{{909}} hope you'll have an excellent day, only 28 which by itself is a reason to celebrate.
What happened on this day in history:
632 Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era
1567 Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison
1671 Cossack rebel leader Stenka Razin tortured, executed in Moscow
1755 British capture Fort Beaus‚jour, expel the Acadians
1832 Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill
1858 Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
1864 Siege of Petersburg & Richmond begins
1871 Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine founded, NYC
1879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theatre NYC
1882 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
1883 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2)
1896 Temperture hits 127øF at Fort Mojave, Calif
1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox
1903 Ford Motors incorporates
1904 Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)
1909 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
1916 Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0
1917 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia
1922 Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics
1927 Tommy Armour wins golf's US open
1932 Pres Hoover & VP Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention
1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)
1933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
1938 St Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row
1940 Commuinist govt installed in Lithuania
1941 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC
1943 Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)
1946 Lloyd Mangrum wins golf's US open after 2 playoffs
1947 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"
1947 Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
1949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa
1951 Ben Hogan wins golf's US open for 2nd year in a row
1953 Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak & also ending St Louis Brown 14 game losing streak
1955 Pope Pius XII ex-communicated Argentine Pres Juan Peron
1957 White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 HRs to beat Wash Senators 8-6
1961 Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host
1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris
1963 Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM
1963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6
1964 Quake strikes Niigata Japan
1967 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival
1968 Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of golf's US open under par
1969 Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House
1970 Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ
1970 Race riots in Miami Florida
1971 Racial disturbance in Jacksonville Florida
1975 Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber & Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players
1975 Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD
1976 Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa (Soweto Day)
1977 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
1977 Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
1977 Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals
1978 Cin Red Tom Seaver no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
1978 Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"
1979 Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit
1979 H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2275
1982 Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners
1983 Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal
1983 European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10
1983 Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany
1984 Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
1984 Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d)
1985 T C Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of US Open
1985 Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58'11«") in Indianapolis quadruple bogies the 5th hole & never recovers
1986 1 day general strike in South Africa
1987 Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens
1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
1988 Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home
1988 In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins
1989 "Ghostbusters II" premiers
1989 4 golfers shoot a hole-in-one on the same hole at the US Open are made all on the 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price) Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since the US open began, today 4 more. Weaver, Wiebe, Pate and Price each aced the 159-yard sixth hole at the Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York within a one hour, 50-minute span of the second round. :coffee: I know this is also hard to believe, but when I played Tiger Woods 2004 on PS2, I hade 4 hole in ones in a row, so each Par 3 in a row I downed. Once the round was over and it came back to the main menu "New items in shop", the game froze. I haven't told anyone, as it's also pretty unbelievable, and you kind of had to be there On the other hand, now in TG 2005, I have played it a lot, and only have 2 hole in ones
1991 Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR
1991 Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row
1991 NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week" (through the 23rd)
1991 Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day
1991 With 3 runs in the 9th, Balt ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5
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