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** Andersonville Commercial Historic District, an historic district in Chicago
** Chicago ( now Reisinger ) ( 2 ) 1944, 1951
** Dirksen Federal Building – Office Tower, Chicago
** Kluczynski Federal Building – Office Tower, Chicago
** United States Post Office Loop Station – General Post Office, Chicago
** 1919: Chicago, Illinois
** West Side Riots ; Chicago, Illinois
** The Toronto Blue Jays play their first game of baseball against the Chicago White Sox.
** John Paxson's 3-point shot in Game 6 of the NBA Finals helps the Chicago Bulls secure a 99 – 98 win over the Phoenix Suns, and their third consecutive championship.
** American gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion in Chicago.
** The SS E. A. Bryan, loaded with ammunition, explodes at the Port Chicago naval base ; 320 are killed.
** In Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank ( now part of the LaSalle Bank ) opens the first 10 drive-up teller windows.
** Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak begins as the New York Yankee center fielder goes one for four against Chicago White Sox Pitcher Eddie Smith.
** U. S. President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore are renominated at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
** American Airlines Flight 320, a Lockheed L-188 Electra heading from Chicago to New York City, crashes into the East River, killing 65 of the 73 people on board.
** A commuter train collision in Chicago kills 45, injures hundreds.
** United Airlines Boeing 737 from Washington National to Chicago Midway crashes short of the runway, killing 43 of 61 passengers and 2 people on the ground.
** The Chicago Police Department shoot and kill ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago in what is known as the Memorial Day massacre.
** Richard Speck murders 8 student nurses in their Chicago dormitory.
** Martin Luther King Jr. leads a civil rights march in Chicago, during which he is struck by a rock thrown from an angry white mob.
** John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1815 )
** Frederick Jackson Turner gives a lecture titled " The Significance of the Frontier in American History " before the American Historical Association in Chicago.
** The World Parliament of Religions in Chicago opens its first meeting.
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** If a team is penalized in the final minute of a half and the penalty causes the clock to stop, the opposing team now has the right to have 10 seconds run off the clock in addition to the yardage penalty.
** Players lined up outside the tackle box — more specifically, those lined up more than 7 yards from the center — will now be allowed to block below the waist only if they are blocking straight ahead or toward the nearest sideline.
** On placekicks, no offensive lineman can now be engaged by more than two defensive players.
** Dennis the Menace Annual, now known as the Dennis and Gnasher Annual, a compilation of the comics plus new material
** French language, a Romance language originating in what is now northern France
** Adeline in The Romance of the Forest-“ Her wicked Marquis, having secretly immured Number One ( his first wife ), has now a new and beautiful wife, whose character, alas!
** Asbury Park Trophy ( now Spingold ) ( 1 ) 1937
** The Battle of Harpers Ferry ( September 12 – 15, 1862 ), a battle in the American Civil War that took place around what is now Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
** Burmese Lethwei, a traditional Burmese martial art of which has now grown into a popular kickboxing event with strong emphasis on knee, elbow strikes and headbutt.
** Order † Sparassodonta ( formerly viewed as marsupials, now as a sister group of metatherians )
** For ohm – SI unit of electrical resistance ; formerly also used upside down () to represent mho, the old name for the inverse of an ohm ( now siemens with symbol S ) used for electrical conductance.
** United Paramount Network ( UPN ) – formerly a joint venture with United Television, now part of the CBS / Time Warner joint venture The CW Television Network
** Paramount Stations Group ( now CBS Television Stations )
** USA Networks ( also including what is now called Syfy ) – Paramount owned a stake starting in 1982, 50 % owner ( with Universal Studios ) from 1987 until 1997, when Paramount / Viacom sold their stake to Universal ( now part of NBCUniversal )
** Paramount International Television ( now CBS Studios International )
** Place du Panthéon in Paris, home of the Paris Law Faculty and now used in the names of two of the thirteen successor universities to the University of Paris-Pantheon-Sorbonne and Pantheon-Assas
** Top speed ( US model ) is now in excess of 250 km / h ( 155 mph ).
** North America manual tranmission model now uses same shorter final drive ratio as used elsewhere, to simplify production.
** Dual airbags now standard across all Porsche models in U. S. Driver and front passenger airbag optional in LHD ROW cars, only drivers side bag available in RHD markets.
** Sheetlets – this is a format that is now issued regularly by postal administrations.
** Victoria University, Leeds, a former College of the federal Victoria University ( UK ), now University of Leeds
** Victoria University, Liverpool, a former College of the federal Victoria University ( UK ), now University of Liverpool
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