1889-Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
1933-First drive-in theatre opens (Camden NJ)
1942-First nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
1946-Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
1960-Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"
1967-Six-day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin
1971-Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
1975-Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
1978-Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57 percent
1985-Body of Nazi criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele located & exhumed
1988-George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II
Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
2012-Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
1933-First drive-in theatre opens (Camden NJ)
1942-First nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
1946-Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
1960-Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"
1967-Six-day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin
1971-Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
1975-Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
1978-Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57 percent
1985-Body of Nazi criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele located & exhumed
1988-George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II
Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
2012-Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
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