1728 – Congregation Shearith Israel of New York purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan to build the city’s first synagogue.
1798 – 1st impeachment trial against a US Senator (William Blount, Tennessee) begins.
1821 – Kentucky abolishes debtors’ prisons.
1895 – George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
1900 – New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million.
1903 – The Wright Brothers make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1924 – 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY.
1935 – First flight of the Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota) airplane.
1944 – US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast, detainees released.
1953 – US Federal Communications Commission approves RCA’s black & white-compatible color TV specifications.
1957 – The last episode of The Nat King Cole Show airs on NBC due to lack of national sponsorship.
1965 – Astrodome opens, 1st event is Judy Garland & Supremes concert.
1976 – Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national.
1986 – US Congress forms “Irangate” committee.
1989 – The Simpsons, created by Matt Groening, debuts – America’s longest running sitcom.
1991 – Soap opera “One Life To Life” airs it 6,000th episode.
1996 – “In My Bed” single released by Dru Hill (Billboard Song of the Year 1997)
2012 – NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field.
2013 – Cat Stevens, Hall & Oates, Kiss, Linda Ronstadt and Nirvana are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
2015 – Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals is arrested on fraud charges in New York by the FBI.
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