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Events

• Thomas Jefferson reported to President Washington in NY as the new Secretary of State– 1790
• Jane Croly organized first club for professional women, Sorosis, in New York City– 1868
• Journalist Henry M. Stanley began his famous expedition into Africa to locate the missing Scottish missionary, David Livingstone– 1871
• World War I Second Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest in history, began in France– 1918
• United Nations established temporary headquarters in New York City, at Hunter College– 1946
• DJ Alan Freed hosted the first rock-n-roll concert, Cleveland, Ohio. Reportedly, 25,000 people showed up, though only 10,000 seats were available– 1952
• Sharpeville Massacre took place in S. Africa when blacks besieged Johannesburg police station protesting law requiring all blacks to carry papers– 1960
• The federal prison on Alcatraz Island, California, closed after 29 years of operation– 1963
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands of civil rights demonstrators on a 50+ mile walk from Selma to Montgomery, AL, demanding voting rights for African Americans– 1965
• Order of Canada, to honor outstanding contributions to society and country, instituted– 1967
• Royals was the winning name for the new Kansas City baseball team– 1968
• The Guess Who’s “American Woman” was released as a single– 1970
• Soviet sub collided with USS Kitty Hawk– 1984
• U.S. figure skater Debi Thomas became the first African American woman to win the world’s championship, Geneva, Switzerland– 1986
• After 33 years, Dick Clark announced he was stepping down as host of American Bandstand– 1989
• Former NBA star Michael Jordan was dropped from the White Sox major league baseball roster and sent to minor league spring training camp– 1994
• Rajveer Meena recited 70,000 decimal places of pi– 2015