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1006 Brightest supernova in recorded history is
observed
1492 Columbus is given royal commission to equip
his fleet
1562 First French colonists in US Jean Ribaut
& Hugenots at Parris Island NC
1598 First theater performance in America (Spanish
comedy-Rio Grande)
1722 The game of Billiards is mentioned in the
New England Courant
1772 John Clais patents 1st scale
1789 George Washington takes the oath of office in New York
1798 Department of the Navy is established
1803 US doubles in size through the Louisiana
Purchase
1808 First practical typewriter finished by Italian
Pellegrini Turri
1864 New York becomes first state to charge a
hunting license fee
1871 Apaches in Arizona surrender to white &
Mexican adventurers; 144 die
1885 Boston Pops Orchestra forms
1889 First US national holiday, on centennial
of Washington's inauguration
1900 USA annexes Hawaii
1900 Train engineer Casey Jones was killed when
trying to save the "Cannonball Express"
1902 First performance of Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande"
1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) first home
game
1904 Ice cream cone makes its debut
1921 American Professional Football Association
reorganizes in Akron
1935 2,000,000th Patent issued to Joseph Ledwinka for vehicle
wheel construction
1939 The streamliner "General Pershing Zephyr" placed in service
1939 New York World's Fair opens
1939 Baseball’s ‘Iron Horse’, Lou
Gehrig, played his last game with the Yankees
1939 NBC/RCA first public TV demo with FDR at
opening of New York World's Fair
1942 First submarine built on Great Lakes launched,
(Peto), Manitowoc, WI
1944 Mel Ott became the first major-league baseball player to score six runs in a game
1945 "Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a
27 year run on CBS radio
1945 “How would you like to be queen for
a day!” debuts on Mutual radio
1947 Boulder Dam was
changed back to its original name, Hoover Dam
1949 "Cruising Down the River" by Blue
Barron topped the charts
1952 Mr Potato Head is first toy advertised on
television
1953 Little-Bigger League changes its name to
Babe Ruth League
1955 Element 101, Mendelevium, announced
1955 "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White"
by Perez Prado topped the charts
1960 Stuck on You" by Elvis Presley topped
the charts
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes
X-15 to an altitude of 246,625 feet
1964 FCC states that all TV receivers should be equipped to receive
both VHF (channels 2-13) and the new UHF (channels 14-83)
1966 "Good Lovin'" by Young Rascals
topped the charts
1967 Baltimore Orioles' Stu Miller & Steve
Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Detroit Tigers
1967 Boxer Muhammad Ali was stripped of his world
heavyweight boxing championship
1970 Cubs Billy Williams is first National
Leaguer to play in 1,000 consecutive games
1974 President Richard Nixon hands over partial
transcripts of Watergate tape recordings
1975 Last US helicopter leaves US embassy groundsin
Vietnam, Saigon surrenders
1976 Wings release "Silly Love Songs"
1977 "Southern Nights" by Glen Campbell
topped the charts
1980 "Barnum" opens at St James Theater
NYC for 854 performances
1983 "Beat It" by Michael Jackson topped
the charts
1986 Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults
over 12 miles
1988 Largest banana split ever, at 4.55 miles
long, is made in Selinsgrove PA
1988 "Where Do Broken Hearts Go?" by
Whitney Houston topped the charts
1990 As New York Mets pitcher David Cone argues
a call at 1st base, 2 Atlanta Braves score
1997 Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes
1997 Tino Martinez hits record 34 RBIs in April
1997Mark McGwire hits two tape-measure blasts
