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#: (C) Copyright 1990-1991 The Software Construction Co., All Rights Reserved.
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#: Monthly stuff
6:National Accordion Awareness Month.
#: Events depending on weekdays
R(6/21):Viola Gopher Count (3rd Thursday).
#: Normal events
6/1/1869 :Voting machine patented (Thomas A. Edison).
6/2/1835 :P.T. Barnum's circus began 1st US tour.
6/3/1888 :"Casey at the Bat" 1st appeared in print (SF Examiner).
6/4 :Old Maid's Day (never married women > 35).
6/5/1933 :Gold standard abolished.
6/6/1933 :First drive-in movie theater opened (Camden, NJ).
6/7/1924 :Batman's parents killed.
6/8/1786 :Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr. Hall, NYC).
6/9/1934 :Donald Duck made his 1st screen appearance ("The Wise Little
:Hen").
6/10/1652 :1st mint in America (Boston).
6/11/1816 :The Gas Light Co. of Baltimore founded.
6/12/1981 :Major league baseball strike began.
6/13/1947 :1st night game in Fenway Park (Red Sox 5 White Sox 3).
6/14/1834 :Sandpaper patented (I. Fisccher, Jr.).
6/15/1878 :Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland
:Stanford that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground
:during the gallop.
6/16 :National Juggling Day.
6/17/1953 :Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox).
6/18/1898 :First amusement pier opened in Atlantic City, NJ.
6/19/1893 :Lizzie Bordon acquitted.
6/20/1909 :First balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham and Eleanor Waring).
6/21/1948 :33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced (Columbia Records).
6/22/1832 :Pin manufacturing machine patented (J.I. Howe).
6/23/1980 :First solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation.
6/24 :Middle Children's Day.
6/25/1876 :Little Big Horn (Custer's Last Stand) (209 killed).
6/26/1498 :Toothbrush invented.
6/27/1980 :First female state police graduates (NJ).
6/28/1762 :1st reported counterfeiting attempt (Boston).
6/29/1978 :Bob Crane, actor ("Hogan's Heroes"), murdered.
6/30/1985 :James Dewar, inventor of the Twinkie, died.