1703 ---Bristol England damaged by hurricane,
Royal Navy loses 15 warships
1716 ---1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
1778 ---Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)
1789 ---1st national thanksgiving
1793 ---Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1825 ---1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
1832 ---1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12« fare)
1841 ---1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan
1861 ---At Wheeling, a convention adopts a constitution for new state West
Virginia
1865 ---Alice in Wonderland published
1868 ---1st baseball game played in enclosed field in San Francisco, at 25th
& Folsom
1885 ---1st meteor photograph
1895 ---Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed
1896 ---1st large indoor football game, U of Chicago beats U of Michigan 7-6
1896 ---A.A. Stagg of U Chicago creates the football huddle
1924 ---Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
1940 ---Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto
1941 ---Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro
1941 ---Lebanon gains independence from France
1945 ---During snow storm, school bus crashes, killing 15 (Washington)
1949 ---India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
1950 ---China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
1962 ---1st recording session under the name "Beatles"
1965 ,,France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)
1966 ---1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
1969 ---Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
1972 ---Pete Gogolak scores NY Giant record 8 pts after a touchdown
1973 ---Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she
accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
1974 ---Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal)
1975 ---Fed jury found Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
1976 ---Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single
1978 ---10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
1980 ---Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building
1982 ---Clyde King named Yankee manager
1982 ---Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
1982 ---Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by the
Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch
1983 ---Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
1984 ---John W Mercom Jr announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million
1985 ---23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
1988 ---Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev and Jean-Loup Chretien launch
1988 ---Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
1990 ---Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend
1990 ---Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion
1990 ---Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
1991 ---Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
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