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Shown here is a Tudor style Supertest of Canada service station at 356 Ontario Street in Stratford Ontario Canada at the corner of Ontario Street and Trow Avenue. Built in the early 1930's utilizing company standard architect it offered a full service facility for the motoring public. This building and the house to the left were raised in 1959 to make room for a new larger more modern Supertest Station. It continued to operate till the mid 1980's when the building was sold and converted for retail use.
The twin visible pumps were called the Canadian Double Pumps and were manufactured by Service Station Equipment in Toronto Canada. They have a series of light bulbs surrounding the top cover which is unique to their appearance.
The vehicle parked at the pumps awaiting fuel is a 1931 Plymouth PA 3 window coupe.
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Parecia buena gente, me acerque a ellos y les hable en un mal ingles, respondieron en un peor castellano, lo cierto es que la conversacion fue fluida, me contaron que eran holandeses y su siguiente destino portugal...
Built circa 1960s .... Remember when filling / gas stations were built to resemble houses. Most have since been demolished or altered so much, but this gas station, originally a Supertest gas station, has retained its original 1960s style ....
As a child, Daley Thompson was my hero, my icon and my first crush.
Daley was the greatest British athlete of the 1980's and one of the greatest of all-time. He stormed his way through the Decathlon, arguably the hardest event in athletics. His 100 metre sprint time alone could have got him in the top 10 final of the 100m at the time. He was an outstanding athlete, very driven and focused and an amazing all-round athlete, his only weakness in the Decathlon was the 1500 metres as he simply wasn't built for it.
He won two Olympic golds, one World Championship gold, two European Championship golds (and one silver and one bronze), three Commonwealth Golds (and one silver), as well as competing and gaining medals from relay races he took part in. He won multiple other competitions and was a sporting TV competitor.
There were two computer games named after him in the 80's as well, called "Daley Thompson's Decathlon" and "Daley Thompson's Supertest" which I had for my Spectrum 128k (hence the Spectrum game loading screen in the bottom right of the picture and the cassette tape).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daley_Thompson
Here is the supreme athlete as his best winning Olympic Gold in 1984: Daley Thompson Olympics 1984 Decathlon Day 1
Artwork ©jackiecrossley
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2.890 cc
4 in-line
20 pk @ 1.800 rpm
Bonhams : Den Hartogh Sale
Ford Museum
Hillegom
Netherlands
June 2018
Estimated : € 25.000 - 35.000
Sold for € 18.400
If it could be put onto wheels, it could put onto a Model T. If something beefier was needed, then it could be put on the Model TT, the heavy-duty version of the Model T. While the drivetrain in both was identical, the Model TT had a heavier frame and rear axle the sum of which gave it a rating of 1 short ton. While by no means quick, it was a reliable work horse on which all manner of hefty commercial applications was applied.
This TT is outfitted as Tanker Truck and liveried in bright orange and black with green trim for the no-longer-extant Ontario, Canada based Supertest Petroleum company. Operating from 1923 until 1973, Supertest Petroleum marketed itself as "Canada's All-Canadian Company" before being acquired by British Petroleum Canada in 1971. Hung with 1925 Ontario plates, the tanker unit on this truck has three compartments, 1100 litres up front, 750 litres in the middle, and 400 in the rear. Complete with extra coachlights, and a full complement of petroliana gas cans, it is rare to find any surviving commercial vehicles from this era, let along one in condition as nice as this.
Meandering around Hamilton in one of my periodic adventures through town, I came across a set of vintage gasoline pumps belonging to a collector of such automotive history. He kindly showed me around and gave me some interesting background on these and other items in his collection. I could not resist the colours. - JW
Date Taken: 2024-04-22
Date PP: 2024-05-01
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Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm VR 1:4.0 lense set to 55mm, ISO100, Daylight WB, Matrix metering, Aperture Priority Mode, f/9.0, 1/30 sec. PP in free Open Source GIMP from Nikon SOOC JPEG source file (because I like the camera results as-is): set final image size to be 9000 px wide, crop a little off the right side and bottom (maintaining the original aspect ratio) to get rid of a small intrusive detail as well as to get rid of a bit of excess blue wall along the right), use a non-destructive dodge/burn layer to darken window detail near the left side of the frame and make it a little less intrusive and then darken the clock face top left, increase overall contrast and brightness just a little, sharpen, save, scale to 6000 px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px wide for posting online, sharpen, save.
If you traveled to Canada from the US in the 1960s and 1970s, you'd notice a lot of things were similar, yet a bit different. For instance, Phillips 66 stations were called Pacific 66 there.
Phillips Petroleum sold its Canadian subsidiary, Pacific Petroleums, Ltd., to PetroCanada around 1980, and Pacific 66 memorabilia is rather difficult to come by. This ad is from a Pacific 66 Canadian highway guide.
This 1934 Dodge Sedan was photographed at the westerly limits of Stratford Ontario Canada in 1936. The car is parked at a B-A gasoline station, however it has a Supertest winter radiator cover across the front. Visible in the distant background is a Shell sign which shows even then the brisk competition for your fuel dollars. The well frozen white snow would indicate it is likely a cold January or February winter day.
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This is the famous speedboat Miss Supertest lll, three time winner of the Harmsworth Trophy ( British International Trophy) in 1959, 1960 and 1961. Her owner was Gordon Thompson and the driver was Bob Hayward. This is the 50th anniversary of Miss Supertest. Canada Post unveiled a commemorative stamp today and Long Reach where the races were held was officially re-named Hayward Long Reach. Bob Hayward was fatally injured in another race four weeks after the 1961 Harmsworth race driving Miss Supertest ll in the Detroit Silver Cup. Miss Supertest was on display in an airplane hanger in the former Camp Picton this past weekend. She has a powerful Rolls Royce engine.
Spent some time at Sydney Motorsport Park today shooting some of the V8 Supercars for their SuperTest day.
Este coche participó en la anterior edición de Forza Italia! pero a ésta solo acudió unos minutos para admirar los demás Ferrari.
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Español: www.km77.com/marcas/ferrari/360_03/challengestradale/0pri...
Français: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_360_Modena
Italiano: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_360
VÃdeo:
Spa Francorchamps: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t46N-SKpE44
Música:
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574 - John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1174 - Scottish King William, William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
1522 - Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht
1558 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
1568 - Dean of St Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer
1573 - Haarlem surrenders after 7 months to Spanish army
1643 - Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies
1645 - Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar of Russia
1657 - Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
1668 - Van Marco Cesti's opera "Il Pomo d'Oro," premieres in Vienna
1700 - Russian-Turkish peace
1772 - Capt James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas
1787 - Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)
1787 - Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop
1794 - Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria
1832 - Source of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft)
1836 - US patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels
1837 - Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace
1851 - John F Loudon discovers tin on East Indian Island of Billiton
1854 - US forces shell & burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
1854 - In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.
1861 - Battle of Corrick's Ford, VA (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia CS20 US53
1862 - Battle of Murfreesboro, TN (Forrest's Raid) US895 CS150
1863 - Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die
1863 - Battle of Bayou La Fourche, LA
1863 - Battle of Tupelo, MS (Harrisburg) [->JUL 15] US648 CS700
1863 - Rebellion at Morgan's, Ohio [->JUL 26]
1864 - Early retreats from Washington City back to Shenandoah Valley
1865 - Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man"
1865 - P T Barnum's museum burns down
1868 - Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana
1870 - King Wilhelm of Prussia sends "Emser Depeche" on Bismarck
1876 - 29th Postmaster General: James N Tyner of Ind takes office
1878 - Congress of Berlin discusses division of African colonization ends
1878 - Treaty of Berlin amended terms of Treaty of San Stefano
1882 - 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
1896 - Ed Delahanty, becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 4 HRs in a game
1898 - Guglielmo Marconi patents radio
1898 - SF Ferry Building at foot of Market St opens
1900 - Phillies beat Pittsburgh 23-8
1917 - Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal
1919 - Race riots in Longview & Gregg counties Texas
1919 - Chic White Sox pitcher Carl Mays walks off mound blaming teammates for lack of support afield
1923 - Draft law passes
1923 - The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
1924 - Albin Stenroos wins Olympic marathon (2:41:22.6)
1925 - French occupation force begins evacuating country
1926 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:20.4)
1930 - 1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay
1930 - Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
1934 - Babe Ruth hits HR #700 (against Detroit)
1935 - Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichskulturkammer
1935 - US-Russian commerce treaty takes effect
1936 - 112°F (44°C), Mio, Michigan (state record)
1936 - 114°F (46°C), Wisconsin Dells, Wisc (state record)
1938 - Kroller-Muller museum opens in Holland
1939 - Frank Sinatra made his recording debut
1941 - 24th PGA Championship: Vic Ghezzi at Cherry Hills CC Denver
1941 - Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder
1941 - World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).
1942 - 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis
1942 - German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages
1942 - SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland
1943 - 11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
1943 - Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany
1944 - Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated
1945 - 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico
1946 - "Tidbits of 1946" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 8 performances
1948 - 15th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-2 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
1949 - Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics
1950 - Doctors remove 7 bone fragments from Ted Williams elbow
1950 - René Pleven forms French govt
1954 - 21st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
1954 - Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a batter, he threw out Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9
1956 - WCBI TV channel 4 in Columbus, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - 13th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1958 - 87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham
1958 - Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1960 - 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
1960 - KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA
1960 - US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate
1962 - 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea
1962 - 91st British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Early Wynn, wins his 300th & last game at 43
1965 - 36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minn
1965 - All star MVP: Juan Marichal (SF Giant)
1966 - Richard Speck, murders 8 nurses in Chicago
1967 - Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die
1968 - 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland
1968 - French govt-Couve de Murville forms
1969 - Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
1969 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Ladies' Supertest Golf Open
1970 - Building begins of Amsterdam metro
1971 - 42nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-4 at Tiger Stadium, Detroit
1971 - All star MVP: Frank Robinson (Baltimore Orioles)
1972 - LA Rams (Irsay) & Baltimore Colts (Rosenbloom) swap owners
1973 - Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating KC 5-0
1973 - Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina
1974 - 103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham
1974 - India's 1st one-day international (v England, Headingley)
1975 - 8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record)
1975 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1976 - 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Phila
1976 - All star MVP: George Foster (Cin Reds)
1976 - Court martial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct)
1976 - Last day of Test Cricket for Brian Close, aged 45
1977 - NYC experiences 25 hr black-out
1978 - Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR
1978 - Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years
1978 - BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"
1978 - Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor Pres by chairman Henry Ford II
1978 - Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp
1978 - Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida
1979 - Calif's Nolan Ryan & Boston's Steve Renko each lose no-hitters in 9th
1979 - George Harrison releases "Faster"
1980 - 35th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - 53rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Montreal
1982 - All star MVP: Dave Conception (Cin Reds)
1982 - Train crash at Aalter Belgium, 5 killed
1984 - Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert
1984 - Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows
1984 - Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m
1985 - "Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief
1985 - NY Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) & Elston Howard (32) uniforms
1987 - Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials
1988 - 9th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1988 - Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan
1988 - Sting performs his 1st Rain Forest benefit concert
1991 - Bob Milacki & 3 other Balt Oriole pitchers no-hit A's 2-0
1993 - 64th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-3 at Camden Yards, Baltimore
1993 - All star MVP: Kirby Puckett (Minn Twins)
1994 - Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1994 - OJ Simpson (charged with murder) gives hair samples for testing
1995 - Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), launches
1996 - Cigar wins record 16th straight win, (ties Citation in 1940)
1997 - 15th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Larry Gilbert
1997 - 52nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Alison Nicholas
1997 - David Toms wins Quad City Golf Classic at 265
1997 - Ford Senior Players Golf Championship
1997 - Indonesian ferry sinks, killing at least 77
Supertest Tanker O/B Robica FormanTank Ltd.
www.robicatank.com/Ford%20Pailer/fordpailer.htm
Photographed @ the 2012 Fleetwood Country Cruize-In London, Ontario.
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Die Nürburgring-Nordschleife ist unbestritten das ultimative Automobil-Prüffeld. Und der „Supertest“ der Fachzeitschrift „sport auto“ gilt als die ultimative Bewährungsprobe für Sportwagen. Dieser Herausforderung hat sich unser neuer Corsa OPC mit Performance Paket gestellt.
© GM Company.
2.890 cc
4 in-line
20 pk @ 1.800 rpm
Bonhams : Den Hartogh Sale
Ford Museum
Hillegom
Netherlands
June 2018
Estimated : € 25.000 - 35.000
Sold for € 18.400
If it could be put onto wheels, it could put onto a Model T. If something beefier was needed, then it could be put on the Model TT, the heavy-duty version of the Model T. While the drivetrain in both was identical, the Model TT had a heavier frame and rear axle the sum of which gave it a rating of 1 short ton. While by no means quick, it was a reliable work horse on which all manner of hefty commercial applications was applied.
This TT is outfitted as Tanker Truck and liveried in bright orange and black with green trim for the no-longer-extant Ontario, Canada based Supertest Petroleum company. Operating from 1923 until 1973, Supertest Petroleum marketed itself as "Canada's All-Canadian Company" before being acquired by British Petroleum Canada in 1971. Hung with 1925 Ontario plates, the tanker unit on this truck has three compartments, 1100 litres up front, 750 litres in the middle, and 400 in the rear. Complete with extra coachlights, and a full complement of petroliana gas cans, it is rare to find any surviving commercial vehicles from this era, let along one in condition as nice as this.
La negra costurera se mecia en su verde alcoba como esperando la cena... Sin saberse objeto de nuestras indiscretas miradas
259 - Dionysius elected as bishop of Rome, succeeding Sixtus II
260 - St Dionysius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1298 - English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk
1306 - King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France
1456 - Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats sultan Murad II
1484 - Battle of Lochmaben Fair - a 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
1489 - "Tractate Niddah" a talmudic edition, 1st printed
1489 - Treaty of Frankfurt
1515 - Anna of Bohemia (12) marries Karel van Ferdinand of Austria
1515 - Louis of Hungary (9) marries Maria of Bohemia & succession to Hungarian throne
1515 - Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland & Holy Roman Empire
1535 - Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Adm Barbarossa
1582 - Willem van Orange moves from Antwerp to Delft
1587 - 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC
1627 - English fleet under George Villiers lands on the Rhe [OS=June 12]
1632 - Foundation laid in Madrid for Buen Retiro-palace for king Philip IV
1648 - 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre
1686 - City of Albany, NY chartered
1691 - Battle at Aghrim: English/Dutch army beats France
1729 - Diamonds found in Minas Geras Brazil
1731 - Spain signs Treaty of Vienna
1739 - Turks defeats Holy Roman Emp at Crocyka Yugoslavia & threaten Belgrade
1775 - George Washington takes command of US troops
1793 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
1796 - Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen Moses Cleveland
1812 - Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain
1859 - V E Walker takes 10-74 in an innings for England v Surrey
1864 - Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman, 8449 conf, 3641 US die
1865 - V E Walker takes 10-104 in an innings for Middlesex v Lancs
1893 - Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful," in Colorado
1898 - Belgica crew see 1st sunrise in 1600 hrs-1st to endure Antarctic winter
1901 - Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro
1905 - Phila Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0
1912 - 5th Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden closes
1916 - A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in SF killing 10
1917 - Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian PM
1917 - British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades
1918 - Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park
1919 - De Falla & Massine's "Three-cornered Hat," premieres in London
1921 - 25th US Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 289 at Columbia CC in MD
1922 - Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St Louis teams are on top
1923 - Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508)
1925 - Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher
1926 - 105°F (41°C), Waterbury, Connecticut (state record)
1926 - 108°F (42°C), Troy, NY (state record)
1926 - Cin Red Curt Walker ties record of 2 triples in an inning
1933 - 1st solo flight round the world 7d 19hrs (Wiley Post)
1933 - Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida," NYC-1st negro prima donna in US
1933 - Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight
1934 - Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1935 - Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia
1936 - Phillies John Moore hits 3 consecutive HRs
1937 - Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections
1937 - Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court
1939 - 1st black woman judge (Jane Matilda Bolin-NYC)
1940 - Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks
1940 - Jacqueline Kennedy's parents divorce
1942 - 4th Russian Pantser army forms with 80 tanks
1942 - Gasoline rationing using coupons begins
1942 - Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp
1943 - US forces led by Gen George Patton liberate Palermo Sicily
1944 - Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation
1946 - Estelle Bennett, rocker (Ronettes)
1946 - Menachen Begin's opposition group surprise attack on King David hotel
1947 - -8°F (-13°C), Charlotte Pass, NSW (Australian record)
1950 - Frank Worrell completes 261 v England at Trent Bridge
1950 - King Leopold, after 6 years in exile, returns to Belgium
1951 - Gen Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed pres of Portugal
1952 - Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution
1954 - Virgin Islands (US) adopts constitution (Revised Organic Act)
1954 - WTHI TV channel 10 in Terre Haute, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - 1st VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon
1955 - Phillies longest win streak since 1892 hits 11
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1959 - Benjamin Britten's "Missa Brevis" in D, premieres
1959 - Earth gas found at Kolham (Slochteren) Groningen
1960 - Cuba nationalizes all US owned sugar factories
1961 - WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - 1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off
1962 - 44th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 278 at Aronimink GC PA
1962 - Chic White Sox Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles)
1962 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Tournament
1963 - Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles"
1963 - Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1965 - Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of Brit Cons party
1967 - 1st major appearance by Vanilla Fudge (Village Theater NYC)
1967 - Atlanta Braves use a record 5 pitchers in 9th inning
1967 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Ladies' Golf Open
1967 - Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour
1968 - Sir John Newsome recommends public schools should take 50% of their intake from the state school system
1969 - Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing peace in Detroit
1969 - USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
1971 - Sudan military counter coup under premier Numeiry
1972 - 10.84" (27.53 cm) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record)
1972 - Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus
1973 - 28th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
1975 - House of Reps votes to restore citizenship to Gen Robert E Lee
1976 - "Let My People Come" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 106 performances
1979 - Pat Meyers wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
1981 - Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life
1982 - Academic Text Processing Service forms in Seattle
1982 - Biggest mass wedding, Rev Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in NYC
1983 - -128.6°F (-89.2°C) recorded, Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
1983 - Angels OF Brian Downing error ends his record streak at 244 games
1983 - Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world
1983 - Poland's PM Januzelski lifts martial law
1984 - 113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St Andrews
1984 - 22nd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Australia in Sao Paulo Brazil (2-1)
1984 - Kathy Whitworth wins Rochester Golf International (her 85th win)
1984 - Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
1986 - House of Reps impeaches Judge Harry E Claiborne on tax evasion
1987 - Said Aouita of Morocco sets 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome
1987 - Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian)
1987 - US began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf
1988 - 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
1989 - Kristin Huxhold, 18, of Missouri, crowned America's Junior Miss
1990 - 119th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St Andrews Scotland
1990 - 90th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson
1990 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
1990 - Greg LeMond of US wins his 3rd Tour de France
1991 - Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978
1992 - Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison
1992 - Soyuz TM-15 launches
1993 - NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits his 200th HR
1993 - Soyuz TM-17 lands
1994 - 23rd & last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (since July 16th)
1994 - Doc Gooden admitted to Betty Ford Center
1994 - Mariners play Red Sox as home team at Fenway, as Kingdome is repaired
1994 - Military coup in Gambia: Pres Dawda Jawara flees
1994 - OJ Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder
1994 - William Sigei runs world record 10k (26:52.53)
1995 - Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), lands
1995 - Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her 2 children in SC
1997 - Fire breaks out at Palais de Chaillot in Paris
1997 - The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
2002 - Israel assassinates Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, along with 14 civilians.
2003 - Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.
2005 – Innocent and unarmed Brazilian plumber Jean Charles de Menezes is gunned down by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers. www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=14090&ArticleId=3...