Galileo invents telescope Edmund Halley receives MA from Queens College Oxford Illinois becomes 21st state Andrew Jackson elected pres Oberlin College in Oh 1st truly coeducational college opens Paid Fire Dept takes over from volunteer companies Joe Lilliard QBed Chic Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946 Tennessee Williams play `A Streetcar Named Desire opens Pumpkin Papers came to light Cleve Browns last NFL team with no pass game (beat Phila 13-7) 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii Joseph McCarthy condemned by Senate Police arrests 800 at U of Cal at Berkeley 1st human heart transplant performed (Capetown South Africa) 20th Century Ltd famed NY-Chic luxury train final run Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) 11 die at Riverfront Coliseum Cin at a Who concert NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ and Murphy D-NY guilty 2000 die in Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal India 23rd Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 returns to Earth
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