11/07/2024
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This Day In History archive

1908 – New York Giants baseball team sets season attendance record at 910,000. It was broken in 1920.

1918 – American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks German gun nest, killing at least 25 and capturing 132 Germans.

1927 – “The Second Hundred Years” silent short film released starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. It’s the first Laurel and Hardy film with them appearing as a team.

1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for the murder of Charles Lindbergh’s son.

1942 – Comedy duo Bud Abbott and Lou Costello launched their weekly radio show.

1944 – “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” debut on CBS radio.

1945 – Microwave oven patented by inventor Percy Spencer.

1953 – Birmingham, Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson’s Negro-White All-Stars from playing there. Robinson gives in and drops white players from his group.

1955 – World’s most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga, launched.

1957 – Brooklyn Dodgers announce a move to Los Angeles.

1962 – North Korea reports 100% election turnout, miraculously 100% vote for the Workers’ Party.

1966 – Wyoming’s Jerry DePoyster kicks three field goals over 50 yards (54, 54, 52)

1971 – Apple Records releases John Lennon’s second solo studio album, “Imagine,” in the United Kingdom. It tops the charts in the United States, UK, Australia, and three other countries.

1977 – Largest baseball crowd in Pennsylvania, 64,924 see the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 in the fourth National League championship game. Dodgers win the pennant.

1981 – President Ronald Reagan greets predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat’s funeral.

1995 – Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino breaks Fran Tarkenton’s NFL career completions record.

1998 – House of Representatives votes to begin impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton on charges of lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

2001 – President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.

2017 – Wildfires ignite in Northern California wine country, killing at least 41 people over the next week with 20,000 people evacuated.

2020 – FBI charges 13 men with plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and storm the Michigan Capital.

2023 – Israel formally declares war on Hamas as the death toll reaches about 1,100 on both sides and Israel increases airstrikes on Gaza.

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