1875—Palace Hotel on Market Street, San Francisco opens.
1892—Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup.
1905—Orville/Wilbur Wright’s “Flyer III” flight 38.5 km in 38.3″
1912—Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium.
1921—Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie World Series game.
1924—1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News.
1945—“Meet the Press” premieres on radio.
1947—1st Presidential address televised from White House–Harry Truman.
1953—Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of US.
1954—Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US.
1956—“The Ten Commandments”, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner opens in the US.
1960—Eastern Al Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
1962—Beatles release their 1st record “Love Me Do”
1963—Little Richard joins Everly Brothers Tour.
1969—Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal.
1970—PBS becomes a US television network.
1980—Yanks set AL attendance mark at 2,627,417.
1991—The first official version of the Linux Kernel, version 0.02, is released.
1992—US Air goes on strike.
2001—Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2005—Vampire novel “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer is first published by Little Brown.
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