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1913
Aug 4
| 1913 • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, ending construction on the Panama Canal. |
1920
Age: 6y
| 1920 • The National Football League is established as the American Professional Football Association. |
1930
Age: 16y
| 1930 • New York station W2XBS is put in charge of NBC broadcast engineers. |
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Jun
Age: 25y
1939
Jun
Age: 25y
birth of childCharles Lee Smith Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1939 • Lou Gehrig gives his last public speech, following a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In it, he says, "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." |
1940
Apr 11
Age: 26y
1943
Apr 25
Age: 29y
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birth of childReta Kay Smith Ottumwa, Iowa, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1943 • WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the naval Battle of Cape St. George between Buka and New Ireland. |
2009
May 28
Age: 95y
| 2009 • NASA launches the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/LCROSS probes to the Moon, the first American lunar mission since Lunar Prospector in 1998. |