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Events

• John Adams sworn in as the first vice president of the U.S.– 1789
• Battle of San Jacinto, Texas– 1836
• David Dows, largest five-masted schooner of its time, launched– 1881
• The New York Giants and New York Yankees played an exhibition game to benefit survivors of the Titanic– 1912
• World record: 2,664-pound great white shark caught off southern coast of Australia– 1959
• 70-lb. 5-oz. bigmouth buffalofish caught, Bastrop, Louisiana– 1980
• 50-lb. 8-oz. African pompano caught, Daytona Beach, Florida– 1990
• Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry, journeyed into space– 1997
• In a procedure billed as a first in the U.S., Stephanie Yarber, an infertile Alabama woman, received a transplanted ovary from her identical twin sister, Melanie Morgan– 2004
• Thirteen year old Morgan Pozgar won the LG National Texting Championship. She typed the message, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough you’ll always sound precocious. in 15 seconds– 2007
• Chicago White Sox pitcher Phil Humber threw a perfect game– 2012
• Fireball exploded over Sierra Nevada mountain range in California, rattling homes from central California to Reno, Nevada. Experts believe it was caused by a meteoroid about the size of a minivan.– 2012