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| 1621 | - | Galileo invents telescope |
| 1678 | - | Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen\s College Oxford |
| 1818 | - | Illinois becomes 21st state |
| 1828 | - | Andrew Jackson elected pres |
| 1833 | - | Oberlin College in Oh 1st truly coeducational college opens |
| 1866 | - | Paid Fire Dept takes over from volunteer companies |
| 1933 | - | Joe Lilliard QBed Chic Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946 |
| 1947 | - | Tennessee Williams play `A Streetcar Named Desire \ opens |
| 1948 | - | Pumpkin Papers came to light |
| 1950 | - | Cleve Browns last NFL team with no pass game (beat Phila 13-7) |
| 1952 | - | 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii |
| 1954 | - | Joseph McCarthy condemned by Senate |
| 1964 | - | Police arrests 800 at U of Cal at Berkeley |
| 1967 | - | 1st human heart transplant performed (Capetown South Africa) |
| 1967 | - | 20th Century Ltd famed NY-Chic luxury train final run |
| 1973 | - | Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) |
| 1979 | - | 11 die at Riverfront Coliseum Cin at a Who concert |
| 1980 | - | NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy D-NY guilty |
| 1984 | - | 2000 die in Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal India |
| 1985 | - | 23rd Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 returns to Earth |
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