First flying trapeze act performed in a circus, 1859
Ellis Island closed, 1954
Polio virus developed from artificial material (MIT), 1981
Eve Arden, actress, died, 1990
STS-2 (a.k.a. Columbia) (US), first flown twice, launched, 1981
Oakland Bay Bridge opened, 1936
Tojo Hideki, Japanese prime minister, sentenced to be hung, 1948
US first exported oil to Europe, 1861
First drive-in bank (The Exchange National Bank of Chicago), 1946
Percival Lowell, US astronomer, died, 1916
Lerner and Loewe’s “Paint Your Wagon” opened on Broadway, 1951
Germany’s drive to take Moscow halted, 1941
Trotsky expelled from communist party leaving Stalin USSR ruler, 1927
Detriot Lions fumbled a record 11 times, 1967
Yuri Andropov became general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1982
Lt. William Calley’s court-martial opened, 1970
Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis was named the first baseball commissioner, 1920
Voyager 1 (US) made closest approach to Saturn, 1980