1929<\/strong> – JCPenney opened a store in Milford,\u00a0DE, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.<\/p>\n 1932<\/strong> – In New York, the first telecast of a political campaign was aired.<\/p>\n 1936<\/strong> – The radio show, “Professor Quiz”, aired for the first time.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Roosevelt\u00a0was presented with a letter from Albert Einstein that urged him to develop the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0atomic program rapidly.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – The Battle of Cape Esperance, during World War II, began in the Solomons.<\/p>\n 1958<\/strong> –\u00a0Pioneer 1<\/i>, a lunar probe, was launched by the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0The probe did not reach its destination and fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> –\u00a0Apollo 7<\/i> was launched by the U.S. The first manned Apollo mission was the first in which live television broadcasts were received from orbit. Wally Schirra, Don Fulton Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham were the astronauts aboard.<\/p>\n 1971<\/strong> – Hugh Downs left the “Today” show and “Concentration”. He later became the host of ABC’s “20\/20”.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – “Saturday Night Live” was broadcast for the first time. George Carlin was the guest host.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham were married in Fayetteville,\u00a0AR.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – The last hand-cranked telephones in the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0went out of service. The 440 telephone customers of Bryant Pond,\u00a0ME, were switched to direct-dial service.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – Construction began on the Kamric\/Cinergy Futursonics Studio in Houston,\u00a0TX.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – American Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first female astronaut to spacewalk. She was aboard the space shuttle Challenger<\/i>.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) made his debut in the\u00a0National Hockey League (NHL)\u00a0against the Boston Bruins. He scored a goal on his first shot on his first\u00a0NHL\u00a0shift.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0troops in Haiti took control of the National Palace.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Iraqi troops began moving away from the Kuwaiti border.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – The Colorado Supreme Court declared that the anti-gay rights measure in the state was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 NASA launches\u00a0STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Polaroid Corporation\u00a0files for federal bankruptcy protection.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0bomb attack\u00a0in a shopping mall in Finland kills seven.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A migrant boat\u00a0sinks\u00a0in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 34 people drowning.<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Soyuz MS-10, launching an intended crew for the ISS, suffers an in-flight abort. 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