#: (C) Copyright 1990-1991 The Software Construction Co., All Rights Reserved. #: #: Monthly stuff 6:National Accordion Awareness Month. #: Events depending on weekdays R(6/21):Viola Gopher Count (3rd Thursday). #: Normal events 6/1/1869 :Voting machine patented (Thomas A. Edison). 6/2/1835 :P.T. Barnum's circus began 1st US tour. 6/3/1888 :"Casey at the Bat" 1st appeared in print (SF Examiner). 6/4 :Old Maid's Day (never married women > 35). 6/5/1933 :Gold standard abolished. 6/6/1933 :First drive-in movie theater opened (Camden, NJ). 6/7/1924 :Batman's parents killed. 6/8/1786 :Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr. Hall, NYC). 6/9/1934 :Donald Duck made his 1st screen appearance ("The Wise Little :Hen"). 6/10/1652 :1st mint in America (Boston). 6/11/1816 :The Gas Light Co. of Baltimore founded. 6/12/1981 :Major league baseball strike began. 6/13/1947 :1st night game in Fenway Park (Red Sox 5 White Sox 3). 6/14/1834 :Sandpaper patented (I. Fisccher, Jr.). 6/15/1878 :Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland :Stanford that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground :during the gallop. 6/16 :National Juggling Day. 6/17/1953 :Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox). 6/18/1898 :First amusement pier opened in Atlantic City, NJ. 6/19/1893 :Lizzie Bordon acquitted. 6/20/1909 :First balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham and Eleanor Waring). 6/21/1948 :33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced (Columbia Records). 6/22/1832 :Pin manufacturing machine patented (J.I. Howe). 6/23/1980 :First solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation. 6/24 :Middle Children's Day. 6/25/1876 :Little Big Horn (Custer's Last Stand) (209 killed). 6/26/1498 :Toothbrush invented. 6/27/1980 :First female state police graduates (NJ). 6/28/1762 :1st reported counterfeiting attempt (Boston). 6/29/1978 :Bob Crane, actor ("Hogan's Heroes"), murdered. 6/30/1985 :James Dewar, inventor of the Twinkie, died.