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1452 First book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible

1791 Mozart's opera The Magic Flute premiers in Vienna

1846 Anesthetic ether used for first time (Dr. Wm. Morton extracts a tooth)

1875 First sittings of the Supreme Court of Canada.

1898 City of New York established

1924 Truman Capote, a short story writer (In Cold Blood), is born

1934 Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3

1935 Johnny Mathis singer (Chances are, 12th of Never) is born

1946 Twenty-two Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg, Von Ribbentrop & Goering sentenced to death

1950 Federal cabinet decides to free exchange rate of Canadian dollar, putting it on the open market.

1954 First atomic-powered vessel, submarine Nautilus, launched

1955 James Dean, killed in an auto collision at 24 near Cholame, CA, is born

1960 Flintstones premiers (first prime time animation show)

1967 BBC starts their own popular music radio station

1967 $235 million Great Canadian Oil Sands plant starts to extract oil from Athabasca tar sands.

1968 First Boeing 747 rolls out

1977 Ringo Starr releases Ringo the 4th album

1981 International Olympic Committee votes to give Calgary the 1988 Winter Olympic Games

1988 LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale mark by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings

1989 Toronto beats Baltimore 4-3, to win the American League East title.

1994 Supreme Court of Canada rules a man accused of sexual assault can use the defence that he was too drunk to know what he was doing.