Today in history

1939 The first televised major league baseball games were shown. The event was a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1939 The radio program, “Arch Oboler’s Plays”, presented the NBC Symphony for the first time. 1945 The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II.

1947 Don Bankhead became the first black pitcher in major league baseball.

1957 It was announced that an intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully tested by the Soviet Union.

1957 The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled of the assembly line.

1961 The International Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto opened.

1973 A U.S. Presidential Proclamation was declared that made August 26th Women’s Equality Day.

1978 Sigmund Jahn blasted off aboard the Russian Soyuz 31 and became the first German in space.

1981 The U.S. claimed that North Korea fired an antiaircraft missile at a U.S. Surveillance plane while it was over South Korea.

1987 The Fuller Brush Company announced plans to open two retail stores in Dallas, TX.

1991 Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised that national elections would be held.

1992 A “no-fly zone” was imposed on the southern 1/3 of Iraq. The move by the U.S., France and Britain was aimed at protecting Iraqi Shiite Muslims.

1998 The U.S. government announced that they were investigating Microsoft in an attempt to discover if they “bullied” Intel into delaying new technology.