- 1935] FDR signs SSA: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law creating unemployment insurance and pension plans for those over 65...
- 1953] Whiffed: The whiffle ball is invented providing lots of future major league players with their first taste of hitting a pitched ball...
- 1973] No more bombs: Bombing in Cambodia comes to an end...
- 1980] Vote for me: The Democrats choose Jimmy Carter to run for president at Madison Square Garden...1996] The Republicans opt for Bob Dole as their presidential candidate...
- 1980] On strike: Workers go on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland in a job action that results in the creation of Lech Walesa and the Solidarity labor movement...
- 1985] Breaking the Beatles bank: Michael Jackson outbids Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono for the ATV Music Publishing catalog containing the rights to more than 250 songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Total price for the catalog: $47.5 million. Paul will regret this day as long as he lives or until he gets the catalog back...
- 1992] "Happy Trails": The Platters' lead singer Tony Williams dies at 64 from diabetes and emphysema...
- 1994] Jackal roped: International terrorist 'Carlos the Jackal' is captured in Sudan. He's extradited to France the next day...
- 1997] Guilty as charged: Timothy McVeigh is sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing...
- 2003] Lights out: A massive blackout hits the northeast and parts of Canada with 50 million losing power. Guess who was unaffected on the Cape???
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