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On this day...
230 . St Pontianus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1588 English fleet defeats Spanish armada
1831 Belgium gains independence from Netherland, Leopold I made king
1836 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie & St John, Qu‚bec
1846 Mormons found 1st English settlement in Calif (San Joaquin Valley)
1861 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins
1867 City Gardens on Folsom opens
1873 Jesse James, 1st train robbery
1880 Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY
1896 Natl Fed of Afro-American Women & Colored Women's League merge to form Natl Assoc. of Colored Woman
1898 Spain cedes Guam to US
1904 Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH
1919 Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)
1921 Indians (9) & Yankees (7) hit a record 16 doubles
1930 US Veterans Administration established
1931 Reno race track, becomes 1st in US to use daily double wagering
1934 113ø F (45ø C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)
1945 Detroit Tigers & Phila A's play 24 inning 1-1 tie
1949 Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13
1954 At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam
1955 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf
1957 1st black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson)
1959 1st atomic powered merchant ship, Savannah, christened, Camden NJ
1960 The country of Katanga forms in Africa - Wow
1969 Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
1972 In New York, 57 murders occur in 24 hours
1973 Hank Aaron becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 700 HRs
1975 Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager
1975 SCBuck and Tibs were born
1975 NY Met Felix Milan hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays
1976 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Phila
1978 World's strongest dog, 80-kg St Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m
1983 US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge
1984 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US
1984 Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
1988 ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian)
1990 Goodwill Games opens in Seattle Wash
1990 Pink Floyds' "The Wall" is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood
On this day...
230 . St Pontianus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1588 English fleet defeats Spanish armada
1831 Belgium gains independence from Netherland, Leopold I made king
1836 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie & St John, Qu‚bec
1846 Mormons found 1st English settlement in Calif (San Joaquin Valley)
1861 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins
1867 City Gardens on Folsom opens
1873 Jesse James, 1st train robbery
1880 Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY
1896 Natl Fed of Afro-American Women & Colored Women's League merge to form Natl Assoc. of Colored Woman
1898 Spain cedes Guam to US
1904 Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH
1919 Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)
1921 Indians (9) & Yankees (7) hit a record 16 doubles
1930 US Veterans Administration established
1931 Reno race track, becomes 1st in US to use daily double wagering
1934 113ø F (45ø C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)
1945 Detroit Tigers & Phila A's play 24 inning 1-1 tie
1949 Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13
1954 At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam
1955 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf
1957 1st black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson)
1959 1st atomic powered merchant ship, Savannah, christened, Camden NJ
1960 The country of Katanga forms in Africa - Wow
1969 Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
1972 In New York, 57 murders occur in 24 hours
1973 Hank Aaron becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 700 HRs
1975 Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager
1975 SCBuck and Tibs were born
1975 NY Met Felix Milan hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays
1976 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Phila
1978 World's strongest dog, 80-kg St Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m
1983 US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge
1984 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US
1984 Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
1988 ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian)
1990 Goodwill Games opens in Seattle Wash
1990 Pink Floyds' "The Wall" is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood
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