1520s
1770s
1790s
1830s
1860s
1870s
- 1870: CONSTRUCTION BEGAN ON THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE IN N.Y.C.
- 1876: FIRST FREE KINDERGARTEN OPENED, FLORENCE, MASSACHUSETTS
1890s
1900s
1920s
- 1920: BOSTON RED SOX OWNER HARRY FRAZEE SOLD BABE RUTH TO THE NEW YORK YANKEES FOR $125,000 AND A $350,000 LOAN. THE LOAN WAS TO FINANCE FRAZEE’S BROADWAY PRODUCTION OF THE MUSICAL NO, NO, NANETTE
- 1925: BENITO MUSSOLINI PROCLAIMED A FASCIST DICTATORSHIP IN ITALY
- BORN 1926: JOAN WALSH ANGLUND (ILLUSTRATOR)
1930s
1940s
- BORN 1945: STEPHEN STILLS (MUSICIAN)
- BORN 1946: JOHN PAUL JONES (MUSICIAN)
- 1946: BRITISH BROADCASTER OF PROPAGANDA FROM NAZI GERMANY DURING WW II, WILLIAM JOYCE (NICKNAMED LORD HAW-HAW), WAS HANGED IN GREAT BRITAIN FOR TREASON
1950s
- 1952: DRAGNET MADE ITS TELEVISION DEBUT
- BORN 1956: MEL GIBSON (ACTOR)
- 1958: MEMBERS OF THE NEWLY CREATED U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISION TOOK OFFICE
- 1959: PRESIDENT EISENHOWER SIGNED PROCLAMATION MAKING ALASKA THE 49TH STATE
1960s
- 1960: MOSCOW STATE SYMPHONY FIRST SOVIET ORCHESTRA TO PLAY IN THE UNITED STATES (IN N.Y.C.).
- 1961: THE U.S. BROKE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH CUBA
- 1962: THE VATICAN EXCOMMUNICATED CUBAN PREMIER, FIDEL CASTRO, FROM THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
- DIED 1967: JACK RUBY (CONVICTED KILLER OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD)
1970s
1980s
- BORN 1981: ELI MANNING (FOOTBALL PLAYER)
- 1983: TIMES BEACH, MISSOURI, DECLARED A FEDERAL DISASTER AREA AFTER FALL FLOODS SPREAD DANGEROUS AMOUNTS OF THE TOXIC CHEMICAL DIOXIN
- 1985: SOPRANO LEONTYNE PRICE MADE HER FAREWELL APPEARANCE AT NEW YORK’S METROPOLITAN OPERA
1990s
2000s
- DIED 2002: ALFRED HENRY “FREDDY” HEINEKEN (DUTCHMAN WHO HELPED MAKE HIS NAMESAKE BEER ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR)
- 2004: SPIRIT ROVER LANDED ON MARS
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