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• 1903

  The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.

• 1963

  Jan and Dean’s “Surf City” achieves the #1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles

• 1965

  “Do You Believe in Magic? ” by The Lovin’ Spoonful is released on the Kama Sutra record label

• 1968

  The first Special Olympics were held in Chicago

• 1969

  Astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. First words transmitted from the moon; “Houston, Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed.”

• 1973

  Bruce Lee died at the age of 32. He suffered a cerebral edema, or swelling of the brain, caused by an allergic reaction either to a prescription painkiller he was taking or to a drug he was taking for a back injury.

• 1975

  Steven Van Zandt makes his first appearance in concert with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

• 1976

  Hank Aaron hit his 755th home run, the final home run of his career AND the American Viking 1 lands successfully on Mars

• 1984

  The film, “Revenge of the Nerds” debuted in theaters

• 1991

  EMF’s “Unbelievable” occupied the top spot on the Billboard Singles Chart

• 2007

  Tammy Faye Baker Messner passed from cancer AND President George W. Bush signed an executive order prohibiting the cruel and inhumane treatment of terrorism suspects

• 2010

  In an exercise in attempted political correctness, Playboy launched a safe-for-work Website at TheSmokingJacket.com. It featured bikini clad women, articles and lots of jokes.

• 2012

  During a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises, a gunman opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring 58.

• 2017

  O. J. Simpson was granted parole from prison.  He had served nine years of a 33-year sentence for armed robbery in Las Vegas.

• 2021

  Jeff Bezos flies to space aboard New Shepard NS-16 operated by his Private spaceflight company, Blue Origin.

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