1813 – 1st US Rubber patented to Jacob F. Hummel.
1852 – 1st edition of Peter Roget’s Thesaurus published.
1892 – Charlie Reilly is baseball’s 1st pinch hitter.
1918 – Tris Speaker ties career outfield record of 4 unassisted double plays.
1927 – Construction of Spirit of St. Louis (the monoplane which Charles Lindburgh was to fly across the Atlantic) is completed.
1940 – 1st radio broadcast of “Young Dr. Malone” on CBS.
1953 – The first US experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA TV.
1961 – ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” debuts.
1962 – 16th Tony Awards: “A Man For All Seasons” & “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” win.
1967 – Aretha Franklin releases “Respect.”
1968 – “Hair” opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 1750 performances.
1974 – US President Richard Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House.
1975 – Vietnam War: US begins to evacuate it’s citizens from Saigon in Operation Frequent Wind in response to advancing North Vietnamese forces, bringing an end to US involvement in the war.
1981 – 1981 NFL Draft: George Rogers from University of South Carolina first pick by New Orleans Saints.
1986 – 800,000 books destroyed by fire in Los Angeles Central Library.
1992 – 27th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks and Reba McIntire win.
2004 – Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
2004 – Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
2006 – 2006 NFL Draft: Mario Williams from North Carolina State first pick from Houston Texans.
2015 – German Measles is declared eradicated from North and South America – 1st world region to do so.
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