Legs presents ~ On This Day

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684 St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1483 Richard III usurps English throne

1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to
farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!

1848 1st pure food law enacted in US

1862 Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulse Confederacy in Virginia

1862 Day 2 of the 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville

1870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens

1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever

1902 England establishes Order of Merit

1902 M Wolf & L Carnera discovers asteroid #488 Kreusa

1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the 3 Garidebs" (BG)

1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)

1916 Cleveland Indians experiment with #s on their jerseys (one game)

1917 1st American Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I

1919 1st issue of NY Daily News published

1924 After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave the Domincan Republic

1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing credit unions

1934 W E B Du Bois resigns position at NAACP

1936 L Boyer discovers asteroid #2021 Poincare

1940 End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27

1941 Finland enters WW II against Russia

1945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF

1948 US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin

1949 Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury

1957 Hurricane Audrey strikes Louisiana claiming 500 lives

1958 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated

1958 Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)

1959 Ingemar Johansson of Sweden defeats Floyd Patterson as boxing champ

1959 Queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open the St Lawrence Seaway

1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain

1960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)

1962 Boston Red Sox Earl Wilson no-hits LA Angels, 2-0

1963 Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner)

1964 Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album

1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US

1970 Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2

1974 Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton)

1975 Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency

1977 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn

1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France

1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched

1982 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3521

1982 Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig

1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal
from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces

1983 "Loving" premiers on TV

1984 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4s

1984 Barbra Striesand records "Here We Are at Last"

1987 Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn

1989 Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson marry for the 2nd time

1990 122ø F in Phoenix Arizona