Imagine..we have only had lighting for a few years in the scheme of things. 1848 Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polks administration) 1851 1st Young Mens Christian Association chapter opened (Boston) 1852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants 1862 Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General Sherman 1862 Bowling ball invented 1864 Fire Department celebrates 1st annual ball 1867 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Company, New York 1876 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula OH, 92 die 1876 Frédéric A Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty sculptor) weds Jeanne-Emilie 1890 US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee SD; Indian war in the west - Saddest thing ever! 1891 Edison patents transmission of signals electrically (radio) 1895 Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg 1899 English fleet brings German postschip Bundesrath up 1900 General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia 1903 French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad & Ubangi-Shari 1906 Montréal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (Nova Scotia) for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1906) 1908 Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville WI 1911 San Francisco Symphony is formed 1929 Police arrest Sukarno & 100s PNI-leaders 1930 Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam MN, to New Orleans LA 1931 Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey - ohoh..know what that means!! 1933 Yankees refuse to release Babe Ruth so he can manage the Cincinnati Reds 1934 Japan renounces Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 & London Treaty of 1930 1937 Pan Am starts San Francisco CA-to-Auckland, New Zealand service 1937 Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire) 1938 Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle WA, begins 1940 Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WWII) 1944 Belgian Nazi Léon Degrelle at default to the death sentenced 1944 General Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles 1947 Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine 1948 US State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit 1948 Canada recognizes Israel 1954 Kingdom of the Netherlands, with Netherlands & Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being 1955 Barbra Streisands 1st recording, Youll Never Know at age 13 1957 Singers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé wed in Las Vegas 1962 Doug Walters makes 1st-class debut for New South Wales 17 years 8 days 1965 Supremes release My World is Empty Without You 1965 Thunderball premieres in US 1966 Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester MA) 1967 Star Treks The Trouble With Tribbles 1st airs 1967 Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus 1968 Baltimore Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game 1968 New York Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game 1968 Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes 1969 New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball & challenge the reserve clause 1972 Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101 1972 Life magazine ceases publication 1982 Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica 1982 Coach Paul Bear Bryant ends his career with Alabama (323 wins) 1983 Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236 vs West Indies 1984 Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parliamentary elections 1984 5th United Negro College Fund 1989 Wayne Gretzky & Martina Navratilova are named athletes of the decade by the Associated Press 1989 Jane Pauley says goodbye to NBCs Today show 1991 Christmas Carol closes at Eugene ONeill Theater NYC after 14 performances 1991 12th United Negro College Fund 1994 Billionaire J Paul Getty Jr marries Victoria Holdsworth on Barbados
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