On this day...
1794-Honolulu Harbor discovered
1818-Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1871-Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter
1877-Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention
1925-Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears
1933-First U.S. ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1935-First commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
1946-Harry Truman becomes 1st US President to travel in a submerged sub
1964-World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC)
1980-Fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
1980-John & Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum
1981-Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks
1990-Signing of Declaration of "End of Cold war" in Paris