On this day in history...

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On this day...
891 Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1716 1st lighthouse in US lit (Boston Harbor)
1752 England & colonies adopt Gregorian calendar, 11 days disappear
1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge
1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow
1814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner"
1847 US troops under General Scott enter Mexico City
1848 Alexander Stewart opens the 1st US dept store
1856 Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders
1872 Britain pays the US $15« M for damages during Civil War
1886 George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon
1891 "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M
1892 AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo
1899 Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (NY)
1903 NY Giant Red Ames no-hits St Louis, 5-0 in a 5 inning game
1905 RAC Tourist Trophy, 1st run, on the Isle of Man
1916 Christy Mathewson pitches & wins his final game
1917 Provisional government of Russia established, Republic proclaimed
1923 Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain
1930 Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
1930 Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
1933 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
1938 Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight
1940 Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)
1942 Yanks clinch pennant #13
1943 Yanks clinch pennant #14
1948 Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Mich 5th Dist Rep primary
1948 Groundbreaking ceremony for the UN world headquarters
1948 Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater
1951 Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats
1954 Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage
1956 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC
1957 UN resolution deplores & condemns USSR invasion of Hungary
1963 Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, SD, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls & a boy
1964 Walt Disney awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House
1965 "F-Troop" premiers
1967 Melville Abrams Ball Field in the Bronx named
1967 Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge & Sanctuary opens in the Bronx
1968 Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of the season
1968 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight
1971 Cleve Indians & Wash Senators, play 20 innings
1972 "Waltons" TV program premiers
1973 Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise
1973 Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
1973 Pres Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout
1974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
1975 Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint
1979 Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC & back to Yates Center, Ks
1981 Entertainment Tonight premiers on TV
1982 36" snow (Red Lodge, MT)
1982 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of the English Channel
1982 Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7"
1983 US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner
1984 1st MTV awards-Bette Midler & Dan Aykroyd host
1986 Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game
1987 Oriole Cal Ripken Jr sets record of playing 8,243 inn in 910 games
1987 Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 HRs vs Baltimore Orioles
1989 Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2
1991 Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii) crowned Miss America 1992
1991 Magic Johnson weds Erieatha "Cookie" Kelly