1733 – 1st polar bears exhibited in America in Boston.
1778 – Captain James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
1869 – Elegant California Theater opens in San Francisco.
1896 – 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC).
1919 – Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
1943 – US rations bread & metal – banning pre-sliced bread reduce bakery demand for metal parts.
1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
1947 – “Red Mill” closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 831 performances.
1948 – Ted Mack’s “Original Amateur Hour” begins, Dumont (later NBC/ABC/CBS).
1951 – NFL takes control of failing Baltimore Colts.
1960- Capitol Airlines Flight 20 crashes in Virginia, killing all 50 people on board.
1962 – US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas.
1968 – “Happy Time” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 286 performances.
1975 – “Jeffersons” spinoff from “All in the Family” premieres on CBS.
1981 – Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets.
1983 – IOC restores Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken away from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball.
1989 – IBM announces earnings up to 10.4% in 1988.
1998 – “Ragtime” opens at Ford Theater NYC.
2005 – The world’s largest commercial jet, the Airbus A380, is unveiled in France.
2017 – NASA and NOAA announce that 2016 was the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 which itself topped a record set in 2014.
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