1919 – The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich.

1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated.

 black321 wrote: 
We had a 99 year lease on the land for our house in Newport Beach (Corona del Mar actually) back in the 60's.  We owned the house but the good ole Irvine Ranch Company retained ownership of the land.  It was to protect the ownership of the house and keep it salable in the future.  Going forward, the land was eventually sold or turned over to the homeowners and the IRC was no longer involved.  Not only did we have the lease but we also formally homesteaded the house for even further protection from having the land sold out from under us.

1974 – United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

Some speculation 
The lease required a down payment of £100, an annual rent of £45, and a term of 9000 years (not a typo). Such lengthy leases were relatively common back then: “At the time in Ireland, there was a lot of instability to do with land tenure,” explains Fergus Brady, Archives Manager at Guinness. Centuries earlier, the British had begun confiscating land from native Irish in an effort to build plantations, and extra-long leases were a means of avoiding this fate. As Brady explains, “You see these really long leases: 99-year or 999-year leases. It seemed to be a legal custom at the time that they used the number nine.”

 black321 wrote:

I'm curious about how they arrived at 9,000 years.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

Yes, but they bought out the lease years ago.  

1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.

1890 – Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.

1831 – Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution.

1963 – The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.

1906 – Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

1938 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

1947 – William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

1973 – The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

1890 – Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.

1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.

1940 – Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.

1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.