1683 – 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown, Pa (Philadelphia).
1783 – Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock.
1863 – Dr. Charles H. Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn.
1866 – 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000).
1889 – Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture.
1893 – Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat.
1911 – Cy Young’s farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game.
1921 – Century Theater opens at 7th Avenue & 59th Street, NYC (demolished 1962).
1935 – Market Street Railway, San Francisco, starts using trackless trolley coaches.
1945 – Tavern owner “Billy Goat” Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series & is escorted out, he cast goat curse on Cubs.
1956 – Dr. Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine.
1961 – JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters.
1965 – Supremes release “I Hear a Symphony”.
1966 – Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout.
1976 – US President Gerald Ford says there is “no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe”.
1979 – Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House in Washington, DC.
1983 – NFL NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands.
1990 – US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit.
1996 – Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate.
2010 – Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launch Instagram.
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