1991 Angelo Rossitto, dwarf known as "Little Moe"/actor (Dark), dies at 83
1990 Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known
1988 Oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported in Science
1983 Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled
1982 Argentina seizes Malvinas, also known as the Falkland Islands
1981 Gambia and Senegal sign agreement to be known as Senegambia in Feb 1982
1981 Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa
1978 Tango Duke, dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse
1977 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)
1976 U.S. presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
1975 Modoc, the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal)
1970 Benedictine, [St. Bernard]; becomes heaviest known dog, 137 kg
1966 Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere and leaving it again
1965 "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson
1965 Porcupine, in Washington D.C. zoo, dies at 27; oldest known rodent
1964 Zeng Jinlian, born in Hunan, China, became tallest woman known, 2.46 m, 8'1"
1959 VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"
1959 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
1954 1st meteorite known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga Ala)
1954 Red deer, in Milwaukee Zoo, oldest known deer, dies at 26
1953 Jim Diamond, Scotish singer and songwriter, I Should Have Known Better
1945 Josef Kramer, known as "beast of Belsen," and 10 others, hanged
1941 Geoff Hurst, cricketer, Essex 1962, better known as soccer immortal
1940 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings
1940 Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan
1939 Germany and Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
1938 Marion Chapman, smallest known premature baby to survive, 280 g
1937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1934 Dionne Quintuplets, secluded quintuplets, born Annette, Alive Cecile, Alive Emelie, Dead 1954 Marie, Dead 1970 Yvonne, Alive, First known set of surviving quintuplets, these girls were treated as a side show and lived in a virtual muse
1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken
1930 Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas, only known fatality due to hail
1928 Brooklyn Supreme, born in Belgium, stallion, heaviest known horse, 1450 kg
1926 Robert Earl Hughes, became heaviest known human, 486 kg
1922 Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
1920 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park
1919 Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as black sox scandal as 8 White Sox throw series
1918 Robert Wadlow, Alton, Illinois, tallest known human, 2.72 m, 8' 11.1"
1914 Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo
1913 Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
1913 Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic)
1908 New York Giants scores shown on electric diamonds known as "Compton's Baseball Bulletin" at MSG
1906 Australian wombat; oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at 26
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)
1897 1st known intercollegiate basketball game, Yale beats Penn 32-10
1884 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota
1880 NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"
1867 Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American, 113 y 273 d at death
1864 Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania
1863 Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human, 2.1 kg at 17
1848 Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent vs. England)
1842 1st known sewing machine patented in U.S., John Greenough, Washington D.C.
1839 1st known use of term OK (Boston)
1818 1st known Christmas carol ("Silent Night, Holy Night") sung (Austria)
1818 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons
1791 Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male, 67 cm; 2' 2"
1784 Only known deaths by hailstones in U.S. in Winnsborough, South Carolina
1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1740 Marquis de Sade, 1st known sadist/writer, Justine
1732 1st known ad for "Poor Richard's Almanack" (Pennsylvania Gazette)
1709 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
1662 Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation
1659 1st known check (400 pounds) (on display at Westminster Abbey)
1647 Achsah Young, 1st woman known to be a witch, executed in Salem Mass
1630 New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, it is later known as Ellis Island
1572 Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia
1457 Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)
1178 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on moon (only known observation)
1054 Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)
143 Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed
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