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19591776 Club

Six men gather in a Chicago hotel and vote a rival league into being

Lamar Hunt, turned away by the NFL, lines up owners for Dallas, New York, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles and the Twin Cities.

Bert Bell's NFL had refused to expand, and a young Dallas oilman named Lamar Hunt had just failed to buy the Chicago Cardinals and move them south. On August 14, 1959, Hunt and representatives from Houston, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, and Minneapolis-Saint Paul met in Chicago and agreed to charter memberships in a brand-new professional football league. Bud Adams took Houston, Bob Howsam took Denver, Barron Hilton took Los Angeles, Harry Wismer took New York, and Max Winter and Bill Boyer took Minneapolis-Saint Paul. Eight days later in Dallas, the group gave the new venture its name: the American Football League…

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1935

Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act; the elderly get a federal pension

Payroll taxes will fund old-age benefits, unemployment insurance, and aid to families with dependent children.
1842

Washington declares the Seminole war over; no one signed anything

General Worth's campaign of burned villages and starved crops empties the Everglades of most Seminole resistance, but a few hundred hold out.
1941

Churchill and Roosevelt issue a joint charter for the postwar world

Meeting in secret off Newfoundland, the two leaders lay out eight principles for peace before America has even entered the war.
18481776 Club
Seven years after the first wagon trains rolled west, the region finally got a governor appointed in Washington.
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1975

Stafford and Leonov shake hands through an open hatch; American and Soviet spacecraft dock in orbit

Soyuz 19 and the last Apollo ever built linked up at 16:19 UTC, two days after lifting off from opposite sides of the world.
1966

Young and Collins ride Agena's engine to 412 nautical miles; no human has flown higher

Gemini 10 docks with its target vehicle hours after liftoff from Cape Kennedy, with Collins set to walk outside and retrieve hardware from a second Agena still drifting in orbit.
1960

From out of the deep to target, perfect: Polaris fires from a submerged submarine

A second missile follows within two hours, both striking 1,100 miles downrange off Florida.
1969

Eagle touches down with about 50 seconds of fuel left; Armstrong radios "the Eagle has landed"

Alarms blared during descent as Mission Control watched the fuel gauge fall, and a spacecraft named for a bird settled into lunar dust.
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