1842-New York Philharmonic's 1st concert
1877-Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
1926-Gas refrigerator patented
1934-Wiley Post discovers the jet stream
1937-Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams
1937-Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe
1941-Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)
1941-1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)
1945-Microwave oven patented
1949-Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
1960-Ivory Coast claims independence from France
1970-West Germany & Poland normalize relations
1972-Philippine 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed & wounded by an assailant
1972-Apollo 17 (US), final manned lunar landing mission (last of Apollo Moon series), launched
1981-Spain becomes a member of the NATO
1982-Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building
1987-43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots)
1987-Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in the U.S. for a summit meeting
1988-Yasser Arafat recognizes existence of Israel
1988-Earthquake in Armenia―6.9 on the Richter scale( over 100,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)
1995-U.S. space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter
1877-Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
1926-Gas refrigerator patented
1934-Wiley Post discovers the jet stream
1937-Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams
1937-Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe
1941-Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)
1941-1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)
1945-Microwave oven patented
1949-Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
1960-Ivory Coast claims independence from France
1970-West Germany & Poland normalize relations
1972-Philippine 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed & wounded by an assailant
1972-Apollo 17 (US), final manned lunar landing mission (last of Apollo Moon series), launched
1981-Spain becomes a member of the NATO
1982-Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building
1987-43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots)
1987-Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in the U.S. for a summit meeting
1988-Yasser Arafat recognizes existence of Israel
1988-Earthquake in Armenia―6.9 on the Richter scale( over 100,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)
1995-U.S. space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter
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