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1908- Henry Ford’s company builds the first Model T car

1966- Beatles release single “Yellow Submarine” with “Eleanor Rigby” in UK

1928- Test footage first created for Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” with Mickey Mouse

1959- Ed Wood’s cult classic “plan 9 from outer space”, called one of the worse films ever, premieres

1978- British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Jack Nicklaus completes 3rd career grand slam; wins by 2 strokes from Ben Crenshaw & Ray Floyd

1996- British girls group the Spice Girls release their debut single “Wannabe” in the UK

1967- The Beatles’ album “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” goes #1 in the United States, where it would stay for 15 weeks

1930- 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia, Washington, D.C.

1856- Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia

1963- US Equal Pay Act signed into law by President John F. Kennedy