1531 Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000
1797 Bank of England issues 1st £1-note
1848 Marx & Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto"
1848 2nd French Republic forms
1863 Lincoln signs National Currency Act
1870 1st NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered)
1887 George Lohmann took 1st 8-wicket haul in Test Crickets, 8-35 at SCG
1907 Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
1907 US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500
1915 Malancourt, Argonnen - 1st (German) flame-thrower
1916 Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract
1918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604
1919 Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
1923 Italian nationalist & fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts)
1924 Trial against Hitler in Munich begins
1925 Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government
1935 New York Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves
1936 Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"
1941 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California)
1946 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia TN
1955 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed - G F Smith
1962 US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
1970 Beatles release "Hey Jude"
1975 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)
1979 Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US
1981 Boston & Minnesota play most penalty-filled NHL game-406 minute total
1983 Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks
1984 Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown"
1987 1st release of Beatles compact discs
1987 NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points is a Chicago Bull record
1989 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs
1989 Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa)
1993 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die
1998 Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial
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