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Post by Willing Sniper on Jun 21, 2013 9:46:14 GMT -8
524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce. 996 - Pope Gregory V crowns Otto III Roman Catholic German emperor of Elzas 1128 - Battle of Akspoele: earl Willem of Normandy beats Diederik 1498 - Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian 1529 - Battle at Landriano: Leyva beats France 1547 - Great fire in Moscow 1572 - Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda 1582 - The Incident at Honnō-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan. 1607 - 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown 1633 - Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views 1661 - Treaty of Kardis: Russia & Sweden sign peace treaty 1667 - Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England 1672 - Dutch pension advisor Johan de Witt seriously wounded 1672 - French troops under king Louis XIV occupy Utrecht 1684 - King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter 1734 - In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand. 1749 - Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Neth 1749 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded. 1768 - 1st US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer) The Sun King Louis XIV 1788 - US Constitution goes into effect as NH is 9th to ratify 1788 - Vizille France population demands local parliament 1791 - Fleeing French King Louis XVI & family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne 1792 - Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil & Mexicana off Vancouver, BC 1805 - Great Stoneface Mt found in NH 1813 - Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria. 1821 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC) 1824 - Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea. 1826 - Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas. 1834 - Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine 1849 - Battle at Waghausel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels 1854 - First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands. 1858 - Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe 1863 - Battle at Upperville Virginia, 389 casualities 1864 - New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends. 1868 - Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg," premieres in Munich 1877 - The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons. 1879 - F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately) 1887 - Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria 1893 - 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition) 1894 - Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company 1895 - British Roseberry government falls 1898 - Guam becomes a territory of US 1900 - Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers 1903 - Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG) 1904 - Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913) 1907 - 13th US Golf Open: Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Phila Cricket Club PA 1907 - E W Scripps founded United Press 1913 - Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane 1915 - Anti-British revolt in South-Africa ends with arrest of Gen De Law 1915 - The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens. 1916 - Boston Rube Forster no-hits NY Yankees, 2-0 1916 - Mexican troops beat US expeditionary force under Gen Pershing 1917 - Hawaiian Red Cross forms 1919 - Bauer forms German government 1919 - German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet 1921 - HSC '21 soccer team forms in Haaksbergen 1923 - Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud 1924 - NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms 1930 - Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7 1932 - Heavyweight Jack Sharkey TKOs Max Schmeling (NYC) 1932 - Jack Sharkey beats Max Schmeling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1933 - 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans 1937 - French People's front government-Blum falls 1938 - Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit 1938 - Bradman scores 101* in 77 minutes, Australia v Lancashire 1939 - NY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement after doctors reveal he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 1940 - German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State 1940 - The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia. 1941 - 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria 1941 - After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns 1942 - 129°F (54°C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record) 1942 - President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, DC 1942 - Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa 1942 - Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m) 1943 - Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead 1944 - Very heavy bombing on Berlin 1945 - US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa during WW II 1946 - 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas 1946 - Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million 1946 - Fed judge rules Seattle club doesn't have to play returning serviceman 1948 - 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I 1948 - 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78's planned to be phased out (Dr Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records) 1948 - Lord Mountbatten resigns as gov-gen of India 1948 - Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens 1948 - WNAC (now KNEV) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting 1950 - Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit 1951 - "17" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 performances 1951 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open 1951 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones 1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open 1952 - Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. 1954 - John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0) 1956 - Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere 1956 - German DR frees almost 19,000 prisoners 1956 - Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters 1957 - Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister. 1958 - French franc devalues 1960 - Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0) 1962 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m 1963 - Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII 1964 - Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later 1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open 1964 - Phillies Jim Bunning pitches perfect game (Mets) on Fathers day, in 2nd game of DH, Mets get 3 hits, 3 being fewest hits in NL DH 1964 - 3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney-disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail 1965 - 65th US Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 282 at Bellerive CC in St Louis 1966 - Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam 1967 - Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th & lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th & Yanks beat them 6-3 1968 - Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns 1969 - 1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace) 1969 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 14th Symphony, premieres in Moscow 1969 - John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m) 1969 - Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525" 1970 - 70th US Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine Natl Minn 1970 - Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup (in Mexico City) 1970 - Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892 1970 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic 1971 - 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisiana 1971 - 71st US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 280 at Merion GC in Ardmore PA 1971 - Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf 1971 - Intl Court of Justice asks South-Africa to pull out of Namibia Director Steven Spielberg 1975 - "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg opens 1975 - Elton John, Eagles & Beach Boys play Wembley 1975 - Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow 1975 - Soyuz 19 returns to Earth 1975 - West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win Cricket World Cup 1976 - Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy 1977 - Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison 1977 - Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM 1978 - Andrew Lloyd Webber & Rice's musical "Evita," premiers in London 1979 - Sri Lanka beat Canada by 60 runs to win the 1st ICC Trophy 1981 - 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000 1981 - 81st US Golf Open: David Graham shoots 273 at Merion GC in Ardmore Pa 1981 - Don Fagan & Walter Becker quit Steely Dan 1981 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf 1981 - Riots at Casablanca, kills 66-200 Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber 1981 - Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election 1982 - Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away" 1982 - John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity 1983 - Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss 1983 - Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery 1985 - American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele 1986 - "Living on Video" by Trans-X peaks at #61 1986 - "Vienna Calling" by Falco peaks at #18 1986 - Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, singns with KC Royals 1986 - Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record) 1986 - Pres Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments 1987 - 87th US Golf Open: Scott Simpson shoots a 277 at Olympic Club in SF 1987 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open 1987 - Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB 1987 - Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendant Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson 1988 - 42nd NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3 1988 - Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon 1988 - Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years 1989 - Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium 1989 - Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression 1989 - Yankees trade Rickey Henderson to A's for Plunk, Cadaret & Polonia 1990 - 7.7 Earthquake with 100s of after shocks hits Iran; about 50,000 die 1990 - Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame 1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham 1990 - Parliament of W & E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens 1990 - US House of Reps vote 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass 1990 - At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a NY Yankee baseball cap & proclaims "I am a Yankee!" 1991 - Jirg Haider resigns as premier of Karinthia 1991 - NY Islanders Denis Potvin & Mike Bossy, elected to Hockey Hall of Fame 1992 - 92nd US Golf Open: Tom Kite shoots a 285 at Pebble Beach GL Calif 1992 - Danielle Ammaccapan wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open 1992 - Last day of test cricket for Ian Botham & Allan Lamb 1993 - "Camelot" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 56 performances 1993 - English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat 1993 - STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit Tennis Player Steffi Graf 1994 - Steffi Graf becomes 1st defending tennis champ to lose in 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to Lorrie McNeal) 1997 - "Defending the Caveman," closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 671 perfs 1997 - 35th NHL draft Boston picks center Joe Thornton 1st 1997 - Women's National Basketball Association begins as NY Liberty beats LA Sparks 1998 - 98th US Golf Open: at Olympic Club SF 2000 - Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote. 2001 - Total solar eclipse in Madagascar-Indian Ocean (4m56s) 2001 - A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen. 2002 - Lennox Lewis retains boxing's WBC world Heavyweight crown with an eight round knockout over Mike Tyson 2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. 2006 - Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra. 2012 - Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe 2012 - A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued 2012 - Miami Heat win the 2012 NBA finals after defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder 4 games to one
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Post by Willing Sniper on Jun 24, 2013 6:23:40 GMT -8
Monday 24th June 2013
451 - 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 843 - Vikings destroy Nantes 972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place. 1128 - Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa 1298 - Rindfleish Persecutions-Jews of Ifhauben Austria massacred 1314 - Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England 1322 - Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time 1340 - In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys the French at the battle of Sluys 1374 - A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion. 1396 - Crusaders under earl of Nevers reach Vienna 1397 - Sultan Bajezid I release caught crusaders free, for ransom 1441 - Eton College founded by Henry VI 1472 - Zoe Paleologa departs Rome for Moscow 1497 - John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia) 1497 - Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London. 1509 - Henry VIII crowned King of England 1522 - Battle at La Bicocca: Emperor Karel V beats France 1522 - Portuguese Antonio de Brita signs treaty island of Ternate Molukkas 1527 - Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking RC possessions 1529 - Zurich & catholic kantons sign Peace of Kappel 1535 - Anabaptists Protestants conquered & disbanded 1535 - Hessische troops occupy Munster 1540 - English King Henry VIII commands his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves to leave the court 1572 - 5 clergymen of Enkhuizen, hanged 1597 - Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches Bantam, West Java 1610 - Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russia & Sweden 1619 - Tsar Michails father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow 1647 - Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council 1648 - Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews & 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine 1658 - French fleet recaptures Duinkerk 1662 - Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day) 1664 - The colony of New Jersey is founded. 1690 - King Willem III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland [OS=June 14] 1692 - Kingston Jamaica founded 1717 - 1st Free Masons' grand lodge founded in London Co-founder of the Methodist Movement John Wesley 1748 - The Kingswood School is opened by John Wesley and his brother Charles Wesley in Bristol. The school later moved to Bath. 1778 - David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia 1793 - 1st republican constitution in France adopted 1794 - Bowdoin College is founded. 1795 - US & Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty 1806 - English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires 1813 - Battle of Beaver Dam-British & Indian forces defeat US forces 1817 - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast 1821 - Battle of Carabobo; Bolívar defeats royalists outside of Caracas 1841 - Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx 1843 - Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy 1846 - Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished 1853 - Gadsden Purchase 29,670-square-mile (76,800 square km) from Mexico (now southern Arizona and New Mexico) for $10 million signed by President Franklin Pierce 1859 - Battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France/Sardinia-Austria 1861 - Battle of Mathias Point, VA-US attacks Confederate batteries 1861 - Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US 1863 - Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac 1866 - 2nd Battle at Custozza: Prussian-Austria beats Italian army 1880 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. 1881 - 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico 1882 - NL expels umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty 1884 - John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention 1885 - British government of Salisbury forms 1885 - Samuel David Ferguson becomes 1st US black bishop 1894 - Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years 1894 - Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio. 1897 - Hail injures 26 in Topeka Kansas 1898 - American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba 1900 - Dutch Social-Democratic Worker's party & Socialistenbond merge Artist/Cubist Co-founder Pablo Picasso 1901 - 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris 1901 - Jewish National Fund starts 1902 - King Edward VII develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation. 1903 - Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist 1908 - Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71 (.276) 1909 - 15th US Golf Open: George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood GC NJ 1910 - 50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St Andrews Scot 1911 - 17th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago GC in Ill 1913 - 53rd British Golf Open: J H Taylor shoots a 304 at Hoylake Hoylake 1914 - King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent 1916 - Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract. 1917 - Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny at Sebastopol 1920 - Chuvash Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR 1922 - AFPA changes name to NFL, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears 1923 - Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied 1924 - 59th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake 1928 - 32nd US Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields Ill 1928 - With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person crews on trolley operations in Canada. 1930 - 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC 1930 - Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium 1931 - USSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty 1932 - Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio 1936 - Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inn, Yanks beat Browns 18-4 1936 - Mary McLeod Bethune named director of Negro Affairs in Natl Youth Adm 1938 - 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 1939 - Pan Am's 1st US to England flight 1940 - France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II 1941 - Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated 1941 - Germans advanced into Russia & took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk & Kaunas 1942 - Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered 1942 - Africa Corps occupy Egypt 1943 - Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg 1945 - Schermerhorn government forms 1945 - The Moscow Victory Parade takes place. 1946 - 11.72" (29.77 cm) of rainfall at Mellen Wisc (state 24-hr record) 1946 - Georges Bidault elected premier of France 1947 - 29th PGA Championship: Jim Ferrier at Plum Hollow CC Detroit 1947 - Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold 1947 - Jackie Robinson swipes home for 1st of 19 times in his career 1947 - Jim Ferrier wins PGA golf tournament 1948 - Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey 1948 - Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade 1949 - "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC) 1949 - A M de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog arrested in Scheveningen Neth 1949 - Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board 1950 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open 1950 - French government-Bidault resigns 1950 - NY Giant Wes Westrum hits 3 HRs & a triple 1951 - Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations 1953 - KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting 1954 - "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" closes at Imperial NYC after 229 perf 1955 - Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st HR (off Billy Hoeff) 1956 - "Steve Allen Show," returns on NBC-TV 1956 - 2nd LPGA Championship won by Marlene Hagge 1956 - WISC TV channel 3 in Madison, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting 1957 - "I Love Lucy," last airs on CBS-TV 1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States. 1960 - Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa v England Lord's 1961 - "Happiest Girl in the World" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 97 perfs 1961 - Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby" 1961 - Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait 1962 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA J E McAuliffe Golf Tournament 1962 - Jack Reed's 22nd-inning HR wins longest NY Yankee game in history 1963 - 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London 1963 - Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government 1963 - Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain 1964 - FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages 1966 - Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die 1966 - Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I 1967 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Sacerdotalis coelibatus 1967 - Zaire adopts constitution 1968 - 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post 1968 - Australia all out for 78 v England at Lord's 1968 - Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion 1968 - Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleve 14-3 1968 - Joe Frazier TKOs Manuel Ramos in 2 for heavyweight boxing title 1968 - Resurrection City in Wash DC closed permanently 1970 - "Catch 22" opens in movie theaters 1970 - Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs 1970 - Reds play final game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, beat Giants 5-4 1970 - Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1972 - "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6 1972 - Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of US (US Air Force) 1972 - Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair in Dem convention 1973 - Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8" 1973 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open 1974 - India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins 1974 - Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired 1975 - Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113 1975 - Moon tremor perceived (hit by Taurid meteors) 1976 - 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany 1977 - IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976 1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open 1979 - Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland & steals his 1st base 1980 - Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million 1982 - Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat 1982 - Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16) 1982 - Soyuz T-6 Launch (USSR) 1982 - Supreme Court rules pres can't be sued for actions in office 1983 - 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB 1983 - Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters 1984 - Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265 1984 - Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic 1985 - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth 1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F 1986 - Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years 1986 - US Senate approves "tax reform" 1987 - CFL's Montreal Alouettes fold 1987 - Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consec win streak 1988 - Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves 1988 - Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak 1989 - Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th & 40th consecutive bases 1990 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International 1991 - NHL adopts instant-replay & tenth of second clock in final minute The Pianoman Billy Joel 1992 - Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville HS at 43 1992 - Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball 1992 - Eddie Antar, CEO (Crazy Eddies), $74 m stock fraud caught in Israel 1992 - John Gotti begins life sentence in jail 1993 - Arab terror group plans bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught 1993 - Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber. 1994 - 1st French "all news" TV (LCI) begins broadcasting 1994 - Jeff Bagwell of Astros is 28th to hit 2 HRs in an inning 1994 - Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman 1995 - Stanley Cup: NJ Devils sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games 1997 - Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom 1997 - USAF reports Roswell 'space aliens' were dummies 1997 - Mark McGwire hits a 538 foot home run 1997 - Seat Mariner Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Oakland A's but loses 2002 - The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history. 2004 - In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional. 2007 - The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours. 2010 - John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in tennis history. 2012 - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt 2012 - Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time
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