1642—Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement.
1780—British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold’s plot to betray West Point.
1806—Lewis & Clark return to St. Louis from Pacific Northwest.
1845—1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code.
1862—Lincoln’s Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers.
1879—Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone.
1912—1st Mack Sennett “Keystone Comedy” movie released.
1925—George Kaufman’s “Butter & Egg Man” premieres in NYC.
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—Indian owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 baseball pennant.
1949—US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR’s 1st nuclear device detonation.
1952—Richard Nixon makes his “Checker’s” speech.
1957—“That’ll Be The Day” by Buddy Holly & Crickets reaches #1.
1962—ABC’s 1st color TV series—The Jetsons.
1964—“Fiddler on the Roof” with Zero Mostel premieres in NYC.
1969—“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” directed by George Roy Hill and starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford premieres.
1979—Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC.
1986—US Congress selects the rose as US national flower.
1998—32nd Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood & George Strait win.
2002—The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) is released.
2012—Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer.
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