1997 HAL became operational (2001: A Space Odyssey)
1988 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of Soviet Union
1988 Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame
1987 Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from U.S. to Russia across Bering Strait
1987 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic
1986 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals
1986 Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals
1986 Richard W. Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
1985 "New York, New York" became the official anthem of New York City
1983 Guy Lafleur, Montreal, became 10th NHLer to score 500 goals
1983 President Reagan became 1st U.S. President to address Japan's legislature
1982 Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became 1st U.S. prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas
1982 Steve Carlton became 1st pitcher to win 4 Cy Young awards
1982 Bryant Gumbel became co-host of NBC's "Today Show"
1981 Hosni Mubarak became acting-president of Egypt
1980 Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4 minutes
1978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times
1978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
1977 Egyptian President Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
1975 John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals
1975 Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit U.S.
1975 Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries
1975 Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
1975 Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest's summit
1974 Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
1974 Frank Robinson became 1st Black baseball manager (Cleve Indians)
1973 Cubs' Ron Santo became 1st baseball player to veto his trade
1971 Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000
1968 France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa
1967 Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II
1966 Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)
1965 David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2
1964 Zeng Jinlian, born in Hunan, China, became tallest woman known, 2.46 m, 8'1"
1962 James Meredith became 1st black at University of Mississippi
1962 Uganda became a self-governing country
1959 Monkeys Able and Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission
1957 Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became 1st NHLer to score 500 goals
1948 Reginald Weit became the 1st black to play in the U.S. Tennis Open
1943 Chiang Kai-shek became president of China
1941 Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia
1940 Benjamin O. Davis became 1st Black general in U.S. Army
1940 Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man to pole vault 15 ft
1936 Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario)
1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt became 1st President to travel through Panama Canal
1934 Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars
1931 Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball
1927 Isadora Duncan, dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel
1927 Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees
1926 Robert Earl Hughes, became heaviest known human, 486 kg
1926 Railway Labor Act became law
1925 Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy
1925 Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman Governor in USA
1920 Bob Hope became an American citizen
1910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
1908 Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's Last Emperor at age 3
1907 Ugyen Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan
1906 Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio (Mass)
1906 Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
1904 Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to New York club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913)
1902 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
1902 President Teddy Roosevelt became 1st U.S. chief executive to ride in a car
1900 Hawaii became a U.S. territory
1895 Georgetown became part of Washington D.C.
1891 Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered
1887 Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minnesota became the 1st U.S. ski club
1884 Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league
1878 Silver dollar became U.S. legal tender
1875 James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US
1870 Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps
1867 Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American, 113 y 273 d at death
1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico
1863 Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human, 2.1 kg at 17
1861 Uchimura Kanzo, Tokyo, religious writer, How I Became a Christian
1859 Philadelphia A's organize to play "town ball" became baseball 20 years later
1853 Cincinnati became 1st U.S. city to pay fire fighters a regular salary
1849 James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger
1848 James K. Polk became 1st President photographed in office by Matthew Brady
1844 Texas became a U.S. territory
1840 NZ became a British colony
1791 Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male, 67 cm; 2' 2"
1740 Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia
1642 Georgeana (York) Maine became the 1st incorporated American city
1457 Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book
1335 Ex-emperor Hanazono became a Zen priest
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