1642 – Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement.
1806 – Lewis & Clark return to St. Louis from Pacific Northwest.
1845 – 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code.
1879 – Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone.
1897 – 1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming)
1912 – 1st Mack Sennett “Keystone Comedy” movie released “Cohen Collects a Debt”
1926 – Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title.
1938 – Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World’s Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman’s hat, man’s pipe & 1,100′ of microfilm.
1949 – US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR’s 1st nuclear device detonation.
1952 – Richard Nixon makes his “Checker’s” speech.
1952 – “Kaw-Liga” single recorded by Hank Williams.
1961 – 1st movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire.
1969 – “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” directed by George Roy Hill and starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford premieres.
1976 – US televised presidential debate between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
1984 – San Francisco 49er Joe Montana misses his first start in 49 games.
1992 – Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander’s department stores in NYC.
2001 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1) is released.
2012 – Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine.
2012 – 64th Emmy Awards: “Homeland”, “Modern Family”, Damian Lewis & Claire Danes win.
2012 – Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer.
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