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1989 Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor
1986 Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a home run on 1st major league pitch he sees 1985 Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Philadelphia at Detroit 1984 South Africa prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years 1962 U.S. U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba 1953 50th World Series sees New York Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2, as New York Billy Martin's 12 hits set record; Yankees win record 5th consec WS 1944 French 5th Armour division recaptures Sees 1937 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers ends Carl Hubbell's consecutive-game winning streak at 24 1922 Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish 1914 Giuseppe Berto, Italian writer, Heaven Sees Red 1849 M Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning, he accidentally upset lamp containing turpentine and oil on his clothing and sees cleaning effect 1834 Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia 1833 Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay 1781 Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus) 1770 Captain James Cook 1st sees Australia 1682 English astronomer Edmund Halley sees his namesake comet 1662 Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation 1613 Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees 1573 1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panama) 185 Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52) |
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