262 days burned, only 103 days left to go.
1881 - President James A.Garfield who had been in office just under four months, succumbs to wounds inflicted by an assassin 80 days earlier, on July 2.
1876 - Melville Bissell patented the first carpet sweeper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=owmYZYk46bo
1796 - U.S. President Washington's farewell address was published.
1928 - "The Singing Fool" with Al Jolson is released. It is the second talkie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Pfdh4JWlMeo
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uREfZUBYI7A
1961 - Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke is a top charter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RtD2u3ZsmPE
1963 - The Crystals’ "Then He Kissed Me" debuted on U.K. charts this day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=r17KaC7C5D4
1970 - "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" premiered on CBS-TV.
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1977 - Don’t Stop - Fleetwood Mac tops the charts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=SjFmaKx9Lw4
1982 - emoticons were born when Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman proposed using a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis – :–

– to depict a horizontal smiley face.
1991 - Ötzi, the Iceman, was found on the Similaun Glacier in the Tirolean Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border. The body is that of a man aged 25 to 35 who had been about 5 feet 2 inches (1.6 meters) tall and had weighed about 50 kg (110 pounds), is the oldest mummified human body ever found intact -- some 5000 years old. And his few remaining scalp hairs provided the earliest archaeological evidence of haircutting. And, if that’s not enough, Ötzi was found to have a number of ‘points’ tattooed on his body, 80% of which are considered valid modern acupucture points and dates acupuncture back to at least 3300 B.C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WA3AiNup7fY
1995 - The New York Times and The Washington Post published the Unabomber's manifesto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QKg3CN0dDnQ
2009 - The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=J2LlUzOH4fE
2010 - The BP oil well that had spilled hundred of millions of oil into the Gulf of Mexico was sealed with a permanent cement plug.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CyGNNbeutRI