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las Fumas, (Valley of Smokes) 1786 • -5] Orange troops plunder Hattem/Elburg 1805 • 1st edition of Batavian State-Current published 1807 • Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat 1813 • 1st US relig newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer)) 1833 • 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun) 1842 • Work on K”ln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus 1854 • English/French assault on Petropavlovsk Kamchatka 1862 • Gen Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops 1864 • Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama 1866 • 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published 1870 • 3rd French republic proclaimed as they overthrow their king 1882 • 1st district lit by electricity (NYs Pearl Street Station) 1885 • 1st cafeteria opens (NYC) 1886 • Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war 1888 • George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera and registers Kodak 1893 • English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit 1894 • Soccer team Veendam 1894 forms 1899 • 8.3 earthquake shakes Yakutat Bay Alaska 1904 • Dali Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet 1906 • NY Highlanders win 5th straight doubleheader 1908 • Caledonia and Hillhurst Football Clubs play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League championship 1911 • Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft) 1912 • 1st accident (collision) in Londoner Underground 1914 • British, French and Russian govt sign Pact of London, against Germany 1916 • Christy Mathewson and Mordecai Brown final baseball game 1918 • Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic premier 1919 • British intervene in Petrograd 1920 • Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria) 1922 • Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000m (5 1923 • NY Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Phila As, 2-0 1927 • Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour 1930 • Cambridge Theater opens in London 1932 • 15th PGA Championship 1933 • 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il 1934 • Bradman scores 149* Aust v Eng XI, 104 mins, 17 fours 4 sixes 1936 • Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier 1937 • Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4 1938 • Vainio Muinonen wins 2nd European marathoner (2 1939 • Dutch 2nd Chamber affirms Neths in a State of War 1940 • Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Neth in Hitlers hands 1941 • Yanks beat Red Sox 3-Jun and clinch their 12th & earliest pennant 1942 • Transport nr 28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1943 • British 8th army lands at T ranto South Italy 1944 • Finland breaks diplomatic contact with nazi-Germany 1945 • Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded 1948 • Angel in the Wings closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 308 perfs 1949 • Marie Robie sinks 393 yd hole-in-one (1st hole in Furnace Brook) 1950 • Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250 1951 • Pres Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference 1953 • WGEM TV channel 10 in Quincy-Hannibal, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting 1954 • 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed 1957 • Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school 1965 • Albert Schweitzer, French organist and missionary surgeon, died 1966 • Jim Hogan wins Europe marathon (2 1967 • 6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200 1968 • Nigerian troops conquer Aba Biafra 1970 • Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile 1971 • Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska) 1972 • USSR performs underground nuclear test 1973 • William E Colby, becomes 10th director of CIA 1974 • Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation 1976 • Palestinians hijack KLM DC-9 to Cyprus 1977 • Godspell closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 527 performances 1978 • Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 1979 • Iran army conquerors Baneh 1980 • Yes performs its last concert (MSG) 1981 • Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC 1982 • USSR performs underground nuclear test 1983 • Joseph and the Amazing Dreamcoat closes at Royale NYC after 747 perfs 1984 • Nigerian singer Fela Kuti sentenced to 2 years 1985 • The wreck of the Titanic on the Atlantic seaboard was photographed by remote control 1986 • 189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange 1993 • Mats Wilander defeats Mikael Pernfors 6-Jul (7-3), 3-6, 1-6, 6-Jul (8-6), 4-Jun in 4 hrs 1 min US Open Tennis match concluding at 2 1994 • Cleveland Browns is 1st team in NFL to score a 2-point conversion 1995 • Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic 1996 • 13th MTV Awards 1997 • 14th MTV Awards 1999 • Womens championship at US Tennis Open TIME ON DECK

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