“OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…”
- 1896 – Guglieimo Marconi’s radio telegraphy device was patented in Great Britain.
- 1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the first swimming pool to be built inside the White House.
- 1935 – George Herman “Babe” Ruth announced that he was retiring from baseball
- 1953 – Elizabeth was crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey.
- 1966 – Surveyor 1, the U.S. space probe, landed on the moon and started sending photographs back to Earth of the Moon’s surface. It was the first soft landing on the Moon.
- 1979 – Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
- 1989 – Rolling Stone Bill Wyman secretly married 19-year-old Mandy Smith. Wyman’s 28-year-old son was best man. All other four Stones attended. The marriage lasted 17 months.
- 1995 – Stone Roses guitarist John Squire smashed his collarbone in a cycling accident causing the band to pull out of major gigs.
“NATIONAL DAYS”
- NATIONAL DOUGHNUT DAY
- NATIONAL LEAVE THE OFFICE EARLY DAY
- NATIONAL ROCKY ROAD DAY
- NATIONAL BUBBA DAY
- NATIONAL ROTISSERIE CHICKEN DAY
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