Legs presents ~ On This Day

[Legs]

On this Day ~ June 27

678 St Agatho begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1693 1st woman's magazine "The Ladies' Mercury" published (London)

1743 English defeat French at Dettingen

1806 Buenos Aires captured by British

1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academyfor black females at Canterbury Conn

1847 NY & Boston linked by telegraph wires

1857 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #45 Eugenia

1862 Day 3 of the 7 Days-Battle of Gaines' Mill

1864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

1867 Bank of Calif opens doors

1876 1st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Phila Athletics)

1884 J Palisa discovers asteroid #237 Coelestina

1914 US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia

1915 100ø F (38ø C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)

1917 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service

1922 Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)

1929 1st color TV demo (NYC)

1930 P Parchomenko discovers asteroid #1166 Sakuntala

1934 Federal Savings & Loan Association created

1939 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0)

1939 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 2-2, in 23 innings

1940 USSR returns to the Gregorian calendar

1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island

1944 Cherbourg, France captured by Allies

1949 W Baade discovers asteroid #1566 Icarus

1950 Pres Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict

1950 UN Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea

1950 US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam

1951 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1588 Descamisada

1954 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)

1954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala

1955 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)

1956 Indians trailing Orioles 9-1 come back to win 12-11 in 11 innings

1957 390 die by Hurricane Audrey in coastal La & Tx

1958 Billy Pierce's perfect game bid broken with 2 outs in 9th

1960 British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia

1960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass

1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m

1963 Bill J Kramer & Dakotas record Lennon & McCartney "I Call Your Name"

1963 Pres Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland

1963 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m

Phillies Johnny Callison hits for cycle, but Phillie centerfielder

Tony Gonzalez's error ends his record 205 consecutive errorless games

1966 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premiers

1966 4th Mayor's Trophy Game; Yanks beat Mets 5-2

1967 Race riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested)

1969 50,000 attend Denver Pop Festival

1969 Police raid the Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about

400 to 1,000 patrons riot against the police, it lasts 3 days

1971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2121 Sevastopol

1973 John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"

1977 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise

1977 Djibouti gains independence from France (National Day)

1978 Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m, 7:32.1

1978 Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station

1978 US Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit

1982 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 launched

1983 Highest price paid for painting by a living artist-œ960,200-Mir¢

1983 Maxie Anderson & Don Ida die during a balloon race

1983 NASA launches space vehicle S-205

1983 Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station

1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts

1985 1st hotel strike in NY

1986 Anne White shocks Wimbeldon by wearing only a body stocking

1986 In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce

1986 Robby Thompson (SF) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game

1986 US informs New Zealand it will not defend it against attack

1986 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal

1987 Supreme Court Justice Powell retires

1988 Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m)

1990 Jos‚ Canseco signs record $4,700,000 per year Oak A's contract

1990 Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help their earthquake victims

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On this Day ~ June 28th

767 St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1245 1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens

1635 French colony of Guadeloupe established in the Caribbean

1770 Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia

1776 Charleston, SC repulses British sea attack

1778 Battle of Monmouth, NJ

1778 Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots

1820 Tomato is proven nonpoisonous

1838 Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey

1859 1st dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England)

1861 Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest

1862 Day 4 of the 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station

1874 Freedmen's Bank closes

1886 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #259 Aletheia

1887 Phillies most lopsided shut-out beating Indianapolis 24-0

1892 Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories

1894 Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday

1902 Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin

1905 Russian sailors mutiny aboard the battleship "Potemkin"

1909 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens

1914 Assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria, Archduke Franz
Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia, in Sarajevo by a Serbian Nationalist,Gavrilo Princip. This incident precipitated a war with Serbia, eventually starting WW1

1918 1st flight between Hawaiian Islands

1919 Carl Mazes pitches a complete double-header against Yanks

1919 Harry S Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence

1919 Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed

1923 Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Philles score 8 in bottom of 9th

1924 Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio & Lorain Ohio, killing 93

1928 Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention

1928 Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsucessful)

1939 Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service (Dixie Clipper)

1939 Yanks hit 13 HRs, sweep A's 23-2 & 10-0

1940 "Quiz Kids?" premiers on radio

1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union

1942 Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY)

1945 Polish Provisional Govt of National Unity set up by Soviets

1946 Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st pres of Italy

1950 North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea [or 01041951?]

1951 "Amos 'n' Andy" premiers on CBS TV

1956 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Ill

1956 Riots break out in Poznan Poland, 38 die

1960 26.42 cm (10.40") of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record)

1961 Phils & SF set then record longest night game (5h11m) 7-7 15 inn tie

1964 Organization for Afo-American Unity forms in NY by Malcolm X

1965 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson

1965 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2179 Platzeck

1967 George Harrison is fined œ6 for speeding

1968 Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers

1971 Fillmore East closes

1971 Phillies' Rick Wise hits 2 HRs & no-hits Reds

1971 Supreme Court overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali

1971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3093

1974 Fall of earth & rocks kill 200. (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Columbia)

1974 Wings release "Band on the Run" & "Zoo Gang" in UK

1975 David Bowie releases "Fame"

1975 Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill)

1977 Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers

1980 NYC transit fare rises from 50 to 60

1982 Prince Charles and Princess Diana name their baby "William"

1983 Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Ct collapsed kills 3

1983 NASA launches Galaxy-A

1985 Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Tx

1986 Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick

1987 Don Baylor sets career hit-by-pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Rhoden)
1987 E F Helin discovers asteroid #3680 Sasha

1988 Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton

1990 17th annual Daytime Emmy Awards

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On this day...June 29th

1613 Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down

1767 British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America

1776 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay

1776 Va state constitution adopted & Patrick Henry made governor

1854 Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million

1858 Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia

1862 Day 5 of the 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station

1863 Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, PN

1863 Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa

1864 Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed

1891 100ø F (San Fransisco, CA)

1897 Chicago beats Louisville 36-7 (baseball)

1899 Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage

1913 Beginning of the 2nd Balkan War

1914 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #791 Ani

1916 Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time

1922 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #979 Ilsewa

1927 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii

1929 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca

1931 109ø F (43ø C), Monticello, Florida (state record)

1936 Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines

1936 Pope Pius XI encyclical to US bishops "On motion pictures"

1939 Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe

1940 US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register

1941 DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record

1945 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR

1946 British arrest 2,700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists

1947 Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game win streak

1949 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages

1949 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II

1952 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany

1954 Atomic Energy Comm voted against reinstating Dr J Robert
Oppenheimer

1956 Charles Dumas, makes 1st high jump over 7' (2.13 m)-LA, Calif

1956 Federal interstate highway system act signed

1958 Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm

1959 Pope John XXIII encyclical "On truth, unity, & peace, in charity"

1960 KYA-AM in San Francisco changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks)

1961 Launch of Transit 4a, with 1st nuclear power supply (SNAP-3)

1962 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner

1963 Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits the UK charts

1964 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "The Cage" released

1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate

1965 USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15

1966 US bombs fuel storage facilities near N Vietnamese cities

1967 Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem

1967 Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge

1969 1st Jewish worship service at White House

1970 US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia

1971 Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days

1972 Supreme Court-death penalty usually was "cruel & unusual punishment"

1972 USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)

1975 20.57 cm (8.10") of rainfall, Litchville, N. Dakota (state 24-hr rec)

1976 Seychelles gains independence from Britain

1977 Supreme Court ruled out death penalty for rapists of adults

1978 VP Walter F Mondale begins trip to Mid-East

1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended

1983 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB

1984 USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI

1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA

1985 STS 51-F vehicle moves to the launch pad

1986 Boston Red Sox trade for Tom Seaver

1986 Sparky Anderson is 1st to win 600 games as manager in both leagues

1987 Yanks blow 11-4 lead but trailing 14-11 Dave Winfield's 8th inning

grand slammer beats Toronto 15-14; Mattingly also grand slams

1989 Susan Lucci loses the daytime emmy for 10th straight year

1990 Marla Maples father sues the National Enquirer for $12M

1990 NY Mets tie their team career high 11 game win streak

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On this day... June 30th

296 St Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1294 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland

1607 Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published

1741 Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms

1794 Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio

1834 Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)

1859 Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope

1862 Day 6 of the 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp

1870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate

1871 Guatemala revolts for agarian reforms

1881 Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia

1893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered

1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid

1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die

1902 S I Bailey discovers asteroid #504 Cora

1906 John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College

1906 Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act adopted

1908 Boston's Cy Young's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Highlanders, 8-0

1908 Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska Event)

1911 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes

1913 2nd Balkan War begins

1913 NY Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Phillies 11-1

1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa

1916 Chick Evans Jr wins golf's US Open

1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica

1927 Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico

1927 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes

1928 Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are
to be changed to conform with international standards

1929 Bobby Jones wins golf's US Open

1930 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY

1933 Card's Dizzy Dean strikesout 17 Cubs to win 8-2

1933 US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt Lake City Utah closes

1934 "Night of the Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party

1934 French Equitorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit

1934 NFL's Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions

1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1784 Benguella

1936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published

1936 40 hour work week law approved (federal)

1938 Final game at Phila's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Phils 14-1

1939 Heinkel He. 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenem�nde

1940 "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears

1940 US Fish & Wildlife Service established

1942 US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation

1948 Cleve Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers, 2-0

1948 Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)

1950 Pres Truman orders US troops into Korea

1951 NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination

1952 "The Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV

1954 Yank pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting 3 batters in 1 inning
This was also Bobby Brown's last game; he retired to become a doctor

1956 United DC-7 & TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128

1959 During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time

1960 Za‹re (then Belgian Congo) gains independence from Belgium

1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit

1962 LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0

1962 Murie Lindstrom wins US Women's Golf Open

1962 Rwanda & Burundi become independent

1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church

1964 Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit

1965 NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise

1966 Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour

1967 Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black astronaut

1967 Phillies Cookie Rojas pitches, plays 9th positions since joining Phils

1969 Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:34

1969 Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco

1970 1st baseball game at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium

1970 Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City

1970 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2139 Makharadze

1971 Ohio becomes the 38th state to approve of lower the voting age to
18, thus ratifying the 26th admendment

1972 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985

1972 Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in NL, & go on to win the pennant

1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse

1974 Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that
torches "Gulliver's" nightclub. 24 die (Port Chester NY)

1975 Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado

1975 Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman

1976 John Walker of New Zealand sets record for 2000 m, 4:51.4

1977 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"

1977 Marvel Comics publish the "Kiss book" tributing the rock group Kiss

1977 US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC)

1977 Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto

1978 Larry Doby becomes manager of the Chicago White Sox

1978 Willie McCovey becomes the 12th to hit 500 HRs

1979 Johnny Rotten & Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury

1981 China's Communist Party condemns the late Mao Tse-tung's policy

1982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification

1984 Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in
USFL playoffs, games lats 93 minutes 33 seconds

1985 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut

1985 LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June

1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4)

1987 Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in the high jump

1988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason

1989 Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to the UK

1989 Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl

1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam

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On this Day ~ July 1st

535 Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason

1690 Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James
II in Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (Now celebrated on July 12 as "The Battle of the Orange" )

1776 1st vote on the Declaration of Independence

1795 John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court

1816 Fr frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of G‚ricault's "Raft of the Medusa"

1823 United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico

1847 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5 Franklin & 10 Washington, NYC

1847 Amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 2nd asteroid Hebe

1847 K L Hencke discovers asteroid #6 Hebe

1850 At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay

1859 1st intercollegiate baseball game, Amherst beats Williams 66-32

1859 Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St Louis

1861 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington & Mason St, SF

1862 Congress outlaws polygamy (1st time); bad news for Utah

1862 Day 7 of the 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill

1862 Lincoln appoints Isaac Newton sec of agriculture-no kidding!
Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance,
tobacco & on incomes over $600 (progressive rate)

1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Pa; Lee's northward advance halted

1863 Free city delivery of mail begins in 49 US cities; postage 3/« oz

1867 Dominion of Canada formed (New Bruns, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Qu‚bec)

1869 US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens

1870 James W Smith of SC is 1st black to enter West Point

1873 Henry Flipper of Ga is 2nd black to enter West Point

1873 Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province

1874 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000

1875 Universal Postal Union established

1881 1st international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St Stephen, NB

1881 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens

1884 V Knorre discovers asteroid #238 Hypatia

1889 Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti

1889 US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens

1893 SF Bay City Club opens 1st US bicycle race track, made of wood

1897 The Bronx acquires Hutton Square

1898 Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill

1899 Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels

1899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building

1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (BG)

1904 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St Louis

1910 Chicago's Comiskey Park opens

1910 Union of South Africa becomes a dominion

1915 Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service

1915 Australian Survey Corps becomes part of the Military Forces

1916 Eisenhower marries Mary `Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo

1917 Race riots in East St Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)

1917 Reds Fred Toney pitches completes doubleheader victories over Pirates

1919 1st class postage drops from 3 to 2

1920 Wash Senator Walter Johnson no-hits Boston Red Sox, 1-0

1924 Through regular transcontinental airmail service established, NYC-SF

1925 Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK

1931 Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15

1931 Phillies Chuck Klein hits for the cycle vs Chicago Cubs

1932 NY Gov FDR nominated for president at the Dem Convention in Chicago

1933 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1590 Tsiolkovskaja.

1934 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY

1941 1st coml TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC

1941 Bulova Watch Co. pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial

1941 Joe Dimaggio on way to 56, ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hit streak

1943 1st withholding tax from paychecks

1944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank

1946 Rajah cedes Sarawak to the British crown

1946 US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)

1947 Brit Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office

1948 NYC subway fare goes to 10, bus fare to 7 & combo fare at 12

1949 Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France

1950 NYC bus fare rises to 10 equal to subway fare, combo fare at 15

1951 Cleve Indian Bob Feller, 3rd no-hitter beats Det Tigers, 2-1

1956 Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on The Steve Allen Show

1959 World Refugee Year begins

1960 Ghana becomes a republic

1960 Italian Somalia gains independence, unites with Somali Republic

1961 Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii

1962 Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days)

1963 Beatles record "She Loves You" & "I'll Get You"

1963 US postal service institutes the (Zone Improvement Plan) zip code

1966 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART

1966 Medicare goes into effect

1967 BBC starts their World Radio Club

1967 Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," goes #1 for 15 weeks

1968 John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You are Here)

1968 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

1969 Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales

1969 John & Yoko are hospitilized after a car crash

1971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for

1972 Ms. magazine begins publishing

1973 1st US-China basketball game, US collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61

1974 Monmouthshire renamed Gwent & becomes part of Wales

1975 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2680

1975 WEDway People Mover inaugurated

1976 Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of US Conference of Mayors

1977 Virginia Wade beats Betty Stove for Wimbeldon's woman's singles

1978 Former Pres Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974

1978 Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing

1979 Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6" of snow

1980 Steve Overt runs world record 3:48.8 mile in Oslo

1981 Laurel Canyon Calif murders (4 die, 1 wounded)


1981 Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3

1982 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC


1982 Challenger moves overland to Dryden

1982 Kosmos 1383, 1st search & rescue satellite, launched

1982 Over 2000 Unification Church couples marry at NY MSG

1987 Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in Oct by senate

1987 NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes 1st 24 hour all sports radio

1987 WHN-AM in New York City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD)
replacing WHN's country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format

1989 Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad

1989 NFL owners vote unanimously to form the WLAF

1989 Yanks beat Milwaukee Brewers 4-1, score is changed to 5-1 after the
game is over. Umpire rules Roberto Kelly scored before a doubleplay

1990 Despite Andy Hawkins no-hitting the White Sox, Yankees lose 4-0

1990 German Democratic Republic accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency

1990 In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal

1997 China regains sovereignty of Hong Kong

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On this Day ~ July 2nd

311 St Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope

0195 "Plan 9 From Outer Space," one of the worse films ever, premieres

1644 Battle of Marston Moor; Parliamentary forces defeat royalists

1776 Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are & of right
ought to be Free & Independent States"

1777 Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery

1787 de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered

1808 Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam

1843 An alligator falls from the sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm

1847 Envelope bearing the 1st US 10 stamps, still exists today

1862 Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges

1863 Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)

1864 Gen Early & Confederate forces reach Winchester

1864 Statuary Hall in US Capitol established

1867 1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC

1881 Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker

1885 Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear

1890 Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies

1894 Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers

1900 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1st airship LZ-1, flies

1902 John J McGraw becomes manager of NY Giants (stays for 30 years)

1906 Yanks win by forfeit, for their 1st time

1921 1st million dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier)
1926 US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized

1927 1st American to win Wimbeldon in 20 years (Helen Wills Moody)

1932 FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance
speech

1933 Carl Hubbell shuts-out Cards 1-0 in 18 innings without a walk

1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1357 Khama

1935 Great Britain boxers beat US team in 1st intl Golden Gloves

1937 Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean

1937 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1429 Pemba & #1456 Saldanha

1938 Helen Wills Moody (US) wins her 8th & final Wimbeldon singles

1940 Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated

1941 DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56)

1943 Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning & beat Yankees 12-0

1943 Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane

1949 "Red Barber's Clubhouse" sports show premiers on CBS (later NBC) TV

1955 "Lawrence Welk Show" premiers on ABC

1956 Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" & "Don't Be Cruel"

1957 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor completed-The
Seawolf

1957 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback

1961 Maris hits 29th & 30th en route to 61 homers

1964 Celia Black records Beatle's "Its For You," McCartney plays piano

1964 Pres Johnson signs Civil Rights Act

1966 Billie Jean King wins her 1st of 6 Wimbeldon single titles

1967 Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) &
1st amateur to US Women's open golf tournament

1969 Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi form the rock group Mountain

1974 Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81)

1976 Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam

1976 Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual

1977 Sweden's Bj”orn B”rg won Wimbeldon men's singles over Jimmy Connors

1978 Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start

1980 Grateful Dead's Bob Weir & Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement

1981 L E Gonzalez discovers asteroid #3495 Colchagua

1982 Larry Walters using lawn chair & 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000'

1982 Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth

1985 European Space Agency launches Giotto to Halley's Comet

1985 Proto launched to Halley's Comet

1986 Supreme Court upheld affirmative action in 2 rulings

1988 Steffi Graff beats Martina Navratilova for Wimbeldon crown

1990 Imelda Marcos & Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering

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On this Day ~ July 3rd

683 St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1608 City of Qu‚bec founded by Samuel de Champlain

1754 George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War)

1775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass

1778 British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa

1806 Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry

1814 Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada

1816 French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross
incompetence kills 150 in calm seas

1819 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors

1839 1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students

1841 John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown
planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus

1848 Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)

1852 Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif)

1861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY

1863 Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North

1886 1st NY Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine

1888 NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak

1890 Idaho admitted as 43rd US state

1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Black Peter" (BG)

1898 Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe

1898 US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba

1911 Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day

1912 NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak

1913 Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird
known to have crossed the Atlantic

1915 US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934

1916 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die)

1920 Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England

1930 Veterans Administration created

1932 1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2

1932 John McGraw retires from baseball

1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1367 Nongoma

1934 FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL

1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler

1939 Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech

1940 British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa

1944 Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore

1947 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC

1947 Cleveland Indians purchase Larry Dolby, the 1st black in the AL

1950 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in the Korean War

1958 "The Andy Williams Show" premiers on ABC (later on CBS & NBC)

1962 Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5)

1965 Phillies Dick Allen & Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice

1966 Brave pitcher Tony Cloninger, is 1st NL to hit 2 grand slams in a game

1966 Race riots in Omaha Nebraska

1967 "News at 10" premieres on English TV

1968 Cleve Indian Luis Tiant strikes out 19 Minn Twins

1969 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI

1970 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival

1970 Calif Angels Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0

1970 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3702

1973 Brothers Jim & Gaylord Perry face each other for only time, Tigers

beat Indians 5-4, as Gaylord loses

1974 Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3

1976 Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers being
held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers

1978 Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio
station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words"

1980 73,096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0

1981 NYC transit fare rises from 60 to 75, new brass Y-cut-out token

1982 Martina Navratilova defeats Chris Evert Lloyd at Wimbeldon

1983 Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (9.93 s for 100 m)

1983 John McEnroe regains men's singles title at Wimbledon

1984 Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island

1984 Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members

1985 CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover

1986 Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty

1987 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic

1987 NY Met Darryl Strawberry threatens teammates Wally Backman & Lee
Mazzilli for criticizing his play

1988 US Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290

1989 Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3k steeplechase rec (8:05.39) in Stockholm

1989 Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions

1989 The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million (10 days)

1991 Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7.45 karat diamond ring

[Legs]

On ths day ~ the 4th of July

1054 Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)

1636 City of Providence, Rhode Island form

1653 Barebones Parliment goes into session in England

1776 Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain

1789 1st US tariff act

1802 US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)

1817 Construction on Erie Canal begins

1819 William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet

1827 Slavery abolished in NY

1828 Construction begins on Band O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR

1829 Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)

1832 "America" 1st sung publicly

1836 Wisconsin Territory formed

1845 Texas Congress votes for annexation to US

1845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond

1862 Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell

1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)

1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces

1865 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published

1866 Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying « of Portland, Me

1873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens

1874 Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed

1875 White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg

1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF

1881 Brooker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute

1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF

1883 Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr

1884 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)

1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris

1886 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC

1888 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz

1889 Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting

1893 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #369 Aeria

1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH

1894 Republic of Hawaii established

1898 "La Bourgogne" collides with "Cromartyshire", 560 drown

1898 French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark "Cromartyshire", 50 die

1898 US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)

1903 Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message

1905 Phila A's beat Boston Red Sox 4-2 in 20 inning game

1908 NY Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0 in 10 innings

1910 Jack Johnson KOs James Jeffries in 15 rounds, ending come-back try

1911 Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 & ends a 40 game hit streak

1912 Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0

1914 1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)

1918 Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa

1919 Cincinnati Reds are 10« games back in NL, & win the World Series

1919 Jack Dempsey beats Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship

1919 M Wolf discovers asteroid #914 Palisana

1925 44 die when the Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses

1925 Yanks Lefty Grove beats A's Herb Pennock 1-0 in 15 innings

1929 AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down

1933 Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge

1938 1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5

1939 Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game

1939 Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day

1941 Howard Florey & Norman Heatley meet for the 1st time, 11 days later
they successfully recreate pencillin

1942 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)

1946 Philippines gains independence from US

1950 Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own consitution)

1954 West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern

1956 Independence National Historical Park established in Philadelphia

1956 US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland

1959 America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled

1959 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony

1960 America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled

1960 Mickey Mantle hits career homer # 300

1962 Island Records begins

1966 LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act

1967 Freedom of Information Act goes into effect

1967 Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader

1969 "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in the UK

1969 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin

1969 Ann Jones defeats Billie Jean King for Wimbeldon Ladies championship

1970 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ

1970 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of
Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons

1973 In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who
"offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth"

1975 Bundy victim (?) Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah

1976 Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers

1977 Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher

1977 Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie

1978 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3332

1978 Memphis firefighters halt 3-day strike under a court order

1982 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB

1982 Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe for his last Wimbeldon championship

1983 Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox

1984 Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m

1985 Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins

1987 Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission

1987 Martina Navratilova wins 6th straight Wimbeldon defeats Steffi Graf

1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" convicted by a French court

1988 Steffan Edberg beats Boris Becker for Wimbeldon crown

1988 US navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290

1990 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner & Gettysburg Address