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1996
Albert Belle uses a forearm to break up a double play and nearly breaks Brewer 2nd baseman Fernando Vina's nose, Belle gets 2 game suspension
1994
Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
1990
3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts)
1988
Iran says Iraq uses poison gas in the war
1986
2nd time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Sam Knison hosts)
1975
1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay - Richard Pryor as host
1974
Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St. Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17
1970
Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation
1965
Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
1964
Time Magazine uses term "op art" for 1st time
1962
Suit accuses New York City Board of Education uses "racial quotas"
1961
China uses it's 1st nuclear reactor
1959
NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during ankee-Red Sox game
1955
Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy
1953
Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
1952
Dr. Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
1943
4th day of battle at Kursk: Gen Model uses last tank reserve
1935
Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket
1906
President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake"
1903
Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian/US psycho-analyst, Uses of Enchantment
1889
John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope
1845
William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72" (183 cm) reflector
1762
Austria uses 1st paper currency
1646
Mass uses death penalty for denying that Saint Copybook is God's word
1504
Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians
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