Jersey calf lived 222 days with an artificial heart, 1980
Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
Clarence Day, writer (“Life with Father”), died, 1935
Iowa became the 29th US state, 1846
Leonard Bernstein’s “On the Town” opened on Broadway, 1944
Theodore Dreiser, US novelist, died, 1945
Messina, Italy struck by an earthquake (nearly 80,000 died), 1908
Paul Hindemith, composer and teacher, died, 1963
Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist and writer, died, 1963
Rajiv Gandhi became prime minister of India, 1984
Last recording of Ma Rainey, “Mother of the Blues,” made, 1928
Spain recognized the independence of Mexico, 1836
Chewing gum patented (William F. Semple, Mount Vernon, Ohio), 1869
Mexico terminated fishing agreements with US, 1980
Congress officially recognized the “Pledge of Allegiance”, 1945
Solzhenitsyn published “Gulag Archipelago”, 1973
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, second wife of Woodrow Wilson, died, 1961
Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old, 1984
Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist and historian, died, 1859
First US test tube baby born (Norfolk, Virginia), 1981
John Caldwell Calhoun became the first US vice president to resign, 1832
US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite, 1948
Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (“I Love You Truly”), died, 1946
Chinese troops crossed the 38th Parallel in Korea, 1950