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Events

• Christopher Columbus first saw New World– 1492
• Bavarian Crown Price Ludwig married Princess Therese of Hildburghausen in Munich. Their wedding celebration lasted for days, and became a yearly tradition known today as “Oktoberfest.”– 1810
• An iron lung respirator used for the first time in Boston, MA– 1928
• The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show made its television debut. Burns and Allen had been on the radio since 1935– 1950
• Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson won Nobel Peace Prize– 1957
• U.S.S.R.’s Voskhod 1 launched– 1964
• The U.S. Navy concluded its Sealab II program, in which teams of aquanauts lived and worked in a capsule submerged off the California coast– 1965
• 19th Summer Olympic games began, Mexico City, Mexico– 1968
• Jesus Christ Superstar, the Broadway musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, premieres in New York– 1971
• Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize– 2007