1561 – King Philip II of Spain forbids Spanish settlements in Florida.
1642 – Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement.
1806 – Lewis & Clark return to St. Louis from Pacific Northwest.
1862 – Lincoln’s Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers.
1884 – American Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine, the beginning of data processing.
1897 – 1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyenne, Wyoming)
1912 – 1st Mack Sennett “Keystone Comedy” movie released.
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 – Cleveland Indian owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant.
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 – 1st broadcast of “Marcus Welby MD” on ABC-TV.
1984 – Sparky Anderson is 1st baseball manager to win 100 games in both leagues.
1986 – 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 – Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine.
2012 – Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer.
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