EVENTS 1.3
Atom 1st split (1918)
Rene Magritte’s work 1st shown in US (1936)
1st Electric Watch made (1957)
Sir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole (1958)
Wax Paper Drinking Straws patented (1888)
March of Dimes established (1938)
Alaska became the 49th state (1959)
Margarine patented (Oleo; 1871)
Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro (1962)
Construction began on the Brooklyn Bridge (1870)
Martin Luther excommunicated (1521)
Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco (1847)
Battle of Princeton (1777)
Chevrolet introduced the air-cooled engine (1923)
Apple Computers incorporated (1977)
Dagwood began a hunger strike, in the comic strip Blondie (1933)
Super Soakers 1st for sale (1991)
Dragnet debuted (1952)
Longest Strike ended (33 years; Denmark)
1st Black child born in US (William Tucker; 1624)
US severed diplomatic ties with Cuba (1961)
B.J. Thomas’ Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head reached No. 1 (1969)
Trial of Tom Mooney began in San Francisco (1917)
Prince trademarked his ridiculous unpronounceable glyph name 
Lord Haw-Haw hanged for treason (1946)
Jack Ruby died in a hospital (1967)
Millionth Morris Minor automobile manufactured (1961)
450,000 public school children went on strike in New York City (1964)
Siege of Sydney Street began (London; 1911)
Emperor Meiji seized power from Tokugawa Shogun, ending 700 years of military rule (Japan; 1868)
Las Vegas casino New York, New York opened (1997)
Mitford Girl, Unity Mitford, returned to UK from Germany, having failed to commit suicide (1940)
1st Ads appeared in a Russian newspaper (1988)
US House of Representatives 1st televised (1947)
Tomb of Tutankhamen discovered in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings (1924)
Roberts Owens bought land for utopian community experiment of “New Harmony” (1825)
US broke diplomatic relations with Cuba (1961)
Oscar Wilde declared “nothing but my genius” to US customs when entering America (1882)
Joy Adamson, author of Born Free murdered in game park (Kenya; 1980)
Bay City Rollers’ Saturday Night reached No. 1 (1976)
In south Florida, Filberto Cardenas was abducted by aliens & reappeared 90 minutes later 16 miles away (1979)
30,000 of John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s Two Virgins, with nude album cover, confiscated in New Jersey for pornography (1969)
Brewer & Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert bought Babe Ruth’s contract from the Boston Red Sox (1920)
Brewer & brewing author Joseph Coppinger wrote a letter to President Thomas Jefferson suggesting a national brewery be set up (1803)
Beer became legal in Alaska after Prohobition (1959)
Stone Mountain Brewing opened (Georgia; 1993)
Calhoun’s Barbeque & Brewery opened (Tennessee; 1995)
Traverse Brewing opened (Michigan; 1996)
Majestic Brewing opened (Colorado; 1999)
Karl Strauss Brewery Gardens opened (California; 1994)
