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1054 - Brightest known super-nova starts shining for 23 days |
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1057 - Crab Nebula supernova recorded by Chinese & Japanese astronomers. |
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1776 - Declaration of Independence -- US gains independence from Britain. |
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1802 - US Milt Academy officially opened at West Point NY |
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1819 - William Herschel makes last telescopic observation comet of 1819. |
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1826 - 2nd & 3rd presidents-John Adams & Thomas Jefferson die |
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1828 - 1st US passenger railroad was begun Baltimore & Ohio |
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1831 - James Monroe the fifth president died |
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1845 - Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond |
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1862 - Lewis Carroll began inventing the story of Alice in Wonderland for his friend Alice Pleasance Liddell during a boating trip |
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1863 - Boise Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho) |
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1873 - Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens |
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1876 - 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF |
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1882 - Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF. |
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1884 - Statue of Liberty was presented to US in Paris |
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1889 - Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting. |
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1894 - Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the 1st US autos |
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1894 - Republic of Hawaii established. |
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1900 - Aphelion Passage |
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1903 - Pacific Cable (SF Hawaii Guam Phil) opens FDR sends message |
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1933 - Work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge |
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1939 - Yankees retire 1st uniform #4 Lou Gehrig 1st Old Timers Day |
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1942 - 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW2) |
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1946 - Philippines gains independence from US |
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1959 - America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled |
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1960 - Mickey Mantle hits career homer # 300 |
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1960 - America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled |
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1965 - Mariner 4 flies past Mars sends 1st close-up photos. |
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1966 - LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act |
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1967 - Freedom of Information Act goes into effect |
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1976 - Raid on Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers |
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1982 - Fourth Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 returns to Earth |
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1982 - Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe for championship at Wimbeldon |
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1983 - Yankee Dave Righetti no hits the Red Sox |
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1984 - Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m. |
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1985 - Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins |
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1987 - Martina Navaratalova wins her 6th straight Wimbeldon |