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Entertainment:

1952 - "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV.

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Inventions:

1888 - 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington D.C.

1957 -1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster, Pa.

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News:

1777 - Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ.

1847 -  California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.

1861 -  Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy.

1872 - 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office.

1876 - 1st free kindergarten in US opens in Florence, Mass.

1911 - US postal savings bank inaugurated.

1918 -  US employment service opens as a unit of Dept of Labor.

1922 - 1st living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar.

1929 - 27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS president.

1938 -  March of Dimes established to fight polio

1939 -  Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in U.S. House of Representatives.

1943 - 1st missing persons telecast (NYC).

1947 -  1st opening session of Congress to be televised.

1947 -  William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee.

1951 - 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/US agents.

1958 - Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland.

1959 - Alaska admitted as 49th U.S. state.

1961 - U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba.

1977 - Apple Computers incorporate.

1984 - Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson.

1985 - Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews.

1988 - Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century.

1989 - Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement.

1990 - Panama's leader Gen Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities.

1991-  Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years.

1992 -  32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter.

1993 - Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months.

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1993 - US President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START 2) in Moscow.

2002 - Israeli commandos seize Iranian ship Karim A. in international waters in the Red Sea some 500 km south of Elat. The ship is captained by a Palestinian and carries 50 tons of mainly Iranian-manufactured arms and munitions, including mortars and anti-tank missiles.

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Religion:

1431 -  Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop.

1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.

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1521 - German Reformer Martin Luther, 38, was excommunicated by Pope Leo X for challenging Catholic Church doctrine. Luther soon after began translating of the Bible into the German language.

1930 - American Congregational missionary Frank C. Laubach wrote in a letter: 'I have done nothing but open windows A[lmighty] God has done the rest.'

1934 - At Barmen-Gemarke, in Germany, 320 pastors of the German Confessing Church met to draw up a theological statement opposing the Nazi German Nationalist Church. Led by Karl Barth and Martin Niem”ller, the gathering led to the formula afterward known as the Barmen Declaration.

1956 - The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, established in 1870, officially changed its name to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. The denomination is headquartered today in Memphis, TN, and comprises a membership of nearly 500,000.

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Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987. Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)