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1854 – Lighthouse built on Alcatraz Island.

1862 – Dr. Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis.

1914 – Vogue holds 1st model show (“Fashion Fete”, NYC)

1924 – California legalizes professional boxing (illegal since 1914)

1929 – Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould and their polar expedition team begin a 2 1/2 month, 1500-mile dog-sled journey into the Queen Maud Mountains.  The first exploration of the interior of Antarctica.

1939 – First air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Illinois.

1948 – American humorist Will Rogers commemorated by US Postage Service on 3-cent stamp.

1950 – US troops vacate Pyongyang North Korea.

1952 – Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Adlai Stevenson.

1954 – Philadelphia A’s move to Kansas City.

1963 – John Lennon utters his infamous line at a Royal Variety Performance “Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?  And for the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry…” in London.

1968 – “Wichita Lineman” 12th album by Glen Campbell is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1969)

1976 – 1st mass-market free agent reentry draft in baseball, Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi, Gullett, Tenace, Fingers, Baylor, Grich & McCovey, available.

1980 – Republican candidate Ronald Reagan is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent Democrat US President Jimmy Carter by a landslide.

1990 – “Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story” opens at Shubert NYC for 225 performances.

1994 – San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.

2001 – American tennis star Serena Williams wins the WTA Tour Championship in Munich, Germany after Lindsey Davenport defaults the final due to a knee injury; Williams’ first season-ending title.

2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate John McCain.

2014 – The US votes in mid-term elections; Republicans retain the House & regain the Senate.

2019 – Largest mass commutation in US history when 462 non-violent inmates freed from Oklahoma prisons as part of state prison reforms.

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