Today in history

1621 The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands (now known as New York).

1800 John Adams moved to Washington, DC. He was the first President to live in what later became the capital of the United States.

1805 A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tripoli was completed in the captain’s cabin on board the USS Constitution.

1851 The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms.

1856 Cullen Whipple patented the screw machine. 1888 “Casey at the Bat” the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published.

1932 Lou Gehrig set a major league baseball record when he hit four consecutive home runs.

1948 The musical “Sleepy Hollow” opens at St James Theater NYC for 12 performances

1948 200” (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory

1948 Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore

1959 The first class graduated from the Air Force Academy in Denver, CO.

1964 Rolling Stones begin 1st US tour (with Bobby Goldsboro & Bobby Vee)

1965 Gemini 4 launched; 2nd US 2-man flight (McDivitt & White)

1965 Edward White became the first American astronaut to do a “space walk” when he left the Gemini 4 capsule.

1968 Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times

1970 1st artificial gene synthesized

2003 Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) broke a bat when he grounded out against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The bat he was using was a corked bat. (Illinois, Florida)