1916<\/strong> – Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in New York City,\u00a0NY.<\/p>\n 1923<\/strong> – Walt Disney contracted with M.J. Winkler to distribute the Alice Comedies. This event is recognized as the start of the Disney Company. 1928<\/strong> – Marvin Pipkin received a patent for the frosted electric light bulb.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – “Right To Happiness” debuted on the NBC-Blue network.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – “The Man Who Came to Dinner” opened on Broadway.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – The Nazis advanced to within 60 miles of Moscow. Romanians entered Odesa, USSR, and began exterminating 150,000 Jews.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – The ballet “Rodeo” premiered in New York City.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> – Chicago’s new subway system was officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – “The Robe,” by Lloyd Douglas, was published for the first time.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – “His Honor the Barber” debuted on NBC Radio.<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong> – Mrs. Jules Lederer replaced Ruth Crowley in newspapers using the name Ann Landers.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Kennedy\u00a0was informed that there were missile bases in Cuba, beginning the Cuban missile crisis.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> – China detonated its first atomic bomb becoming the world’s fifth nuclear power.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – NATO headquarters opened in Brussels.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt to succeed in Gamal Abdel Nassar.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Vietnamese official declined the award.<\/p>\n 1978<\/strong> – Poland’s Karol Josef Wojtyla was elected Pope John Paul II.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – China announced that it had successfully fired a ballistic missile from a submarine.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – Rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned well that she had fallen into in Midland,\u00a0TX. She was trapped for 58 hours.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed the Gramm-Rudman budget reduction law that ordered federal programs to be cut by $16.1 billion.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – Comedian Steve Martin and his wife Victoria Tennant visited\u00a0U.S.\u00a0soldiers in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – The U.N. 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