WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2016

Today is Wednesday, July 13, the 196th day of 2016. There are 170 days left in the year.

432 BC ― Origin of Metonic Cycle

574 ― John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1568 ― Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer

1787 ― Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)

1787 ― Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop

1793 ― French rev writer Jean Paul Marat murdered by Charlotte Corday

1832 ― Source of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft)

1836 ― US patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels

1854 ― US forces shell & burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua

1863 ― Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die

1865 ― Horace Greeley advises his readers to “Go west young man”

1865 ― PT Barnum’s museum burns down

1868 ― Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana

1878 ― Treaty of Berlin amended terms of Treaty of San Stefano

1882 ― 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia

1896 ― Ed Delahanty, becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 4 HRs in a game

1898 ― Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio

1898 ― SF Ferry Building at foot of Market St opens

1900 ― Phillies beat Pittsburgh 23-8

1908 ― 4th modern Olympic games opens in London

1919 ― Race riots in Longview & Gregg counties Texas

1930 ― Sarnoff reports in NY Times “TV would be a theater in every home”

1934 ― Babe Ruth hits HR #700 against Detroit

1943 ― 1st All Star night game (AL beats NL 5-4 at Shribe Pk, Phila)

1948 ― AL beats NL 5-2 in 15th All Star Game (Sportsman Park, St Louis)

1953 ― J A Bruwer discovers asteroids #1658 Innes & #3284

1954 ― AL beats NL 11-9 in 21st All Star Game (Cleveland Stadium)

1954 ― Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn’t retire a

batter, he threw out Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9

1960 ― AL beats NL 6-0 in 29th All Star Game (NY Yankees host)

1960 ― Democratic Natl convention nominates Sen John F Kennedy for president

1960 ― KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA

1961 ― NL beats AL 5-4 (10 innings) in 30th All Star Game (SF Candlestick)

1963 ― Early Wynn, wins his 300th & last game at 43

1965 ― NL beats AL 6-5 in 36th All Star Game (Metropolitan Stadium, Minneapolis)

1967 ― Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die

1969 ― Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon

1971 ― AL beats NL 6-4 in 42nd All Star Game (Tiger Stadium, Detroit)

1972 ― C Torres discovers asteroid #3050 Carrera

1972 ― LA Rams (Irsay) & Baltimore Colts (Rosenbloom) swap owners

1972 ― T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2112 Ulyanov

1973 ― Bobby Murcer’s 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating KC 5-0

1975 ― 8.5” (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record)

1976 ― Courtmartial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct)

1976 ― NL beats AL 7-1 in 47th All Star Game (Veteran’s Stadium Phila)

1977 ― NYC experiences 25 hr black-out

1978 ― Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years

1978 ― BBC bans Sex Pistols “No One is Innocent”

1978 ― Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor Pres by chairman Henry Ford II

1978 ― Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida

1979 ― George Harrison releases “faster”

1982 ― NL scores 4-1 victory over AL for 11th straight All-Star triumph

1984 ― Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m

1985 ― Live Aid, a rock concert in London, Phila, Moscow & Sydney

1985 Yankees retire Roger Maris (#9) & Elston Howard (#32) uniforms

1987 ― Federal judge throws out Bette Midler’s $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials