1939 New York World's Fair opens

1939 Ted Williams' first hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double

1940 Electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa

1945 Hitler commits suicide after U.S. troops occupy Munich.

1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin

1945 US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg

1946 The first baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs Cubs

1947 Comedian Fred Allen of " Allen’ s Alley" fame didn’ t find things so funny when censors cut him off the air during his radio broadcast.

1948 Walter P Reuther UAW pres shot & wounded at his home in Detroit

1949 Dr. Arthur Compton of the University of Washington made a surprising statement in Boston, MA. He said,"College athletic coaches are responsible for the failure of efforts to reform sports and make sports an important part of education"

1949 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his first race, in Albany, California

1949 Willie Shoemaker won his first race as a jockey aboard Shafter V at Golden Gate Fields in Albany, CA, not far from San Francisco.

1950 R C Cameron discovers asteroid #1575 Winifred

1957 John Kelley, the first American since 1945, wins the Boston Marathon

1958 Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM

1958 Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup

1959 "Desilu Playhouse" on CBS-TV presented a two-part show titled, "The Untouchables" starting this night. Robert Stack starred in the program and became a major television star when "The Untouchables" become a weekly network series in the fall of 1959.

1961 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave approval for FM stereo broadcasting

1962 Jesse G Vincent engineer designed first V-12 engine, dies at 82

1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m

1962 New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North

1964 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools

1965 Richard Wessell actor (Carney-Riverboat), dies at 54

1967 US planes bomb Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam War

1967 US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon

1968 Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM

1969 Ken Harrelson just about quit major-league baseball this day. Harrelson was being traded from the Boston Red Sox, an American League contender, to the Cleveland Indians, a perennial American League non-contender

1971 Barbra Striesand records "We've Only Just Begun"

1971 US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation

1972 Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2

1973 Canadian ANIK A2 becomes first commercial satellite in orbit

1974 Agnes Moorehead actress (Endora-Bewitched), dies at 67

1974 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run"

1976 George Harrison sings the lumberjack song with Monty Python

1977 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2261

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