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Events

• Notorious pirate Captain William Kidd (“Captain Kidd”) seized in Boston– 1699
• Pennsylvania Evening Post first newspaper to publish Declaration of Independence– 1776
• French scientist Louis Pasteur successfully tested a vaccine against rabies on a boy bitten by an infected dog– 1885
• First east-to-west Atlantic crossing by a dirigible (R34) completed, Scotland to N.Y.– 1919
• First major league All-Star baseball game was played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park– 1933
• The main tent of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus went up in flames during a performance in Hartford, Connecticut; over 165 people died and many more were injured– 1944
• Candid Microphone made its radio debut– 1947
• Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon championship becoming the first African American athlete to do so– 1957
• A nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site caused the largest manmade crater in the United States (Sedan Crater).– 1962
• The first Beatles film, A Hard Day’s Night, premiered– 1964
• Fires in Quebec brought smoke to northeastern U.S.– 2002
• Queen Elizabeth II dedicated and formally opened a $6.5 million oval granite water fountain in honor of Princess Diana in Hyde Park– 2004