1819—Thomas Blanchard patents lathe.1839—Cherokee Nation forms.
1861—General Ulysses S. Grant occupies Paducah, Kentucky.
1876—Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed.
1899—Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk.
1901—US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, and anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York.
1909—Word received that Admiral Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier.
1916—1st true supermarket, the “Piggly Wiggly” is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee.
1920—Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title radio broadcast of a prizefight.
1939—World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
1943—Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in American League (16 y 8 ms) of the A’s.
1954—US plane shot down above Siberia.
1957—Elvis records “White Christmas”, “Silent Night” & “Here Comes Santa Claus”
1958—Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959.
1963—Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records.
1969—“Cabaret” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1165 performances.
1972—Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre.
1979—“Peter Pan” opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 578 performances.
1984—Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow.
1990—US citizen is shot in Kuwait: oil markets surge on aggressive U.S. statements toward Iraq.
2012—Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for US President.
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