181801. |
Name The Year: Severe earthquake at 7:53 a.m., centered in Hayward, Calif.
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181802. |
Name The Year: Thomas Edison commercially perfects the light bulb.
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181803. |
Name The Year: Sir Georg Solti, conductor, born.
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181804. |
Name The Year: Martin Gardner, Scientific American math and puzzles columnist, born.
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181805. |
Name The Year: Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz, born.
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181806. |
Name The Year: Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min.
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181807. |
Name The Year: Deutsches Museum, Munich, first Walther Bauersfeld's Zeiss Planetarium.
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181808. |
Name The Year: Manfred Mann, musician, born.
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181809. |
Name The Year: US troops captured Aachen, first large German city to fall (WW II).
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181810. |
Name The Year: Women in France allowed to vote for the first time.
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181811. |
Name The Year: Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated, Washington DC.
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181812. |
Name The Year: Carrie Fisher (in Beverly Hills), actor (Star Wars, Blues Brothers), born.
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181813. |
Name The Year: Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York.
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181814. |
Name The Year: JFK and Nixon clashed in 4th and final pres debate.
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181815. |
Name The Year: Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astrophysicist dies at 94.
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1 |
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181816. |
Name The Year: Thousands opposing Vietnam War tried to storm the Pentagon.
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181817. |
Name The Year: Venera 9, first craft to orbit the planet Venus launched.
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1 |
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181818. |
Name The Year: US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa.
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181819. |
Name The Year: Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2 h 8 m 5 s.
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1 |
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181820. |
Name The Year: B.C. Universe created at 8:00 PM, according to the 1650 pronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Usher.
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1 |
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181821. |
Name The Year: Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute jump from a balloon (Paris, France).
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1 |
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181822. |
Name The Year: Franz Liszt (in Hungary), Romantic composer, virtuoso pianist, born.
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1 |
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181823. |
Name The Year: John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions, born.
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1 |
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181824. |
Name The Year: Timothy Leary, psychologist, drug testing advocate, born.
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1 |
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181825. |
Name The Year: Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd shot dead by FBI in Ohio.
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1 |
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181826. |
Name The Year: Christopher Lloyd, actor (Taxi, Star Trek III, Back to the Future, Addams Family), born.
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1 |
1 |
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181827. |
Name The Year: Annette Funichello (in Utica, NY), mouseketeer, actor, born.
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1 |
1 |
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181828. |
Name The Year: Catherine Deneuve (in Paris, France), (Repulsion), born.
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1 |
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181829. |
Name The Year: Jeff Goldblum, actor (The Fly, Silverado, Buckaroo Bonzai, ID4), born.
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1 |
1 |
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181830. |
Name The Year: Laos gains full independence from France.
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1 |
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181831. |
Name The Year: West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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1 |
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181832. |
Name The Year: JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis.
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1 |
1 |
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181833. |
Name The Year: Apollo 7 returns to Earth.
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1 |
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181834. |
Name The Year: Security Council Resol 338 - a cease fire to the Yom Kippur War.
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1 |
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181835. |
Name The Year: Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 lands on Venus.
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1 |
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181836. |
Name The Year: Deposed Shah of Iran arrived in NY for medical treatment.
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1 |
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181837. |
Name The Year: Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest.
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1 |
100 |
181838. |
Name The Year: Nicolas Appert, inventor of food canning, bouillon tablet, born.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
181839. |
Name The Year: Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed).
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1 |
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181840. |
Name The Year: Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England (The Testament of Beauty), born.
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1 |
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181841. |
Name The Year: Felix Bloch, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1952), born.
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1 |
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181842. |
Name The Year: Karl Jansky, discoverer of cosmic radio emissions in 1932, born.
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1 |
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181843. |
Name The Year: 25,000 women marched in NYC, demanding the right to vote.
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1 |
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181844. |
Name The Year: Johnny Carson, pundit (Tonight Show), born.
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1 |
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181845. |
Name The Year: Edison Pele, soccer player extraordinaire, born.
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1 |
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181846. |
Name The Year: Walt Disney's "Dumbo" is released.
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1 |
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181847. |
Name The Year: Michael Crichton, author (Andromeda Strain, Jurrasic Park, Rising Sun), born.
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1 |
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181848. |
Name The Year: During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt.
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181849. |
Name The Year: United Nations General Assembly convenes in New York for first time in Flushing Meadow.
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1 |
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181850. |
Name The Year: First video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast.
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1 |
1 |
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181851. |
Name The Year: The ill-fated revolt in Communist Hungary starts -- The Prague Spring. It was later crushed by Soviet tanks.
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1 |
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181852. |
Name The Year: Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature.
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1 |
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181853. |
Name The Year: President Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings.
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1 |
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181854. |
Name The Year: By 2/3 majority, Panamanians vote to approve the new Canal treaties.
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181855. |
Name The Year: Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness.
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181856. |
Name The Year: 241 US Marines and sailors die in a terrorist suicide attack on their barracks in Beriut.
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181857. |
Name The Year: 33 years after Soviet tanks crushed the Prague Spring, Hungary declares itself a republic.
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181858. |
Name The Year: Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, dies.
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181859. |
Name The Year: Third partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia.
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181860. |
Name The Year: The match is patented.
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1 |
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181861. |
Name The Year: William Lassell discovers Ariel and Umbriel, satellites of Unranus.
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181862. |
Name The Year: First transcontinental telegram sent.
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1 |
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181863. |
Name The Year: Anna Taylor, first to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live.
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1 |
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181864. |
Name The Year: Moss Hart, playwright, born.
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1 |
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181865. |
Name The Year: "Black Thursday", the beginning of the stock market crash.
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1 |
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181866. |
Name The Year: F. Murray Abraham, actor (Amadeus, Name of the Rose), born.
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1 |
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181867. |
Name The Year: United Nations Charter goes into effect.
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181868. |
Name The Year: Kevin Kline, actor, born.
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181869. |
Name The Year: Disaster on USSR launch pad killed missle expert Nedelin and team (unconfirmed); USSR claims he was killed in plane crash.
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181870. |
Name The Year: Zambia (N. Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day).
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181871. |
Name The Year: Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile.
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181872. |
Name The Year: Yom Kippur War ends - Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus.
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181873. |
Name The Year: The first Jewish film and TV festival.
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1 |
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181874. |
Name The Year: Author Geoffrey Chaucer dies in London.
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181875. |
Name The Year: Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight.
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181876. |
Name The Year: Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn.
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1 |
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181877. |
Name The Year: George III ascends the British throne.
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181878. |
Name The Year: Johann Strauss the Younger, composer, Waltz King
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1 |
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181879. |
Name The Year: Georges Bizet, composer
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1 |
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181880. |
Name The Year: Henry Norris Russell, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
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181881. |
Name The Year: Pablo Picasso, doodler (Guernica) (or 10-05)
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1 |
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181882. |
Name The Year: Eduardo Barrios, Chilean novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy)
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1 |
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181883. |
Name The Year: Richard E. Byrd, polar explorer
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1 |
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181884. |
Name The Year: Marion Ross (in Minnesota), actor (Played Mrs. Cunningham in Happy Days)
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181885. |
Name The Year: Russell L. (Rusty) Schweickart, astronaut (Apollo 9)
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1 |
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181886. |
Name The Year: Nylon stockings go on sale in the U.S. for the first time.
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1 |
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181887. |
Name The Year: Helen Reddy (in Melbourne, Australia), singer (I am Woman)
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1 |
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181888. |
Name The Year: First electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NY city.
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181889. |
Name The Year: UN General Assembly admits Mainland China and expels Taiwan.
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181890. |
Name The Year: USSR Venera 10 made day Venus landing.
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181891. |
Name The Year: US invades Grenada, a country with 1/2000 its population.
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181892. |
Name The Year: King Alfred the Great, dies.
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181893. |
Name The Year: Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva.
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181894. |
Name The Year: Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer.
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181895. |
Name The Year: Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet), born.
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181896. |
Name The Year: Prince Ito of Japan is assassinated by a Korean.
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181897. |
Name The Year: Felix the Cat, cartoon character, born.
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181898. |
Name The Year: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Aryamehr, Shah of Iran (1941-79), born.
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181899. |
Name The Year: Bob Hoskins, Suffolk, England, actor (Brazil, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?), born.
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181900. |
Name The Year: Jaclyn Smith, actress (Charlie's Angel, Nightkill), born.
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