- 1610: Galileo Galilei discovered the first three Jupiter satellites,
                       Io, Europa and Ganymede.
                     - 1714: The typewriter was patented by Englishman Henry Mill.
                     - 1782: The first commercial bank in the United States, the Bank of
                       North America, opened in Philadelphia.
                     - 1785: Dr. John Jeffers and Jean-Pierre Blanchard made the first
                       balloon flight across the English Channel, crossing from Dover,
                       England to Calais, France.
                     - 1789: The first U.S. presidential election was held. Americans
                       voted for electors who, one month later, chose George Washington to
                       be the nation's first president.
                     - 1830: The world's first railway station was opened at Mount Clare
                       in Baltimore.
                     - 1894: One of the earliest motion picture experiments took place at
                       the Thomas Edison studio in West Orange, N.J., as comedian Fred Ott
                       was filmed sneezing.
                     - 1913: William M. Burton patented a process to "crack" petroleum,
                       converting oil to produce gasoline.
                     - 1927: Commercial transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated
                       between New York and London.
                     - 1927: The Harlem Globetrotters played their first game in Hinckley,
                       Ill.
                     - 1929: "Buck Rogers," the first science fiction comic strip,
                       premiered, as did "Tarzan," one of the first adventure comic strips.
                     - 1942: The World War II siege of Bataan began.
                     - 1944: The Air Force announced the production of the first U.S. jet
                       fighter, the Bell P-59 Airacomet.
                     - 1949: The first photograph of genes was taken at the University of
                       Southern California by Dr. Daniel Chapin Pease and Dr. Richard
                       Freligh Baker.
                     - 1953: President Truman announced in his State of the Union address
                       that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb.
                     - 1959: The United States recognized Fidel Castro's new government in
                       Cuba.
                     - 1970: Neighboring farmers sued Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages
                       caused by Woodstock.
                     - 1975: Led Zeppelin fans rioted before a Boston concert, causing
                       $30,000 worth of damage and the cancellation of the concert.
                     - 1979: Vietnamese forces captured the capital of Phnom Penh,
                       overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government.
                     - 1990: The Leaning Tower of Pisa, officially listed a public danger,
                       was closed to tourists for the first time in its 800-year history
                       for restoration work.
                     - 1998: Spanish police foiled a suspected mass suicide planned by 32
                       members of a sect who believed their souls would be carried away by
                       a spaceship from the summit of Tenerife's Teide volcano.

                     *Happy Birthday*
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                     - William Peter Blatty, 70, novelist, "The Exorcist"
                     - Nicolas Cage, 34, actor
                     - Katie Couric, 41, co-anchor, "Today"
                     - Doug E. Doug, 29, actor, "Cosby"
                     - Erin Gray, 46, actress, "Buck Rogers," "Silver Spoons"
                     - Kenny Loggins, 50, singer
                     - Paul Revere, 60, singer/musician, Paul Revere & the Raiders
                     - Jann S. Wenner, 52, publisher/journalist, "Rolling Stone"