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Year / Newsworthy Event / DNA Historical Event
1859 / Oregon admitted as 33rd State
1865 / General Lee named General of Confederate armies
1869 / Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society
1879 / 1st artificial ice rink in North America – New York
1900 / USA annexes Hawaii
02 / 1st Rose Bowl game
09 / Albert Raines runs world record marathon (2:46:04.6)
Mr Sutherland’s PR 2:20:53
11 / 1st running of Indianapolis 500
41 / Plutonium was first produced by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
43 / First Tin Can Drive Day
44 / Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes
52 / University of Tennessee admits it's 1st black student
53 / 1st woman to break sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA)
55 / Elvis Presley made his 1st TV appearance
56 / Buddy Holly's 1st formal recording session
58 / NASA created to replace NACA
59 / Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dom Rep
61 / President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp
66 / Luna 13 lands on Moon
68 / Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy
72 / Dallas Cowboys beat SF '49ers 14-3 in NFC championship game
73 / Pres Nixon suspends all US offensive action in N Vietnam
75 / Assassination attempt on president Gerald Ford
77 / Earthquake in SF, at 5.0, strongest since 1966
81 / Mr. Sutherland Graduates from Oak Grove HS
82 / Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd hit
83 / Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 m 7.1 s
86 / AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at WesternMiddle School
87 / 1st release of Beatles compact discs
89 / Superbowl XXIII: SF 49ers beat Cin Bengals
90 / Superbowl XXIV: SF 49ers beat Denver Broncos, 55-10
91 / A's Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yanks – Mr. Sutherland was there at the game!
92 / Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years
93 / 10th MTV Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins
94 / Nicole Sutherland is Born in Walnut Creek Kaiser
95 / Murder trial against OJ Simpson
96 / Stone of Scone returned to Scotland
97 / Pres Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery
98 / Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
99 / President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2000 / The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore
2001 / Terrorists hijack two passenger planes crashing them into New York's WorldTradeTowers causing the collapse of both & death of 2,752 people
2002 / Michael Jackson receives the Artist of the Century award at the American music awards
2003 / U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later
2004 / The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth – Whew!
2005 / Lance Armstrong retires after winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France victory
2006 / The United States population reaches 300 million
future / 2017- Next total solar eclipse visible from North America