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  • Uploaded by: Photo of mikdbow mikdbow
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  • Date uploaded: Thu Jun 21 03:37:36 PDT 2007

On this day... 1498 Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian 1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown 1633 Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views 1684 MA Bay Colony's charter revoked 1768 1st US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer) 1788 US Constitution goes into effect as NH is 9th to ratify 1792 Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil & Mexicana off Vancouver, BC 1805 Great Stoneface Mt found in NH 1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC) 1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine 1858 Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe 1869 The opera "Die Meistersinger" is produced (Munich) 1879 F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately) 1887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria 1893 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition) 1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company 1900 Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers 1903 Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of The Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG) 1904 Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913) 1906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #601 Nerthus 1913 Tiny Broadwick becomes 1st woman to parachute from an airplane 1916 Boston Rube Forster no-hits NY Yankees, 2-0 1917 Hawaiian Red Cross founded 1919 Germans scuttle their own fleet 1923 Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using the mail to defraud 1930 Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7 1933 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans 1938 Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit 1939 Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 1942 129ø F (54ø C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record) 1942 Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa 1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead 1945 Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to US during WW II 1946 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas 1948 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I 1948 Dr Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrates "long playing record" Columbia commits to 33 1/3 rpm records, plans to phase out 78's 1949 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #1886 Lowell 1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m 1963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII 1964 Phillies Jim Bunning pitches perfect game (Mets) on Fathers day, in 2nd game of DH, Mets get 3 hits, 3 being fewest hits in NL DH 3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney-disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail 1967 Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th & lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th & Yanks beat them 6-3 1968 Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns 1969 1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace) 1969 Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525" 1970 Brazil wins last Jules Rimet Trophy, soccer championship 1971 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisana 1975 Soyuz 19 returns to Earth 1977 Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison 1977 Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM 1981 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000 1982 Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away" 1982 Wash DC jury finds John Hinckley Jr innocent by insanity 1985 American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele 1986 Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record) 1986 Pres Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments 1987 Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB 1987 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendent 1988 Los Angeles beats Detroit, for the NBA championship 1989 Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium 1989 Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson remarry 1989 Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression 1990 25,000 die in Iranian Earthquake 1990 Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame 1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham 1990 US House of Reps vote 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a NY Yankee baseball cap & proclaims "I am a Yankee!" 1991 Eleanor Mondale marries Greg "Thunder" Malban (Minn DJ) 1991 Islanders Denis Potvan & Michael Bossy inducted into NHL Hall of Fame

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