E10011869 the first postcards are issued in Vienna, Austria.
E10011885 special delivery mail service begins in the US.
E10011896 Yosemite becomes a National Park.
E10011903 the first World Series starts between Pittsburgh and Boston.
E10011908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car at a cost of $825.
E10011918 T. E. Lawrence leads the Arabs into Damascus.
E10011928 Joseph Stalin announces Russia's first Five Year Plan.
E10011932 Babe Ruth "calls" a home run in the World Series.
E10011940 the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the first toll thruway, opens.
E10011955 "The Honeymooners" premieres on CBS-TV.
E10011961 Roger Maris hits his 61st home run, a major league record.
E10011961 CBS-TV adds "Mr. Ed" to its broadcast schedule.
E10011962 Johnny Carson hosts his first Tonight Show.
E10011964 San Francisco's cable cars are declared a national landmark.
E10011971 John Lennon earns a gold record for "Imagine".
E10011971 Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, FL.
E10021608 Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch government a new invention, the telescope.
E10021780 British spy John Andre is hanged by the US.
E10021789 George Washington sends the Bill of Rights to the states for ratification.
E10021835 the first battle of the Texas Revolution takes place near the Guadalupe River.
E10021836 Charles Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle.
E10021950 the "Peanuts" comic strip, by Charles M. Schultz, premieres.
E10021955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres on CBS-TV.
E10021959 "The Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS-TV.
E10021961 "Ben Casey" premieres on ABC-TV.
E10031789 Washington proclaims the first national Thanksgiving Day on Nov. 26.
E10031863 Lincoln designates the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
E10031913 the Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%).
E10031922 Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes the first woman to be seated in the US Senate.
E10031941 "The Maltese Falcon" premieres in New York.
E10031951 Bobby Thompson hits a home run in the bottom of the ninth off of Ralph Branca in a 1-game playoff between the Giants and the Dodgers to win the game. ("The Giants win the pennant!! The Giants win the pennant!!").
E10031955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV.
E10031955 "The Mickey Mouse Club" premieres on ABC-TV.
E10031960 "The Andy Griffith Show" premieres on CBS-TV.
E10031961 "The Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV.
E10031974 Frank Robinson becomes the first black manager in major league baseball when he takes over the Cleveland Indians.
E10031990 After 45 years, East and West Germany are reunited.
E10041931 the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, by Chester Gould, premieres.
E10041957 "Leave It To Beaver" premieres on CBS-TV.
E10041957 the USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite, beginning the Space Age.
E10041959 "Mack the Knife", by Bobby Darin, hits #1.
E10041965 "Yesterday", by The Beatles, hits #1.
E10041980 "Another One Bites the Dust", by Queen, hits #1.
E10051921 Grantland Rice calls the action on the first radio broadcast of the World Series. (Yankees vs. Giants).
E10051931 Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon complete the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean (Japan to Washington in 41 hours).
E10051950 "You Bet Your Life" premieres on NBC-TV.
E10051969 "Monty Python's Flying Circus" premieres on the BBC.
E10051970 the Public Broadcasting System, (PBS), goes on the air.
E10051970 Led Zeppelin releases "Led Zeppelin III".
E10051987 "Star Trek: The Next Generation" premieres on TV.
E10051991 Martina Navratilova sets a record by winning career tennis match 1,310.
E10061863 the first Turkish bath opens in the US.
E10061884 the Naval War College is established in Newport, RI.
E10061889 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
E10061927 "The Jazz Singer", the first movie with a synchronized sound track, premieres.
E10061967 hippies celebrate the "Death of the Hippie" in San Francisco.
E10071571 the fleets of the Papacy, Venice and Spain crush the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto.
E10071765 the Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England.
E10071916 in the most lopsided college football game ever played, Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0.
E10071940 the Artie Shaw Orchestra records "Stardust".
E10071950 US forces invade North Korea by crossing the 38th parallel.
E10071960 John Kennedy and Richard Nixon hold their second presidential debate.
E10071982 Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats" premieres on Broadway.
E10071985 Palestinian terrorists hijack the "Achille Lauro" cruise ship.
E10071991 American hostage Jon Pattis is freed by Iran after more than five years of captivity.
E10081896 the Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks.
E10081934 Bruno Hauptmann is indicted on a murder charge in the death of the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh.
E10081944 "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" premieres on CBS radio.
E10081945 President Truman announces the secrets of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Canada and England.
E10081956 New York Yankee Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in World Series history, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0.
E10091000 Leif Ericsson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England).
E10091701 the Collegiate School of Connecticut, later Yale University, is chartered in New Haven.
E10091776 a group of Spanish missionaries settle in present-day San Francisco.
E10091855 Joshua Stoddard patents the calliope.
E10091919 Cincinnati wins the World Series over the White Sox. Later eight White Sox players are charged with throwing the Series in what became known as the "Black Sox" scandal.
E10091930 Laura Ingalls becomes the first woman to fly across the US.
E10091967 Che Guevara is executed for inciting revolution in Bolivia.
E10101886 the first dinner jacket is worn to the autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY., and becomes known as the `tuxedo'.
E10101911 the Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China.
E10101935 "Porgy and Bess" premieres in New York City.
E10101973 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice President because of tax evasion charges.
E10101980 the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network is dedicated.
E10111776 the first naval battle of Lake Champlain is fought.
E10111811 the first steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana, is put in operation by inventor John Stevens between New York City and Hoboken, NJ.
E10111890 the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is founded.
E10111962 Pope John XXIII convenes Vatican II.
E10111968 Apollo 7 is launched, the first manned Apollo mission, with Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham on board.
E10111975 "Saturday Night Live" premieres on NBC-TV.
E10121492 Christopher Columbus and crew sight land in the present-day Bahamas.
E10121950 "The Burns and Allen Show" premieres on CBS-TV.
E10121957 Little Richard publicly renounces rock and roll during a tour of Australia and turns to Christianity. (He returns to rock and roll five years later).
E10121960 Nikita Khrushchev disrupts the UN General Assembly when he pounds on his desk with his shoe.
E10121964 "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" by Manfred Mann hits #1.
E10121973 Richard Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to succeed Spiro Agnew as vice president.
E10131792 George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Executive Mansion.
E10131843 the B'nai B'rith organization is founded in New York.
E10131845 Texas ratifies a state constitution.
E10131903 the Boston Pilgrims win the first World Series, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates.
E10131943 Italy declares war on Germany in World War II.
E10131947 the NHL plays its first All-Star game, (All-Stars 4, Toronto 3).
E10141066 the Battle of Hastings; William the Conqueror wins England.
E10141774 the first declaration of colonial rights in America.
E10141933 Nazi Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
E10141947 the first supersonic flight (Mach 1.015 at 42,000 feet).
E10141960 John Kennedy first proposes the idea of the Peace Corps.
E10141964 Martin Luther King wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
E10141972 "Kung Fu" premieres on ABC-TV.
E10151582 the Gregorian calendar replaces the Julian calendar and the world loses ten days as a result.
E10151815 Napoleon Banaparte is put ashore on St. Elba Island.
E10151860 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to President Lincoln, telling him to grow a beard.
E10151937 "To Have and Have Not", by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
E10151939 LaGuardia Airport opens in New York City.
E10151951 "I Love Lucy" premieres on CBS-TV.
E10151955 Buddy Holly opens a show for Elvis Presley in Lubbock, TX.
E10151959 "The Untouchables" premieres on ABC-TV.
E10151964 the USSR announces Nikita Krushchev has been removed from power.
E10151968 Led Zeppelin gives their first concert at Surrey University, Eng.
E10151969 the Moritorium against the war in Vietnam is held.
E10151973 "Angie", by the Rolling Stones, hits #1.
E10161859 John Brown attacks the armory at Harper's Ferry.
E10161869 a hotel in Boston becomes the first to have indoor plumbing.
E10161916 Margaret Sanger opens the first public birth control clinic in Brooklyn, NY.
E10161943 Chicago's subway system opens.
E10161962 at 11:45 AM President John F. Kennedy is informed of the presence of missiles in Cuba by the CIA.
E10161964 China detonates its first atomic bomb.
E10161970 Anwar Sadat is elected president of Egypt.
E10161991 George Hennard drives his truck through a Luby's cafeteria window in Killeen, TX., then kills 23 people, and himself, in the deadliest shooting murders in US history.
E10171492 Columbus sights the island of San Salvador and notices the natives sleep in "hammocks".
E10171777 the British are defeated in the Battle of Saratoga.
E10171781 Cornwallis is defeated at Yorktown.
E10171919 the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is formed.
E10171931 Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
E10171933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
E10171939 "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" by Frank Capra premieres in Washington, DC.
E10171957 Albert Camus wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
E10171991 Paul Coffey sets a NHL record for defensemen, scoring his 1,053rd point.
E10181767 the Mason-Dixon line becomes the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania.
E10181869 the United States take possession of Alaska from Russia.
E10181873 the Ivy League establishes rules for college football.
E10181892 the first commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago to New York).
E10181922 the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is founded.
E10181969 the Beatles release their final recorded album, "Abbey Road".
E10190439 King Gaiseric amd the Vandals sack Carthage.
E10191781 British General Cornwallis surrenders at 2PM, ending the Revolutionary War.
E10191812 Napoleon begins the French retreat from Moscow.
E10191813 the Allied powers defeat Napoleon and the French at the battle of Leipzig.
E10191951 President Harry S. Truman signs an act formally ending the war with Germany.
E10191953 singer Julius LaRosa is fired on the air by Arthur Godfrey from the "Arthur Godfrey Time" show.
E10201600 Battle of Sekigahara, which establishes the Tokugawa clan as rulers of Japan until 1865 (the basis of Clavell's novel `Shogun').
E10201803 the US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
E10201820 Spain gives Florida to the United States.
E10201845 Richard Wagner's opera `Tannhauser' premieres.
E10201906 Dr. Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube.
E10201944 US forces land on Leyte Island in the Philippines.
E10211795 the USS Constitution, (Old Ironsides), is launched in Boston Harbor.
E10211805 Admiral Nelson is killed at the Battle of Trafalgar, where the British establish naval supremacy for the next century.
E10211879 Thomas Edison commercially perfects the light bulb.
E10211945 women are allowed to vote for the first time in France.
E10211959 New York's Guggenheim Museum opens to the public.
E10211960 Richard Nixon and John Kennedy have their fourth, and last, presidential debate.
E10211967 thousands of demonstrators opposed to the Vietnam War march on the Pentagon and attempt to levitate it.
E10211973 Fred Dryer of the Rams sets a NFL record when he records two safeties in a 24-7 victory over the Packers.
E10211986 American Edward Tracy is taken hostage in Lebanon.
E10211989 the University of Houston becomes the first team in major-college history to gain more than 1,000 yards of total offense in a game as Houston beats SMU 95-21.
E10221746 Princton University is chartered.
E10221797 the parachute is publically demonstrated for the first time, by Andre-Jacques Garnerin in Paris.
E10221836 Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
E10221934 gangster Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd is killed by federal agents in Ohio.
E10221962 the Cuban Missle Crisis begins.
E10221969 Led Zeppelin releases "Led Zeppelin II".
E10221981 the US National debt tops $1 trillion for he first time.
E10221991 American Jesse Turner is released in Lebanon after nearly five years of captivity.
E10231891 inventor Carl Elsener ships the first Swiss Army Knives to the Swiss Army.
E10231910 Blanche Scott becomes the first woman to make a solo, public airplane flight in Ft. Wayne, IN.
E10231915 25,000 women march in New York City, demanding the right to vote.
E10231942 the British launch an offensive against the Axis at El Alemein, Egypt.
E10231946 the UN General Assembly convenes for the first time in Flushing Meadow, NY.
E10231956 the Hungarian revolt starts, later crushed by the USSR.
E10231973 "Midnight Train to Georgia", by Gladys Knight and the Pips, hits #1.
E10231991 20 nations sign a peace treaty ending 20 years of civil war in Cambodia.
E10241648 the Treaty of Westphalia ends the 30 Years War, effectively destroying the Holy Roman Empire.
E10241861 California Justice Stephen Field transmits the first trans-continental telegraph message to President Abraham Lincoln.
E10241901 George Eastman forms the Eastman Kodak Company.
E10241901 Anna Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live to tell about it.
E10241931 the George Washington Bridge, connecting New York and New Jersey, opens to traffic.
E10241939 the Benny Goodman Orchestra records its signature theme, "Let's Dance".
E10241939 nylon stockings go on sale for the first time in Wilmington, DE.
E10241940 the 40-hour work week goes into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
E10241945 the United Nations Charter goes into effect.
E10250732 the Arabs are defeated by General Charles Martel and the Franks at Poitiers.
E10251415 the Battle of Agincourt, where the Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight for the first time in warfare.
E10251854 the Charge of the Light Brigade takes place during the Battle of Balaklava in the Crimean War. (600 Englishmen charge the the Russian army and suffer heavy losses.)
E10251983 the US invades the island of Grenada.
E10251991 John Campbell becomes the first harness racing driver to win more than $100 million in his career.
E10261774 the first Continental Congress adjournes in Philadelphia.
E10261825 the Erie Canal opens between the Hudson River and Lake Erie.
E10261861 telegraph service is inaugurated in the US causing the end of the Pony Express.
E10261881 the shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, AZ.
E10261949 President Truman signs a law raising the minimum wage from 50 to 75 cents per hour.
E10261956 the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEC) established.
E10261958 Pan Am flies its first Boeing 707 (New York to Paris in 8 hours, 41 minutes.)
E10261970 the comic/political strip "Doonesbury" premieres in 28 newspapers.
E10271787 the `Federalist' letters start appearing in New York newspapers.
E10271858 R.H. Macy & Co. opens their first store, in New York City.
E10271871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, is arrested after the `New York Times' exposed his corruption.
E10271904 New York opens the first section of it's subway system.
E10271938 DuPont coins a name for its new synthetic yarn: "nylon".
E10271954 "Disneyland" premieres on ABC-TV.
E10281492 Columbus discovers Cuba.
E10281636 Harvard University is founded.
E10281726 Lemuel Gulliver's "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World", or "Gulliver's Travels", is first published (actually written by Dr. Jonathan Swift).
E10281886 the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
E10281904 St. Louis Police try a new investigation method-fingerprints.
E10281919 the Volstead Act is passed by Congress, starting Prohibition.
E10281922 Benito Mussolini and the Fascists take control of the Italian government.
E10281962 USSR Premier Nikita Kruschev writes a letter to JFK saying the Russians will `dismantle and remove' the missiles in Cuba.
E10281965 the Gateway Arch (630 feet high) is completed in St. Louis, MO.
E10281965 Pope Paul VI issues a decree absolving Jews of collective guilt for the cruxifixation of Jesus Christ.
E10281985 John Walker and his son Michael plead guilty on charges of spying for the Soviet Union.
E10291682 William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, lands at what is now Chester, PA.
E10291787 Mozart conducts the first performance of "Don Giovanni" in Prague.
E10291833 the first college fraternity is founded.
E10291863 the International Committee of the Red Cross is founded.
E10291923 Turkey is proclaimed a republic.
E10291929 "Black Tuesday"; the Stock Market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression.
E10291956 "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet" is heard on NBC-TV for first time during the premiere of "The Huntley-Brinkley Report".
E10291973 Grand Funk Railroad releases "Walk Like a Man (You Can Call Me Your Man)".
E10291975 President Ford says he will veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.
E10291991 Pontiac produces its 30 millionth car.
E10301938 Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater panics the nation with their broadcast of "War of the Worlds."
E10301945 the US government announces the end of shoe rationing.
E10301962 the Cuban Missle Crisis ends.
E10301970 Jim Morrison is sentenced to six months in jail and a $500 fine for using profanity in public and indecent exposure during the 3/1/69 Miami, FL. concert by The Doors.
E10301974 Muhammed Ali regains the heavyweight title with an eighth round knockout of George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire.
E10311517 Martin Luther nails the "95 Theses" to the palace church door in Wittenberg marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
E10311864 Nevada becomes the 36th state.
E10311956 Brooklyn, NY, ends streetcar service.
E10311956 Rear Admiral G.J. Dufek becomes the first person to land an airplane at the South Pole.
E10311959 a former Marine from Ft. Worth announces in Moscow he will never return to the US. His name: Lee Harvey Oswald.
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D10011893 3rd worst hurricane in U.S. history kills 1,800. (Mississippi)
D10021942 'Queen Mary' slices cruiser 'Curacao' in half, killing 338.
D10021970 20-year-old chartered plane carrying Wichita State U. football team crashed into Colorado mountain killing 30 people.
D10021972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi killing all 105. Never officially reported in Soviet press.
D10021985 Rock Hudson, actor, dies at age 59.
D10031928 French sun 'Ondine' sank returning to Toulon drowning 42.
D10031955 Soviet battleship 'Novorossiisk' struck WW II mine in Baltic Sea, killing 1,500.
D10031991 William Shea, who brought baseball back to New York in 1962, dies at age 84.
D10041946 Gifford Pinchot, environmentalist, dies at age 71.
D10041964 3 cars of a commuter train filled with black workers derailed near township of Kwa Mashu, South Africa killing 81.
D10041970 Janis Joplin, singer, is found dead at age 27.
D10051813 Tecumseh, Indian leader, dies during the Battle of the Thames during the War of 1812.
D10051864 Cyclone in Bay of Bengal forces sea-waves up Hooghly River basin, destroying much of Calcutta, drowning 50,000 to 70,000.
D10051892 the Dalton Gang is almost wiped out trying to rob two banks in Coffeyville, KS.
D10061972 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derailed, killing 208 and injuring 1,200 south of Saltillo, Mexico.
D10061981 Anwar Sadat, Egyptian politician, dies at age 62.
D10061991 Leonard Odell, inventor of the Burma Shave signs, dies at age 83.
D10071737 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000. (Bengal,Ind
D10071849 Edgar Allen Poe, author, dies at age 40.
D10071871 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters.
