106).
S10271896 the first Pali Road is completed in Hawaii (the Pali is a cliff
S10271896Cwhere the winds are so strong streams flow UP!  Honest!).
S10271904 New York opens the first section of it's subway system.
S10271916 the first published reference to "jazz" appears in an article
S10271916Cin "Variety" about the formation of "jazz bands" in Chicago.
S10271927 Fox Movie-Tone News, the world's first sound news film, is
S10271927Creleased in New York.
S10271935 the Old Fort Hill Camp in the Rocky River Reservation is
S10271935Cdedicated (a Lakewood Girl Scouts project).
S10271944 the U.S. destroys the Japanese navy at the Battle of Leyte Gulf,
S10271944Cthe largest naval battle in history.  (Japan first begin using
S10271944Ckamikaze attacks on U.S. warships.)
S10271947 "You Bet Your Life", with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio.
S10271954 Walt Disney's "Disneyland" premieres on ABC.
S10271962 President Kennedy warns the Soviet Union that the U.S. will not
S10271962Ctolerate the maintenance of Soviet offensive missiles in Cuba.
S10271962 Australia's Dawn Fraser breaks the 1-minute barrier in the
S10271962Cwomen's 100 meter freestyle.
S10271962 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway at the Billy
S10271962CRose Theatre.
S10271964 Cher changes her last name from LaPierre to Bono.
S10271967 a Catholic priest, Father Berrigan, and two others pour blood on
S10271967CU.S. draft files in Baltimore in protest of the Vietnam War.
S10271971 the Congo is renamed the Republic of Zaire.
S10271972 the Golden Gate National Recreation Area is created.
S10271979 St. Vincent and the Grenadines gain independence from Britain.
S10271991 the Republic of Turkmenistan declares its independence from the
S10271991CU.S.S.R.
R1027    6set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time
R1027    6ends).
R1027    7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.)
S1027    1Feast of Christ the King.
S1027     Feast of St. Frumentius, bishop and founder of Ethiopian church.
S1027     Feast of St. Claudia, Pilate's wife (Eastern Church).
S1027     Owaglt (Hopi).
S1027    1World Order Sunday.
S1027    7Winter Saturday.
S1027    1Winter Sunday.
S1027     Navy Day.
S1027     Good Bear Day.
R1027    3It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1027    4It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1027    5It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1027    6It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1027    7It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1027    1It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1027    5It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1027    4It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1027    3It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1027    2It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
S1027    2Labour Day (New Zealand).
S1027     Angam Day (Nauru).
S1027     Country's Change of Name Anniversary (Zaire).
S1027     Deepawali (Fiji).
S1027     Pakistani Revolution Day.
S1027     Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Thanksgiving and Independence
S1027       Day.
S10281492 Columbus discovers Cuba, believing, at first, it was China.
S10281636 Harvard College (now University) is founded, the oldest in the
S10281636Ccountry.
S10281776 the British forces under Howe defeats Washington at White Plains,
S10281776CNew York.
S10281790 N.Y. gives up claims to Vermont in exchange for $30,000.
S10281793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on his cotton gin.
S10281872 the Canadian horse epidemic, also known as epizootic catarrh,
S10281872Cstrikes Cleveland, closing several streetcar stables and forcing
S10281872Cthe fire department to use stricken horses at slow speeds.
S10281886 the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
S10281904 St. Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints.
S10281918 Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austria-Hungary.
S10281919 the Volstead Act is passed by Congress, starting Prohibition.
S10281922 the first coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game airs.
S10281927 Pan Am Airways launches the first international flight - Key West
S10281927Cto Havana.
S10281929 the first child is born on an aircraft, a daughter to Mr. and
S10281929CMrs. T.W. Evans (over Miami, Florida).
S10281934 the Polish Cultural Garden unit of Cleveland's Cultural Gardens
S10281934Cis dedicated.
S10281953 Bud Grant of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes
S10281953C(record).
S10281954 New Jersey installs the first automatic toll collectors on its
S10281954Cturnpike.
S10281962 President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Khrushchev reach agreement
S10281962Con a formula to end the Cuban missile crisis.
S10281965 the Gateway to the West Arch (630 feet high) opens in St. Louis,
S10281965CMo.
S10281965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for the
S10281965Ccrucifixion of Jesus.
S10281965 the Pentagon lowers standard for military induction.
S10281971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite, Prospero, a Black
S10281971CKnight 1 satellite carried by a Black Arrow rocket and launched
S10281971Cfrom Woomera, Australia, in orbit.
S10281974 Cleveland's Belkin Productions' first show at the Coliseum
S10281974Cin Richfield, Ohio stars Stevie Wonder.
S10281975 the Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for
S10281975Cthe Zoo.
S10281984 China announces plans for new economic reforms, including limited
S10281984Ccapitalist measures.
S10281986 the Justice Department opens an inquiry into the Iran-contra
S10281986Cfunding.
S10281989 Bay Village's 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic disappears (her body is
S10281989Cfound Feb. 8, 1990).
S10281993 the Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for
S10281993C99-years.
S10281994 a circus (the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's) plays at
S10281994CGund Arena for the first time.
S10281995 the Indians lose Game 6 and the final game of the World Series to
S10281995CAtlanta, 1-0 (loss 3 of the 4 games by one run).
R1028    6set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time
R1028    6ends).
R1028    7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.)
S1028    1Feast of Christ the King.
S1028     Feast of SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles.
S1028    1Reformation Sunday (Protestant festival).
S1028    7Winter Saturday.
S1028    1Winter Sunday.
S1028     Folly Day.
R1028    4It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1028    5It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1028    6It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1028    7It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1028    1It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1028    6It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1028    5It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1028    4It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1028    3It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1028    2It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
S1028     Norse Fyribod Festival.
S1028    2Labour Day (New Zealand).
S1028     Czechoslovakia Independence Day.
S1028     Greece's National Day.
S1028     Greek National Day (Cyprus).
S1028     Festival for Isis begins (Ancient Egyptian week-long festival,
S1028       Isis is the most complete flowering of the Goddess concept in
S1028       human history.)
S1029 539 BC Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia.
S10291618 Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded.
S10291682 Pennsylvania is granted to William Penn by King Charles II.
S10291811 the first Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans.
S10291814 the first steam-powered warship, "Demologos," is launched in New
S10291814CYork harbor.
S10291863 the International Committee of the Red Cross is founded (Nobel
S10291863C1917, 1944, 1963).
S10291872 Cleveland annexes East Cleveland.
S10291872 the all-metal windmill is patented (J.S. Risdon, Genoa, Ill.).
S10291894 the first election of the Hawaiian Republic takes place.
S10291904 the first intercity trucking service goes into business with
S10291904Ca route between Colorado City and Snyder, Texas.
S10291923 Turkey is proclaimed a republic (National Day).
S10291929 "Black Tuesday", the Stock Market crash occurs.
S10291929 the first building opens at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village in
S10291929CDearborn, Mich., Edison's electric laboratory from Menlo Park,
S10291929CN.J.
S10291939 the Irish Cultural Garden unit of Cleveland's Cultural Gardens is
S10291939Cofficially dedicated.
S10291947 G.E. is the first to successfully produce rain by seeding cumulus
S10291947Cclouds with dry ice at Concord, N.H.
S10291950 Cleveland Browns' Marion Motley sets the record for the highest
S10291950Caverage gain in a game with 17.1 (in only 10 attempts), Cleveland
S10291950C45, Pittsburgh 7.
S10291956 "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet" is heard on NBC for the
S10291956Cfirst time (Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, NBC News, team up).
S10291956 Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of
S10291956CTiran (the beginning of the Suez Canal War).
S10291958 the first coronary angiogram is performed by Dr. F. Mason Sones
S10291958Cat the Cleveland Clinic.
S10291964 the uninsured Star of India and other jewels are stolen from the
S10291964CAmerican Museum of Natural History in N.Y. (the alarm system and
S10291964Cnight guards were stopped years earlier for economic reasons).
S10291964CIt was recovered Jan. 8, 1965.
S10291964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar unite to form Tanzania (National Day).
S10291971 the first successful use of electricity to repair a bone fracture
S10291971Cis reported by surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania.
S10291974 a bill forbidding discrimination in credit applications on the
S10291974Cbasis of sex or marital status is signed by President Ford.
S10291974 the Cleveland Cavaliers play their first game at the Richfield
S10291974CColiseum.
S10291974 Muhammad Ali regains his heavyweight title (taken from him in
S10291974C1967 for refusing the draft) by knocking out George Foreman.
S10291982 the FDA approves marketing of human insulin made through gene
S10291982Csplicing.
S10291982 John DeLorean is indicted for drug trafficking (acquitted).
S10291983 millions in Europe protest the deployment of U.S. intermediate-
S10291983Crange missiles for NATO.
S10291989 Cleveland Browns' Webster Slaughter sets a club record for the
S10291989Chighest receiving average (46 yards, 4 for 184 yards), Browns 28,
S10291989CHouston 7.
S10291991 Galileo, on a roundabout trip to Jupiter, takes the first
S10291991Cphotographs of the rocky asteroid, Gaspra.
S10291992 an injectable contraceptive for women containing synthetic
S10291992Cprogestrone is approved by the FDA.
R1029    6set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time
R1029    6ends).
R1029    7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.)
S1029    1Feast of Christ the King.
S1029     Feast of St. Theodorus, or Chef, Abbot (c. A.D. 575).
S1029     Feast of the Dead (Iroquois).
S1029    1Reformation Sunday (Protestant festival).
S1029    1World Temperance Sunday.
R1029    5It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1029    6It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1029    7It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1029     It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
S1029     Turkish National Day (Cyprus).
S1029     Turkish Republic Days begins.
S1029    1Winter Sunday.
S1029     Festival for Isis (Ancient Egyptian week-long festival, Isis is
S1029       the most complete flowering of the Goddess concept in human
S1029       history.)
S10301270 the 8th and last crusade is launched.
S10301775 the first U.S. Navy is created with assorted ships to aid in the
S10301775CRevolutionary War.  It all but disappears when the last ship is
S10301775Csold in 1785.  (Congress establishes the Navy in 1794.)
S10301829 the first fair is held in Cleveland on the Public Square.
S10301864 Helena, capital of Montana, is founded.
S10301888 the ball point pen is patented (John J. Loud).
S10301894 Daniel M. Cooper patents a time-card time recorder.
S10301905 Tsar Nicholas II grants Russia a constitution (October
S10301905CManifesto) .
S10301922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government.
S10301925 Scotsman John L. Baird performs the first TV broadcast of moving
S10301925Cobjects.
S10301937 the closest approach to the earth by an asteroid, Hermes, is
S10301937Cmeasured (asteroid now lost).
S10301938 Orson Welles panics the nation with his broadcast of "War of the
S10301938CWorlds".
S10301941 the "U.S.S. Ruebon James" becomes the first American warship
S10301941Cdestroyed in the Battle of the Atlantic.
S10301954 Swedish parliament approves national health care system.
S10301961 the Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution
S10301961Cremoving Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square.
S10301961 the U.S.S.R. detonates the most powerful man-made thermonuclear
S10301961Cdevice, 62 to 90 megatons.
S10301975 Mary Leakey announces the discovery of human remains dating back
S10301975C3.75 million-years.
S10301975 the N.Y. Daily News ran this headline, "Ford to City: Drop Dead".
S10301978 Laura Nickel and Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime,
S10301978C2 ^ 21701 -1.
S10301985 the 20nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 is launched.
S10301992 Magic Johnson plays his last game in the NBA before retiring for
S10301992Cthe second and last time (against the Cleveland Cavaliers).
S10301995 Quebeckers vote against secession by a margin of 50.6% to 49.4%.
S10301995 50,000 Indians fans jam the streets for a downtown parade and
S10301995Crally to celebrate a remarkable season and to give tribute to the
S10301995Cteam.
R1030    6Set your clock back 1 hour tomorrow night (Daylight Savings Time
R1030    6ends).
R1030    7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.)
S1030    1Feast of Christ the King.
S1030     Feast of St. Alphonsus.
S1030     Feast of St. Serapion, Bishop and confessor.
S1030    1Reformation Sunday (Protestant festival).
S1030    1World Temperance Sunday.
R1030    6It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1030    7It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1030    2It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1030    3It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1030    4It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1030    5It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1030    6It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1030    7It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
S1030     Angelitos (Mexican).
S1030     Festival for Isis (Ancient Egyptian week-long festival, Isis is
S1030       the most complete flowering of the Goddess concept in human
S1030       history.)
S1030     Descending Day of Lord Buddha from Heaven (Bhutan).
S10310834 the first All Hallows Eve is observed by all churches;
S10310834Cestablished by Pope Gregory IV to honor the saints.
S10311517 Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the Wittenberg church door,
S10311517Cbeginning the Protestant Reformation.
S10311815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents the miner's safety lamp.
S10311835 the Manufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Rhode Island
S10311835Cis incorporated (first mutual fire insurance company in the
S10311835CU.S.).
S10311846 the Donner party begins building their winter camp at Truckee
S10311846C(now Donner) Lake, having failed to traverse the snow filled
S10311846CDonner Pass.
S10311861 under the protection of Confederate troops, secessionist members
S10311861Cof the Missouri legislation adopt a resolution of secession.
S10311864 Nevada becomes the 36th state.
S10311868 the U.S. Postal Service approves uniforms for letter-carriers.
S10311913 the U.S. Income Tax law goes into effect (at 1%).
S10311930 the first nature education program is offered in the Cleveland
S10311930CPark District.
S10311956 Brooklyn, N.Y. ends streetcar service.
S10311956 G.J. Dufek becomes the first American to land by air at the South
S10311956CPole.
S10311956 "Auntie Mame" opens on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre,
S10311956Cstarring Rosalind Russell.
S10311959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to
S10311959CUnited States.
S10311962 Anna I-B, the first successful U.S. satellite of the series, is
S10311962Claunched to provide more accurate information about the size and
S10311962Cshape of the earth.
S10311969 a gunman takes a plane from San Francisco to Rome in the first
S10311969Ctransatlantic hijacking.
S10311980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (55,137
S10311980Cfeet).
S10311984 India's prime minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated in New
S10311984CDelhi.
S10311988 the lowest temperature ever experienced in Cleveland in the month
S10311988Cof October is recorded, 19 degrees.
S1031     All Hallows Eve (you know, Halloween).
S1031     Nut Crack Night (pioneer name for the festival).
S1031     Snap Apple Night (Victorian celebration).
S1031     Oidhche Shamhna (celebrated in Ireland, Vigil of Samhain,
S1031       druidical name for a Celtic Lord of the Dead).
S1031     Samhain Sunset (Wiccan Sabbat - religious festival marking the
S1031       last harvest and the preparations for Winter).
S1031     Turnip Night (Ireland).
S1031    1Feast of Christ the King.
S1031     Vigil of All Saints, Feast of St. Wolfgang, Benedictine bishop.
S1031     National Magic Day.
S1031     Nevada Day.
S1031    1Reformation Sunday (Protestant festival).
S1031    1World Temperance Sunday.
S1031     National UNICEF Day.
S1031     Reformation Day (Protestant).
S1031     Youth Honor Day (Iowa and Massachusetts).
R1031    7It's National Cleaner Air Week.
R1031    3It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1031    4It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1031    5It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1031    6It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
R1031    7It's Disarmament Week (U.N. observance).
S1031     Festival for Isis (Ancient Egyptian week-long festival, Isis is
S1031       the most complete flowering of the Goddess concept in human
S1031       history.)
R1031    7Set your clock back 1 hour tonight (Daylight Savings Time ends.)
R1000     It's Michigan Library Month.
R1000     It's National Hobby Month.
R1000     It's National Restaurant Month.
R1000     It's National Apple Month!
R1000     It's Gourmet Adventures Month!
R1000     It's National Fish and Seafood Month!
R1000     It's National Sarcastics' Month!
R1000     It's International Marine Travel Month!
R1000     It's National Wine Festival Month!!
R1000     It's Pizza Festival Time Month!!
R1000     It's National Applejack Month!!
R1000     It's National Rodent Prevention Month.
R1000     The gems for October are opal and tourmaline.
R1000     The hops, calendula and cosmo are the flowers of October.
R1000     The sentimental meaning of the opal and the tourmaline is for
R1000       hope, and the calendula is for constancy.
R1000     October's name comes from the Latin word for eight, octo.
R1000     The Saxons called October Win Monath - time for making wine.
R1000     The full moon in October is known as the Hunters' Moon, and the
R1000       Blood Moon.
R10011022 Libra is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R10011022   Symbol: The Balance.
R10011022   Ruling Planet: Venus.
R10011022   Element: Air.
R10011022   Traits: Charming, diplomatic, idealistic, indecisive.
R10011022   Body part associated with this sign: Reins.
R10011022   Occupations: Acting, the arts, law and legal activities,
R10011022     politics.
R10011022   The abbreviation of pound (lb.) comes from the word Libra
R10011022     because of the scales she holds.
R10231031 Scorpio is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R10231031   Symbol: The Scorpion.
R10231031   Ruling Planet: Pluto.
R10231031   Element: Water.
R10231031   Traits: Passionate, intense, secretive, subtle.
R10231031   Body part associated with this sign: Secrets.
R10231031   Occupations: Teaching, work requiring concentration, training
R10231031     animals, psychiatry, surgery, detection.

 
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S11011752 All Saints' Day is first celebrated.
S11011802 the Ohio Constitutional Convention first meets in the "old stone
S11011802CState-house" in Chillicothe, the first state capitol.
S11011834 the first published reference to the game of Poker describes it
S11011834Cas a Mississippi riverboat game.
S11011835 Davy Crockett heads for Texas, and his date with history.
S11011835 Seminole Indians in Florida under Osceola begin attacks,
S11011835Cprotesting forced removal.
S11011848 the Boston Female Medical School, the first medical school for
S11011848Cwomen (founded by Samuel Gregory), opens.
S11011861 President Lincoln names Gen. George B. McClellan to succeed
S11011861Cretiring Gen. Winfield Scott as Army commander-in-chief.
S11011870 the U.S. Weather Bureau begins operations.
S11011873 barbed wire is invented by Joseph F. Glidden.
S11011895 the first magazine devoted to the motor vehicle, "The Horseless
S11011895CAge", is published.
S11011901 Dr. J.E. Gillman announces an x-ray treatment for breast cancer.
S11011906 the first forward pass is thrown during a Yale vs. Harvard
S11011906Cfootball game.
S11011911 Chevrolet Motor Company is incorporated.
S11011911 the Italian Air Corps conduct history's first airborne bombing
S11011911Craid.
S11011913 Knute Rockne leads underdog Notre Dame to a 35-13 win over Army
S11011913Cand introduces the forward pass.
S11011923 Goodyear buys rights to manufacture Zeppelin dirigibles.
S11011929 Albert B. Fall is convicted of accepting a bribe in the leasing
S11011929Cof Elk Hills (Teapot Dome) naval oil reserve.
S11011932 Wernher von Braun is named head of the German liquid-fuel rocket
S11011932Cprogram.
S11011939 the Rockefeller Center in completed.
S11011939 the "Human Torch" and the "Submarine" first appear in Marvel
S11011939CComics.
S11011940 the first U.S. air raid shelter is built in Fleetwood, Pa.
S11011941 the Rainbow Bridge opens to traffic across the Niagara River.
S11011942 Right Rev. Spence Burton becomes the first American bishop of the
S11011942CChurch of England (diocese of Nassau, Haiti).
S11011943 the 3rd Marine Division lands on Bougainville and, relieved by
S11011943Cthe Army's 37th Infantry Division, captures it two years later.
S11011943 the dimout ban is lifted in the San Francisco Bay area.
S11011944 the play "Harvey" by Mary Coyle Chase opens at the Forth-Eighth
S11011944CStreet Theatre in N.Y. City.
S11011945 Mercury production resumes with the '46 models after the shut-
S11011945Cdown for war production on Feb. 10. 1942.
S11011947 the first Aloha Week Parade is held in Hawaii.
S11011950 the Pope proclaims the dogma of the Assumption of the Virgin.
S11011950 the highest temperature Cleveland has ever enjoyed in November
S11011950Coccurs (82 degrees).
S11011950 the first black player plays in the National Basketball
S11011950CAssociation at Fort Wayne, Ind.
S11011952 the U.S. explodes the first hydrogen device at Eniwetok Atoll in
S11011952Cthe Pacific (officially reported Feb. 2, 1954).
S11011957 the world's longest suspension bridge, the Mackinac Straits
S11011957CBridge between Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, opens.
S11011959 Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in the Cleveland Browns win over
S11011959CBaltimore, a club record for the most TDs on the ground, Browns
S11011959C38, Baltimore 31.
S11011959 Jacques Plante starts a trend among N.H.L. goaltenders by donning
S11011959Ca protective mask during a regular season game.
S11011962 WCLV begins its career as Cleveland's principal fine-arts radio
S11011962Cstation when it airs as WDGO-FM (became WCLV on Nov. 5, 1962).
S11011964 Oilers' George Blanda sets a NFL record for the most pass
S11011964Cattempts (68) in a game (broken in 1994).
S11011973 President Nixon names Leon Jaworski as special Watergate
S11011973Cprosecutor to succeed fired Archibald Cox.
S11011976 the Lakewood Beck Center opens.
S11011979 Lee Iacocca becomes CEO of the Chrysler Corporation.
S11011981 Antigua, Barbuda and Redonda gain independence from Britain.
S11011981 first class mail is raised from 18 to 20 cents.
S11011982 Bowie Kuhn is voted out as baseball commissioner.
S11011990 an agreement to end all dumping of industrial waste at sea by
S11011990C1995 is made by 43 nations, including the U.S. and all leading
S11011990Cindustrial countries.
S11011992 oxygenated fuels containing 10% ethanol are first required in
S11011992COhio, mandated by the Clean Air Act of 1990 (to be used until
S11011992CFeb. 28, 1993).
S11011993 the Vietnam Women's Memorial is installed near the Vietnam
S11011993CVeterans Memorial in Washington.
S1101     All Saints' Night.
S1101     Feast of All Saints.
S1101     All Saints' Day (celebrated in Zaire).
S1101     Birthday of the Virgin Mary - Coptic (Egyptian) and Abyssinian
S1101       Churches.
S1101     Celtic New Year (the Vigil of Samhain, druidical name for a Lord
S1101       of the Dead).
S1101     Day of the Dead (Mexico, People's Republic of the Congo,
S1101       Slovenia, and Yugoslavia).
S1101    1World Temperance Sunday.
S1101    7Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
R1101    1It's International Cat Week.
R1101    1It's National Double Talk Week.
R1101    2National Impotency Week begins!
S1101     Anniversary of the Algerian Revolution.
S1101     Hawke's Bay Provincial Anniversary (New Zealand).
S1101     Marlborough Provincial Anniversary (New Zealand).
S1101     Antigua, Barbuda and Redonda National Day.
S1101     Festival for Isis (Ancient Egyptian week-long festival, Isis -
S1101       the most complete flowering of the Goddess concept in human
S1101       history.)
S11021783 the Continental Army is officially disbanded.
S11021854 cobblestone paving of Washington St. between Dupont and Kearny
S11021854Cstarts in San Francisco.
S11021878 Edward W. Scripps and John S. Sweeney found the Penny Press,
S11021878Clater becoming the Cleveland Press.
S11021889 North Dakota becomes the 39th state.
S11021889 South Dakota becomes the 40th state.
S11021895 the first contest between self-propelled vehicles in the U.S. is
S11021895Cheld in Chicago (a Benz is the only car to finish).
S11021917 the Balfour Declaration is announced, calling for a Jewish
S11021917Chomeland in Palestine.
S11021917 the Lansing-Ishii Agreement is signed.
S11021920 radio station KDKA in Philadelphia, Pa., broadcasts the results
S11021920Cof the presidential election, the first time radio broadcasting
S11021920Cbecame a service for the general public.
S11021920 Private James Joseph Daly, 22, becomes the only man executed by a
S11021920Cfiring squad for his part in the June 28 mutiny of the 1st
S11021920CBattalion of the famous, highly decorated Irish regiment
S11021920CConnaught Rangers, stationed in India, who laid down their arms
S11021920Cand refused to soldier for England in protest of the terrorizing
S11021920Cdone by the British Black and Tans in Ireland.
S11021921 the American Birth Control League is formed.
S11021926 the Air Commerce Act is passed, providing federal aid for
S11021926Cairlines and airports.
S11021931 in Ohio, Du Pont announces it will market synthetic rubber.
S11021936 the world's first TV broadcasting service is inaugurated by
S11021936Cthe British Broadcasting Corporation in London.
S11021947 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for first (and last) time.
S11021947C(Wing span is 319 feet, 11 inches.)
S11021948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
S11021954 J.S. Thurmond is the first senator elected by a write-in vote
S11021954C(South Carolina).
S11021962 JFK announces that the Soviet missile bases in Cuba are being
S11021962Cdismantled.
S11021963 President Diem of South Vietnam is assassinated during a coup.
S11021964 CBS purchases the N.Y. Yankees.
S11021965 the first American, Quaker Norman Morrison, immolates himself to
S11021965Cprotest the Vietnam War.
S11021968 Funk & Wagnalls publishing company is acquired by Reader's
S11021968CDigest.
S11021976 New Jersey approves the Las Vegas-style casinos for Atlantic
S11021976CCity.
S11021983 Martin Luther King's birthday becomes a national holiday.
S11021992 a bill prohibiting fishing with drift nets is signed by President
S11021992CBush.
S11021992 Laker's Magic Johnson retires for the second and last time.
S11021993 the first commemorative bricks are laid at the Bob Feller
S11021993CMemorial at Cleveland's Gateway (Jacobs Field).
S11021994 the NFL places Jacksonville in the AFC Central Division, and
S11021994CCharlotte in the NFC West for the 1995 season.
S1102    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S1102     Commemoration of All Souls (All Souls' Day - the Irish say all
S1102       souls in Purgatory are released for 24 hours).
S1102     North and South Dakota Admission Day.
S1102    1World Temperance Sunday.
S1102    7Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
R1102    1It's International Cat Week.
R1102    1It's National Double Talk Week.
R1102    2It's International Cat Week.
R1102    2It's National Double Talk Week.
R1102    2National Impotency Week begins!
R1102    3It's National Impotency Week!
S1102     Commemoration of the Dead (San Marino).
S1102     Balfour Declaration Day (Israel).
S1102     Memorial Day (Brazil and El Salvador).
S1102     Festival of Shiva (Hindu, god of the universal cycle of birth-
S1102       death-rebirth).
S1102     Festival for Isis (Ancient Egyptian week-long festival, Isis -
S1102       the most complete flowering of the Goddess concept in human
S1102       history.)
S11031834 a handful of printers get together at the Commercial Coffee House
S11031834Coff the Public Square and form Cleveland's first union, an
S11031834Cauxiliary to the Columbus Typographical Society.
S11031837 prices of eight cents a pound for butter, three cents a pound for
S11031837Cbeef and twenty cents a pound for coffee prompts Illinois
S11031837Chousewives to stage a protest.
S11031883 the U.S. Supreme Court rules that Indians are, by birth, aliens
S11031883Cand dependents.
S11031892 the first automatic switchboard begins operation in La Porte, La.
S11031900 the first national Automobile Show opens at Madison Square
S11031900CGarden in New York City.
S11031903 Panama declares it's independence from Columbia.
S11031907 the world's first helicopter flight is achieved in France.
S11031917 the first engagement involving U.S. forces in Europe occurs near
S11031917Cthe Rhine-Marne Canal in France when German forces attack
S11031917CAmericans training in front-line trenches.
S11031917 first class mail costs 3 cents.
S11031918 Austria-Hungary surrenders.
S11031927 "A Connecticut Yankee," the first outstanding Broadway success
S11031927Cby Rodgers and Hart, opens at the Vanderbilt Theatre in N.Y.
S11031927CCity.
S11031930 the Detroit-Windsor tunnel opens, becoming the first vehicular
S11031930Ctunnel to foreign country.
S11031930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America.
S11031941 U.S. Ambassador Joseph Grew warns Washington of a possible
S11031941Csecret attack on U.S. positions by the Japanese.
S11031952 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.
S11031956 "The Wizard of Oz" is first televised.
S11031957 U.S.S.R. launches a dog, Laika, in Sputnik II (the first animal
S11031957Cin orbit).
S11031964 Robert Kennedy is elected Senator (New York).
S11031966 LBJ signs a bill requiring food labeling to identify contents.
S11031970 Jane Fonda is charged in Cleveland with smuggling pills and
S11031970Ckicking a police officer (pills were prescription).
S11031973 Mariner 10 is launched to map Mercury, becoming the first space
S11031973Ccraft to use the gravity of a planet (Venus) to send it to
S11031973Canother (Mercury).
S11031978 Britain grants Dominica independence (National Day).
S11031986 the Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret U.S. arms sales
S11031986Cto Iran (the beginning of the Iran-contra scandal).
S11031986 the Federated States of Microesia becomes a sovereign-self-
S11031986Cgoverning state.
S11031986 the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands becomes a U.S.
S11031986Ccommonwealth.
S11031992 Ohio gives Clinton enough electoral votes to win the presidency.
S11031992 Ohio U.S. Senator John Glenn wins a historic (Ohio) fourth term.
S11031992 Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois becomes the first black women
S11031992CU.S. senator.
S11031992 Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado becomes the first U.S.
S11031992Csenator with a ponytail.
S11031993 Atlanta's Greg Maddux becomes the first player to win back-to-
S11031993Cback Cy Young Awards playing on different teams.
S1103    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S1103     Feast of St. Malachy, Bishop of Armagh.
S1103     Feast of Blessed Martin de Porres, confessor.
S1103     Feast of St. Sylvia.
S1103     Feast of St. Hubert, bishop, healer of madmen, patron saint of
S1103       hunters.
S1103    7Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
S1103    6World Community Day (pray for peace).
S1103    1World Temperance Sunday.
R1103    1It's International Cat Week.
R1103    1It's National Double Talk Week.
R1103    2It's International Cat Week.
R1103    3It's International Cat Week.
R1103    2It's National Double Talk Week.
R1103    3It's National Double Talk Week.
R1103    2National Impotency Week begins!
R1103    3It's National Impotency Week!
R1103    4It's National Impotency Week!
S1103     New Year Festival (Gaelic).
S1103     Japan Culture Day.
S1103     Dominica Independence Day.
S1103     Grand Festival of St. Hubert (Belgium).
S1103     Independence of Cuenca (Ecuador).
S1103     Panama Independence from Colombia Day.
S1103     Festival for Isis ends (Ancient Egyptian week-long festival, Isis
S1103       - the most complete flowering of the Goddess concept in human
S1103       history.)
S11041841 the first emigrant wagon train arrives in California.
S11041846 Benjamin F. Palmer patents an artificial leg.
S11041854 a lighthouse is established on Alcatraz Island.
S11041862 Dr. Richard J. Gatling patents the revolving 6-barrel machine
S11041862Cgun.
S11041867 90 kegs of powder are used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for
S11041867Ca seawall (San Francisco).
S11041879 James J. Ritty patents the first cash register, to combat
S11041879Cstealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon.
S11041889 reporter Nellie Bly begins her journey around the world to beat
S11041889CJules Verne's Phileas Fogg of "Around the World in 80 Days"
S11041889Crecord (finished in 72 days).
S11041922 Howard Carter discovers the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamen
S11041922C(enters Nov. 25).
S11041923 Chicago Bears' George Halas picks up an Oorang Indians fumble and
S11041923Cruns it back 98 yards for a TD.
S11041924 Miriam "Ma" Ferguson of Texas is elected the first woman governor
S11041924Cin the U.S. (she becomes the second woman to take office).
S11041934 the Detroit Lions set a record for yards rushing (426) against
S11041934CPittsburgh.
S11041938 the first Mercury appears at dealerships.
S11041939 the Neutrality Act of 1939 is passed by Congress, repealing the
S11041939Cprohibition of arms exports in the Neutrality Act of 1937 and
S11041939Cauthorizing the "cash and carry" sale of arms.
S11041939 the first air-conditioned automobile, the Packard, is exhibited
S11041939C(Chicago, Ill.).
S11041945 the first World Community Day is celebrated.
S11041946 the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization is
S11041946Cformed.
S11041952 John F. Kennedy wins a seat in the Senate.
S11041954 "Fanny" opens on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre.
S11041956 Soviet tanks crush Hungarian revolt.
S11041957 the same six songs top the pop and R&B charts:
S11041957C   #1.  Jailhouse Rock        Elvis Presley
S11041957C   #2.  Wake Up Little Susie  Everly Brothers
S11041957C   #3.  You Send Me           Sam Cooke
S11041957C   #4.  Silhouettes           The Rays
S11041957C   #5   Be-Bop Baby           Ricky Nelson
S11041957C   #6.  Honeycomb             Jimmie Rodgers
S11041958 Angelo Giuseppe Cardinal Roncalli is crowned Pope John XXIII.
S11041962 the U.S. halts atmospheric tests of nuclear bombs.
S11041972 the Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against the Islanders.
S11041976 24 players from 13 clubs participate in M.L. baseball's first
S11041976Cfree-agent draft (Reggie Jackson signs the most lucrative
S11041976Ccontract, $2.9 million over 5 years with the Yankees).
S11041979 hostages are taken at the American embassy in Teheran.
S11041981 Dr. George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive
S11041981Cdrugs for Elvis Presley.
S11041988 Bill Cosby and his wife Camille give $20 million to Spelman
S11041988CCollege, Atlanta, Ga. (largest gift ever from individuals to a
S11041988Cpredominantly black institute).
S11041995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated.
S1104    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S1104     Feast of St. Charles Borromeo, archbishop of Milan, confessor.
S1104     Will Rogers Day (Oklahoma).
S1104    7Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
S1104    1World Temperance Sunday.
S1104    6World Community Day (pray for peace).
R1104    1It's International Cat Week.
R1104    1It's National Double Talk Week.
R1104    2It's International Cat Week.
R1104    3It's International Cat Week.
R1104    4It's International Cat Week.
R1104    2It's National Double Talk Week.
R1104    3It's National Double Talk Week.
R1104    4It's National Double Talk Week.
R1104    2National Impotency Week begins!
R1104    3It's National Impotency Week!
R1104    4It's National Impotency Week!
R1104    5It's National Impotency Week!
S1104     Melbourne Cup Day (Victoria, Australia).
S1104     Mischief Night (England).
S1104     Panamanian Flag Day.
S1104     Tongan Constitution Day.
S11051605 a plot by Guy Fawkes to blow up the British Houses of Parliament
S11051605Cfails.
S11051752 Guy Fawkes Day is first celebrated.
S11051768 the largest treaty council between the British and the Indians
S11051768Cends with the signing of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, setting
S11051786Cboundaries among the 7 Nations of Canada Indians and the 6
S11051786CNations of the Northeastern Indians, and giving land to white
S11051786Csettlers south of the Ohio River.
S11051781 John Hanson is elected first "President of the United States in
S11051781CCongress assembled" (8 years before Washington was elected).
S11051852 the American Society of Civil Engineers is established in New
S11051852CYork City (first called the American Society of Engineers and
S11051852CArchitects).
S11051862 President Lincoln names Gen. Burnside to replace Gen. McClellan
S11051862C(after only 1 year) as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
S11051872 Susan B. Anthony is arrested for attempting to vote.
S11051895 the first U.S. patent is granted for a gasoline-driven automobile
S11051895Cto George B. Selden.
S11051911 the first coast-to-coast airplane flight (N.Y. - Pasadena, with
S11051911Cmany stops) is completed after 82 hours of air time.
S11051913 the Los Angeles Owens River Aqueduct opens.
S11051930 the deadliest Ohio mine accident kills 82 in Millfield, Athens
S11051930CCounty.
S11051950 Cleveland Browns' Tommy James intercepts 3 passes, a club record,
S11051950CBrowns 10, Chicago Cardinals 7.
S11051959 the newly formed American Football League announces that eight
S11051959Cprofessional teams would begin play in 1965.
S11051963 archaeologists find Viking ruins in Newfoundland predating
S11051963CColumbus by 500 years.
S11051968 Shirley Chrisholm becomes the first black female to serve in the
S11051968CHouse (New York).
S11051973 BART starts San Francisco-Daly City train shuttle service.
S11051974 Ella Grasso is elected governor of Connecticut, the first woman
S11051974Cgovernor not succeeding her husband.
S11051974 voters in the District of Columbia choose for the first time a
S11051974Cmayor and a 14-member city council.
S11051975 Travis Walton is allegedly abducted by aliens in northeastern
S11051975CArizona and studied for five days.
S11051976 Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer in Utah, asks for the death
S11051976Csentence (on Jan. 17, 1977, he becomes the first person in 10
S11051976Cyears to be executed).
S11051982 the Cleveland Cavaliers lose their 24th consecutive game (NBA
S11051982Crecord).
S11051984 the Supreme Court rules the NFL could not prevent its teams from
S11051984Cmoving to different cities.
S11051984 Nicaragua holds first free elections in 56 years (Sandinistas win
S11051984C63% of the votes).
S11051989 Cleveland Browns' Bernie Kosar sets a club record of 16
S11051989Cconsecutive pass completions, Browns 42, Tampa 31.
S11051994 George Foreman becomes the oldest Heavyweight Champion at 45
S11051994C(K.O.'ed Michael Moorer who was ahead in points in the 10th).
S1105    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S1105     Feast of Holy Relics.
S1105     Feast of St. Elizabeth, mother of St. John the Baptist.
S1105     Fire Ceremony (Hopi).
S1105     Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England.
S1105    7Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
S1105    6World Community Day (pray for peace).
R1105    1It's International Cat Week.
R1105    1It's National Double Talk Week.
R1105    5It's International Cat Week.
R1105    4It's International Cat Week.
R1105    3It's International Cat Week.
R1105    2It's International Cat Week.
R1105    5It's National Double Talk Week.
R1105    4It's National Double Talk Week.
R1105    3It's National Double Talk Week.
R1105    2It's National Double Talk Week.
R1105    2National Impotency Week begins!
R1105    3It's National Impotency Week!
R1105    4It's National Impotency Week!
R1105    5It's National Impotency Week!
R1105    6It's National Impotency Week!
S1105     First Cry of Independence (El Salvador).
S11061850 the first fire engine arrives in Hawaii.
S11061860 Abraham Lincoln is elected President.
S11061862 direct telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco is
S11061862Cestablished.
S11061867 the first Parliament of Canada opens in Ottawa.
S11061869 the first intercollegiate football game is played (Rutgers 6,
S11061869CPrinceton 4).
S11061897 Peter Pan opens at the Empire Theater in New York, starring the
S11061897Celfin actress Maude Adams.
S11061897 Professor Abraham Van Helsing's small band slays Count Dracula
S11061897Cat Castle of Dracula (according to Bram Stoker).
S11061917 women win the right to vote in Lakewood, Ohio.
S11061917 the Bolshevik revolution begins.
S11061917 liquor interests opposing the vote for women, successfully
S11061917Coverturn the law permitting Ohio women to vote in presidential
S11061917Celections (passed in 1907) through referendum.
S11061922 the Palace Theater opens in Cleveland's Playhouse Square.
S11061923 a patent is issued to Col. Jacob Schick for the first electric
S11061923Cshaver.
S11061928 Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds.
S11061928 the first animated electric sign in the U.S. is mounted by "The
S11061928CNew York Times" around the top of the Times Building, Times
S11061928CSquare, N.Y City.
S11061931 the curtain rises on "The Queen's Husband" by George Sherwood,
S11061931Cthe inaugural production of the Guild of the Masques (2 years
S11061931Clater it became the Lakewood Little Theatre and now is the Beck
S11061931CCenter for the Cultural Arts).
S11061934 the first unicameral (single) state legislature is adopted by
S11061934CNebraska in an amendment to the state constitution.
S11061939 WGY-TV (Schenectady, N.Y.), first commercial-license station
S11061939Cbegins service.
S11061947 "Meet the Press" airs for the first time (weekly shows begin on
S11061947CSeptember 12, 1948).
S11061950 China enters the Korean conflict.
S11061956 the brief Suez Canal War is ended by an U.N. cease-fire.
S11061962 the BART bond issue in San Francisco just gets by with a 66.9%
S11061962Cfavorable vote.
S11061966 Lunar Orbiter 2 is launched to photograph possible landing sites
S11061966Calong the lunar equator.
S11061966 Eagles' Tim Brown runs back two kick-offs for TDs in the same
S11061966Cgame against the Dallas Cowboys (NFL record).
S11061967 Cleveland's Terminal Tower loses its distinction as the tallest
S11061967Cbuilding outside New York City when Chicago's John Hancock
S11061967CBuilding reaches 722 feet (eventually reaches 1,127 feet).
S11061979 Ayatolla Khomeini takes complete control of Iran.
S11061981 a black-footed ferret is found in Wyoming, previously thought
S11061981Cextinct.
S11061984 Ronald Reagan is reelected President in the greatest Republican
S11061984Clandslide in history.
S11061993 the world's largest peanut butter and jelly sandwich (40 feet
S11061993Clong and containing 150 pounds of creamy peanut butter and 50
S11061993Cpounds of grape jelly) is made in Peanut, Pa. (pop. 150) during a
S11061993Ccharity fund-raiser.
S11061994 "Wrong-way" German Silva wins the N.Y. City Marathon by 2
S11061994Cseconds, the closest race in its 25-year history.
S1106    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S1106     St. Leonard's Day (abbot) (Anglican).
S1106     Birthday of Tiamat (Babylonian holiday).
S1106    7Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
S1106    6World Community Day (pray for peace).
R1106    1It's International Cat Week.
R1106    1It's National Double Talk Week.
R1106    6It's International Cat Week.
R1106    5It's International Cat Week.
R1106    4It's International Cat Week.
R1106    3It's International Cat Week.
R1106    2It's International Cat Week.
R1106    6It's National Double Talk Week.
R1106    5It's National Double Talk Week.
R1106    4It's National Double Talk Week.
R1106    3It's National Double Talk Week.
R1106    2It's National Double Talk Week.
R1106    2National Impotency Week begins!
R1106    3It's National Impotency Week!
R1106    4It's National Impotency Week!
R1106    5It's National Impotency Week!
R1106    6It's National Impotency Week!
R1106    7It's National Impotency Week!
S1106     Al-Massira Celebration Day (Morocco).
S1106     Arbor Day (Samoa).
S1106     Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden).
S11071805 Lewis and Clark first see the Pacific Ocean.
S11071811 the Battle of Tippecanoe gives Harrison a presidential slogan.
S11071861 Union forces capture Port Royal Island on the South Carolina
S11071861Ccoast (from this base, the Union Blockading Squadron capture or
S11071861Crender inoperative nearly all of the South's Atlantic ports).
S11071865 the London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded.
S11071872 the Mary Celeste sails from N.Y. bound for Genoa, Italy (is found
S11071872abandoned four weeks later).
S11071874 the first cartoon to use the elephant as the symbol of the
S11071874CRepublican Party appears in Harper's Weekly. It was drawn
S11071874Cby Thomas Nast.
S11071875 Verney Cameron is the first European to cross equatorial Africa
S11071875Cfrom sea to sea.
S11071876 Albert H. Hook patents a cigarette manufacturing machine.
S11071885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.
S11071893 Colorado becomes the first state to give women the right to vote.
S11071915 a protest parade is held in Chicago by some 40,000 men
S11071915Cdemonstrating against the closing of saloons on Sunday.
S11071916 Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first women
S11071916CRepresentative.
S11071917 Bolsheviks seize power in Russia.
S11071918 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets.
S11071932 "Buck Rogers" airs on CBS Radio.
S11071940 the Narrows Bridge, "Galloping Gertie", collapses in Tacoma,
S11071940CWash.
S11071943 Detroit Lions 0, N.Y. Giants 0 is the last scoreless tie in the
S11071943CNFL.
S11071950 the F-86 Sabre jet is first used in combat, downing a MIG-15 in
S11071950CKorea.
S11071954 Cleveland Browns' Chet Hanulak sets a club record with 7 punt
S11071954Creturns, and the team sets club records for the largest margin of
S11071954Cvictory (59) and for the most points scored in a half, 35 (tied
S11071954Cin 1964, 1965 and 1989), Browns 62, Washington 3.
S11071962 Nixon concedes gubernatorial race in California - "You won't have
S11071962CNixon to kick around anymore."
S11071963 the U.S. recognizes the provincial government of Nguyen Ngoc Tho
S11071963Cin Vietnam, vice president to the recently assassinated Diem.
S11071967 Carl Stokes (Cleveland) and Richard Hatcher (Gary, Ind.) are
S11071967Celected the first black mayors of major U.S. cities.
S11071967 the Selective Service announces college students arrested in
S11071967Canti-war demonstrations will lose their draft deferment.
S11071967 a law creating the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is signed
S11071967Cby President Johnson.
S11071967 Surveyor 6 is launched to the moon to become the first spacecraft
S11071967Cto lift off the moon.
S11071973 Congress overrides Nixon's veto of the war powers bill which
S11071973Ccurbed the president's power to commit U.S. forces to hostilities
S11071973Cabroad without Congressional approval.
S11071976 "Gone With the Wind" (Part I) is first televised (NBC).
S11021977 the identification of methanogens, a form of life dating back
S11021977Csome 3.5 billion years, is reported by scientists at the
S11021977CUniversity and Illinois.
S11071991 Lakers' Magic Johnson retires from basketball, announcing he had
S11071991Ccontracted the AIDS virus.
S11071992 U.N. Peacekeeping Forces (British troops) in Bosnia return fire
S11071992Cfor the first time.
S11071994 news concerning errors in some calculations made by Intel's
S11071994CPentium chip first becomes public in trade publications.
S1107    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S1107     Feast of St. Engelbert, Bishop and martyr.
S1107     Harvest Festival of Lono (Hawaiian).
S1107    7Sadie Hawkins Day (the ladies take the initiative!)
S1107    6World Community Day (pray for peace).
R1107    1It's International Cat Week.
R1107    1It's National Double Talk Week.
R1107    2It's International Cat Week.
R1107    3It's International Cat Week.
R1107    4It's International Cat Week.
R1107    5It's International Cat Week.
R1107    6It's International Cat Week.
R1107    7It's International Cat Week.
R1107    2It's National Double Talk Week.
R1107    3It's National Double Talk Week.
R1107    4It's National Double Talk Week.
R1107    5It's National Double Talk Week.
R1107    6It's National Double Talk Week.
R1107    7It's National Double Talk Week.
R1107    2National Impotency Week begins!
R1107    3It's National Impotency Week!
R1107    4It's National Impotency Week!
R1107    5It's National Impotency Week!
R1107    6It's National Impotency Week!
R1107    7It's National Impotency Week!
R1107    1It's National Impotency Week!
S1107     Al Hijra (Oman).
S1107     Bangladesh Revolution Day.
S1107     October Revolution Day (U.S.S.R.)
S11081519 Hernan Cortes is received by Montezuma in Tenochtitlan.
S11081731 Benjamin Franklin organizes the first circulating library in the
S11081731CU.S. in Philadelphia.
S11081789 Bourbon Whiskey is first distilled from corn by Reverend
S11081789CElijah Craig in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
S11081793 the Louvre, in Paris, is opened to the public.
S11081837 Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts opens, the first U.S.
S11081837Ccollege founded for women.
S11081861 two foriegn representatives of the Confederacy are seized on
S11081861Cboard the British ship Trent by the Union frigate San Jacinto -
S11081861Cthe Trent Affair.
S11081873 the first Burrows Bros. Co. book store opens, on Euclid Avenue in
S11081873CDowntown Cleveland.
S11081880 Sarah Bernhardt, celebrated French actress, makes her American
S11081880Cdebut at Booth's Theater in N.Y. City.
S11081884 the first news organization, McClures, is founded.
S11081889 Montana becomes the 41st state.
S11081895 Wilhelm Rntgen discovers x-rays.
S11081905 electric lamps are placed in a railroad train for the first time
S11081905Con the Chicago and North Western's Overland Limited (Chicago to
S11081905CCalifornia).
S11081913 three storms converge on the Great Lakes, resulting in the worst
S11081913Cstorm, a four-day ordeal, in its history (over 200 casualties).
S11081913CThe heaviest snowfall to hit Cleveland, over 17 inches, buries
S11081913Cthe city.
S11081926 the first ferry built exclusively for cars is put in service.
S11081931 Fredrick Allison reports the discovery of halogen, the 85th
S11081931Celement.
S11081933 FDR creates the Civil Works Administration (CWA).
S11081939 "Life with Father", the longest running Broadway drama, opens
S11081939C(closes 1947).
S11081942 U.S. and British troops land on the coast of North Africa.
S11081954 the shift of the Philadelphia Athletes baseball franchise to
S11081954CKansas City, Mo., is approved by the A.L.
S11081958 the Hope Diamond (and its curse?) is given to the Smithsonian.
S11081960 John F. Kennedy is elected president by a narrow margin.
S11081962 the U.S. announces all known missile bases in Cuba have been
S11081962Cdismantled.
S11081966 Edward W. Brooke becomes the first black elected the Senate
S11081966C(Massachusetts).
S11081966 movie actor Ronald Reagan is elected governor of California.
S11081970 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans kicks a NFL-record 63-yard field goal
S11081970Cagainst the Lions.
S11081973 Walt Disney's "Robin Hood" is released.
S11081973 the New Jersey Tollway reduces speed limit to 50 mph to save
S11081973Cfuel, the first state to take such action.
S11081974 charges against 8 Ohio National Guardsmen stemming from the 1970
S11081974CKent State tragedy are dropped in federal court.
S11081976 the Supreme Court sanctions Medicaid abortions.
S11081976 "Gone With the Wind" (Part II) is first televised (NBC).
S11081980 Voyager I discovers a 15th moon around Saturn.
S11081984 the 14th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 is launched.
S11081989 L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first black elected governor (Va.).
S11081993 the Cleveland Browns sack Bernie Kosar.
S11081994 the Cleveland Cavaliers play their first regular season game at
S11081994CGund Arena (Gateway Arena) against the NBA champion Houston
S11081994CRockets, and Cavs' Bobby Phills sinks the first basket, Rockets
S11081994C100, Cavs 98.
S11081994 "Measure 16", the decriminalization of assisted suicides, passes
S11081994Cin Oregon.
S1108    3Election Day.  Have you voted today?
S1108     Feast of Holy 4 Crowned Martyrs.
S1108     Saints, Doctors, Missionaries, and Martyrs Day (Anglican).
S1108    1World Peace Sunday.
S1108    1Stewardship Sunday.
R1108    2Youth Appreciation Week begins.
R1108    2It's International Cat Week.
R1108    3It's International Cat Week.
R1108    4It's International Cat Week.
R1108    5It's International Cat Week.
R1108    6It's International Cat Week.
R1108    7It's International Cat Week.
R1108    2It's National Double Talk Week.
R1108    3It's National Double Talk Week.
R1108    4It's National Double Talk Week.
R1108    5It's National Double Talk Week.
R1108    6It's National Double Talk Week.
R1108    7It's National Double Talk Week.
R1108    3It's National Impotency Week!
R1108    4It's National Impotency Week!
R1108    5It's National Impotency Week!
R1108    6It's National Impotency Week!
R1108    7It's National Impotency Week!
R1108    1It's National Impotency Week!
S1108     Abet and Aid Punsters Day.
S1108     Dunce Day.
S1108     Montana Admission Day.
S1108     Fuigo Matsuri, Festival of the Hearth (Japanese festival honoring
S1108       Hettsui-No-Kami, goddess of the kitchen range).
S1108     Festival of Ceres (Roman corn goddess).
S11091799 Napoleon becomes dictator (First Consul) of France.
S11091816 Cleveland's first church society, the Protestant Episcopal
S11091816CChurch, is organized (built the first church building, Trinity
S11091816CChurch in 1828, in Cleveland).
S11091906 Roosevelt becomes first president to official visit countries
S11091906Coutside the U.S. (17-day trip to Puerto Rico and Panama).
S11091911 George Claude applies for a patent for a neon tube advertising
S11091911Csign.
S11091918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I.
S11091925 the Nazies' SS is formed.
S11091927 the giant panda is discovered in China.
S11091935 the Committee of Industrial Organizations (CIO) is formed (1938
S11091935Creorganized as the Congress of Industrial Organization).
S11091938 the "Night of Broken Glass" begins the Holocaust.
S11091943 Jackson Pollock's work is first shown at the Peggy Guggonheim
S11091943CGallery in New York.
S11091965 a giant power failure at 5:16 p.m. blacks out most of the
S11091965Cnortheastern United States and Ontario, Canada.
S11091967 the U.S. sends the unmanned Apollo 4 capsule into orbit in the
S11091967Cfirst test in flight of the Saturn V rocket.
S11091989 East Germany opens its borders with the West, signaling the end
S11091989Cof the Berlin Wall.
S11091990 Mary Robinson is elected the first woman President of Ireland.
S1109     Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran,
S1109       Rome.
S1109    1World Peace Sunday.
S1109    1Stewardship Sunday.
R1109    2Youth Appreciation Week begins.
R1109    3It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1109    3It's International Cat Week.
R1109    4It's International Cat Week.
R1109    5It's International Cat Week.
R1109    6It's International Cat Week.
R1109    7It's International Cat Week.
R1109    3It's National Double Talk Week.
R1109    4It's National Double Talk Week.
R1109    5It's National Double Talk Week.
R1109    6It's National Double Talk Week.
R1109    7It's National Double Talk Week.
R1109    4It's National Impotency Week!
R1109    5It's National Impotency Week!
R1109    6It's National Impotency Week!
R1109    7It's National Impotency Week!
R1109    1It's National Impotency Week!
S1109     Feast of Lights (Thailand).
S1109     Cambodia Independence Day (Kampuchea).
S1109     Peacemakers Day (Barbados).
S11101674 the Dutch cede New York to the British.
S11101766C Rutgers University is first chartered as Queen's College of New
S11101766CBrunswick, N.J.
S11101775 the U.S. Marine Corps is authorized by Congress (2 battalions).
S11101775CThe Corp is established by law July 11, 1798.
S11101782 George Rogers Clark routes the Shawnee at Chillicothe, Ohio in
S11101782Cone of the last land battles of the Revolution.
S11101801 Kentucky outlaws dueling.
S11101871 Sir Henry Morgan Stanley presumes to meet Dr. David Livingston in
S11101871CUjiji, Central Africa.
S11101885 the world's first motorcycle, designed by Gottlieb Daimler, makes
S11101885Cits debut.
S11101891 the first Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting is held (in
S11101891CBoston).
S11101908 the first Gideon Bible is placed in a hotel room (Superior Hotel,
S11101908CIron Mountain, Montana).
S11101911 the Carnegie Corporation of New York is established, the first of
S11101911Cthe great foundations for scholarly and charitable works.
S11101937 the Cleveland Arena opens.
S11101945 the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald is liberated by U.S.
S11101945Ctroops.
S11101951 the first Long Distance telephone call without operator
S11101951Cassistance occurs when Englewood, N.J. mayor M. Denning calls
S11101951CAlameda, Calif., mayor Frank Osborn.
S11101957 Cleveland Browns' Don Paul sets a club record for the longest
S11101957Cfumble return with a 89-yard run (and TD), Browns 24,
S11101957CPittsburgh 0.
S11101961 the Soviets rename Stalingrad Volgograd.
S11101967 Surveyor 6 lands in Sinus Medii and begins sending back photos.
S11101969 "Sesame Street" premieres.
S11101975 the ore boat Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior during a
S11101975Cstorm, all hands lost.
S11101978 the Coors' Silver Bullet can is born.
S11101991 the Browns set a club record for the largest lead blown (led
S11101991C23-0), Philadelphia 32, Cleveland 30.
S11101992 the N.L. baseball club owners reject the S.F. Giants proposed
S11101992Cmove to Tampa Bay by 9-4, one short of the 10 votes required.
S11101994 the Cleveland Cavaliers, in their second game at Gund Arena
S11101994C(Gateway), win their first game at the facility, beating
S11101994CMilwaukee 108-88.
S1110     Feast of St. Andrew Avellino, confessor.
S1110     St. Menas' Day (celebrated in Greece - he is able to locate lost
S1110       belongings, especially sheep).
S1110    1World Peace Sunday.
S1110    1Stewardship Sunday.
R1110    2Youth Appreciation Week begins.
R1110    3It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1110    4It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1110    4It's International Cat Week.
R1110    5It's International Cat Week.
R1110    6It's International Cat Week.
R1110    7It's International Cat Week.
R1110    4It's National Double Talk Week.
R1110    5It's National Double Talk Week.
R1110    6It's National Double Talk Week.
R1110    7It's National Double Talk Week.
R1110    5It's National Impotency Week!
R1110    6It's National Impotency Week!
R1110    7It's National Impotency Week!
R1110    1It's National Impotency Week!
S1110     St. Martins's Eve.
S1110     Goddess of Reason (French observance).
S1110     Night of Nicneven (Scottish Samhain witch-goddess).
S1110     Hero Day (Indonesia).
S1110     Kasmandlfahren (Lungau, Austria).
S11111620 the Mayflower Compact is signed by the Pilgrims in Cape Cod
S11111620C(Julian or Old Style calendar).
S11111647 the first American compulsory school law is passed in
S11111647CMassachusetts.
S11111790 Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China (Spelling
S11111790Cbee judges cheer!)
S11111851 Alvin Clark patents his telescope.
S11111868 the first indoor amateur track and field meet is held by the N.Y.
S11111868CAthletic Club.
S11111889 Washington becomes the 42nd state.
S11111889 the first Congress of the Roman Catholic laity of the U.S. is
S11111889Cassembled at Baltimore, Md.
S11111909 work begins on the naval base at Pearl Harbor.  It is selected
S11111909Cbecause "it is defensible against any potential threat from
S11111909CJapan."
S11111918 Armistice Day - World War I ends at 11 a.m. on the Western Front.
S11111918 Poland proclaims its independence from Russia.
S11111921 President Harding dedicates the Tomb of Unknown Soldier.
S11111924 the Palace of Legion of Honor is dedicated in San Francisco.
S11111925 Robert A. Millikan announces the detection of cosmic rays.
S11111929 Lewis Milestone, at 11 a.m., begins filming "All Quiet on the
S11111929CWestern Front".
S11111932 the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
S11111940 the jeep, built by Willys, makes it debut.  (The name comes
S11111940Cfrom the sound of the first letters of "general purpose".)
S11111944 two major record companies sign a contract with the American
S11111944CFederation of Musicians, agreeing to pay the union a fee on each
S11111944Crecord.
S11111946 the N.Y. Knicks play their first game at Madison Square Garden
S11111946C(lose 78-68 to the Chicago Stags).
S11111951 President Truman, a Democrat, offers to sponsor Gen. Eisenhower
S11111951Cas president.  Ike later wins the Republican nomination.
S11111951 the first coast-to-coast direct-dial phone call is made.
S11111957 demolition begins on the cable car barn at California & Hyde in
S11111957CS.F.
S11111959 the first episode of "Rocky & His Friends" is aired.
S11111959 Seals Stadium is demolished in San Francisco.
S11111961 Lakewood Winterhurst Municipal Rink, purchased from the City Ice
S11111961Cand Fuel Company and renovated by the City of Lakewood, opens.
S11111965 Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) declares its independence from
S11111965CBritain (takes 15-years to attain).
S11111966 Gemini 12 is launched on a 4-day flight with James Lovell and
S11111966CEdwin Aldrin and rendezvous with an Agena target vehicle (last
S11111966Cmission of the Gemini program).
S11111966 a merger vote is approved, joining in 1968 the Methodist Church
S11111966Cand the Evangelical United Brethren Church, to form the United
S11111966CMethodist Church, the largest U.S. Protestant church.
S11111968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on the cover of the "Two
S11111968CVirgins" album.
S11111974 the U.S. Little League World Series, won by Taiwan for the last
S11111974Cfour years, is limited to United States teams.  (Ban is lifted
S11111974Con Dec. 30, 1975.)
S11111975 Portugal grants Angola independence (National Day).
S11111982 the 5th Shuttle Mission, Columbia 5 is launched on its first
S11111982Ccommercial flight (as a space freighter).
S11111987 the Congressional Budget Office reports the new tax law, passed
S11111987Con September 27,1986, will force the poor to pay 20% more and the
S11111987Crich to pay 20% less.
S11111990 Chiefs' Derrick Thomas sets a NFL record for the most sacks (7)
S11111990Cin a game against the Seahawks.
S11111992 the Church of England grants women the opportunity to become
S11111992Cpriests.
S11111993 the Vietnam Women's Memorial near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
S11111993Cin Washington is dedicated.
S1111     The REAL Veteran's Day. They fought for your freedom.
S1111       Remember them!
S1111    1World Peace Sunday.
S1111    1Stewardship Sunday.
S1111     Feast of St. Martin, Bishop of Tours, patron saint of France,
S1111       tavern keepers, beggars, winegrowers, and drunkards.
R1111    2Youth Appreciation Week begins.
R1111    3It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1111    4It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1111    5It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1111    5It's International Cat Week.
R1111    6It's International Cat Week.
R1111    7It's International Cat Week.
R1111    5It's National Double Talk Week.
R1111    6It's National Double Talk Week.
R1111    7It's National Double Talk Week.
R1111    6It's National Impotency Week!
R1111    7It's National Impotency Week!
R1111    1It's National Impotency Week!
S1111     Washington Admission Day.
S1111     Bonza Bottler Day (Number of Day Matches the Number of the
S1111       Month).
S1111     Martinmas (St. Martin's Day), term day in Scotland - the ending
S1111       of hard work of summer and autumn is celebrated.
S1111     Quarter day in Scotland.
S1111     Day of the Faerie Sidhe (Ireland).
S1111     Remembrance Day (Bermuda, Canada, Turks and Caicos Islands).
S1111     Poland Independence Day.
S1111     Angola Independence Day.
S1111     Armistice Day for World War I (Belgium, France).
S1111     Birthday of His Majesty the King (Bhutan).
S1111     Cartagena Day (Colombia).
S1111     Concordia Day (Roman, goddess of peace and civic harmony).
S1111     Maldivian Republic Day.
S1111     Rhodesia Independence Day.
S1111     Tazaungdaing (Burma).
S11121836 Washington Irving coins the phrase "the almighty dollar" in his
S11121836Cstory "The Creole Village," published in "The Knickerbocker
S11121836CMagazine."
S11121859 the first flying trapeze act is performed by Jules Leotard
S11121859Cat Cirque Napoleon, Paris.  He also designed the garment that
S11121859Cbears his name.
S11121873 the Bay District Race Track opens.
S11121892 W. "Pudge" Heffelfinger is given $500 to play in a football game
S11121892Cfor the Allegheny Athletic Association (AAA) against the
S11121892CPittsburgh Athletic Club (PAC).  (The first documented case of
S11121892Cplay for pay, now referred to as "pro football's birth
S11121892Ccertificate".)
S11121918 Austria becomes a republic.
S11121920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis is elected the first baseball
S11121920Ccommissioner.
S11121927 the Holland Tunnel connecting N.Y. and N.J., the world's first
S11121927Cunderwater vehicular tunnel, officially opens.
S11121928 George Gipp's request to "win one for the Gipper" is fulfilled
S11121928Cagainst Army - Notre Dame 12, Army 6.
S11121933 the first Sunday football game is played in Philadelphia
S11121933C(previously illegal).
S11121936 the Oakland Bay Bridge opens.
S11121938 Kate Smith introduces Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on
S11121938Cher radio show.
S11121946 Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" is released.
S11121946 the first "autobank" (banking by car) is established, in Chicago.
S11121954 Ellis Island, the immigration station in N.Y. Harbor, closes.
S11121955 the worst paid attendance football game (1) is played between
S11121955CWashington State and San Jose State (because of high winds and a
S11121955Ctemperature of 0 degrees F).
S11121956 the largest iceberg on record, 208 miles long and 60 miles wide,
S11121956Cis sighted in the South Pacific by the U.S.S. Glacier.
S11121965 Ferninand Marcos wins the presidential election in the
S11121965CPhilippines.
S11121967 Packers' Travis Williams returns two kickoffs for TDs (tieing the
S11121967Cleague record) against Cleveland, and the Browns set a club
S11121967Crecord for the largest margin of defeat, 48 (tied in 1969),
S11121967CPackers 55, Cleveland 7.
S11121967 the Detroit Lions set a NFL record by fumbling the ball eleven
S11121967Ctimes (lost it five of those times).
S11121968 the Supreme Court voids Arkansas' law banning the teaching of
S11121968Cevolution in public schools.
S11121970 scientists in Buffalo report the first artificial synthesis of a
S11121970Cliving cell.
S11121970 after an 0 - 15 start, the new NBA franchise Cleveland Cavaliers
S11121970Cwin their first game, beating the Portland Trail Blazers 105-103
S11121970Cin Portland.
S11121974 the U.N. rebukes South Africa for its apartheid policy by
S11121974Csuspending it from the current session.
S11121975 Andrei Sakharov, a Russia thermonuclear physicist, is denied an
S11121975Cexit visa to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo (his wife
S11121975Caccepts it for him).
S11121981 the 2nd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 2 is launched, the first
S11121981Ctime a spacecraft is launched twice.  (The robot arm is first
S11121981Cused in space.)
S11121981 the first balloon crossing of Pacific Ocean is completed by the
S11121981CDouble Eagle V.
S11121984 space shuttle astronauts snare a satellite (the first space
S11121984Csalvage).
S1112     Feast of St. Martin I, Pope (649-55), martyr.
S1112    1World Peace Sunday.
S1112    1Stewardship Sunday.
S1112     Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day.
R1112    2Youth Appreciation Week begins.
R1112    3It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1112    4It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1112    5It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1112    6It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1112    6It's International Cat Week.
R1112    7It's International Cat Week.
R1112    6It's National Double Talk Week.
R1112    7It's National Double Talk Week.
R1112    7It's National Impotency Week!
R1112    1It's National Impotency Week!
S1112     Birthday of Baha'u'llah (Founder of the Baha'i Faith).
S1112     Birthday of Sun Yat-sen (Republic of China-Taiwan).
S11131849 Peter Burnett is elected the first governor of California.
S11131895 the first shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii arrives.
S11131921 "The Sheik", starring Rudolph Valentino, is released.
S11131933 the first photograph of the Loch Ness monster is taken.
S11131937 NBC forms the first full sized symphony orchestra exclusively for
S11131937Cradio.
S11131938 Mother Frances Cabrini, America's first saint and founder of the
S11131938COrder of the Sacred Heart, is beatified.
S11131940 the Cleveland Health Education Museum opens.
S11131940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" premieres in New York.
S11131942 the minimum draft age is lowered from 21 to 18.
S11131946 cloud seeding in Massachusetts produces the first artificially
S11131946Ccaused snowfall.
S11131949 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within the French
S11131949CUnion.
S11131952 Harvard's Paul Zoll becomes the first to use electric shock to
S11131952Ctreat cardiac arrest.
S11131956 the Supreme Court strikes down an Alabama law requiring
S11131956Csegregation of races on public buses.
S11131966 Detroit Lions Garo Yepremenian kicks six field goals against the
S11131966CVikings (NFL record).
S11131967 Carl Stokes is inaugurated mayor of Cleveland, the first black
S11131967Cmayor of a major city.
S11131967 "Hair" opens off-Broadway at the Public Theater.
S11131971 Mariner 9 is placed in orbit around Mars, the first manmade
S11131971Cspacecraft around another planet.
S11131972 91 nations agree to stop dumping poisonous chemicals into
S11131972Cinternational waters.
S11131973 the plans for a trans-Alaska oil pipeline are approved by
S11131973CCongress.
S11131974 Karen Silkwood, nuclear protester, is killed in a car crash under
S11131974Csuspicious circumstances.
S11131977 the final installment of Al Capp's "L'il Abner" comic strip is
S11131977Cpublished.
S11131980 the U.S. space probe Voyager I comes within 77,000 miles of
S11131980CSaturn.
S11131982 the Vietnam War Memorial is dedicated.
S11131982 Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim is fatally injured when KOed by Ray
S11131982CMancini.
S11131985 a new study on capital punishment in the U.S. asserts 343 were
S11131985Cwrongly sentenced to death, and 25 were executed.
S11131985 Dwight Gooden becomes the youngest player to win the Cy Young
S11131985CAward and also the youngest 20 game winner in the modern era
S11131985Cat three days shy of his 21st birthday.
S11131986 the transit of Mercury (between the Earth and the Sun) occurs.
S11131986C(The next transit occurs in 1999.)
S1113    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S1113     Feast of St. Didacus, confessor.
S1113     Feast of St. Stanislaus of Kostka, confessor.
S1113     Feast of St. Britius (Brice).
S1113     Feast of St. Homobonus.
R1113     It's the Ides of November!
S1113    1World Peace Sunday.
S1113    1Stewardship Sunday.
R1113    2Youth Appreciation Week begins.
R1113    3It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1113    4It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1113    5It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1113    6It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1113    7It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1113    7It's International Cat Week.
R1113    7It's National Double Talk Week.
R1113    1It's National Impotency Week!
S1113     Festival of Jupiter and Juno (Roman festival honoring the Supreme
S1113       Roman god and goddess).
S1113     Festival for Isis begins (Ancient Egyptian festival, Isis - the
S1113       most complete flowering of the Goddess concept in human
S1113       history.)
S11141666 Samuel Pepys reports on the first blood transfusion (between
S11141666Cdogs).
S11141792 Capt. George Vancouver is the first Englishman to enter S.F. Bay.
S11141832 the first street car in the U.S. begins operation in N.Y.C.
S11141832CIt's a horse-drawn trolley (fare: 12).
S11141851 "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is published.
S11141889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the
S11141889Cworld by 8 days (72 days).
S11141896 the power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation.
S11141908 Einstein presents his quantum theory of light.
S11141910 the first airplane flight from the deck of a ship ("U.S.S.
S11141910CBirmingham") occurs.
S11141922 the BBC begins its first daily broadcasts.
S11141929 John Long Severance breaks ground for the Cleveland Orchestra's
S11141929Cnew concert hall, Severance Hall.
S11141943 Bears' Sid Luckman throws 7 TD passes against the N.Y. Giants.
S11141959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii) occurs.
S11141960 the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is
S11141960Ccreated.
S11141960 "Georgia On My Mind" reaches #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, the
S11141960Cfirst of Ray Charles' 3 singles to top the chart.
S11141968 "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card
S11141968Cburning on many campuses and in many cities.
S11141968 Yale announces plan to go co-ed.
S11141969 Apollo 12, manned by Charles Conrad, Jr., Richard F. Gordon, Jr.,
S11141969Cand Alan L. Bean, is launched to make the second U.S. landing on
S11141969Cthe moon.
S11141972 the Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for the first time (1003.16).
S11141973 Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Capt. Mark Phillips.
S11141976 Cleveland Browns' Jerry Sherk sets a club record with 4 sacks,
S11141976CBrowns 24, Philadelphia 3.
S11141977 Meat Loaf's Cleveland debut occurs at the Agora.
S11141986 Ivan Boesky agrees to plead guilty to an unspecified criminal
S11141986Ccount.  Pays a record $100 million fine, returns profits from
S11141986Cinsider trading, and receives a 3-year sentence.
S11141993 Miami's Don Shula becomes the winningest coach in NFL history,
S11141993C325 games.
S11141994 after many delays, the first trains for the public are ran in the
S11141994CChannel Tunnel under the English Channel.
S1114     Feast of St. Josaphat, archbishop of Polotsk, martyr.
S1114     Feast of St. Laurence, Bishop of Dublin.
S1114    1World Peace Sunday.
S1114    1Stewardship Sunday.
R1114    2Youth Appreciation Week begins.
R1114    3It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1114    4It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1114    5It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1114    6It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1114    7It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1114    1It's Youth Appreciation Week.
S1114     King Hussein's Birthday (Jordan).
S1114     Festival for Isis ends (Ancient Egyptian festival, Isis - the
S1114       most complete flowering of the Goddess concept in human
S1114       history.)
S1114     Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo.
S11151763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying the
S11151763CMason-Dixon Line -- the southern boundary of Pennsylvania.
S11151777 the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union is adopted by
S11151777Cthe Continental Congress.
S11151806 explorer Zebulon Pike sights 14,110-foot-tall Pike's Peak.
S11151827 the Creeks cede their remaining territory in the Southeast to the
S11151827CU.S.
S11151864 after burning Atlanta, General Sherman, with 60,000 Union troops,
S11151864Cbegins his march to sea, sweeping across a 60-mile front, laying
S11151864Cwaste to the Georgia countryside.
S11151869 free postal delivery is formally inaugurated.
S11151881 the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the U.S.
S11151881Cand Canada (later renamed the American Federation of Labor -
S11151881CA.F.L.) is founded in Pittsburgh.
S11151883 Edison receives a patent for his two-element vacuum tube, the
S11151883Cforerunner of the vacuum tube rectifier.
S11151896 the Niagara Falls waterpower electricity generating station
S11151896Cbegins transmitting power to Buffalo, N.Y.
S11151900 the Carnegie Institute of Technology is established by Andrew
S11151900CCarnegie in Pittsburgh, Pa.
S11151919 the U.S. Senate invokes cloture (closing of a debate) for the
S11151919Cfirst time.
S11151920 the first regular session of the League of Nations opens in
S11151920CGeneva.
S11151922 Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute announces his
S11151922Cdiscovery of leukocytes, or white corpuscles.
S11151926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with a radio
S11151926Cnetwork of 24 stations.
S11151932 the Walt Disney Art School is created.
S11151939 Social Security Administration approves the first unemployment
S11151939Ccheck.
S11151941 the Cow Palace opens (S.F.).
S11151942 during the Battle of Savo Island, the "U.S.S. South Dakota," the
S11151942CNavy's most decorated ship of World War II, sinks three Japanese
S11151942Ccruisers and damages several others (the ship was hit with 42
S11151942Cshells during the battle).
S11151949 KRON (Channel 4, San Francisco) signs on, from 7 to 10 p.m.
S11151950 the first black player in organized hockey, Arthur Dorrington, is
S11151950Csigned.
S11151953 Colts' Buddy Young returns a kick-off 104 yards for a TD against
S11151953Cthe Eagles (NFL record).
S11151954 a SAS flight between L.A. and Europe is the first commercial
S11151954Cflight over the North Pole.
S11151959 Cleveland Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets a club record for
S11151959Cthe longest run from scrimmage with a 90-yard run (and TD)
S11151959Cagainst Washington, Browns 31, Washington 17.
S11151960 the "U.S.S. George Washington," the first sub with nuclear
S11151960Cballistic missiles, goes to sea.
S11151964 Mickey Wright shoots a 62, the lowest golf score for a woman pro.
S11151965 mandatory federal registration by American communists is declared
S11151965Cunconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
S11151969 250,000 war protesters march peacefully in Washington during the
S11151969CSecond Vietnam Moratorium.
S11151983 Turkish Cypriots proclaim the northeast area of Cyprus the
S11151983CTurkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
S11151985 Britain and the Republic of Ireland sign a pact giving Dublin
S11151985Ca consultative role in Northern Ireland.
S11151990 President Bush signs the 1990 Clean Air Act.
S11151990 the 37th Shuttle Mission, Atlantis 7 is launched.
S11151990 the Senate Ethics Committee begins hearings on the conduct of
S11151990Cfive senators, including Ohio senator John Glenn (the Keating 5).
S11151992 Richard Petty retires (his last race ends in a 6-car crash).
S11151995 primary ballots are mailed (to be returned no later than 8 p.m.
S11151995CDec. 5) to fill Senator Packwood of Oregon's seat, marking the
S11151995Cfirst time a statewide federal election is conducted entirely by
S11151995Cmail.
S11151999 the transit of Mercury (between the Earth and the Sun) occurs.
S11151999C(The last transit occurred in 1986.)
S1115     Feast of St. Albert the Great, bishop, confessor, doctor.
S1115     Feast of St. Gertude, virgin.
R1115    3It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1115    4It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1115    5It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1115    6It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1115    7It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1115    1It's Youth Appreciation Week.
S1115     Day of Ferona (Italian).
S1115     Veteran's Day (celebrated in Germany).
S1115     Seven-Five-Three Festival (Japan - parents give thanks for girls
S1115       7 and 3 and boys 5 and 3).
S1115     Children's Shrine Visiting Day (Japan).
S1115     Brazilian Republic Day.
S1115     Dynasty Day (Belgium).
S1115     Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo.
S11161532 Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa.
S11161776 the British take Fort Washington.
S11161776 a volley of 11 guns are fired by Fort Orange on St. Eustatius,
S11161776CDutch West Indies, in response to a volley from the American
S11161776C"Andrea Doria" - the first salute to a U.S. flag (Grand Union).
S11161807 Moses Cleaveland dies.
S11161811 an earthquake in Missouri causes the Mississippi River to flow
S11161811Cbackwards.
S11161841 N.E. Guerin of New York receives a patent for his cork filled
S11161841Clife preserver.
S11161875 William Gibson Arlington Bonwill patents the dental mallet.
S11161895 Cleveland's first street railroad fatalities (17) occurs when a
S11161895Ccar plunges through the open draw of the Central Viaduct.
S11161907 Oklahoma becomes the 46th state.
S11161924 Cleveland Bulldogs lose to the Frankford Yellowjackets, ending a
S11161924C31-game undefeated streak (NFL and major league football record).
S11161933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
S11161945 the discovery of americium and curium is announced.
S11161946 the Evangelical United Brethren Church is organized at Johnstown,
S11161946CPa.
S11161959 the "Sound of Music" opens on Broadway.
S11161965 the Soviets' Venera 3 is launched, the first man-made to land on
S11161965Canother planet (crashes into Venus).
S11161966 Dr. Sam Sheppard is freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury.
S11161969 the 1968 massacre of hundreds of civilians at Mylai, South
S11161969CVietnam by U.S. forces is first reported.
S11161973 Skylab 3 astronauts dock with Skylab to begin 84-day mission.
S11161978 a House committee concludes James Earl Ray was paid to kill Rev.
S11161978CDr. Martin Luther King.
S11161982 the NFL ends its 57-day strike, the longest in the history of
S11161982Cprofessional sports (until the baseball strike in 1994).
S11161990 the first superconducting transistors able to operate at high
S11161990Ctemperatures are built at the Sandia National Labs in
S11161990CAlbuquerque, N.M.
S1116     Feast of St. Edmond, Bishop and confessor.
S1116     Feast of St. Agnes of Assisi, sister of St. Clare
S1116     Commemoration of St. Paul of the Cross (celebrated by the
S1116       Passionist order).
R1116    2National Children's Book Week begins.
R1116    4It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1116    5It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1116    6It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1116    7It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1116    1It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1116    6It's National Farm-City Week.
S1116     Night of Hecate (Greek - goddess of the Moon, of the Underworld,
S1116       and of magic).
S1116     Oklahoma Admission day.
S1116     Statia and America Day.
S1116     Elephant Round-up Day (Thailand).
S1116     First Day of Ashura (Oman).
S1116     Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo.
S11171558 Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary.
S11171797 Eli Terry patents his clock that tells both "real time" and
S11171797C"apparent time."
S11171800 John Adams moves into the White House (the first President to
S11171800Clive there); Congress convens for its first Washington, DC
S11171800Csession.
S11171820 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first published poem, "The Battle of
S11171820CLovell's Pond," appears in the Portland, Maine, "Gazette."
S11171831 New Grenada (Colombia) is declared an independent sate.
S11171853 street signs are authorized at San Francisco intersections.
S11171855 Dr. David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the
S11171855CVictoia Falls on the Zambezi River.
S11171863 Lincoln begins the first draft of his Gettysburg Address.
S11171869 the Suez Canal opens.
S11171875 the American Theosophical Society is founded by Helena Petrovna
S11171875CBlavatsky and Colonel Henry Steele Olcott.
S11171876 the first Harvard-Yale game is played (the first college football
S11171876Ccontest with uniforms).
S11171884 cops arrest John L. Sullivan in the 2nd round for being "cruel".
S11171886 the American Newspaper Publishers Association is organized.
S11171880 the Chinese Exclusion Treaty is signed with China, giving the
S11171880CU.S. the right to "regulate, limit, or suspend," but not to
S11171880Cexclude, entry of Chinese nationals.
S11171913 Panama Canal opens for use (officially opens Aug. 15, 1914.)
S11171928 Boston Garden officially opens.
S11171933 Claude Rains makes his film debut in "The Invisible Man".
S11171934 Lyndon B. Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor.
S11171940 the Green Bay Packers become the first NFL team to travel by
S11171940Cplane.
S11171956 fullback Jim Brown, of Syracuse, scores 43 points (a NCAA record)
S11171956Cvs. Colgate.
S11171958 Americans Richard Cushing and John O'Hara become cardinals.
S11171966 46,000 meteoroids fall over Arizona within a 20 minute time span.
S11171967 Surveyor 6 lifts off the moon's surface and lands a few feet
S11171967Caway, becoming the first spacecraft to lift off the moon.  It
S11171967Cthen takes pictures of its original landing site.
S11171968 with one minute left and the outcome in doubt (N.Y. ahead),
S11171968CNBC terminates the Jets-Raiders telecast to run "Heidi".  Oakland
S11171968Cscores two TDs in nine seconds and wins 43 - 32.
S11171973 President Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or
S11171973Cnot their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
S1117     The day of the Great American Smoke Out.
S1117     Feast of St. Gregory the Wonderworker, bishop, confessor.
S1117     St. Anianus' Day (bishop, martyr) (Anglican).
S1117     Feast of St. Hilda, patroness of business and professional women.
R1117    2National Children's Book Week begins.
R1117    5It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1117    6It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1117    7It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1117    1It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1117    3It's National Children's Book Week.
R1117    7It's National Farm-City Week.
R1117    6It's National Farm-City Week.
S1117    5Great American Smoke Out
S1117     Volkstrauertag (Memorial Day in Germany).
S1117     Zairia National Army Day.
S1117     Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo.
S11181307 William Tell shoots the apple off his son's head.
S11181805 Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific Ocean, the first Americans to
S11181805Ccross the continent.
S11181820 Antarctica is discovered by U.S. Navy Captain Nathaniel Palmer.
S11181865 Mark Twain is catapulted to fame when his version of "Jim Smiley
S11181865Cand His Jumping Frog" (now known as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog
S11181865Cof Calaveras County") is printed in the New York "Saturday
S11181865CPress."
S11181869 the American Woman Suffrage Association is formed by Lucy Stone
S11181869Cand Henry Blackwell.
S11181874 the National Women's Christian Temperance Union is organized.
S11181889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii.
S11181894 the first comic strip, "The Origin of a New Species," by Richard
S11181894COutcault, is printed in the N.Y. Sunday World.
S11181901 the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty is signed, abrogating the Clayton-
S11181901CBulwer Treaty of 1850 (British consented to U.S. control of
S11181901Cisthmian canal.
S11181903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed with Panama, granting the U.S.
S11181903Cexclusive canal rights to the Panama Canal.
S11181913 Lincoln Deachey performs the first airplane loop-the-loop.
S11181918 Latvia proclaims its independence.
S11181932 Disney's "Flowers and Trees" is awarded the first Academy Award
S11181932Cfor a cartoon.
S11181936 the main span of Golden Gate Bridge is joined.
S11181950 Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation announces the
S11181950Cdevelopment of a fluoro-record reflector camera.
S11181952 Albert Einstein is asked to become the president of the republic
S11181952Cof Israel.
S11181959 the development of a nuclear power generator for satellites is
S11181959Cannounce by the Atomic Energy Commission.
S11181960 Chrysler announces discontinuing the De Soto.
S11181966 abstinence from meat on Fridays is no longer required by U.S.
S11181966CRoman Catholics, except during Lent (effective Dec. 2).
S11181971 a bill outlawing hunting from airplanes is signed by Nixon.
S11181978 Representative Leo J. Ryan and four others are killed by the
S11181978CPeople's Temple Commune members in Guyana.
S11181984 the Browns set team records for the most sacks (11) and the most
S11181984Cyardage gained from sacks (95), Browns 23, Atlanta 7.
S11181987 the Congressional committees' report on the Iran-Contra affair
S11181987Cblames Pres. Reagan for failing in his constitutional duty, and
S11181987Csaid Reagan must take responsibility for the wrongdoing of his
S11181987Caides.
S11181989 Pennsylvania becomes the first state to restrict abortions after
S11181989Cthe Supreme Court gave states the right to do so (July 3, 1989).
S11181992 the comic issue featuring the death of Superman is released.
S1118     Feast of Dedication of Basilicas of Peter and Paul, Rome.
R1118    6It's National Farm-City Week.
R1118    2National Children's Book Week begins.
R1118    6It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1118    7It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1118    1It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1118    3It's National Children's Book Week.
R1118    4It's National Children's Book Week.
R1118    7It's National Farm-City Week.
R1118    1It's National Farm-City Week.
S1118    5Great American Smoke Out.
S1118     Day of Mother of Stars (Persian observance).
S1118     Oman National Day.
S1118     Haitian Army Day.
S1118     Latvia Independence Day.
S1118     Return of the King (Morocco).
S1118     Vertieres Day (Haiti).
S1118     Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo.
S11191493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
S11191620 the Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast (lands at
S11191620CPlymouth on Dec. 26).
S11191644 the first protestant ministry society in New England forms.
S11191863 Lincoln delivers an address at the dedication of Gettysburg
S11191863Ccemetery.
S11191869 Canada purchases the Northwest Territories from the Hudson Bay
S11191869CCompany.
S11191872 Edmund D. Barbour patents an adding machine capable of printing
S11191872Csub-totals and totals.
S11191883 standard time zones are established by railroads in the U.S. and
S11191883CCanada.
S11191891 the first model train set is sold in Goppinzen, Germany.
S11191895 the pencil is invented. The eraser will have to wait.
S11191903 Carrie Nation attempts to make her celebrated speech in the
S11191903CU.S. Senate and later tries to sell replicas of the hatchet.
S11191919 the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations is rejected by
S11191919Cthe U.S. Senate (the treaty is later ratified).
S11191931 vitamin D-1 crystals are produced in Germany.
S11191941 Linda Darnell becomes the first woman to sell securities on the
S11191941Cfloor of the N.Y. Curb Exchange.
S11191950 the L.A. Rams and the N.Y. Yanks played a football game in which
S11191950Cthey gained a record combined total of 1,133 yards.
S11191954 the U.S. begins building the Distant Early Warning (DEW) radar
S11191954Cdefense in arctic Canada.
S11191959 Ford discontinues the production of the Edsel.
S11191961 Cleveland Browns' fullback Jim Brown ties a club record (his own)
S11191961Cwith 237 yards rushing (34 carries), and sets a team record with
S11191961C313 combined yards, Browns 45, Philadelphia 24.
S11191969 Apollo 12 astronauts Conrad and Bean make the second U.S. landing
S11191969Con the moon.
S11191970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California State
S11191970CHistorical Landmark.
S11191978 Rev. Jim Jones leads 911 people in suicide, using cyanide and
S11191978CKool-Aid, in Jonestown, Guyana.
S11191981 U.S. Steel agrees to pay $6.3 billion for Marathon Oil.
S11191989 American astronomers announce the detection of a source of light
S11191989Ccoming from the edge of the universe and the beginning of time.
S11191990 the U.S., U.S.S.R. and leaders of NATO and the Warsaw Pact sign
S11191990Cthe Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe which limits
S11191990Cthe size of each military force.
S1119     Feast of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, widow, patron saint of queens.
S1119     Have a Bad Day Day.
R1119    2National Children's Book Week begins.
R1119    7It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1119    1It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1119    3It's National Children's Book Week.
R1119    4It's National Children's Book Week.
R1119    5It's National Children's Book Week.
R1119    7It's National Farm-City Week.
R1119    1It's National Farm-City Week.
R1119    2It's National Farm-City Week.
R1119    6It's National Farm-City Week.
S1119    5Great American Smoke Out.
S1119     Bharatri Dwitya (Hindu).
S1119     Brazilian Flag Day.
S1119     Discovery Day (Puerto Rico).
S1119     Garifuna Settlement Day (Belize).
S1119     Fete National or Prince Ranier Day (Monaco National Day).
S11201789 New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify Bill of Rights.
S11201817 Seminole Indians invade Georgia (the beginning of the First
S11201817CSeminole War) in retaliation of attacks by white settlers.
S11201861 Julia Ward Howe pens "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", using the
S11201861Cstirring march rhythm of "John Brown's Body" she had heard
S11201861Cearlier that day.
S11201866 Pierre Lallemont patents a bicycle with a rotary crank.
S11201888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
S11201914 the State Department starts requiring photographs for passports.
S11201917 a new Lakewood Hospital is opened on Detroit and Bell.  The old
S11201917Chospital was a 15-bed house opened in June 1907.
S11201917 the first tank-dominated battle takes place at Cambrai, France
S11201917C(350 British tanks roll over German positions).
S11201920 Tucson, Arizona inaugurates the first municipal airport in the
S11201920CU.S.
S11201931 commercial teletype service begins.
S11201942 the NHL abolishes regular season overtime.
S11201943 American forces land on Tarawa and Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Is.
S11201943CThe Marines land on Beach Red on Betio, the largest island of the
S11201943CTarawa Atoll and the bloodiest beachhead in Marine history.
S11201945 the Nuremberg war crimes trial begins.
S11201947 Princess Elizabeth of England and Lt. Phillip Mountbatten, Duke
S11201947Cof Edinburgh, are married in London's Westminster Abbey.
S11201947 "Meet the Press" premieres om NBC.
S11201962 JFK bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded
S11201962Chousing.
S11201965 U.S. casualties in Vietnam after a week-long battle in the
S11201965CIadrang Valley is placed at 240 dead, exceeding the Korean War
S11201965Cweekly average of 209 killed.
S11201966 "Cabaret" opens on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre.
S11201967 the U.S. population reaches 200 million.
S11201969 the Department of Agriculture orders a halt to the use of DDT in
S11201969Cresidential areas.
S11201974 the U.S. files an antitrust suit to break-up AT&T (AT&T settles
S11201974Cin January 1982 by agreeing to break-up).
S11201975 a Senate select committee reports that the CIA plotted to kill
S11201975C2 foreign leaders and were involved in the deaths of 3 others.
S11201977 Egyptian President Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to address
S11201977CIsrael Knesset.  Joining hands with Prime Minister Begin, Sadat
S11201977Cpledges "no more war".
S11201977 the Bears' Walter Payton rushes for 275 yards, the most yards
S11201977Cgained in a game (NFL record).
S11201979 6 blacks and 4 women American hostages are released in Iran.
S11201979 the nation's first artificial blood transfusion occurs at the
S11201979CUniversity of Minnesota Hospital.
S11201980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes the first solar-powered
S11201980Cflight.
S11201983 100 million watch the ABC-TV movie "The Day After".
S11201992 it is announced that the year's Cleveland Air Show was the best
S11201992Cin the country.
S11201993 Congress passes NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement).
S11201994 the Patriots beat the Vikings in overtime 26-20, and four NFL
S11201994Crecords are made: Patriots' Drew Bledsoe has the most pass
S11201994Cattempts (70) and the most pass completions (45), and pass
S11201994Cattempts made by 2 teams of 112, and pass completions by made 2
S11201994Cteams of 71.
S11201995 a two-disk set, "The Beatles Anthology, Vol. 1", a collection of
S11201995Cmore than 40 previously unreleased studio recordings and live
S11201995Cperformances, is released.
S1120     Feast of St. Felix of Valois, confessor.
R1120    2National Children's Book Week begins.
R1120    1It's Youth Appreciation Week.
R1120    3It's National Children's Book Week.
R1120    4It's National Children's Book Week.
R1120    5It's National Children's Book Week.
R1120    6It's National Children's Book Week.
R1120    7It's National Farm-City Week.
R1120    1It's National Farm-City Week.
R1120    2It's National Farm-City Week.
R1120    3It's National Farm-City Week.
R1120    6It's National Farm-City Week.
S1120     Mexican Revolution Anniversary.
S11211620 the Mayflower Compact is signed by the Pilgrims in Cape Cod
S11211620C(Gregorian or modern calendar).
S11211766 the Southwark Theater, the first permanent theater building in
S11211766CAmerica, opens with Lewis Hallam in "The Gamester."
S11211783 Piltre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes makes the first
S11211783Cunattached balloon flight.
S11211789 North Carolina becomes the 12th state of the original 13 to
S11211789Cratify the Constitution.
S11211794 Honolulu Harbor is discovered.
S11211852 Duke University, founded in 1838 as Union Institute, is chartered
S11211852Cin Randolph County, N.C., as Normal College (renamed in 1924).
S11211871 Moses F. Gale patents the cigar lighter.
S11211882 the second convention of the Federation of Organized Trades and
S11211882CLabor Unions of the U.S. and Canada (American Federation of Labor
S11211882C- A.F.L.) is held in Cleveland.
S11211945 the Pulitzer Prise winning play "The Diary of Anne Frank" opens
S11211945Con Broadway.
S11211952 the first U.S. postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) is
S11211952Cintroduced.
S11211959 Jack Benny (Violin) and Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed
S11211959Cduet.
S11211964 the Vatican approves the exoneration of Jews for guilt in the
S11211964Ccrucification of Jesus.
S11211964 the Verrazanno Narrows Bridge (Brooklyn to Staten Island) opens,
S11211964Cbecoming the world's longest suspension bridge.
S11211967 President Johnson signs the first air quality act, allotting $428
S11211967Cmillion to fight pollution.
S11211970 U.S. forces raid Sontay, North Vietnam, in an attempt to free
S11211970CU.S. prisoners of war (the prison was found empty).
S11211974 a Watergate tape shows Nixon asked his aides to help protect him.
S11211974 the Freedom of Information Act is passed by Congress over
S11211974CPresident Ford's veto.
S11211980 the "Who Shot JR" episode of "Dallas" airs.
S11211986 the Justice Department begins inquiry into the National Security
S11211986CCouncil role in the Iran-contra scandal.
S11211989 a law banning smoking on most domestic flights is signed by
S11211989CPresident Bush.
S11211990 the U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign the Charter of Paris for a New Europe,
S11211990Cwhich declares an end to the era of confrontation and division.
S1121     Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
S1121     Feast of St. Celilia, patron saint of music, singers and poets.
R1121    2National Children's Book Week begins.
R1121    3It's National Children's Book Week.
R1121    4It's National Children's Book Week.
R1121    5It's National Children's Book Week.
R1121    6It's National Children's Book Week.
R1121    7It's National Children's Book Week.
R1121    7It's National Farm-City Week.
R1121    1It's National Farm-City Week.
R1121    2It's National Farm-City Week.
R1121    3It's National Farm-City Week.
R1121    4It's National Farm-City Week.
R1121    6It's National Farm-City Week.
S1121     North Carolina Ratification Day.
S1121     Day of Lulkukan (Mayan holiday).
S1121     Burma National Day.
S1121     Proclamation Day (Libya).
S11221809 Peregrine Williamson patents the steel pen.
S11221904 the electric motor is patented by M. Pfatischer.
S11221906 the International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS"
S11221906Cas the new call for help.
S11221910 Arthur F. Knight patents the steel shafted golf club.
S11221917 the Detroit-Superior Bridge in Cleveland is opened.
S11221934 "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" is first heard on Eddie Cantor's
S11221934CThanksgiving radio show.
S11221935 Pan Am inaugurates the first transpacific airmail service, San
S11221935CFrancisco to Manila.
S11221943 Lebanon gains it's independence from France (would that it could
S11221943Ckeep it).
S11221961 "A Man for All Seasons" opens on Broadway at the ANTA Theatre.
S11221963 President John Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
S11221963 Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as President.
S11221963 the deadliest U.S. nursing home fire kills 63 in Filchville, Oh.
S11221967 Hill 875 near Dak To, about 40 miles north of Kontum, is taken by
S11221967CU.S. forces after a 19-day battle, one of the bloodiest of the
S11221967CVietnam War.
S11221968 the first interracial kiss in TV history is shown on "Star Trek"
S11221968Cbetween Capt. Kirk and Uhura ("Plato's Stepchildren").
S11221968 the Beatles release "The Beatles", there only double album.
S11221969 the isolation of a single gene is announced by scientists at
S11221969CHarvard University.
S11221975 Juan Carlos is proclaimed King of Spain.
S11221977 the Civil Aeronautics Board bans cigar and pipe smoking on U.S.
S11221977Cairlines.
S11221981 Cleveland Browns' QB Brian Sipe sets a club record by being
S11221981Cintercepted 6 times, Pittsburgh 32, Browns 10.
S11221988 the B-2 stealth bomber is shown publicly for the first time to
S11221988Cmembers of Congress and the media.
S11221989 the 32nd Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 9 is launched.
S11221990 Margaret Thatcher, PM of England, announces her resignation.
S1122    5Thanksgiving.
S1122     Feast of St. Cecily (Cecilia), virgin, martyr, patron saint of
S1122       music and musicians.
R1122    2National Children's Book Week begins.
R1122    3It's National Children's Book Week.
R1122    4It's National Children's Book Week.
R1122    5It's National Children's Book Week.
R1122    6It's National Children's Book Week.
R1122    7It's National Children's Book Week.
R1122    1It's National Children's Book Week.
R1122    7It's National Farm-City Week.
R1122    1It's National Farm-City Week.
R1122    2It's National Farm-City Week.
R1122    3It's National Farm-City Week.
R1122    4It's National Farm-City Week.
R1122    5It's National Farm-City Week.
R1122    6It's National Farm-City Week.
S1122     Norse Winter Festival.
S1122     Guinea's National Day.
S1122     Lebanon Independence Day.
S11231835 Henry Burden of Troy, N.Y., develops the first machine for
S11231835Cmanufacturing horseshoes.  (He makes nearly all the horseshoes
S11231835Cused by the Union calvary during the Civil War.)
S11231852 at just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30
S11231852Cfeet.
S11231863 a patent is granted for a process of making color photographs.
S11231868 at the Battle of Washata, Gen. Custer and the 7th Calvary attack
S11231868Can Indian encampment in Kansas, killing 105 and capturing 54.
S11231875 the first National Railroad Convention is held at St. Louis, Mo.
S11231876 Columbia, Harvard and Princeton organize the Intercollegiate
S11231876CFootball Association.
S11231889 the first jukebox is installed at the Palais Royal Saloon in San
S11231889CFrancisco.
S11231911 Post Hospital at Presidio is renamed Letterman General Hospital.
S11231921 the Willis-Campbell Act is signed, forbidding doctors from
S11231921Cprescribing beer for medicinal purposes.
S11231936 Life magazine hits the newsstands.
S11231939 Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" opens in New York.
S11231942 the SPARS, the Semper Paratus Always Ready Service, is organized
S11231942Cas a women's branch of the Coast Guard.
S11231943 the occupation of the Gilbert Islands by U.S. forces is
S11231943Ccompleted.
S11231945 meat and butter rationing ends in the U.S.
S11231948 the lens to provide zoom effects is patented by Frank Gerard
S11231948CBack.
S11231964 the Vatican abolishes Latin as the official language of the Roman
S11231964CCatholic liturgy.
S11231982 the FCC drops limits on the duration and frequency of TV ads.
S1123    5Thanksgiving.
S1123     Feast of St. Clement I, 4th pope (c 88-c 97), martyr, patron
S1123       saint of hatters.
S1123    6Yourwelcomegiving Day.
S1123     Repudiation Day (Maryland).
R1123    3It's National Children's Book Week.
R1123    4It's National Children's Book Week.
R1123    5It's National Children's Book Week.
R1123    6It's National Children's Book Week.
R1123    7It's National Children's Book Week.
R1123    1It's National Children's Book Week.
R1123    7It's National Farm-City Week.
R1123    1It's National Farm-City Week.
R1123    2It's National Farm-City Week.
R1123    3It's National Farm-City Week.
R1123    4It's National Farm-City Week.
R1123    5It's National Farm-City Week.
S1123     Labor Thanksgiving Day (Japan).
S1123     Shinjosai (Japan - rice festival).
S11241832 South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification against a
S11241832Cpermanent tariff.
S11241835 the Texas Rangers, a mounted police force, is authorized by the
S11241835CTexas Provincial Government.
S11241871 the National Rifle Association is incorporated.
S11241896 Vermont enacts the first U.S. absentee voting law.
S11241903 Clyde J. Coleman patents the electric self-starter for
S11241903Cautomobiles.
S11241948 Ireland votes for independence from the U.K. (recognized by
S11241948CEngland May 17, 1949).
S11241949 Detroit Lions' Bob Smith intercepts a pass and runs it back 102
S11241949Cyards for a TD against the Chicago Bears.
S11241952 Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens in London.  At last
S11241952Creport, it is still running.
S11241954 the first U.S. Presidential airplane is christened, Air Force 1.
S11241954 President Eisenhower sanctions the development of the U-2 spy
S11241954Cplane for the CIA.
S11241957 Cleveland Browns' fullback Jim Brown sets a club record with 237
S11241957Cyards rushing (31 carries) against the Rams, Browns 45, L.A. 31.
S11241960 Philadelphia's Wilt Chamberlain sets the NBA record for the most
S11241960Crebounds in a game (55).
S11241961 the U.N. adopts bans on nuclear arms over U.S. protest.
S11241963 Lee Harvey Oswald is shot and killed, witnessed by millions on
S11241963CTV, by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas jail.
S11241967 Surveyor VI fires its 3 vernier engines to lift it slightly off
S11241967Cthe surface of the moon, enabling it to photograph the place
S11241967Cwhere it stood.
S11241969 the nuclear nonproliferation treaty is signed by the U.S. and the
S11241969CU.S.S.R., the 23rd and 24th signatories (59 other nations also
S11241969Csigned, concluding 4 years of negotiations).
S11241971 "D.B. Cooper" parachutes from a Northwest Airline 727 with
S11241971C$200,000.
S11241973 Australia grants Aborigines the right to vote.
S11241979 the U.S. admits thousands of troops in Vietnam were exposed to
S11241979CAgent Orange.
S11241981 the first air-launched cruise missile is tested.
S11241989 the Communist Party leadership resigns in Czechoslovakia.
S11241991 the 44th Shuttle Mission, Atlantis 10 is launched.
S11241993 Congress votes to formally apologize to Hawaii for overthrowing
S11241993Cthe government in 1893.
S1124    5Thanksgiving.
S1124     Feast of St. John of the Cross, confessor, doctor.
S1124    6Yourwelcomegiving Day.
R1124    4It's National Children's Book Week.
R1124    5It's National Children's Book Week.
R1124    6It's National Children's Book Week.
R1124    7It's National Children's Book Week.
R1124    1It's National Children's Book Week.
R1124    1It's National Farm-City Week.
R1124    2It's National Farm-City Week.
R1124    3It's National Farm-City Week.
R1124    4It's National Farm-City Week.
R1124    5It's National Farm-City Week.
S1124     New Regime Day (Zaire National Day).
S11251758 Britain captures Ft. Duquesne (Pittsburgh).
S11251783 Britain evacuates N.Y., their last military position in the U.S.
S11251783C(former colonies).
S11251837 William Crompton patents a silk power loom.
S11251863 at the Battle of Chattanooga, Tenn., Union reinforcements under
S11251863CGen. Grant systematically capture Confederate positions around
S11251863Cthe city.  The siege is broken and Confederate forces under Gen.
S11251863CBragg flee.
S11251867 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
S11251884 John B. Meyenberg of St. Louis patents evaporated milk.
S11251920 the first Thanksgiving Parade takes place in Philadelphia.
S11251920 WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcasts the first football play-
S11251920Cby-play.
S11251922 King Tut's tomb is entered by archaeologist Howard Carter; the
S11251922Cstone sarcophagus is found Jan. 4, 1924.
S11251923 transatlantic broadcasting is established (England and U.S.)
S11251941 Lou Boudreau becomes the Cleveland Indians player/manager.
S11251943 "Casablanca" premieres in N.Y. City.
S11251951 Cleveland's Mac Speedie sets a club record with 3 TD receptions,
S11251951Cand teammate Dub Jones scores 6 TDs, another club record.  The
S11251951CBrowns also set club records for the most penalties (21), the
S11251951Cmost penalties by both teams (37 - a NFL record), and the most
S11251951Cpenalty yards (209), Browns 42, Chicago Bears 21.
S11251952 George Meany of New York is appointed president of the AFL.
S11251956 the first successful Antarctic parachute jump is made by Sgt.
S11251956CRichard J. Patton, USAF (made to determine the cause of parachute
S11251956Cmalfunction in below-zero weather).
S11251960 the first atomic reactor for research and development begins
S11251960Coperations at Richland, Wa.
S11251969 Nixon renounces germ weapons and orders the destruction of
S11251969Cstockpiles.
S11251969 Beatle John Lennon returns the Order of the British Empire award
S11251969Cto protest the U.K.'s support for the Vietnam War.
S11251975 Netherlands grants Surinam independence (National Day).
S11251976 O.J. Simpson rushes for 273 yards in a losing cause, Lions 27,
S11251976CBills 14.
S11251979 Pittsburgh gains 606 net yards against Cleveland, the most gained
S11251979Cby an opponent in the Browns' history, Steelers 33, Browns 30.
S11251984 Cleveland Browns' Reggie Camp sets a team record for the most
S11251984Cyardage gained by sacks (39), Browns 27, Houston 10.
S11251986 Col. Oliver North's secretary, Fawn Hill, smuggles documents out
S11251986Cof her boss's office for him.
S1125    5Thanksgiving.
S1125     Feast of St. Catherine, virgin and martyr, patron saint of
S1125       maidens, mechanics, philosophers, and scholars.
S1125    6Yourwelcomegiving Day.
R1125    5It's National Children's Book Week.
R1125    6It's National Children's Book Week.
R1125    7It's National Children's Book Week.
R1125    1It's National Children's Book Week.
R1125    2It's National Farm-City Week.
R1125    3It's National Farm-City Week.
R1125    4It's National Farm-City Week.
R1125    5It's National Farm-City Week.
S1125     Day of Oya (Santeria/Yoruba).
S1125     Suriname Independence Day.
S11261716 the first lion is exhibited in America, in Boston.
S11261778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands).
S11261789 the first national celebration of Thanksgiving occurs.
S11261793 the Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France.
S11261825 the Kappa Alpha fraternity is established.
S11261832 the first streetcar in the world is put into operation by the New
S11261832CYork & Harlem Railroad in New York City.
S11261865 "Alice in Wonderland" is published in America.
S11261867 J.B. Sutherland patents the refrigeration railroad car.
S11261868 the first baseball game is played in an enclosed field at 25th
S11261868Cand Folsom in San Francisco.
S11261885 the first meteor is photographed.
S11261895 the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed.
S11261941 a Japanese carrier force leaves base, moving east; its secret
S11261941Cdistination is Pearl Harbor.
S11261943 the HMS Rohna becomes the first ship ever to be sunk by a guided
S11261943Cmissile (a German Henschel Hs. 293), killing 1,015 U.S. troops
S11261943C(America's greatest naval loss of life in a single incident).
S11261949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic.
S11261962 the Fab Four have their first recording session under the name
S11261962CBeatles.
S11261965 France launches its first satellite, Astrix 1 onboard a Diamant
S11261965Crocket from Algeria, becoming the third country in space.
S11261966 the first major tidal power plant is opened at Rance estuary,
S11261966CFrance.
S11261967 Cleveland Browns' Carl Ward sets a club record with a 104-yard
S11261967Ckickoff return, Browns 42, Washington 37.
S11261969 a bill establishing a lottery for Selective Service draftees is
S11261969Csigned by President Nixon (first drawing is held Dec. 1).
S11261971 Rod Laver becomes the first tennis millionaire.
S11261973 Nixon turns over some of the White House Tapes.
S11261985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 is launched.
S11261989 L.A. Rams' Flipper Anderson sets a NFL record for most yards
S11261989Cgained receiving (336) in a game.
S1126    5Thanksgiving.
S1126     Feast of St. Sylvester, abbot.
S1126     Feast of St. Peter, Bishop of Alexandria.
S1126    6Yourwelcomegiving Day.
S1126     John Harvard Day.
S1126     Sojourne Truth Day.
R1126    6It's National Children's Book Week.
R1126    7It's National Children's Book Week.
R1126    1It's National Children's Book Week.
R1126    3It's National Farm-City Week.
R1126    4It's National Farm-City Week.
R1126    5It's National Farm-City Week.
S1126     Acordo de Argelia (Sao Toe and Principe).
S1126     Festival of Lights (Tibetan).
S11271095 Pope Urban II preaches the first Crusade at Clermont-Ferrand.
S11271582 Advent Sunday is first observed.
S11271777 the Continental Congress recommends to the States to seize
S11271777Cloyalists' lands and sell them to finance the war.
S11271815 Cracow is declared a free republic.
S11271826 John Walker invents the friction match in England.
S11271874 a patent is granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
S11271890 the first signal box for the S.F. Police Department goes into
S11271890Coperation.
S11271895 Alfred Nobel establishes the Nobel Foundation.
S11271901 the Army War College is established in Washington, D.C.
S11271910 N.Y.'s Penn Station opens as the world's largest railway
S11271910Cterminal.
S11271911 an audience throws vegetables at actors on stage for the first
S11271911Crecorded time in U.S.
S11271912 the parcel post postage-due one-cent stamp is issued.
S11271926 the restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins.
S11271931 Ravel's "Concerto for the Left Hand" premieres in Vienna.
S11271937 the pro-labor musical revue "Pins & Needles" opens, produced by
S11271937CILGWU.
S11271938 Chicago Cardinals' Doug Russell throws a 98 yard TD pass to
S11271938CGaynell Tinsley against the Cleveland Rams.
S11271942 the French navy at Toulon scuttles its ships and submarines to
S11271942Cprevent them from falling into hands of the Nazis.
S11271943 the "S.S. Henry Miller" is launched at Wilmington, Ca. (named
S11271943Cafter the first president of the I.B.E.W.).
S11271945 CARE is incorporated to provide aid to Europe.
S11271951 the Nike, the first ground-to-air missile, is successfully tested
S11271951Cat White Sands Proving Ground, N.M.
S11271962 the first test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place.
S11271966 in highest scoring NFL game, the Washington Redskins defeat the
S11271966CN.Y. Giants 72-41.
S11271967 the Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour".
S11271970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, noted Russian writer, refuses to go to
S11271970CSweden to receive his Nobel because the Soviets will not let him
S11271970Creturn home to his family.
S11271970 Pope Paul VI is wounded in the chest during a visit to the
S11271970CPhilippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a
S11271970Cpriest.
S11271971 the Anglican Church ordains its first women priests.
S11271973 Nixon signs the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973,
S11271973Callowing enforced oil and gasoline conservation measures.
S11271973 Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, demonstrates to a
S11271973Cfederal court how she accidentally caused the 18-minute gap in a
S11271973Ckey Watergate tape.  (Experts testify later it was caused by five
S11271973Cdifferent erasures.)
S11271985 the House of Commons ratifies the pact giving the Republic of
S11271985CIreland a consultative role in Northern Ireland.
S11271994 workmen begin tearing down the Hoa Lo prison to make way for a
S11271994Cluxury hotel (known as the Hanoi Hilton to captured American
S11271994Cservicemen during the Vietnam War).
S11271994 American Airlines Flight 1093 from Cleveland to Miami aborts
S11271994Ctakeoff when 2 left tires blow at Hopkins International Airport.
S1127    5Thanksgiving.
S1127    1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas).
S1127     Feast of St. Severinus, hermit.
S1127    6Yourwelcomegiving Day.
R1127    7It's National Children's Book Week.
R1127    1It's National Children's Book Week.
R1127    4It's National Farm-City Week.
R1127    5It's National Farm-City Week.
S1127     Battle of Tarapaca (Peru).
S1127     Day of Sophia (Greek).
S1127     Feast of Hathor (Ancient Egyptian holiday honoring Hathor, a sky-
S1127       goddess and protectress of women, and commemorating the
S1127       slaughter of men who rebelled against her father Ra by her
S1127       sister Sekhmet).
S11281520 Magellan passes through the strait that bears his name and begins
S11281520Ccrossing the Pacific Ocean.
S11281582 William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway.
S11281775 the Continental Navy is formally established.
S11281834 the Seminole Indians are ordered to evacuate Florida and move
S11281834Cwest of the Mississippi River (as per the Treaty of 1832).
S11281891 the National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (now IBEW) is
S11281891Cfounded in St. Louis, home of Local 1.
S11281893 women vote in a national election for the first time - in the
S11281893CNew Zealand General Elections.
S11281895 America's first auto race starts - 6 cars, 55 miles, the winner
S11281895Caveraging 7 MPH.
S11281912 Albania declares independence from Turkey.
S11281919 Lady Astor becomes the first woman in the British Parliament
S11281919C(House of Commons).
S11281925 the Grand Ole Opry begins its Saturday night "Barn Dance"
S11281925Cbroadcasts on WSM (Nashville).
S11281929 Commander Richard E. Byrd completes the first South Pole flight.
S11281929 Chicago Cardinals' Ernie Nevers sets NFL records for the most
S11281929Cpoints in a game (40) and the most TDs (6) (had 4 PAT's) against
S11281929Cthe Chicago Bears.
S11281942 the Boston nightclub, Cocoanut Grove, is destroyed, the worst
S11281942Csingle fire of modern times in the U.S.
S11281948 "Hopalong Cassidy" debuts on NBC television.
S11281948 the Polaroid Land Camera is marketed.
S11281954 Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets a club record with a 80-yard
S11281954Cpunt, Browns 16, Giants 7.
S11281958 the U.S. reports the first full-range firing of an I.C.B.M.
S11281958 Chad proclaims itself a republic.
S11281958 the Middle Congo province of French Equatorial Africa votes to
S11281958Cproclaim itself independent as the Congo Republic (Brazzaville).
S11281960 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day).
S11281963 Cape Canaveral is renamed Cape Kennedy.
S11281964 Mariner 4 is launched, the first probe to fly by Mars.
S11281965 Cleveland Browns' Leroy Kelly sets a club record for the most
S11281965Cpunt return yardage (109 yards), Browns 42, Pittsburgh 21.
S11281967 the first pulsating radio source (pulsar) is detected.
S11281967 Yemen gains independence from Britain.
S11281974 Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years.
S11281981 Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to outdistance Alonzo Stagg
S11281981Cand become college football's winningest coach.
S11281981 actress Natalie Wood drowns off Santa Catalina, Calif., at 43.
S11281983 the 9th Space Shuttle Mission, Columbia 6 is launched, carrying
S11281983Can European-built research lab into orbit.
S11281985 Jonathan Jay Polland, a civilian analyst in the Naval
S11281985CIntelligence, is arrested for selling classified military
S11281985Cinformation to Israel.
S1128    5Thanksgiving.
S1128     Feast of St. Catherine Labour, virgin.
S1128     Feast of St. Gregory III, Pope and confessor.
S1128    1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas).
S1128    6Yourwelcomegiving Day.
R1128    1It's National Children's Book Week.
R1128    5It's National Farm-City Week.
S1128     Albania Independence Day.
S1128     Chadian Republic Day.
S1128     Mauritania Independence Day.
S1128     Panama Independence Day (Spain 1821).
S11291775 the American Colonial Committee of Secret Correspondence is
S11291775Cformed.
S11291864 Sand Creek Massacre - Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, awaiting
S11291864Csurrender terms, are attacked by 900 calvarymen. (9 soldiers
S11291864Cdied - 150 to 500 men, women and children are killed.)
S11291887 the U.S. receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.
S11291891 the first Army-Navy football game is played, Navy 24, Army 0.
S11291897 the first motorcycle race is held in Surrey, England.
S11291929 the first flight over the South Pole is accomplished by Commander
S11291929CRichard E. Byrd.
S11291932 the electric bridge table is patented by L. Hammond.
S11291934 the Chicago Bears beat Detroit 19-16 in the first NFL game to be
S11291934Cbroadcast nationally on radio.
S11291943 as part of the war effort, coffee rationing begins.
S11291944 Albania is liberated from Nazi control (National Day).
S11291945 Yugoslav is proclaimed a republic (Republic Day).
S11291947 the U.N. partitions Palestine into Jewish and Arab states
S11291947C(Liberation Day).
S11291948 the N.Y. Metropolitan Opera, televised for the first time,
S11291948Cperforms "Othello".
S11291951 the first underground atomic explosion occurs at Frenchman
S11291951CFlat, Nevada.
S11291952 the first international organization for birth control is
S11291952Cfounded in Bombay.
S11291953 American Airlines institutes the first regular commercial
S11291953Ccontinental air service from L.A. to N.Y.
S11291961 NASA orbits Enos the chimp on Mercury V and recovers him.
S11291963 Chief Justice Earl Warren is appointed to head the commission in
S11291963Cinvestigating the assassination of President Kennedy.
S11291975 legislation requiring states to provide free education for the
S11291975Chandicapped from 3 to 21 (within 5 years) is signed by President
S11291975CFord.
S11291987 Joe Montana of the 49ers completes 22 consecutive passes (a
S11291987Cleague record) against the Cleveland Browns, S.F. 38, Browns 24.
S11291990 the U.N. Security Council votes to authorize the U.S. and its
S11291990Callies to use force to expel Iraq from Kuwait if its troops did
S11291990Cnot leave by Jan. 15, 1991.
S1129     Feast of St. Saturninus, martyr.
S1129    1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas).
S1129    6Yourwelcomegiving Day.
S1129     International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People (U.N.
S1129       observance).
S1129     Albania Liberation Day.
S1129     Day of Mawu (African).
S1129     President Tubman's Birthday (Liberia).
S1129     Yugoslavian Republic Day.
S1130 030 BC  Cleopatra dies.
S11301752 St. Andrew's Day is first celebrated.
S11301782 the preliminary articles of peace are signed by the U.S. and the
S11301782CBritish at Paris.
S11301803 Spain cedes its claims to Louisiana to France.
S11301875 A.J. Errichson patents the oat-crushing machine.
S11301900 a German engineer patents front-wheel drive for autos.
S11301922 the Japanese Navy's Hosho begins its sea trials, the first
S11301922Caircraft carrier to be specifically designed as such.
S11301924 wireless transmission of photographs from London to N.Y. City is
S11301924Cfirst demonstrated by RCA (20 to 25 minutes for each).
S11301933 CCC Camps are established in the Cleveland Park District.
S11301939 Russia invades Finland.
S11301947 the day after U.N. decree for partition of Palestine into
S11301947CJewish and Arab states, Israeli settlements are attacked.
S11301950 concentrated milk goes on the market for the first time in
S11301950CWilmington, Delaware.
S11301954 Mrs. Elizabeth H. Hodges of Sylacauga, Alabama becomes the only
S11301954Crecorded person injured by a meteorite.
S11301956 the first use of videotape on TV occurs with the airing of
S11301956C"Douglas Edwards and the News" in western U.S.
S11301958 the first guided missile destroyer, "U.S.S. Dewey," is launched
S11301958Cfrom Bath, Me.
S11301964 U.S.S.R. launches Zond 2 towards Mars.
S11301966 Barbados gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S11301967 South Yemen (then Aden) gains independence from Britain.
S11301974 Pioneer II, nearing Jupiter, transmits pictures.
S11301974 the most complete skeleton of early man, Lucy, is found in
S11301974CEthiopia by Dr. Donald Johanson and T. Gray of Cleveland's Museum
S11301974Cof Natural History.
S11301984 the basis for a Protestant church merger by nine major Protestant
S11301984Cdenominations is reached by the Consultation of Church Union,
S11301984Cafter 22 years of effort.
S11301990 basketball great Larry Bird scores his 20,000th point.
S11301991 the first world championship of women's soccer is won by the
S11301991CU.S., defeating Norway 2-1, in Guangzhou, China.
S11301993 President Clinton signs the James Brady Handgun Bill into law.
S11301993 the Jacksonville Jaguars become the NFL's 30th franchise team.
S11301994 the Beatles' first album in 25 years, "Live at the BBC", is
S11301994Creleased in Britain.
S11301994 the first commercial flight with the warning device for wind
S11301994Csheer is flown (Washington to Cleveland).
S11301994 Republican Jo Ann Davidson is designated the first woman to be
S11301994Cspeaker of Ohio's House (convenes Jan. 3).
S1130     Hurricane season officially ends (Atlantic Basin).
S1130     Feast of St. Andrew, apostle, brother of St. Peter, patron saint
S1130       of Scotland, Greece, Russia, fishermen, and golfers.
S1130    1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas).
S1130     Commemoration of the Separation of the Waters (Avignon, France).
S1130     Youth Day (Upper Volta).
S1130     Benin National Day.
S1130     Barbados Independence Day.
S1130     Bonifacio Day (Philippines).
S1130     People's Democratic Republic of Yemen's Independence Day.
R1100     It's Home Education Awareness Month!
R1100     It's Aviation History Month!
R1100     It's National Raisin Bread Month!
R1100     It's National Accordion Month!
R1100     The topaz and citrine are the gems for November.
R1100     The chrysanthemum and dahlia are the flowers of November.
R1100     The sentimental meaning of the topaz is for fidelity, and the
R1100       chrysanthemum is for loveliness and cheerfulness.
R1100     November was the ninth month.  Novem is Latin for nine.
R1100     November was known by the Saxons as Wint Monath - the wind month.
R1100     The full moon in November is known as the Beaver Moon, and the
R1100       Snow Moon.
R11011122 Scorpio is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R11011122   Symbol: The Scorpion.
R11011122   Ruling Planet: Pluto.
R11011122   Element: Water.
R11011122   Traits: Passionate, intense, secretive, subtle.
R11011122   Body part associated with this sign: Secrets.
R11011122   Occupations: Teaching, work requiring concentration, training
R11011122     animals, psychiatry, surgery, detection.
R11231130 Sagittarius is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R11231130   Symbol: The Archer.
R11231130   Ruling Planet: Jupiter.
R11231130   Element: Fire.
R11231130   Traits: Bountiful, frank, versatile, philosophical.
R11231130   Body part associated with this sign: The thighs.
R11231130   Occupations: Travel, politics, meteorology, philosophy,
R11231130     religion.


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S12011640 Portugal becomes independent of Spain.
S12011816 gas lights are used commercially for the first time.
S12011821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain.
S12011832 the Ohio and Erie Canal is completed.
S12011842 three sailors aboard the training ship, U.S. Somers, are found
S12011842Cguilty of conspiring to mutiny and are hung at sea.
S12011863 Samuel Goodale, of Ohio, patents the stereopticon (projects a
S12011863Ccombination of images on a wall or screen - first used in peep-
S12011863Cshows).
S12011887 Sherlock Holmes first appears in print: "A Study In Scarlet."
S12011913 the first drive-up gasoline station opens, in Pittsburgh.
S12011917 Father Edward Joseph Flanagan founds Boys Town.
S12011918 Iceland becomes an independent state under the Danish crown.
S12011922 the first skywriting over the U.S. - "Hello U.S.A." - by Capt.
S12011922CTurner, RAF, is demonstrated.
S12011924 the first National Corn Husking Championship Contest is held in
S12011924CAlleman, Iowa.
S12011927 the Model A makes its debut.
S12011929 bingo is invented by Edwin S Lowe.
S12011942 as part of the war effort, nationwide gasoline rationing begins.
S12011951 Golden Gate Bridge is closed because of high winds.
S12011954 the Yankees and Orioles complete record 18 player deal.
S12011955 Rosa Parks is the first black to defy Alabama state law, refusing
S12011955Cto give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white person.
S12011958 the Central African Republic is established (National Day).
S12011959 12 nations sign the International Antarctic Treaty making the
S12011959CAntarctic a science preserve.
S12011959 the first color photograph of Earth is taken from outer space.
S12011968 the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
S12011968Ccondemns as a police riot the actions of Chicago police during
S12011968Cthe Democratic Convention in August.
S12011969 the first draft lottery since 1942 is held in the U.S.
S12011970 the U.S. Senate passes the Consumer Protection Bill.
S12011981 President Reagan okays the first funds to aid the rebel contras
S12011981Cin Nicaragua.
S12011987 NASA awards $5 billion in contracts for a space station.
S1201    1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas).
S1201     Feast of St. Eligius, Bishop and confessor.
S1201     Feast of St. Simon of Cyrene.
S1201     Birthday of the Virgin Mary - Coptic (Egyptian) and Abyssinian
S1201       Churches.
S1201     World AIDS Day.
S1201     National Civil Air Patrol Day.
S1201     Day of Pallas Athena (Greek holiday).
S1201    5Lover's Fair (celebrated in Belgium).
R1201     It's National Mimicry Week.
S1201     Central African Republic Proclamation of the Republic
S1201       (independence from France).
S1201     Macao Restoration of Independence.
S1201     Madiera Independence Day.
S1201     Portugal Independence Restoration Day.
S1201     Romania National Day.
S1201     University Students' Celebration (Iceland).
S1201     Westland Provincial Anniversary (New Zealand).
S12021620 the first English language newspaper is published.
S12021804 Napoleon becomes the first French emperor, placing crown on his
S12021804Cown head.
S12021805 Napoleon defeats Russians and Austrians at Austerlitz, resulting
S12021805Cin the dismemberment of the Holy Roman Empire after 844 years.
S12021816 the first savings bank in the U.S. opens as the Philadelphia
S12021816CSavings Fund Society.
S12021823 President James Monroe declares his doctrine.
S12021852 French monarchy is restored when Louis Napoleon becomes Emperor
S12021852CNapoleon III.
S12021887 Charles Dickens performs his first public reading in the U.S., in
S12021887CNew York City.
S12021899 the U.S. and Germany agree to divide Samoa between them.
S12021901 King Camp Gillette patents the first safety razor with a
S12021901Cdisposable blade.
S12021908 the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America is
S12021908Cestablished in Philadelphia.
S12021909 the National Hockey Association is founded in Monaural.
S12021921 C-7 first successful helium dirigible makes test-flight at
S12021921CPortsmouth, Va.
S12021927 the first Model A Fords are sold for $385.
S12021942 the first controlled nuclear reaction at the University of
S12021942CChicago is successfully produced by Enrico Fermi and Arthur
S12021942CCompton.
S12021952 the first human birth is televised in Denver, Colorado.
S12021954 the U.S. Senate censures Joe McCarthy for his conduct.
S12021957 Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" reaches #1 on the Top 100 chart
S12021957C(his only single to top the pop chart).
S12021966 abstinence from meat on Fridays is no longer required by U.S.
S12021966CRoman Catholics, except during Lent.
S12021969 the Boeing 747 makes its first public flight, from Seattle, Wash.
S12021969Cto N.Y. City.
S12021970 the Senate votes to give 48,000 acres of New Mexico back to the
S12021970CTaos Indians.
S12021970 the Environmental Protection Agency, established in July, is
S12021970Cactivated.
S12021971 the Soviet Mars 3 is the first to soft land on Mars.
S12021971 the seven "Trucial Sheikdoms" merge to become the United Arab
S12021971CEmirates and gain independence from Britain (National Day).
S12021973 99% of gas stations close voluntarily on the first of many
S12021973CSundays to save fuel.
S12021973 the Davis Cup tennis championship is won in Cleveland, Ohio, by
S12021973CAustralia, beating the U.S. in five straight matches.
S12021974 Pioneer 11 makes its closest approach to Jupiter.
S12021975 a federal law prohibiting the mailing of firearms that could be
S12021975Chidden on one's person is upheld by the Supreme Court.
S12021981 Moscone Convention Center opens at 11:30 a.m.
S12021982 Dr. Barney Clark becomes the first permanent artificial heart
S12021982Crecipient.
S12021987 Shearson Lehman Brothers buys E.F. Hutton for $1 billion.
S12021990 the 38th Shuttle Mission, Columbia 10 is launched.
S12021990 the first all-German elections since 1937 are held in united
S12021990CGermany.
S12021993 the 61st Shuttle Mission (STS-61) - Endeavour is launched on a
S12021993Crepair mission to the Hubble.
S1202     Feast of St. Bibiana, virgin and martyr.
S1202    1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas).
R1202     It's National Mimicry Week.
R1202    2It's National Mimicry Week.
S1202    5Lover's Fair (celebrated in Belgium).
S1202     Pan American Health Day.
S1202     Hari Kugo (Japan).
S1202     Lao People's Democratic Republic's National Holiday.
S1202     United Arab Emirates Independence Day (Britain 1971).
S12031586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia.
S12031621 Galileo invents the telescope.
S12031775 the first official American flag is raised aboard Commodore Esek
S12031775CHopkins' flagship, the "Alfred".
S12031787 the first steam-powered boat is demonstrated by James Rumsey on
S12031787Cthe Potomac River.
S12031818 Illinois becomes the 21st state.
S12031833 Oberlin College in Ohio, the first truly coeducational college,
S12031833Copens.  It later became the first college to advocate the
S12031833Cabolition of slavery.
S12031910 the world's first neon sign, designed by Georges Claude, blinks
S12031910Con in Paris.
S12031933 Cincinnati Reds' Gil LeFebvre returns a punt 98 yards for a TD
S12031933Cagainst the Brooklyn Dodgers.
S12031940 the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (N.A.C.A.) Lewis
S12031940CFlight Propulsion Labortory is established, to become part of
S12031940CN.A.S.A. in 1958.
S12031947 Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire," opens.
S12031948 the "Pumpkin Papers" come to light, proving the existence of one
S12031948Cof the most extensive espionage rings in U.S. history.
S12031948 Mary A. Hallaren receives her commission and becomes the first
S12031948Cwoman officer in the regular Army of the United States.
S12031950 Charles Bailly reports from Cleveland the discovery of a heart-
S12031950Clung device to revive clinically dead.
S12031950 Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets a club record with 12 punts
S12031950Cin one game, Browns 13, Philadelphia 7.
S12031950 Rams' Tom Fears sets a NFL record for the most pass receptions
S12031950C(18) in a game.
S12031952 the first television broadcast in Hawaii occurs.
S12031953 scientists at the University of Iowa announce they have achieved
S12031953Cthe first human pregnancies using deep-frozen sperm.
S12031954 Joseph McCarthy goes too far in his attacks and is condemned
S12031954Cby the U.S. Senate.
S12031967 the first human heart transplant is performed, in Capetown, South
S12031967CAfrica.
S12031967 the "20th Century Limited," the famed N.Y.-Chicago luxury train,
S12031967Cmakes its final run.
S12031973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter, the first fly-by of an outer planet.
S12031975 Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos) is founded (National
S12031975CDay).
S12031979 11 die at Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati in the rush to see a
S12031979CWho concert.
S12031982 Cleveland's highest temperature ever recorded in December (77
S12031982Cdegrees) occurs.
S12031984 a toxic gas leak from an Union Carbide subsidiary kills over
S12031984C2,000 in Bhopal, India.
S12031988 the 27th Shuttle Mission, Atlantis 3 is launched.
S12031990 the Supreme Court rules once a person requests a lawyer, the
S12031990Cpolice can not ask questions until one is present.
S12031992 the U.N. Security Council supports a resolution, initiated by the
S12031992CU.S. to send U.N. forces to Somalia for humanitarian reasons.
S12031994 Cleveland's St. Ignatius Wildcats become the first to win
S12031994Cconsecutive OHSAA Division 1 state titles (6th in 7 seasons),
S12031994Cbeating Westerville South 20-3.
S1203    1Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas).
S1203     Feast of St. Francis Xavier, apostle of India and Japan.
S1203     Illinois Admission Day.
R1203    1It's National Mimicry Week.
R1203    2It's National Mimicry Week.
R1203    3It's National Mimicry Week.
S1203    5Lover's Fair (celebrated in Belgium).
S1203     Festival of Cybele (Ancient Greek, goddess of bees, of caverns,
S1203       and of the Earth in its primitive state).
S1203     Festival of Ceres (Roman corn goddess).
S1203     Feast of Fauna (Roman goddess of the Earth and fields).
S1203     Festival of Bona Dea, the Good Goddess (Roman Earth goddess of
S1203       fertility, worshipped only by women).
S1204 007 B.C., Jupiter and Saturn become so aligned as to appear as an
S1204 007Cextremely bright star (possible birth of Jesus).
S12041619 America's first Thanksgiving Day is celebrated (Virginia).
S12041680 a hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with figure of great
S12041680Ccomet that is first seen on December 16, 1680.
S12041674 Father Marquette builds first dwelling in what is now Chicago.
S12041783 Gen. Washington bids his officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern,
S12041783CNew York City.
S12041843 John M. and Lyman Hollingsworth patent manila paper.
S12041865 a Joint Committee of Reconstruction is estabished to rebuild and
S12041865Creconcile with the South.
S12041867 the Grange is organized to protect farmers interests.
S12041872 the British brig, Dei Gratia, discovers the Mary Celeste sailing
S12041872Cin the middle of the Atlantic with no one on aboard (the last
S12041872Centry in the ship's log was Nov. 24).
S12041909 the first Grey Cup game is played (University of Toronto 26,
S12041909CToronto Parkdale 6).
S12041915 the Panama Pacific International Exposition opens.
S12041930 the Vatican approves the rhythm method devised by Dr. Harmann
S12041930CKnaus in 1928.
S12041941 the Office of Price Administration (OPA) gives the automobile
S12041941Cindustry 15 days to use all existing stock of plated trim.
S12041947 Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire" makes its
S12041947Cdebut in New York.
S12041952 Walter P. Ruether, president of the United Auto Workers, is
S12041952Cchosen to head the CIO.
S12041957 the first edition of Chase's Annual Events is published.
S12041958 Dahomey proclaims itself a republic.
S12041958 Ivory Coast proclaims itself a republic.
S12041963 the use of English in the U.S. in place of Latin for parts of the
S12041963Cmass and for the sacraments is approved by the Roman Catholic
S12041963CEcumenical Council
S12041965 Gemini 7 is launched with Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Commander
S12041965CJames A. Lovell, Jr. to rendezvous with Gemini 6.
S12041966 the Browns beat the N.Y. Giants 49-40, setting club records for
S12041966Cthe most points scored by both teams (89), and the most points to
S12041966Covercome to win (20).
S12041968 a new medical definition of death is formulated by the AMA in an
S12041968Ceffort to resolve controversy arising from organ-transplant
S12041968Coperations (death had to be declared irreversible by 2
S12041968Cindependent physicians).
S12041970 Cesar Chavez is jailed for organizing an illegal nationwide
S12041970Cboycott of lettuce.
S12041974 the brightest fireball ever photographed explodes over Sumava,
S12041974CCzechoslovakia.
S12041976 the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches is formed of
S12041976CLutheran moderates in Chicago.
S12041978 Pioneer 12 Venus 1 enters orbit, and transmits the first global
S12041978Cradar map of Venus.
S12041980 South Africa grants Transkei independence.
S12041981 President Reagan broadens the power of the CIA, allowing spying
S12041981Cin the U.S.
S12041991 Terry Anderson is freed after 2455 days of captivity.
S12041991 Charles Keating is convicted of 17 counts of securities fraud.
S12041994 the Miami Dolphins set a NFL record with 302 consecutive games
S12041994Cwithout allowing a kick return TD.
S1204     Feast of St. Peter Chrysologus, bishop of Ravenna, doctor.
S1204     Feast of St. Barbara of Nicomedia, martyr, patron saint of
S1204       artillerymen, miners, hills, mountains and forts, and is
S1204       invoked against storms, fire, lighting, explosions and against
S1204       dying before receiving the Sacraments.
R1204    1It's National Mimicry Week.
R1204    2It's National Mimicry Week.
R1204    3It's National Mimicry Week.
R1204    4It's National Mimicry Week.
S1204    5Lover's Fair (celebrated in Belgium).
S1204     Day of the Artisans (Mexico).
S1204     Zweigsegen (Austria).
S12051792 George Washington is reelected president of the United States.
S12051846 C.F. Schoenbein patents the folding chair.
S12051856 the Sunday New York Mercury first refers to baseball as the
S12051856Cnational pastime.
S12051876 Daniel C. Stillson patents the pipe wrench.
S12051921 Southern Ireland becomes a Free State, a British dominion.
S12051933 prohibition is ended in the U.S. at 5:32.5 p.m. when Utah
S12051933Cratifies the 21st Amendment.
S12051935 the first commercial hydroponics operation is established in
S12051935CMontebello, Ca.
S12051945 Flight 19, 5 TBM Avengers (torpedo bombers), on a training
S12051945Cmission from the Naval Air Station at Fort Lauderdale disappear
S12051945Cin the Bermuda Triangle.  (A Martin flying boat sent to search
S12051945Cfor the planes also vanishes.)
S12051951 "Dragnet" premieres on TV.
S12051954 Walt Disney airs the first episode in the "Davy Crockett" series
S12051954C(the first TV mini-series).
S12051955 the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. merge under George Meany, becoming the
S12051955CA.F.L-C.I.O.
S12051955 a bus boycott begins in Montgomery under the leadership of Rev.
S12051955CKing.
S12051961 the last segment of the Innerbelt freeway opens.  The project
S12051961Cbegan Dec. 12, 1954.
S12051964 the Medal of Honor is presented to Capt. Roger H.C. Donlon, U.S.
S12051964CArmy, for heroism in South Vietnam (first person to receive the
S12051964Cmedal since the Korean War).
S12051971 Bengals' Essex Johnson achieves the longest gain (86 yards and a
S12051971CTD) against Cleveland in Browns' history, Cleveland 31,
S12051971C Cincinnati 27.
S12051973 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album.
S12051974 the Seattle Seahawks are formed.
S12051982 Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets a club record with 33 pass
S12051982Ccompletions, San Diego 30, Browns 13.
S12051989 Iraq launches its first satellite, Rocket 3rd stage onboard a
S12051989Cthree-stage rocket from Al-Anbar, becoming the tenth country in
S12051989Cspace.
S12051991 Ukraine endorses an independence referendum.
S1205     Feast of St. Sabbas, abbot.
R1205    1It's National Mimicry Week.
R1205    5It's National Mimicry Week.
R1205    4It's National Mimicry Week.
R1205    3It's National Mimicry Week.
R1205    2It's National Mimicry Week.
S1205    5Lover's Fair (celebrated in Belgium).
S1205     Sinter Klaas Day (Dutch).
S1205     King's Birthday in Thailand (National Day).
S1205     Discovery Day (Haiti).
S1205     St. Nicholas' Day (Austria and Netherlands).
S1205     Union of Soviet Socialist Republics' Constitution Day.
S12061492 Columbus discovers Hispaniola (Haiti), establishing the first
S12061492Csettlement of the New World.
S12061631 the first predicted transit of Venus (by Kepler) is observed.
S12061768 the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is published in
S12061768CScotland.
S12061776 the oldest Greek-letter fraternity in the U.S., Phi Beta Kappa,
S12061776Cis founded at the College of William and Mary.
S12061825 President John Adams suggests establishment of a U.S.
S12061825Cobservatory.
S12061869 the first national black labor group in America, the Colored
S12061869CNational Labor Convention, meets in Washington, D.C.
S12061876 the City of Anaheim is incorporated for a second time.
S12061877 Thomas Alva Edison invents the phonograph.
S12061882 the atmosphere of Venus is detected during transit (between the
S12061882CEarth and the Sun), the last transit of Venus.  (The next transit
S12061882Cwill occur in 2004.)
S12061884 the Washington Monument is completed at a cost of $1.2 million.
S12061904 President Theodore Roosevelt states his Roosevelt Corollary to
S12061904Cthe Monroe Doctrine: "in flagrant cases of wrongdoing or
S12061904Cimpotence" of nations in the Western Hemisphere, the U.S. might
S12061904Cbe obliged to undertake "the exercise of an international police
S12061904Cpower."
S12061917 Finland declares its independence from Russia (National Day).
S12061921 the Irish Free State is created, a dominion of the British
S12061921CEmpire.
S12061923 President Coolidge's second annual address to Congress becomes
S12061923Cthe first broadcast of an official presidential address.
S12061925 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation is established to
S12061925Cpromote scholarship and the arts.
S12061933 the ban on "Ulysses" by James Joyce is lifted by Federal Judge
S12061933CJohn M. Woolsey.
S12061935 TWA "air hostesses" begin flying on the 14-passenger DC-2's.
S12061935C(The first "air hostess" was on American Airlines in 1930.)
S12061941 the band of the "U.S.S. Arizona" places second in the Pearl
S12061941CHarbor band competition.
S12061953 Lou "The Toe" Groza kicks 8 PATs, a team record, and Cleveland
S12061953Csets club records for the most points scored (tied in 1954) and
S12061953Cthe most TDs (8), Browns 62, Giants 14.
S12061957 on the first attempt to launch a satellite, the Vanguard rocket
S12061957Ccarrying the satellite blows up two seconds after lift-off.
S12061957 the AFL-CIO ousts the Teamsters in corruption scandal.
S12061973 Gerald Ford is sworn in, becoming the first unelected V.P.
S12061974 Deep Purple performs the first rock concert at the Coliseum in
S12061974CRichfield, Ohio.
S12061975 the World Council of Churches elects two women.
S12061975 the creation of the first artificial animal gene is reported by
S12061975CHarvard scientists.
S12061977 Bophuthatswana, an unrecognized nation, is granted independence
S12061977Cby South Africa.
S12061982 the first execution by lethal injection occurs in Huntsville,
S12061982CAla.
S12061987 Vikings' John Teltschik sets a NFL record for the most punts in
S12061987Ca game (15).
S1206     Feast of St. Nicholas, archbishop of Myra, patron saint of
S1206       Russia, particularly the Russia peasants, Venice, children,
S1206       thieves and pawnbrokers.
R1206    1It's National Mimicry Week.
R1206    6It's National Mimicry Week.
R1206    5It's National Mimicry Week.
R1206    4It's National Mimicry Week.
R1206    3It's National Mimicry Week.
R1206    2It's National Mimicry Week.
S1206     Old New Year (Tibetan).
S1206    5Lover's Fair (celebrated in Belgium).
S1206     Day of Quito (Ecuador).
S1206     Finland Independence Day.
S12071787 Delaware is the first state to ratify the Constitution.
S12071831 Darwin sails from Plymouth, England and begins his voyage aboard
S12071831Cthe HMS Beagle.
S12071836 the Senate chooses a Vice-President for the first time because
S12071836Cnone of the four candidates received a majority (Gerald Ford is
S12071836Cthe second U.S. VP chosen).
S12071868 the Pearshall Brothers open a school in New York City to teach
S12071868Cthe art of riding a bicycle!
S12071896 the International Union of Operating Engineers is organized.
S12071909 bakelite is patented by Leo Baekeland.
S12071926 the Electrolux Servel Corporation patents the gas refrigerator.
S12071931 the first Championship Bridge Match begins, the U.S. team
S12071931Ceventually beating the English team by 8,980 points.
S12071941 Pearl Harbor is attacked - the Day of Infamy.
S12071941 the first Japanese submarine is sunk by an American ship, "U.S.S.
S12071941CWard."
S12071941 the wartime phrase "praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" is
S12071941Cuttered by Howell M. Forgy, chaplain on the U.S. cruiser "New
S12071941COrleans," used to keep the sailors spirits up while they kept up
S12071941Can anti-aircraft barrage.
S12071942 the U.S. launches the battleship New Jersey.
S12071945 Percy LeBaron Spencer patents the microwave.
S12071954 IBM demonstrates the NORC computer.
S12071960 France grants Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) independence.
S12071967 Otis Redding records "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" in 7
S12071967Ctakes, then flies to weekend concerts in Nashville and Cleveland
S12071967C(and his destiny).
S12071972 Apollo 17, the sixth, the last, and the longest Apollo moon
S12071972Cmission is launched (Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison
S12071972CSchmitt).
S12071985 Auburns' Bo Jackson wins the Heisman Trophy.
S12071990 Galileo, on a roundabout trip to Jupiter, on its approach to
S12071990CEarth to pick up gravitational acceleration after first doing so
S12071990Cwith Venus, photographs areas of the far side of the moon never
S12071990Cseen before.
S12071991 "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" opens nationally.
S1207     Feast of St. Ambrose, governor and bishop of Milan, doctor.
S1207     Pearl Harbor Day.
S1207     Delaware Ratification Day.
R1207    1It's National Mimicry Week.
S1207    5Lover's Fair (celebrated in Belgium).
S1207     Cuba's Day of National Mourning.
S1207     Cote d'Ivoire Independence Day.
S1207     Dia de la Griteria (Nicaragua).
S1207     Uhuru Day (Kenya).
S1208 596 BC the Enlightenment of Shakyamuni Buddha occurs (according to
S1208 596CBuddhist belief).
S12081660 in a London performance of Othello, Desdemona is played by
S12081660Ca woman, the first time in England a major part is played by a
S12081660Cwoman on stage.
S12081845 German amateur astronomer M. Hencke discovers the 5th asteroid,
S12081845CAstra.
S12081854 Pope Pius IX declares the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and
S12081854Cushers in the doctrine of papal infallibility.
S12081863 Lincoln issues a proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction, a
S12081863Cfull pardon for all southerners who take a "prescribed oath."
S12081886 the 26 crafts of the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor
S12081886CUnions, and the Knights of Labor adopt the name the American
S12081886CFederation of Labor (AFL) in Columbus, Ohio.
S12081893 the Enlightment of Buddha is observed.
S12081925 "The Coconuts" starring the Marx Brothers opens in N.Y. City.
S12081926 Chicago suffers 67 holdups in two days.
S12081931 coaxial cable is patented by Lloyd Espenshied and Herman Affel.
S12081933 St. Bernadette (Marie-Bernarde Soubirous) is canonized.
S12081937 Joseph Kennedy is chosen Ambassador to England.
S12081940 the first NFL championship is aired on national radio, Bears 73,
S12081940CRedskins 0 (NFL record for the worst shutout).
S12081941 the U.S. declares war on Japan; FDR speaks to the Joint Session
S12081941Cof Congress, "a date which will live in infamy."
S12081941 San Francisco has its first blackout, at 6:15 p.m.
S12081949 the National government of China under Chiang Kai-shek, after
S12081949Cbeing defeated by the Communists, moves to Formosa.
S12081952 the first TV acknowledgment of pregnancy occurs on "I Love
S12081952CLucy".
S12081965 the first Ph.D. is awarded by a Computer Science Department
S12081965C(University of Pennsylvania).
S12081980 former Beatle John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City.
S12081987 President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign the
S12081987CINF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty, eliminating
S12081987Cmedium range nuclear missiles.
S12081990 Galileo, on a roundabout trip to Jupiter, flies by Earth (within
S12081990C600 miles) to pick up gravitational acceleration after first
S12081990Cdoing so with Venus.
S12081990 the Indians agree to a lease at Cleveland's new ballpark in
S12081990CGateway (Jacobs Field).
S12081992 U.S. Marines, the vanguard of a U.N. multinational rescue
S12081992Cmission, land in war- and famine-racked Somalia (the last U.S.
S12081992Ctroops leave on 3/24/1994).
S12081993 Lakewood's Fire Station #1 is deactivated and moved to its new
S12081993Clocation on Warren Road and Madison Avenue.
S1208     Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary.
R1208    2It's National Mimicry Week.
R1208    3It's National Mimicry Week.
R1208    4It's National Mimicry Week.
R1208    5It's National Mimicry Week.
R1208    6It's National Mimicry Week.
R1208    7It's National Mimicry Week.
S1208     Bodhi Day (Buddhist celebration of the Enlightenment of Buddha).
S1208     Festival of Neith (Egyptian celebration).
S1208     Beach Day (Uruguay).
S1208     Conception Day (San Marino).
S1208     Lady of Camarin Day (Guam).
S1208     Mothers Day (Panama).
S12091531 the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego.
S12091640 settler Hugh Bewitt is banished from the colony of Massachusetts
S12091640Cwhen he declares himself to be free of original sin.
S12091792 the first cremation in the U.S. is performed.
S12091793 Noah Webster establishes New York's first daily newspaper.
S12091854 Lord Tennyson immortalizes the blunder of the Battle of Balaklova
S12091854Cwith his poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade".
S12091869 the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor is founded.
S12091884 ball-bearing roller skates are patented by Levant M. Richardson.
S12091907 the first Christmas Seals are sold at the Wilmington Post Office.
S12091914 tear gas (xylyl-bromide) is demonstrated by Dr. von Tappen for
S12091914Cthe first time in Kumersdorf, Germany.
S12091938 a live coelacanth (a prehistoric fish) is caught off East London,
S12091938CSouth Africa.
S12091941 300 Montgomery opens as new Bank of America headquarters.
S12091967 rock and roll artist Otis Redding tapes his last TV appearance
S12091967C(Don Webster's "Upbeat", on Cleveland's WEWS-TV) and performs his
S12091967Clast concert (Cleveland).  (He dies in a plane crash on the way
S12091967Cto his next performance.)
S12091973 Britain and Ireland reach an accord where Northern Ireland will
S12091973Cget a coalition government with Protestants and Catholics.
S12091978 Pioneer 13 (Venus 2) drops 5 probes into the atmosphere of Venus.
S12091990 Lech Walesa, Solidarity leader, is elected president in Poland's
S12091990Cfirst democratic election.
S12091990 Houston scores the most points against the Cleveland in the
S12091990Cclub's history, Oilers 58, Browns 14.
S12091992 Prince Charles and Lady Diana separate.
S12091994 "Measure 16", the decriminalization of assisted suicides, goes
S12091994Cinto effect in Oregon (blocked by a preliminary injunction).
R1209    3It's National Mimicry Week.
R1209    4It's National Mimicry Week.
R1209    5It's National Mimicry Week.
R1209    6It's National Mimicry Week.
R1209    7It's National Mimicry Week.
S1209     Fiesta of Tonzatin (Mexican celebration).
S1209     Battle of Ayacucho (Peru).
S1209     Tanzania Independence and Republic Day (Britain 1961).
S12101520 Martin Luther publicly burns papal edict demanding that he
S12101520Crecant.
S12101817 Mississippi becomes the 20th state.
S12101845 Robert W. Thompson patents the pneumatic tyre.
S12101868 the use of traffic lights is initiated in London.
S12101869 the nation's first woman suffrage law is passed in Wyoming
S12101869CTerritory.
S12101898 the treaty ending the Spanish-American war is signed in Paris.
S12101898CSpain cedes the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.
S12101898Cand approves the independence of Cuba.
S12101901 the first Nobel Peace Prize, and the Nobels in Physics,
S12101901CChemistry, Literature and Medicine are awarded.  (Alfred Nobel
S12101901Cdied Dec. 10, 1896.)
S12101904 Pavlov receives Nobel for studies on the nature of the digestive
S12101904Cprocess (conditioned responses of dogs.)
S12101906 President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American awarded
S12101906Cthe Nobel Peace Prize.
S12101915 the millionth Model T rolls off Ford's Detroit, Mich., assembly
S12101915Cline.
S12101927 Grand Ole Opry makes its first radio broadcast in Nashville,
S12101927CTenn.
S12101931 Jane Addams is named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize, becoming
S12101931Cthe first U.S. woman honored.
S12101941 the Japanese invade Luzon in the Philippines.
S12101948 the U.N. adopts the Human Rights Declaration, defining
S12101948Cfundamental freedoms in an International Bill of Rights.
S12101950 Ralph J. Bunche becomes the first black American presented the
S12101950CNobel Peace Prize.
S12101958 National Airlines begins the first domestic jet airline
S12101958Cpassenger service in the U.S., N.Y. to Miami.
S12101961 Houston's Billy Cannon sets a NFL record for the most all-purpose
S12101961Cyards in a game (373).
S12101963 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain.
S12101967 the world's first commercial nuclear blast is detonated by El
S12101967CPaso Natural Gas in New Mexico.
S12101967 after taping Don Webster's "Upbeat" TV show in Cleveland and then
S12101967Cperforming an evening concert, rock and roll artist Otis Redding
S12101967Cdies in a plane crash on the way to his next engagement in
S12101967CMadison, Wis.
S12101969 the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics is awarded.
S12101970 Lee A. Iacocca is named Ford Corporation president.
S12101977 farmers' tractors and trucks roll through Washington to bring
S12101977Cattention to the grave economic conditions facing farmers.
S12101977 Steve Cauthen becomes the first jockey to win more than $5
S12101977Cmillion in purse money in one year.
S12101984 the development of the megabit memory chip is announced by Bell
S12101984CLabs (to be mass produced in a year).
S12101984 U.S. astronomers announce the discovery of a huge, gaseous object
S12101984Corbiting a star in the Ophiuchus constellation, believed to be
S12101984Cthe first planet detected outside the solar system.
S12101987 despite the church's opposition to birth control, the U.S. Roman
S12101987CCatholic bishops give support to the teaching about the use of
S12101987Ccondoms in the battle against AIDS.
S12101989 the first cabinet in 41 years without a communist majority takes
S12101989Cpower in Czechoslovakia.
S12101990 the first essentially new contraceptive in 25 years is approved
S12101990Cby the FDA (implants for women that release progestin).
S12101991 I.M. Pei receives $5 million plus for his design of Cleveland's
S12101991CRock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
S12101992 the NHL awards two new expansion teams to Florida and Orange
S12101992CCounty, Ca. (Panthers and a team later named Mighty Ducks.)
S12101993 the sculptured tree trunk in front of Lakewood's fire station on
S12101993CWarren Rd., the Firefighters Memorial Sculpture, is removed, to
S12101993Cbe relocated at the new station on Madison Ave.
S1210     Human Rights Day (U.N. observance).
S1210     Feast of St. Melchiades, pope (311-14) and martyr.
S1210     Mississippi Admission Day.
R1210    4It's National Mimicry Week.
R1210    5It's National Mimicry Week.
R1210    6It's National Mimicry Week.
R1210    7It's National Mimicry Week.
S1210     Goddess of Liberty Day (French).
S1210     M.P.L.A. Foundation Day (Angola).
S1210     Thai Constitution Day.
S1210     Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini.
S12111816 Indiana becomes the 19th state.
S12111844 anesthesia is first used in dentistry.
S12111872 Pinckney B.S. Pinchback becomes the first black U.S. governor
S12111872Cwhen he takes over as the acting governor of Louisiana.
S12111882 incandescent stage lighting is first used in the U.S. at the
S12111882CBijou Theater in Boston at a performance of "Iolanthe", by
S12111882CGilbert and Sullivan.
S12111918 personnel are recruited to perform a benefit concert for St.
S12111918CAnn's Parish in Cleveland Heights, held at the Grays Armory
S12111918C(they later formed the core of the Cleveland Orchestra).
S12111919 farmers in Enterprise, Ala., dedicate a monument to the Boll
S12111919CWeevil (it forced them to diversify, and tripled their income).
S12111931 British Parliament passes the Statute of Westminster, giving
S12111931Cdominions virtual sovereignty.
S12111932 snow falls in San Francisco.
S12111936 King Edward VIII of England abdicates to marry Wallis Warfield
S12111936CSimpson, and his brother George VI ascends the throne.
S12111941 the U.S. declares war with Germany and Italy, after these
S12111941Ccountries declare war.
S12111946 the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) is established.
S12111946 the first stored-program computer is patented.
S12111949 the Cleveland Browns, in their fourth season, win the All-
S12111949CAmerican Championship for the fourth straight year, Browns 21,
S12111949CSan Francisco 7.
S12111953 KTVA, Anchorage becomes Alaska's first TV station.
S12111958 Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France.
S12111960 Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets a club record for the
S12111960Clongest interception return with a 92 yard run (and TD), and
S12111960CBrowns' Bobby Franklin sets a club record for the most
S12111960Cinterceptions in one game (2), Browns 42, Bears 0.
S12111961 the Supreme Court voids the first integration sit-in convictions.
S12111961 the first 2 U.S. military companies arrive in South Vietnam.
S12111961 "Please, Mr. Postman" by the Marvelettes (they were originally
S12111961Ccalled the Casinyets - "can't sing yet") becomes the first Motown
S12111961Csong to reach #1 on the Billboard chart (also took longer than
S12111961Cany song before to do it, 15 weeks after entering the chart).
S12111962 the first Minuteman missiles become operational at Malmstrom AFB.
S12111964 Cuban exiles fire a bazooka at the U.N. building as Che Guevara
S12111964Cspeaks.
S12111967 the first supersonic airliner, the Concorde, a joint British-
S12111967CFrench venture, is unveiled in France.
S12111970 John Lennon releases an album that contains songs with the word
S12111970C"f...".
S12111972 Apollo 17 lands on the moon, the last manned mission to do so.
S12111975 first class mail now costs 13 cents (had been 10 cents).
S12111975 Congress passes the Metric Conversion Act.
S12111984 the discovery of 7000-year-old human skulls with brains virtually
S12111984Cintact, buried in peat at the bottom of a lake in Florida, is
S12111984Cannounced.
S1211     Feast of St. Damasus, pope (366-384) and martyr.
S1211     Feast of St. Daniel, stylite.
S1211     Indiana Admission Day.
S1211     U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) Anniversary.
R1211    5It's National Mimicry Week.
R1211    6It's National Mimicry Week.
R1211    7It's National Mimicry Week.
S1211     Day of Bruma (Roman holiday).
S1211     Upper Volta Republic Day.
S1211     Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini.
S12121787 Pennsylvania becomes the 2nd state of the original 13 to ratify
S12121787Cthe Constitution.
S12121831 the first nominating convention of a major party is held by the
S12121831CNational Republican Party (Henry Clay for President - he lost).
S12121871 Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in the solar corona spectrum.
S12121897 the longest run newspaper comic strip, Katzenjammer Kids, is
S12121897Cfirst published in the New York Journal.
S12121899 journalist Winston Churchill escapes from a Boer prison,
S12121899Cembarking him on his illustrious political career.
S12121899 George F. Grant patents the golf tee.
S12121901 Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic (from England to the
S12121901CU.S.) radio signal, the letter "S" in Morse code.
S12121906 Oscar S. Straus is appointed Secretary of Commerce and Labor by
S12121906CPresident Roosevelt, the first Jew to receive a Cabinet post.
S12121909 construction begins on the second Rocky River Bridge.
S12121917 the world's worst train disaster kills 543 when a passenger train
S12121917Cderails in Modame, France.
S12121925 Arthur Heinman coins the term "motel," and opens one in San Luis
S12121925CObispo.
S12121937 the U.S. gunboat "Panay" is sunk in Chinese waters by Japanese
S12121937Cplanes.
S12121937 the first mobile TV unit is used in N.Y. City.
S12121947 John L. Lewis takes the U.A.W. out of the A.F.L.
S12121954 the Cleveland Innerbelt freeway project begins.  It is completed
S12121954CDec. 5, 1961.
S12121962 JFK endorses the Washington to Moscow hot line.
S12121963 Kenya gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S12121964 Cleveland Browns' Frank Ryan sets a club record of 5 TD passes,
S12121964CBrowns 52, Giants 20.
S12121964 production begins on the "Star Trek" pilot, "The Cage," at the
S12121964CDesilu Studios.
S12121965 Gale Sayers of the Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, tieing a NFL
S12121965Crecord.
S12121966 Francis Chichester, adventurer and magazine publisher, completes
S12121966Cthe longest solo sea voyage in history, a 13,750-mile sail in 107
S12121966Cdays.
S12121968 Dr. Henry K. Beecher of Harvard introduces the term "brain
S12121968Cdeath" to denote irreversible death.
S12121973 a class-action suit titled Reed v. Rhodes is filed by the NAACP
S12121973Cin Ohio on behalf of 10 pupils and their parents in U.S. District
S12121973CCourt (crosstown busing begins in Cleveland in 1979 as a result).
S12121982 the largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in N.Y. City when
S12121982Cthieves make off with $9.8 million from an armored truck company.
S12121985 President Reagan signs the Graham-Rudman Bill, designed to
S12121985Cbalance the federal budget.
S12121985 G.E. successfully negotiates to buy RCA.
S12121992 Ronald H. Brown becomes the first black to hold a business-
S12121992Coriented Cabinet-level position.
S1212     Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patron of Mexico.
S1212     Feast of St. Synesius, martyr.
S1212     Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe or Guadalupe Day (Mexico).
S1212     Pennsylvania Ratification Day.
R1212    6It's National Mimicry Week.
R1212    7It's National Mimicry Week.
S1212     Holy Day of Coatlique (Aztec observance).
S1212     National Ding-a-ling Day.
S1212     Bonza Bottler Day (Number of Day Matches the Number of the
S1212       Month).
S1212     Azarbaijan Liberation Day (Iran).
S1212     Kenya Independence Day.
S1212     Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini.
S12131577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world.
S12131636 the first American militia regiments are chartered by the
S12131636CMassachusetts General Court (legislature) for the common defense
S12131636Cof the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
S12131642 Abel Janszoon Tasman comes upon New Zealand.
S12131759 the first music store in America is opened by Michael Hillegas in
S12131759CPhiladelphia.
S12131769 Dartmouth College is chartered.
S12131862 the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia takes place; the South
S12131862Cdefeats the North.
S12131903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone mold... in New Jersey.
S12131918 Wilson becomes the first to make a foreign visit to Europe while
S12131918CPresident.
S12131920 the Cleveland Museum of Natural History is chartered.
S12131920 the interferometer is first used to measure a stellar diameter
S12131920C(Betelgeuse).
S12131928 George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres at the N.Y.
S12131928CPhilharmonic.
S12131962 Relay 1, an intercontinental communications satellite, is put
S12131962Cinto orbit (2 days later transmission is turned off because of
S12131962Cpower failure - reactivated Jan. 3, 1963).
S12131972 the addition to Cleveland's Museum of Natural History opens.
S12131974 Cleveland area colleges are cautioned by the federal government
S12131974Cthat it is illegal to give preferential hiring treatment to women
S12131974Cand minorities in trying to implement affirmative action plans.
S12131974 Maltese Republic Day is first celebrated.
S12131976 Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur.
S12131981 Solidarity Day is celebrated in Poland.
S12131987 the Browns set a club record for the most points scored in a
S12131987Cquarter, 28 (tied in 1989 and 1991), Cleveland 38, Cincinnati 24.
S1213     Feast of St. Lucy, virgin and martyr.
S1213    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
R1213     It's the Ides of December!
R1213    7It's National Mimicry Week.
S1213     St. Lucia Day (Sweden).
S1213     Hopi Winter Ceremony.
S1213     Maltese Republic Day.
S1213     Festival of Demeter and Persephone (Ancient Greek festival
S1213       honoring Demeter, Earth-goddess-mother, goddess of the fruitful
S1213       earth, and her daughter Persephone, a corn-seed goddess ).
S1213     Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini.
S12141656 artificial pearls are first manufactured by M. Jacquin in Paris.
S12141656C(They are made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales.)
S12141774 Maj. John Sullivan leads a band of militia to Fort William and
S12141774CMary, breaks into the arsenal and carries off a store of arms
S12141774C(the first military encounter of the American Revolution).
S12141782 the British evacuate Charleston, S.C.
S12141798 David Wilkinson patents the screw threading and a nut and bolt
S12141798Cmachine.
S12141819 Alabama becomes the 22nd state.
S12141889 the American Academy of Political and Social Science is
S12141889Corganized.
S12141900 Max Planck presents his quantum theory at the Physics Society.
S12141911 the South Pole is first reached by Roald Amundsen.
S12141920 George Gipp, on his deathbed, tells coach Rockne, "Rock, some day
S12141920Cwhen things look tough for Notre Dame, ask the boys to go out
S12141920Cthere and win one for the Gipper."  (Request is fulfilled Nov.
S12141920C12, 1923 against Army.)
S12141920 British House of Lords approves dividing Ireland into two
S12141920Cseparate territories.
S12141924 the temperature drops 79 degrees in one day in Helena, Montana.
S12141927 Great Britain recognizes Iraq's independence.
S12141946 New York City votes to be the U.N. headquarters.
S12141947 the Cleveland Browns, in their second season, win the All-
S12141947CAmerican Championship for the second straight year, Browns 14,
S12141947CNew York Yankees 3.
S12141962 Mariner II sends the first close-up photos of another planet
S12141962C(Venus).
S12141967 production of synthetic DNA is announced by biochemists at
S12141967CStanford University.
S12141980 Minnesota passes for 456 yards against Cleveland, the most
S12141980Cpassing yards gained by opponents in the Browns' history,
S12141980CVikings 28, Browns 24.
S12141983 a photo is released showing a black hole in the center of the
S12141983CMilky Way.
S1214     Feast of St. Spiridion, Bishop and confessor.
S1214     Festival of Nostradamus (French).
S1214     Saint Lucia Day.
S1214     Alabama Admission Day.
S1214     Meeting of the Nine Evils (Bhutan).
S12151612 Simon Marius, who named Jupiter's 4 inner satellites, is the
S12151612Cfirst to observe the Andromeda galaxy through a telescope.
S12151654 Luigi Antinori establishes a weather observation system, taking
S12151654Ctemperatures in four different cities on a daily basis.
S12151791 the Bill of Rights is ratified when Virginia gave its approval.
S12151854 the first street cleaning machine is used in Philadelphia.
S12151859 G.R. Kirchoff describes the chemical composition of the sun.
S12151877 Edison applies for a patent for his phonograph.
S12151891 James Naismith, a Canadian clergyman, invents basketball.
S12151911 the Hay-Elliott Fur Seal Treaty became law, protecting and
S12151911Cpreserving Alaskan seals (co-written by Clevelander Henry Wood
S12151911CElliott.)
S12151925 the first hockey game is played at Madison Square Garden,
S12151925CCanadians 3, Americans 1.
S12151939 the World Premiere of "Gone With The Wind" opens in Atlanta, GA.
S12151939 the first commercial manufacture of nylon yarn occurs at Seaford,
S12151939CDelaware.
S12151944 bandleader Major Glenn Miller is lost over the English Channel.
S12151945 Congress creates a new military rank, the five-star general.
S12151948 the French bring the first nuclear reactor into service.
S12151964 the American Radio Relay League is founded.
S12151965 Gemini 6 is launched, and links up with Gemini 7, becoming the
S12151965Cfirst rendezvous in space.
S12151966 Audouin Dollfus discovers the 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus.
S12151967 the collapse of the Silver Bridge on the Ohio River between Point
S12151967CPleasant, W. Va., and Kanauga, Ohio occurs during rush hour (46
S12151967Ckilled).
S12151969 the S.F. Fire Dept. replaces leather helmets with plastic ones.
S12151973 after almost 100 years classified as a mental disorder, the
S12151973CAmerican Psychiatric Association approves a resolution stating
S12151973C"homosexuality does not meet the criteria for being a psychiatric
S12151973Cdisorder."
S12151973 the Golf Resort (The Disney Inn) and the Pirates of the
S12151973CCaribbean opens at Disney World.
S12151978 Cleveland is in default to six local banks for $15.5 million.
S12151982 Bear Bryant, football coach of the University of Alabama,
S12151982Cretires.
S12151984 the U.S.S.R. launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet.
S1215     Bill of Rights Day.
S1215    6Underdog Day.
S1215     Holiday of the Dynasty of Burundi.
S1215     Mahendra Jayanti or Nepalese Constitution Day.
S1215     Statute Day (Netherlands Antilles).
S1215     Halcyon Days begin (Greek).
S12161689 the British Parliament enacts a Bill of Rights.
S12161773 Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor!  Indians welcome.
S12161811 an earthquake causes the formation of Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee,
S12161811and changes the course of the Mississippi River.
S12161838 Afrikaners are victorious over the superior in strength Zulu
S12161838Carmy at Blood River.
S12161846 17 members of the trapped Donner party, 11 men, 5 women and a
S12161846Ctwelve-year-old boy, calling themselves "Forlorn Hope", attempt
S12161846Cto traverse the snow-filled pass to reach help in California.
S12161851 the first patent for a process of shaping brass into bowls is
S12161851Cissued to Hiram Hayden of Waterbury, Conn.
S12161905 "Variety", covering all phases of show business, is first
S12161905Cpublished.
S12161907 the Great White Fleet, a squadron of 16 battleships, sails from
S12161907CHampton Roads, Va., on it's World Cruise to convince everyone
S12161907Cthe U.S. is a major naval power.
S12161918 the Hotel Cleveland (now Stouffer Tower City Plaza Hotel), the
S12161918Cfirst element of the Terminal Tower Complex built, opens.
S12161930 the AAU James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy for outstanding amateur
S12161930Cathlete of the year is awarded to Bobby Jones, golf champion.
S12161944 the Battle of the Bulge (Ardennes) begins at 5:30 a.m.  (the
S12161944Clargest land battle ever fought by U.S. forces).  Called by the
S12161944CGermans Wacht am Rhein (Watch on the Rhine) and Herbslnebel
S12161944C(Autumn Mist).
S12161945 the Cleveland Rams (later L.A. and St. Louis) win the National
S12161945CFootball League Championship.
S12161951 L.A. Rams' Jerry Williams returns a missed field goal 99 yards
S12161951Cfor a TD against the Green Bay Packers.
S12161954 the synthetic diamonds are produced by Professor H.T. Hall at the
S12161954CG.E. Research Laboratories.
S12161960 two passenger planes collide 5,000-feet over Staten Island, N.Y.
S12161961 Nelson Mandela and other ANC leaders form the Umkhonto We Sizive,
S12161961CZulu for "Spear of the nation" in the aftermath of the 1960
S12161961Cmassacre of blacks in Sharpeville
S12161962 Explorer 16 is launched, the first satellite only for meteorite
S12161962Cstudies.
S12161973 O.J. Simpson becomes the first pro football player to rush for
S12161973C2,000 yards.
S12161976 the nationwide swine flu program is suspended because vaccination
S12161976Cis linked to paralysis.
S12161982 the House cites EPA chief Ann Gorsuch with contempt.
S12161988 the first meeting between the U.S. and the Palestine Liberation
S12161988COrganization (PLO) in a "substantial dialogue" on peace in the
S12161988CMideast takes place.
S12161991 the Republic of Kazakhstan declares its independence from the
S12161991CU.S.S.R.
S1216     Feast of St. Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli.
S1216     Festival of Sapientia (Roman holiday celebrating the coming
S1216       Christmas).
S1216    6Underdog Day.
S1216     Bahrain Independence Day (Britain 1971).
S1216     Day of Heroes (South Africa).
S1216     Day of the Covenant (white South Africa).
S1216     Canterbury Provincial Anniversary (New Zealand).
S1216     Dingaan's Day (Swaziland).
S1216     First of the Nine Days of Posadas.
S1216     Victory Day (Bangladesh).
S12171538 Pope Paul III excommunicates England's King Henry VIII.
S12171777 France recognizes the independence of the 13 colonies.
S12171790 an Aztec calendar stone is discovered in Mexico City.
S12171791 New York City traffic regulation creates the first one-way
S12171791Cstreet.
S12171843 "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is published in London.
S12171852 the first Hawaiian cavalry is organized.
S12171860 Anaheim Township is created in Los Angeles County.
S12171862 Cleveland's first steam fire engine is placed in service.
S12171895 the Anti-Saloon League of America is formed.
S12171895 George Loomis Brownell patents machinery for making paper twine.
S12171903 at 10:35 a.m., for 12 seconds, the first sustained motorized
S12171903Caircraft flight by Wright Brothers occurs.
S12171933 the first professional football game is played, Chicago Bears 23,
S12171933CN.Y. Giants 21.
S12171944 American resistance stiffens during the Battle of the Bulge after
S12171944Cthe massacre of American prisoners at Malmdy.
S12171947 WEWS, Channel 5, owned by Scripps-Howard, becomes the first TV
S12171947Cstation in Cleveland.  The call letters came from the initials of
S12171947Cthe founder of the Cleveland Press, Edward Wyllis Scripps.
S12171949 WJW-TV (Channel 8) becomes the last of Cleveland's three VHF
S12171949Cstations to begin broadcasting (as Channel 9 WXEL).
S12171954 the first fully automated railroad freight yard begins operating
S12171954Cin Gary, Indiana.
S12171959 "On the Beach" opens, becoming the first movie opening
S12171959Csimultaneously in major cities.
S12171969 Tiny Tim (Herbert Khaury) and Miss Vicki (Victoria Budinger) are
S12171969Cmarried on "The Tonight Show."
S12171979 the Budweiser Rocket becomes the only land vehicle to break the
S12171979Csound barrier (1190 kph).
S12171980 "Amadeus" opens on Broadway at the Broadway Theater.
S12171982 President Reagan further deregulates the banking industry.
S12171985 scientists announce the first pregnancy from a frozen egg.
S12171993 Walter H. Annenberg, noted philanthropist, donates $500 million
S12171993Cto public education, the largest single gift to education in U.S.
S12171993Chistory.
S12171993 the first U.S. combat troops leave Somalia.
S12171993 the NFL announces Fox Network outbid CBS for the rights to
S12171993Ctelevise all NFC games in 1994.
S12171993 the opening ceremony is held for Lakewood's new Fire Station #1
S12171993Con Warren Road and Madison.  The Firefighters Memorial Sculpture
S12171993Cis relocated.
S1217     Feast of St. Olympiade, widow.
S1217     Wright Brothers Day.
S1217    6Underdog Day.
S1217     First day of Saturnalia (Roman week-long festival honoring Saturn
S1217       and his consort Ops, the sky goddess and protectress of the
S1217       dead, celebrated with gifts, lights, and closing of business).
S1217     Hopi Celebration of Creation (Native American).
S1217     Bhutan National Day.
S1217     Anniversary of the Death of Simon Bolivar (Venezuela).
S12181787 New Jersey becomes the 3rd state of the original 13 to ratify the
S12181787CConstitution.
S12181796 the first Sunday newspaper ("Monitor," Baltimore) is published.
S12181813 the British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812.
S12181849 William Bond obtains the first photograph of moon through a
S12181849Ctelescope.
S12181865 the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, takes effect.
S12181892 "The Nutcracker" makes its world premiere at the Maryinsy Theatre
S12181892Cin St. Petersburg, Russia.
S12181898 the first official automobile record is set (39.24 m.p.h.).
S12181899 George Grant wins patent for his golf tee.
S12181932 the Chicago Bears beat the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first
S12181932CNFL playoff game.
S12181936 the giant panda, Su-Lin, arrives in the U.S.
S12181941 President Roosevelt establishes the Bureau of Motion Pictures
S12181941CAffairs to mobilize the studios for the national defense effort.
S12181953 the FCC rules color TV can go on the air.
S12181957 the first U.S. full-scale civilian commercial nuclear power plant
S12181957Cbegins supplying electricity to Shippingport, Pa.
S12181958 the first voice from space is heard, a recorded Christmas message
S12181958Cby President Eisenhower.
S12181961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu.
S12181969 Britain abolishes the death penalty.
S12181969 a law establishing stricter coal mine safety standards, and
S12181969Cproviding compensation for victims of black lung disease, is
S12181969Cpassed by Congress.
S12181972 President Nixon orders the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong,
S12181972Cincluding heavily populated areas, to appease South Vietnam
S12181972CPresident Thiew.
S12181974 the FDA approves food coloring despite warnings against Red Dye
S12181974CNo. 2.
S12181985 the U.N. Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-
S12181985Ctaking".
S12181994 an underground, sealed cave filled with over 300 Stone Age
S12181994Cpaintings is discovered near the town of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc,
S12181994CFrance (the largest find ever).
S1218     Feast of Our Lady of Solitude, patron of lonely.
S1218     Feast of St. Gratian, Bishop of Tours.
S1218     New Jersey Ratification Day.
S1218    6Underdog Day.
S1218     King Alfonso's Decision (Honduras).
S1218     Niger Republic Day (independence from France 1960).
S1218     Second day of Saturnalia (Roman week-long festival honoring
S1218       Saturn and his consort Ops, the sky goddess and protectress of
S1218       the dead, celebrated with gifts, lights, and closing of
S1218       business).
S12191686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe).
S12191732 Benjamin Franklin begins publication of "Poor Richard's
S12191732CAlmanack".
S12191776 Thomas Paine publishes his first "American Crisis" essay (The
S12191776CPennsylvania Journal) - "These are the times that try men's
S12191776Csouls."
S12191777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge for the winter.
S12191823 the first state birth registration law is enacted (Georgia).
S12191842 the U.S. recognizes the independence of Hawaii.
S12191854 Allen B. Wilson patents a sewing machine capable of sewing curved
S12191854Cseams.
S12191871 Alvert L. Jones patents corrugated paper.
S12191889 Bishop Museum is founded in Hawaii.
S12191910 the American Viscose Company begins commercial production of
S12191910Crayon.
S12191932 British Broadcasting Corp. begins transmitting overseas.
S12191946 war breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks the French in
S12191946CHanoi.
S12191948 the Cleveland Browns, in their third season, win the All-American
S12191948CChampionship for the third straight year, Browns 49, Buffalo 7.
S12191957 "The Music Man," starring Robert Preston, opens on Broadway.
S12191959 the reputed last Civil War veteran, Walter Williams, dies at the
S12191959Cage of 117 in Houston, Texas.
S12191962 street signs in Golden Gate Park are approved by the S.F. Park
S12191962CCommission.
S12191971 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corporation.
S12191972 the last and longest moon mission, Apollo 17, successfully ends.
S12191974 Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as V.P., replacing Spiro Agnew who
S12191974Chad resigned.
S12191983 the U.S. withdraws from UNESCO (due to increased political bias
S12191983Cand financial mismanagement).
S12191986 the U.S.S.R. frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile.
S12191993 Clay Matthews, after 16 seasons, plays his last game at the
S12191993CStadium for the Browns (the following season signs with Atlanta).
S1219     Feast of St. Timothy, deacon and martyr.
S1219     Feast of St. Adam.
S1219     Feast of SS. Nemesius and other Martyrs.
S1219    6Underdog Day.
S1219     Pongol (Hindu observance).
S1219     Resistance Day (Vietnam).
S1219     Third day of Saturnalia (Roman week-long festival honoring Saturn
S1219       and his consort Ops, the sky goddess and protectress of the
S1219       dead, celebrated with gifts, lights, and closing of business).
S12201606 Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown.
S12201699 Peter the Great orders the Russian New Year changed from Sept. 1
S12201699Cto Jan 1.
S12201803 Louisiana Purchase is formally transferred from France to the
S12201803CU.S.
S12201820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21
S12201820Cand 50.
S12201835 Cherokee Indians are forced to cede land in Georgia after gold is
S12201835Cdiscovered there.
S12201845 Baldwin-Wallace College is chartered in Berea, Ohio as the
S12201845CBaldwin Institute (joined with German Wallace College in 1914).
S12201850 the Hawaiian Post Office is established.
S12201860 South Carolina votes to secede from the Union (effective December
S12201860C24), becoming the first state to do so.
S12201879 Tom Edison privately demonstrates the incandescent light at Menlo
S12201879CPark.
S12201880 New York's Broadway is lighted by electricity, and becomes known
S12201880Cas the "Great White Way."
S12201883 the international cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara
S12201883CFalls.
S12201887 Benjamin F. Merritt patents an autograph time recorder.
S12201888 the Cleveland chapter of the Granite Cutters' National Union is
S12201888Corganized.
S12201892 the pneumatic automobile tire is patented by Alexander T. Brown
S12201892Cand George F. Stillman.
S12201917 the U.S.S.R. forms its first intelligence agency, the Cheka
S12201917C(later renamed the KGB).
S12201919 the Canadian National Railways is established (the longest on
S12201919Cthe continent with more than 50,000 kilometers of track in the
S12201919CU.S. and Canada).
S12201939 Radio Australia starts shortwave service.
S12201944 the Battle of Bastogne begins; the Nazis attack and surround the
S12201944Ctown of Bastogne.  Defended by the 101st Airborne, they are asked
S12201944Cto surrender on Dec. 22.  "NUTS!" is the reply.
S12201945 tire rationing ends in the U.S.
S12201951 the first atomic-powered generator begins producing electricity
S12201951Cat the U.S. Reactor Testing Station in Idaho.
S12201960 the National Liberation Front is formed in Vietnam to fight the
S12201960CDiem regime.
S12201963 the Berlin Wall opens for the first time to West Berliners for
S12201963CChristmas.
S12201969 "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1 on Billboards' Hot 100 chart,
S12201969Cthe only Peter, Paul and Mary single to top the pop chart.
S12201973 "Candide," based on the satire by Voltaire, premieres at the
S12201973CChelsea Theater Center of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
S12201976 the Cardinals approve the canonization of Bishop John Neumann,
S12201976Cthe first U.S. male saint.
S12201979 Congress approves $1.5 billion loan guarantee to save Chrysler
S12201979CCorporation from bankruptcy.
S12201981 the Browns set team records for the most fumbles (9) and the most
S12201981Cturnover (10), Seattle 42, Browns 21.
S12201983 ex-President Gerald Ford cameos on "Dynasty", a popular night-
S12201983Ctime soap opera.
S12201989 U.S. troops invade Panama and capture the ruler, Manuel Noriega.
S12201992 Browns' All-Pro linebacker Clay Matthews becomes the team's all-
S12201992Ctime sack leader with his 70th sack.
S12201993 longtime news anchor Wilma Smith of Cleveland's WEWS Channel 5
S12201993Csigns a contract with WJW Channel 8.
S1220     Feast of St. Dominick, abbot.
S1220     Louisiana Purchase Day.
S1220    6Underdog Day.
S1220     Mudd Day.
S1220     Fourth day of Saturnalia (Roman week-long festival honoring
S1220       Saturn and his consort Ops, the sky goddess and protectress of
S1220       the dead, celebrated with gifts, lights, and closing of
S1220       business).
S1220     The Mother Night (Odinist).
S12211790 Samuel Slater opens the first textile factory in the U.S. in
S12211790CPawtucket, Rhode Island.
S12211872 Phileas Fogg enters the Reform Club in London, 79 days, 23 hours,
S12211872C59 minutes and 59 seconds after his departure, completing his
S12211872Caround the world trip (according to Verne).
S12211898 Maria and Pierre Curie discover radium.
S12211913 the first crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) is printed in the New
S12211913CYork World.
S12211929 the first group hospital insurance plan goes into effect in
S12211929CDallas, Tx.
S12211933 human blood serum is first prepared by Drs. Earl W. Flosdorf and
S12211933CStuart Mudd in Philadelphia.
S12211935 the Douglas DC-3 makes its maiden flight.
S12211937 the first feature-length cartoon with color and sound
S12211937Cpremieres, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
S12211937 the Lincoln Tunnel in New York opens.
S12211942 six-week Nevada divorces are upheld by the Supreme Court.
S12211948 Southern Ireland declares itself a republic and withdraws from
S12211948Cthe Commonwealth (England recognizes the Republic of Ireland in
S12211948CMay 1949).
S12211949 "new" baseball rules are issued. There are no major changes, but
S12211949Cmany ambiguities are eliminated, and they are recodified into the
S12211949Cten sections we have today.
S12211952 Broadway Tunnel opens in San Francisco.
S12211954 Sam Sheppard is convicted of killing his wife and given a life
S12211954Csentence (acquitted Nov. 16, 1966).
S12211968 Apollo 8 is launched with three astronauts (Lowell, Anders and
S12211968CBorman) to orbit the moon 10-times.
S12211970 the reduction of the voting age in national elections to 18 years
S12211970Cis ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court.
S12211974 the CIA is accused by the N.Y. Times of illegal spying on the
S12211974Canti-war movement under President Nixon.  (The director admits
S12211974Cinfiltrating dissident political groups in Jan. 15, 1975.)
S12211984 Marge Schott takes over as majority owner the Cincinnati Reds.
S12211989 Vice-President Dan Quayle sends out 30,000 Christmas cards with
S12211989Cthe misspelling, "May our nation continue to be the beakon of
S12211989Chope."
S1221     The Winter Solstice, shortest day of the year.
S1221     Feast of St. Thomas the apostle, patron saint of architects,
S1221       carpenters and masons.
S1221     Forefathers' Day.
S1221    6Underdog Day.
S1221     Governo de Transicao or Transition of Government (Sao Tome and
S1221       Principe).
S1221     Rauhnachte (Austria).
S1221     The first day of the New Year (Ancient Greece before 432 B.C.).
S1221     The first day of the New Year (Roman).
S1221     Fifth day of Saturnalia (Roman week-long festival honoring Saturn
S1221       and his consort Ops, the sky goddess and protectress of the
S1221       dead, celebrated with gifts, lights, and closing of business).
S1221     Yule (Wiccan Sabbat - religious festival marking the rebirth of
S1221       the Sun).
S1221     Feast of Juul (Scandinavia - celebrate the returning of the sun).
S1221     Festival of Angerona (Roman goddess).
S1221     Ursid meteor shower.
S12221662 the first catamaran, the Experiment, is launched.
S12221772 a Moravian missionary constructs the first schoolhouse west of
S12221772Cthe Alleghenies
S12221775 Esek Hopkins is appointed the first commander in chief of the
S12221775CContinental Navy (is dismissed for not following orders).
S12221802 the newly drawn Ohio constitution is delivered by Thomas
S12221802CWorthington to the U.S. Congress to vote on (Ohio becomes a state
S12221802CFeb. 19, and the Ohio General Assembly later rules Mar. 1 the
S12221802Cofficial date).
S12221807 the Embargo Act is passed, banning all trade with foreign
S12221807Ccountries.
S12221864 Gen. Sherman, continuing his "march to the sea," captures
S12221864CSavannah, Georgia.
S12221877 Raoul Pictet produces the first liquid oxygen in Geneva.
S12221885 LaMarcus A. Thompson patents the railway switchback.
S12221895 Wilhelm Konrail Roentgen takes the first x-ray (his wife's hand
S12221895Cand wrist) in Wurzburg, Germany.
S12221895 the United States Golf Association (USGA) is formed.
S12221941 Wake Island falls to the Japanese after a heroic 15-day stand by
S12221941C400 Marines.
S12221944 during the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans, who had surrounded
S12221944Cthe "Screaming Eagles" of the 101st Airborne in the town of
S12221944CBastogne, demand that they surrender.  Gen. Anthony McAuliffe
S12221944Cgives his famous one-word reply, "NUTS!"
S12221946 the Cleveland Browns win the All-American Championship in their
S12221946Cfirst season as a team, Browns 14, New York Yankees 9.
S12221947 a Douglas C-54 Shipmaster makes the first automatic-pilot flight
S12221947Cover the Atlantic.
S12221956 the first gorilla birth in captivity occurs at the Columbus Zoo,
S12221956COh.
S12221958 "The Chipmunk Song" reaches #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart
S12221958C(stays there for 4 weeks).
S12221961 an adviser, James Davis, becomes the first official U.S. soldier
S12221961Ckilled in Vietnam. (2 advisers (?) had been killed in July '59.)
S12221968 the crew of the "U.S.S. Pueblo" are released after 11 months of
S12221968Ccaptivity by the North Koreans.
S12221984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 teenagers on a subway train when they
S12221984Callegedly attempt to rob him (sentence to 6 months for illegal
S12221984Cweapons possession).
S12221989 the socialist government of Romania is overthrown.
S12221990 Lech Walesa, ex-Solidarity leader, is sworn in as president of
S12221990CPoland.
S1222     Feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin.
S1222     Feast of St. Ischyrion, martyr.
S1222     International Arbor Day.
S1222     Midwinter Holiday (Greek).
S1222     Vietnamese People's Army Day.
S1222     Yugoslav People's Army Day.
S1222     Sixth day of Saturnalia (Roman week-long festival honoring Saturn
S1222       and his consort Ops, the sky goddess and protectress of the
S1222       dead, celebrated with gifts, lights, and closing of business).
S1222     Festival for Isis (Ancient Egyptian - Isis is the most complete
S1222       flowering of the Goddess concept in human history).
S1222     Festival of Demeter and Persephone (Ancient Greek festival
S1222       honoring Demeter, Earth-goddess-mother, goddess of the fruitful
S1222       earth, and her daughter Persephone, a corn-seed goddess ).
S1222     Festival of Sul (Celtic sun goddess and goddess of hot springs).
S12231569 St. Philip of Moscow is martyred by Ivan the Terrible.
S12231617 the first penal colony in the U.S. is established in Virginia.
S12231672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn.
S12231690 John Flamsteed observes Uranus but doesn't realize its
S12231690Cundiscovered.
S12231783 Washington resigns as the U.S. Army's commander-in-chief.
S12231814 the Village of Cleveland is incorporated.
S12231823 "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("`Twas the Night Before Christmas")
S12231823Cis published.
S12231834 Joseph Hansom of London receives a patent for his Hansom cabs.
S12231907 the first all steel railroad passenger coach is completed.
S12231913 the Federal Reserve Systems is authorized by the Owen-Glass Act.
S12231919 the first U.S. hospital ship, U.S.S. Relief, is launched.
S12231920 Great Britain passes the Government of Ireland Act which divides
S12231920Cthe country into two administrative regions.
S12231932 telephone service is inaugurated between the U.S. and Hawaii.
S12231947 the transistor is invented by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley in
S12231947Cthe Bell Labs.
S12231947 President Truman grants pardons to the 1,523 who evaded the WW II
S12231947Cdraft.
S12231968 the Kentucky Racing Commission rules that recalled Derby winner
S12231968CDancer's Image, who had been disqualified when traces of a pain-
S12231968Ckilling drug had been found in tests after the race, had won the
S12231968Crace but not the purse.
S12231970 the north tower of the World Trade Center in N.Y. City is topped
S12231970Cout (1350 ft.).
S12231971 Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's sentence.
S12231974 the B-1 bomber makes its first successful test-flight.
S12231975 a baseball arbitration board votes 2-1 to overturn the century-
S12231975Cold reserve clause, creating free agency.
S12231981 President Reagan orders sanctions against the Polish government
S12231981Cin response to the imposition of martial law in that country
S12231981C(martial law is lifted July 21, 1983).
S12231986 the Voyager circumnavigates the world without refueling, piloted
S12231986Cby Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager.
S12231991 the Cleveland Cavaliers sign a 30-year lease with Gateway.
S1223     Feast of St. Victoria, virgin and martyr.
S1223     Feast of the Radishes (Mexico).
S1223     Emperor's Birthday (Japan).
S1223     Last day of Saturnalia (Roman week-long festival honoring Saturn
S1223       and his consort Ops, the sky goddess and protectress of the
S1223       dead, celebrated with gifts, lights, and closing of business).
S1223     Celtic Feast of Potential.
S12241582 London Bridge Waterworks first begins piping water into private
S12241582Chomes.
S12241582 Vasco daGama Day is first observed in Portugal.
S12241801 the skeleton of a mastodon is unveiled by Charles Willson Peale.
S12241814 Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812 (this news did not
S12241814Carrive until after the Battle of New Orleans).
S12241818 the Great Hinckley Hunt occurs, ridding the Hinckley Reservation
S12241818Cof predators.
S12241860 South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the U.S.
S12241865 several Confederate veterans form the Kyklos Klan in Pulaski,
S12241865CGiles County, Tenn (later renamed Ku Klux Klan).
S12241889 Daniel C. Stover and William A. Hance patent a bicycle with a
S12241889Cback pedal brake.
S12241893 Henry Ford completes construction of his first successful
S12241893Cgasoline engine.
S12241906 Reginald A. Fessenden becomes the first to broadcast music over
S12241906Cradio.
S12241908 New York City becomes the first to exercise motion picture
S12241908Ccensorship.
S12241910 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain.
S12241920 Enrico Caruso gives his last U.S. public performance at the
S12241920CMetropolitan Opera House in N.Y. City.
S12241936 the first radioactive isotope medicine is administered at
S12241936CBerkeley, Ca.
S12241943 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is appointed Supreme Commander of
S12241943CAllied Forces to lead the northern and western invasions of
S12241943CEurope.
S12241948 the first solar heating system, developed by Dr. Maria Telkes, is
S12241948Cincorporated into a house in Dover, Mass.
S12241950 the Cleveland Browns win the National Football League
S12241950CChampionship (the last NFL team with a no pass game), and Browns'
S12241950COtto Graham sets a club playoff record with 4 TD passes, Browns
S12241950C30, L.A. 28.  It is the first nationally televised title game.
S12241951 Libya gains independence from Italy.
S12241963 Idlewood Airport in N.Y. City is renamed John F. Kennedy Airport.
S12241968 Frank Borman broadcasts a Christmas reading while orbiting the
S12241968Cmoon on Apollo 8.  Borman, Lovell and Anders are the first men to
S12241968Corbit the moon.
S12241970 Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released.
S12241979 the CAT satellite, onboard a Ariane rocket, is launched from
S12241979CKourou, French Guiana (a seventh region enters space).
S12241980 Americans remember American hostages held in Iran by shining
S12241980Clights for 417 seconds.
S1224     Christmas Eve.
S1224     Rumbald Night (in Kent, England).
S1224     Mother's Night (Anglo-Saxon).
S1224     Libya (1951) Independence Day.
S1225 336 the first recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec. 25 takes
S1225 336Cplace in Rome (becomes a tradition in 350 AD).
S1225 800 Charlemagne is crowned Emperor of the West by Pope Leo III.
S12251066 William the Conqueror is crowned king of England.
S12251621 game playing on Christmas Day by newcomers to Plymouth colony is
S12251621Chalted by Gov. William Bradford.
S12251651 Maine General Court orders a fine (5 shillings) for "observing
S12251651Cany such day as Xmas."
S12251741 the centigrade (Celsius) temperature scale is first used at
S12251741CUppsala, Sweden.
S12251750 land company scout Christopher Gist reads scriptures to Wyandot
S12251750CIndians near present-day Coshocton, the first Christmas
S12251750Cobservance in Ohio.
S12251758 Halley's comet is first sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during
S12251758Cits return.
S12251776 Washington crosses, then recrosses the Delaware, so he can
S12251776Csurprise the Hessians in Trenton, N.J. the next morning.
S12251818 "Silent Night", music by Franz Joseph Gruber and lyrics by Joseph
S12251818CMohr, is sung for the first time, St. Nikolaus in Oberndorff,
S12251818CAustria.
S12251843 the first theater matinee is given at Mitchell's Olympic Theatre,
S12251843CNew York City.
S12251843 the first Christmas with Christmas cards is celebrated.
S12251851 the first Christmas tree in an American church is put up in
S12251851CCleveland's Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church.
S12251853 hockey is first played in North America at Kingston, Ontario.
S12251868 despite bitter opposition, President Johnson grants unconditional
S12251868Cpardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion (the
S12251868CCivil War).
S12251882 the first Christmas with electric Christmas tree lights is
S12251882Ccelebrated.
S12251926 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan.
S12251928 "In Old Arizona," the first western talkie, is shown.
S12251939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer.
S12251963 Walt Disney's "The Sword In The Stone" is released.
S12251979 Egypt begins major restoration of the Sphinx.
S12251982 Cleveland enjoys its warmest Christmas on record, 66 degrees.
S12251983 the first live telecast of the Christmas Parade airs.
S12251991 the U.S.S.R. formally breaks up and the former republics become
S12251991Cindependent states.
S1225     Christmas Day. Peace on Earth, good will towards men.
S1225     Feast of the Nativity of our Lord.
S1225     Feast of St. Anastasia.
S1225     International Family Day.
S1225     Sun's Birth Day.
S1225     Children's Day (People's Republic of the Congo).
S1225     Republic of China's (Taiwan) Constitution Day.
S1225     New Year's Day observed in England before 1068.
S1225     Quarter day in medieval England and Scotland.
R1225     The Romans called this day, when the sun was weakest by their
R1225       calendar, Dies Natalis Invicti Solis - Birthday of the
R1225       Unconquered Sun.
S1225     Birth of Ra (Ancient Egyptian festival honoring Ra, the Sun god,
S1225       and his mother Nut, the sky goddess and protectress of the
S1225       dead).
S1225     Day of the Geniae (Ancient Greek festival honoring Athena, the
S1225       warrior goddess).
S12261620 a 103 Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock.
S12261776 Washington captures the Hessians in Trenton, N.J.
S12261833 Seth Fuller patents an annunciator.
S12261838 Wake Forest College is chartered in Wake Forest, N.C.
S12261865 James H. Mason of Franklin, Maine patents the first American
S12261865Ccoffee percolator.
S12261885 the hamlet of Lakewood, Ohio is incorporated, but due to legal
S12261885Cdifficulties, the first meeting of the trustees takes place Aug.
S12261885C31, 1889.
S12261917 the U.S. government takes over the operation of American
S12261917Crailroads for the duration of World War I.
S12261919 the Yankees and the Red Sox reach an agreement, transferring Babe
S12261919CRuth to New York for $125,000.
S12261925 the first East-West football game is played at Ewing Park before
S12261925C25,000 fans.
S12261949 Einstein publishes a new generalized theory of gravitation.
S12261954 the Cleveland Browns win the National Football League
S12261954CChampionship, and Browns' Otto Graham sets club playoff records
S12261954Cwith three TDs on the ground and the most points scored (18),
S12261954CBrowns 56, Detroit 10.
S12261954 "The Shadow" radio show makes its last regular broadcast.
S12261955 the Cleveland Browns win the National Football League
S12261955CChampionship, Browns 38, Los Angeles 14.
S12261955 R.K.O. sells its entire film library for $15 million for TV
S12261955Cdistribution.
S12261976 Larry Kenon sets the NBA record for the most steals in one game
S12261976C(11).
S12261979 the Soviets fly the first troops into Afghanistan to quell rebel
S12261979Copposition, becoming enmeshed in a civil war for over 9 years.
S12261993 Vinny Testaverde sets a NFL passing efficiency record with his
S12261993C21-of-23 performance for 91.3%, Browns 42, Rams 14 (the old
S12261993Crecord was 20-of-22 for 90.9% by Cincinnati's Ken Anderson on
S12261993CNov.2, 1974).  Art Modell gets snowed in and misses his first
S12261993Cgame in 33 years.
S12261994 Cavaliers' Mark Price sets a team record with seven 3-pointers in
S12261994CCleveland's 123 - 102 victory over the Celtics in Boston.
S1226     Feast of St. Stephen, first martyr, patron saint of stonecutters
S1226       and horses.
S1226     Hunting the Wren (Ireland).
S1226     Boxing Day.
S1226    2Boxing Day, celebrated in Canada, United Kingdom (except
S1226    2  Scotland) to give presents to service people).
S1226     National Whiner's Day.
S1226     Umoja (Unity), first day of Kwanzaa (First Harvest) - Swahili
S1226       week-long festival.
S1226     Festival of Ariadne (Cretan and Ancient Greek goddess).
S12271845 ether is first used as an anesthetic in childbirth by Dr.
S12271845CCrawford Long.
S12271850 the Hawaiian Fire Department is established.
S12271871 the world's first Cat Show is held at the Crystal Palace in
S12271871CLondon.
S12271894 the Military Order of Foreign Wars is founded.
S12271903 "Sweet Adaline", a barbershop quartet favorite, is first sung.
S12271927 "Show Boat" opens on Broadway.
S12271932 Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
S12271934 the first youth hostel opens in Northfield, Mass.
S12271941 rubber tires become the first item to be rationed in the U.S.
S12271941Cduring WW II.
S12271943 the railroads are seized by presidential order to prevent a
S12271943Cnationwide rail strike (returned Jan. 19, 1944).
S12271945 the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for
S12271945CReconstruction and Development (the World Bank) is established.
S12271947 the first "Howdy Doody" show, Puppet Playhouse, is telecast on
S12271947CNBC.
S12271949 the Netherlands cede sovereignty to Indonesia.
S12271953 the Cleveland Browns become the first team in professional sports
S12271953Cto lose their third consecutive championship game, Detroit 17,
S12271953CBrowns 16.  (They win the following year.)
S12271954 the Pugwash Conferences, a anti-nuclear weapons group of
S12271954Cscientists, is born in Nova Scotia.  (Cleveland's Cyrus S. Eaton
S12271954Cdonates his 15-room summer home, providing a place where scholars
S12271954Ccould gather to meditate and work for world peace.  Pugwash is
S12271954CIndian for "deep water").
S12271954 after observing 800 galaxies, astronomers report the universe was
S12271954Cborn in a giant cosmic explosion 5 1/2 billion years ago.
S12271964 the Cleveland Browns win the National Football League
S12271964CChampionship, and Browns' Gary Collins sets club playoff records
S12271964Cwith 3 receptions for TDs and the most yardage gained (130),
S12271964CBrowns 27, Colts 0.
S12271965 the most sensational theatrical offing of the year, Peter Weiss's
S12271965C"The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the
S12271965CInmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the
S12271965CMarquis de Sade," opens in N.Y. City.
S12271985 terrorists kill 20 and wound 110 attacking El Al Airlines at Rome
S12271985Cand Vienna airports. (President Reagan accused Libya of aiding
S12271985Cthe terrorists.)
S12271987 Steve Largent sets an all-time NFL record for career catches:
S12271987C752.
S12271988 the territorial sea of the U.S. is extended to 12 nautical miles
S12271988Cfrom the baseline of the U.S.
S12271990 San Francisco becomes the first city to regulate the use of video
S12271990Cdisplay terminals in the workplace (15 minutes of alternate work
S12271990Cfor every 2 hours at a terminal).
S12271992 two U.S. F-16's down an Iraqi Mig over the "no-fly zone" in Iraq,
S12271992Cthe first plane violating the U.N. directive to be shot down.
S1227     Feast of St. John, apostle and evangelist, patron saint of
S1227       friendship.
S1227    2Boxing Day, celebrated in Canada, United Kingdom (except
S1227    2  Scotland).
S1227     Return of Kachinas (Hopi/Pueblo observance).
S1227     Festival of Umuganuro (Burundi).
S1227     Kujichagulia (Self-determination), second day of Kwanzaa (First
S1227       Harvest) - Swahili week-long festival.
S12281065 Westminster Abbey is dedicated (built in honor of the Apostle
S12281065CPeter).
S12281832 John Calhoun becomes the first Vice-President to resign.
S12281846 Iowa becomes the 29th state.
S12281849 the dry-cleaning process is accidentally discovered when M.
S12281849CJolly-Bellin, a tailor, upsets a lamp containing turpentine and
S12281849Coil on to his clothing, and notices it had a cleaning effect.
S12281869 Labor Day is inaugurated as a holiday by the Knights of Labor in
S12281869CPhiladelphia.
S12281869 a patent for chewing gum is granted to William F. Semple of Mt.
S12281869CVernon, Ohio.
S12281878 the Viaduct, connecting the City of Cleveland's East and West
S12281878CSide, is dedicated.
S12281895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere project the first "moving pictures" (10
S12281895Cfilms) to a paying audience in Paris.
S12281902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to the U.S.
S12281905 the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the U.S. (IAAUS) is
S12281905Cfounded with 62 charter members (in 1910 renamed the National
S12281905CCollegiate Athletic Association - NCAA).
S12281912 San Francisco Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St.
S12281912C(MUNI was the first municipally-owned transit system).
S12281915 City Hall is dedicated by Mayor James Rolph.
S12281942 Artur Rodzinski, conductor of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra,
S12281942Cbecomes the musical director and conductor of the N.Y.
S12281942CPhilharmonic Symphony.
S12281973 the comet Kohoutek reaches perihelion (nearest the sun).
S12281973 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" is first released in
S12281973CParis.
S12281974 President Ford signs a bill creating the Cuyahoga Valley National
S12281974CRecreation Area, Ohio's first national park.
S12281976 President pledges not to let N.Y. City to go bankrupt (Congress
S12281976Callots a $2 billion bond in June 1978).
S12281981 the Cleveland Metroparks Administrative offices move from
S12281981Cdowntown to the Zoo.
S1228     Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs (Childermas - considered the
S1228       unluckiest day of the year).
S1228     Iowa Admission Day.
S1228    3Boxing Day, celebrated in Canada, United Kingdom (except
S1228    3  Scotland).
S1228     Bairn's Day (Celtic).
S1228     Halcyon Days end (Greek).
S1228     Ujima (Community Work), third day of Kwanzaa (First Harvest) -
S1228       Swahili week-long festival.
S1228     Shri Panch Ko Jamma Divas or Birthday of the King (Nepal).
S12291170 Archbishop Thomas A. Becket is murdered by King Henry II
S12291170Csupporters.
S12291778 the British capture Savannah, Georgia, and stay until the end of
S12291778Cthe war.
S12291837 Hiram Avery and John Avery Pitts of Winthrop, Me., patents a
S12291837Csteam powered combined thresher and fanning mill.
S12291845 Texas becomes the 28th state.
S12291848 gas lights are installed in the White House.
S12291851 the first Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) chapter opens
S12291851Cin Boston.
S12291852 Emma Snodgrass is arrested in Boston for wearing pants!
S12291876 the deadliest Ohio rail accident, the collapse of the Ashtabula
S12291876CBridge, accelerates the transition from iron to steel bridge
S12291876Cconstruction.
S12291890 the Battle of Wounded Knee, S.D. occurs, the last major conflict
S12291890Cbetween Indians and U.S. troops.  (About 200 Indian men, women
S12291890Cand children, and 29 soldiers are killed.)
S12291891 Thomas Edison patents his radio (wireless telegraphy).
S12291906 the first annual convention of the Intercollegiate Athletic
S12291906CAssociation is held.
S12291908 Otto Zachow and William Besserdich patent a four wheel brake
S12291908Csystem for automobiles.
S12291911 the San Francisco Symphony is formed.
S12291931 the identification of heavy water is publicly announced by Harold
S12291931CC. Urey.
S12291937 Pan Am starts San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand service.
S12291937 a new constitution in Ireland declares itself the sovereign
S12291937Cdemocratic state of Eire.
S12291948 a British scientist announces the discovery of a drug to prevent
S12291948Csleeping sickness in cattle caused by the tsetse fly.
S12291949 the nation's first UHF television station begins operating
S12291949Cregular basis in Bridgeport, Ct.
S12291952 the first transistorized hearing aid is offered for sale in
S12291952CElmsford, N.Y.
S12291967 the term "Black Hole" is first used by Prof. John Archibald
S12291967CWheeler at an Institute of Space Studies meeting.
S12291972 the last issue of Life magazine is published.
S12291975 11 are killed and 75 are hurt by a terrorist bomb at LaGuardia
S12291975CAirport in N.Y. City.
S12291978 Ohio State's legendary football coach, Woody Hayes, punches
S12291978CClemson University player Charlie Bauman when he intercepts a
S12291978Cpass with one minute left in the Gator Bowl (Hayes is fired).
S12291983 the U.S. announces its withdrawal from UNESCO.
S12291989 Wayne Gretzky and Martina Navratilova are named athletes of the
S12291989Cdecade by the Associated Press.
S12291993 the Ohio Supreme Court rules the homeowners and businesses are
S12291993Cnot required to shovel their walkways as being in Ohio during the
S12291993Cwinter has its inherent dangers.
S1229     Feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury (Thomas  Beckett), martyr.
S1229     Texas Admission day.
S1229     Proclamation Day (South Australia).
S1229     Ujama (Group Economics), fourth day of Kwanzaa (First Harvest) -
S1229       Swahili week-long festival.
S1229     Haloia of Demeter (Old Greek festival honoring the goddess of
S1229       the Earth's fruitfulness).
S12301672 the first public concert is held in London (ale and cakes could
S12301672Cbe ordered).
S12301809 the wearing of masks at balls is forbidden in Boston.
S12301817 the first coffee is planted in Hawaii.
S12301853 the Gadsden Purchase is signed. The U.S. acquires 45,000 square
S12301853Cmiles by the Gila River from Mexico for $10 million. Area is now
S12301853Csouthern Arizona and New Mexico.
S12301854 the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co., the first U.S. oil corporation, is
S12301854Cformed at New Haven, Conn., by George H. Bissell and Jonathan L.
S12301854CEveleth.
S12301887 the American Physiological Society is formed.
S12301903 the American Political Science Association is founded.
S12301913 W.D. Coolidge patents ductile tungsten.
S12301922 the 14 republics of Soviet Russia are renamed the Union of Soviet
S12301922CSocialist Republics.
S12301924 Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other Milky Way systems.
S12301933 a scientist reports senators' brains average two ounces heavier
S12301933Cthan representatives'.
S12301938 the electronic television system is patented by V.K. Zworykin.
S12301954 the U.S. Post Office halts junk mail addressed to "Householder".
S12301959 the "U.S.S. George Washington," the first nuclear sub capable of
S12301959Ccarrying and launching missiles, is commissioned at Groton, Conn.
S12301965 Ferdinand Marcos is inaugurated as President of the Philippines.
S12301974 the Regional Transit Authority (RTA), a joint venture by
S12301974CCleveland and Cuyahoga County, is created to take over Cleveland
S12301974CTransit System (CTS).
S12301975 the U.S. lifts the ban on foreign competition in the Little
S12301975CLeague World Series that was imposed on November 11, 1974.
S12301993 the Vatican and Israel sign an accord establishing full
S12301993Cdiplomatic relations.
S12301993 a federal judge rules Cleveland bar owners cannot use powerful
S12301993Cantennas to show blacked-out Browns games.
S1230     Feast of St. Sabinus, Bishop, and his companions, martyrs.
S1230     Festival of First Fruits (Swahili).
S1230     Anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar.
S1230     Day of the Proclamation of the Republic (Romania).
S1230     Rizal Day (Philippines).
S1230     Nia (Goals), fifth day of Kwanzaa (First Harvest) - Swahili
S1230       week-long festival.
S12311600 British East India Company is chartered.
S12311744 James Bradley announces discovery of earth's motion of nutation.
S12311770 the first New Year's Eve Watch-night service in America is
S12311770Cheld at St. George's Methodist Church in Philadelphia.
S12311776 Rhode Island establishes wage and price controls to curb
S12311776Cinflation: Limit is 70 cents a day for carpenters, 42 cents for
S12311776Ctailors.
S12311781 the Bank of North America is established by Congress.
S12311805 Napoleon ends the use of the French Republican calendar,
S12311805Creinstating the Gregorian calendar.
S12311857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as the new capital of Canada.
S12311862 the Emancipation Proclamation is signed.
S12311862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sinks in a gale off Cape Hatteras,
S12311862CN.C.
S12311875 Cleveland enjoys its warmest New Years Eve on record, 68 degrees.
S12311879 cornerstone is laid for the Iolani Palace, the only royal palace
S12311879Cin the U.S.
S12311879 Edison gives the first public demonstration of his incandescent
S12311879Clamp.
S12311921 the last of San Francisco's Fire Department horses are retired.
S12311935 Monopoly is patented.
S12311946 President Truman officially proclaims the end of WW II.
S12311951 the first battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical
S12311951Cenergy is announced.
S12311958 Cleveland Society for Savings becomes Society National Bank.
S12311966 the Toboggan Chutes begin operation at the Mill Stream Run
S12311966CReservation in the Cleveland Metroparks.
S12311970 President Nixon signs a bill to cut auto emissions by 90% by
S12311970C1977 (National Air Quality Control Act).
S12311972 a nearly-total ban on DDT use, ordered by the EPA, goes into
S12311972Ceffect.
S12311974 U.S. citizens are allowed to buy and own gold for the first time
S12311974Cin 40 years.
S12311977 the northernmost point reached by the hybrid "killer bees" is
S12311977CCiudad Bolivar, Venezuela.
S12311983 the divestiture and break-up of AT&T into eight companies occurs.
S12311987 one second is added to the year to compensate for the precession
S12311987Cof the earth's axis.
S12311994 Cleveland's Bicentennial logo is raised on the Terminal Tower to
S12311994Csignal the start of the New Year and begin the countdown to the
S12311994Ccity's 200th birthday in 1996.
S12311994 Gary Larson's last "Far Side" cartoon is published ("Oh, yeah!
S12311994CWell, I'd rather be a living corpse...").
S12311999 the control of the Panama Canal reverts to Panama.
S1231     New Year's Eve.
S1231     Feast of St. Sylvester I, pope (314-35) and confessor.
S1231     Watch-night (Protestant).
S1231     Make Up Your Mind Day.
S1231     Feed Yourself Day.
S1231     Foundation of Party and People's Republic of the Congo.
S1231     Hogmanay (Scotland).
S1231     Namahage (Japan).
S1231     Fiesta Bancaria (Guatemala).
S1231     Kuumba (Creativity), sixth day of Kwanzaa (First Harvest) -
S1231       Swahili week-long festival.
R1200     It's Hi Nabor Month!
R1200     It's National Indigestion Season!
R1200     It's Bingo's Birthday Month!!
R1200     The turquoise, lapis lazuli and blue zircon are the gems for
R1200       December.
R1200     The holly and narcissus are the flowers of December.
R1200     The sentimental meaning of the turquoise is for success, and the
R1200       holly and the narcissus are for precious moments.
R1200     December means the tenth month in Latin.  It was the last month
R1200       of the ancient world.
R1200     The Saxons called December Winter Monath and, after conversion to
R1200       Christianity, Heligh Monath - Holy Month.
R1200     The full moon in December is known as the Oak Moon.
R12011221 Sagittarius is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R12011221   Symbol: The Archer.
R12011221   Ruling Planet: Jupiter.
R12011221   Element: Fire.
R12011221   Traits: Bountiful, frank, versatile, philosophical.
R12011221   Body part associated with this sign: The thighs.
R12011221   Occupations: Travel, politics, meteorology, philosophy,
R12011221     religion.
R12221231 Capricorn is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R12221231   Symbol: The Goat.
R12221231   Ruling Planet: Saturn.
R12221231   Element: Earth.
R12221231   Traits: Ambitious, disciplined, persevering, pessimistic.
R12221231   Body part associated with this sign: The knees.
R12221231   Occupations: Positions of trust, banking, mountain climbing,
R12221231     coaching, engineering.
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