On this day in history..

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Jun 19, 1846, The New York Knickerbocker Club played the New York Club in the first baseball game at the Elysian Field, Hoboken, New Jersey. It was the first organized baseball game.

 

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Jun 21, 1913, Georgia Broadwick became the first woman to jump from an airplane.

 

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Jun 24, 1664, New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, was founded.

 

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Jun 26, 1804, The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.

 

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Jun 28, 1894, The U.S. Congress made Labor Day a U.S. national holiday

 

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Jun 29, 1888, Professor Frederick Treves performed the first appendectomy in England.

 

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Jul 02, 1857, New York City's first elevated railroad officially opened for business.

 

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Jul 08, 1881, Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured chocolate syrup on ice cream in a dish. Up to this time, chocolate syrup had only been used for making ice-cream sodas.

 

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Jul 09, 1776, The American Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.