Margaret Smith Taylor, wife of Zachary, died, 1852
B.F. Skinner died, 1990
First unassisted triple-play (Harry O’Hagen), 1902
Mount Vesuvius erupted, 1834
First mail-order house catalog issued (A.M. Ward), 1872
Woodstock Festival ended, 1969
“Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov published in the US, 1958
Reykjavik, Iceland founded, 1786
Royals and Yankees completed the famous “pine-tar” game, 1983
Hewlett Packard incorporated, 1947
Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace given to US as a national shrine, 1916
Wilson’s neutrality appeal, 1914
19th Amendment to the US Constitution (women’s vote) ratified, 1920
Tony C hit by Jack Hamilton pitch, 1967
Anita Loos, American author (“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”), died, 1981
Andrew Marvell, English poet, died, 1678
Pete Rose broke the all-time record for baseball plate appearances, 1982
Bill Bonanno married Rosalie Profaci, 1956
First black attended a meeting of the president’s cabinet (Wilkins), 1954
Ghengis Khan, Mongol conqueror, died, 1227
US and Canada established a plan of joint defense against possible enemy attacks, 1940
Honore de Balzac, French novelist, died, 1850
James Howard Meredith, first black admitted to University of Mississippi, graduated, 1963
Friendship ’84 Games opened in Moscow, 1984
Four month old kitten, following a climbing party, scaled the Matterhorn (three days), 1950
Thousand Islands Bridge dedictated (FDR), 1938
First climbers reached the top of Mount Whitney (John Lucas, Charles D. Begole, and A.H. Johnson), 1873
Wang Laboratories, Inc filed for bankruptcy, 1992