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2012 Event - The U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavor inches through the streets of Los Angeles on a trolley, making its way to a museum

2012 Event - The American company Apple, Inc. announces it is worth over $600 billion dollars, making the technology company the largest in the world by market capitalization

2012 Event - Lehman Brothers exits its bankruptcy protection, making it free to sell remaining assets and distribute its funds to creditors

2011 Event - In an effort to stop the growth of household debt, South Korean banks temporarily stop making household loans

2010 Event - U.S. television pundit, Keith Olbermann, is indefinitely suspended from MSNBC for making three political donations to Democratic Party candidates

2010 Event - General Stanley McChrystal, leader of the U.S. war Afghanistan announces his retirement after making controversial statements in 'Rolling Stone' magazine

2002 Death - Kevyn Aucoin, make-up artist/writer, Making Face, dies at 40

1997 Death - Thalassa Cruso, gardening expert, Making Things Grow, dies of Alzheimer's at 87

1996 Event - India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in cricket 1st inning

1996 Event - Greg Pavlik one-hits Tigers making the Rangers 1st AL team to pitch back-to-back one-hitters since the Washington Senators in 1917

1996 Event - Howard Stern announces he will be making the film "Private Parts"

1995 Event - Cleveland Indians tie record of scoring 8 runs before making an out, they beat Twins 10-0

1991 Event - Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her

1990 Event - Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress

1987 Event - James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception. (He scored on laterals)

1987 Event - Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline"

1986 Event - Senate convicted U.S. District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment

1986 Death - Theodore H White, U.S. journalist (Making of President, Pulitzer), dies at 71

1984 Event - Despite Mike Bossy 4 goals Islanders lose 5-6 to Canadians making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-77-3-4

1984 Event - Orel Hershiser begins string of making every sched start until 1990

1983 Event - Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for U.S. military aid

1978 Event - Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10 making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-22-2-1

1962 Event - Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)

1958 Event - Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid

1955 Event - Austrian state treaty signed making Austria independent again

1955 Birthday - Glenne Headly, born in New London, Connecticut, actress, Dick Tracy, Making Mr. Right

1955 Event - Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey and Iraq a defense alliance

1952 Event - India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day

1947 Birthday - Ben Masters, Corvalis OR, actor, Vic-Another World, Making Mr. Right

1942 Event - New York Giants beat Washington Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down

1940 Birthday - Marlyn Mason, San Fernando Cal, actress, Making It, Peyton Place

1937 Birthday - Nancy Wilson, Chillicothe Ohio, jazz vocalist, Feel Like Making Love

1933 Birthday - Edward de Bono, physician, inventor, consultant, author, invented term lateral thinking, promoted deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in public schools, advanced applied psychology, making theories about creativity, perception into usable tools

1915 Birthday - Theodore H White, historian and writer, Making of President

1894 Event - Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks

1886 Birthday - Louis Hazeltine, inventor, neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible

1882 Event - 1st demonstration of pancake making (Department store in New York City)

1870 Event - California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible

1863 Event - Patent granted for a process of making color photographs

1860 Birthday - Will Keith Kellogg, born in America, vegetarian, founder of Kellogg Company, pioneered process of making flaked cereal, promoted corn flakes as a healthy breakfast cereal

1813 Event - David Melville, Newport, Rhode Island, patents apparatus for making coal gas

1790 Event - U.S. passes Assumption bill making U.S. responsible for state debts

1681 Event - English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania

1534 Event - English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope

1521 Event - Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine

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