1888-The poem: "Casey at the Bat" by Edward Lawrence Thayer published in the San Francisco Examiner.
1924- Writer Franz Kafka died in Keirling Austria. He left instructions to
Friends to burn all his unfinished manuscripts including the Trial, but
fortunately his friends did not.
1946- A consumer study finds there are only 10,000 television sets in America.
A follow up study five years later finds the number at 12 million.
1980- President Jimmy Carter announced the United States would boycott the 1980 summer Olympic Games in Moscow because of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. This messed up the release of the NBC animated special Animalympics, produced by Steve Lisberger (Tron).
2001- Walt Disney's Atlantis premiered.
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