In 1931 RCA introduces the 33 1/3 Long Playing record. However, the LP did not catch on until Columbia began producing them in 1948.
In 1939 The Harry James Orchestra featuring Frank Sinatra records "All Or Nothing At All."
In 1965 "I Got You Babe" by Sonny & Cher is certified gold.
In 1966 The Mamas & Papas perform on TV's "Hollywood Palace."
In 1967 When the Doors appear on the "Ed Sullivan Show," they are asked to omit the "get much higher" line from "Light My Fire." Jim Morrison sings it anyway.
In 1968 "Stoned Soul Picnic" by the Fifth Dimension is certified gold.
In 1970 The Grateful Dead appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
In 1975 Pink Floyd's album "Wish You Were Here" is certified gold.
In 1976 The Spinners host NBC-TV's "The Midnight Special."
In 1976 Ringo Starr's album "Ringo's Rotogravure" is released.
In 1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors&qu…

In 1787 The Constitution of the United States is completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the constitutional convention in Philadelphia, PA.
In 1789 William Herschel discovers Mimas, a satellite of Saturn.
In 1796 President George Washington gives his farewell speech, declining to run for a third term.
In 1862 Union forces push back a Confederate invasion of Maryland in the Civil War Battle of Antietam.
In 1908 Orville Wright's plane crashes killing Thomas Selfridge who becomes the first fatality of powered flight.
In 1920 The American Professional Football Association, now the NFL, is formed in Canton, OH.
In 1936 The first talent search program, "Major Bowes' Amateur Hour" debuts.
In 1939 The Soviet Union invades Poland, more than 2 weeks after Nazi Germany launches its pre-emptive assault.
In 1947 James Forrestal is sworn in as the first U.S. Secretary of Defense.
In 1948 The U.N. mediator for Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte is assassinated in Jerusalem …

In 879 Charles III, king of France (893-923)
In 1552 Pope Paul V (1605-21)
In 1730 General Baron Friedrich Von Steuben (trained Washington's troops)
In 1819 Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st U.S. vice-president
In 1846 Astronomer, Seth Carlo Chandler (movement in the Earth's axis)
In 1854 Scottish businessman, David Buick (Buick Auto Company)
In 1857 Scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovskii (pioneer in rocket research)
In 1874 Actor/comedian, Ben Turpin (Yankee Doodle In Berlin)
In 1879 Baseball manager, Andrew Foster (the father of Negro Baseball)
In 1885 Actor, George Cleveland (Gramps Miller-Lassie)
In 1900 Businessman, John Marriott (Marriott hotel) [d: 8-13-85]
In 1901 British yachtsman, Sir Francis Chichester [d: 8-25-72]
In 1902 Silent screen actress, Esther Ralston (American Venus) [d: 1-14-94]
In 1905 Actress, Dolores Costello (This Is The Army) [d: 3-1-79]
In 1907 U.S. Supreme Court chief justice, Warren E. Burger [d: 6-25-95]
In 1918 Israeli president, Chaim Herzog (1983-93) [d: 4-17-97]
In 1923…

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In 1911 "Alexander's Ragtime Band" by Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan is #1 on the charts.
In 1938 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra record "Boogie Woogie."
In 1957 "Chances Are" by Johnny Mathis enters the U.S. top 40 chart.
In 1963 Swan Records releases the Beatles' "She Loves You" b/w "I'll Get You" in the U.S. after Capitol Records rejected it.
In 1964 "Shindig" premieres on ABC-TV with guests Sam Cooke, the Everly Brothers, and the Righteous Brothers.
In 1965 The Rolling Stones open the second season of "Shindig!" with the Kinks, the Byrds and the Everly Brothers.
In 1965 "Eight Days A Week" by the Beatles is certified gold.
In 1966 The Metropolitan Opera opens its season in its new opera house at New York's Lincoln Center.
In 1967 A British radio station mistakenly announces that Englebert Humperdinck had died in a car crash.
In 1970 Led Zeppelin is named the UK's top group by the readers o…

In 1630 The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changes its name to Boston.
In 1782 The Great Seal of the United States is used for first time.
In 1810 Mexico declares independence from Spain.
In 1857 A patent is issued for the typesetting machine.
In 1893 Hundreds of thousands of settlers swarm onto a section of land in Oklahoma known as the Cherokee Strip.
In 1908 William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors in New Jersey.
In 1919 The American Legion is incorporated by an act of Congress.
In 1940 President Franklin Roosevelt signs into law the Selective Training and Service Act, the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.
In 1940 Samuel T. Rayburn of Texas is elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
In 1949 Wile E. Coyote debuts in the Warner Bros. cartoon "Fast & Furryous."
In 1963 The science fiction series "The Outer Limits" premieres on ABC-TV.
In 1953 "The Robe," the first movie filmed in the widescreen process CinemaScope, premieres…

In 1387 King Henry V of England (1413-22)
In 1638 King Louis XIV of France (1643-1715)
In 1725 French geographer, Nicolas Desmarest (volcanic origin of basalt)
In 1785 English journalist/editor, Thomas Barnes (The Times)
In 1797 Librarian, Sir Anthony Panizzi
In 1822 Railroad builder, Charles S. Crocker (Central & South Pacific)
In 1823 American historian, Francis Parkman (Oregon Trial)
In 1838 Railroad entrepreneur, James J. Hill (Great Northern)
In 1853 German biochemist, Albrecht Kossel (nucleic acids and proteins)
In 1875 Businessman, J.C. Penney (J.C. Penny department stores)
In 1876 Geographer, Ellsworth Huntington (climate on civilization)
In 1877 Cosmologist, James J. Jeans
In 1877 Inventor, Jacob Schick (electric razor)
In 1881 English author/art critic, Clive Bell
In 1885 German psychiatrist, Karen Horney (neo freudian psychoanalyst)
In 1887 French sculptor/painter Jean Hans Arp
In 1887 French music teacher/composer, Nadia Boulanger
In 1887 Explorer, Louise Arner Boyd (first woman to fly…