Panama declared itself independent of Colombia, 1903
Commercial yeast patented, 1863
Indira Gandhi, Indian prime minister, cremated, 1984
Frozen bread first marketed, 1952
Mariner 10 (US), first to flyby Mercury, launched, 1973
Truth-in-Packaging law signed, 1966
Sputnik 2 (USSR) launched (containing spacedog Laika), 1957
Lyndon Johnson elected president, 1964
Dutch decided to set up a permanent colony in New Netherlands, 1623
James Taylor married Carly Simon, 1972
Ethelred the Unready led the English in a massacre of the Danes, 1002
Detroit-Windsor auto tunnel opened, 1930
First National Automobile Show (Madison Square Garden - 300 cars), 1900
“Good Morning America” debuted, 1975
“Dewey Defeats Truman” read front page of Chicago Daily Tribune, 1948
Continental Army ordered demobilized, 1783
Lee Iacocca made vice-president and general manager of Ford Division, 1960
Beef rose to $.03 per pound (Illinois), 1837
Meredith Willson’s “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” opened on Broadway, 1960
Linus Pauling won Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954