1642-Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, first commencement
1897-First frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming)
1932-Kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd renamed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1938-Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100' of microfilm)
1949-Truman announces evidence of USSR's first nuclear device detonation
1952-First closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event
1952-Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech
1962-NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
1979-Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC
1990-Saddam says he will destroy Israel