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| 1788 | - | Australia Day |
| 1861 | - | Kansas becomes 34th state |
| 1900 | - | American (baseball) League formed with 8 teams |
| 1904 | - | 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team |
| 1919 | - | Prohibition goes into effect (18th amendment) |
| 1920 | - | Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist $40 week with KC Slide Co |
| 1922 | - | Union of Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras & El Salvador dissolved |
| 1936 | - | 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1955 | - | William Cox buys Yankee Stadium |
| 1958 | - | Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming |
| 1959 | - | "Walt Disney\s \""Sleeping Beauty\"" is released" |
| 1984 | - | 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched |
| 1986 | - | 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |
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