1788 – 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet.
1790 – US Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC)
1840 – Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated.
1843 – Oldest continuous writer of insurance in America – The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (MONY) opens.
1862 – Julia Howe publishes “Battle Hymn of Republic”
1906 – 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas.
1920 – 1st commercial armored car introduced (St. Paul, Minn)
1926 – Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per square inch.
1935 – 1st “March of Time” newsreel premieres at the Capitol.
1951 – 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated.
1958 – 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched.
1960 – 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1972 – 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395).
1978 – Harriet Tubman is 1st African American woman to be honored on a US postage stamp.
1985 – Minus-69 degrees F, Peter’s Sink, Utah (state record)
1987 – 163 day strike against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze.
1989 – Diana, Princess of Wales visits New York City.
1991 – American author John Grisham publishes his second novel “The Firm” (bestselling novel of the year)
2006 – Economist Ben Bernanke becomes chairman of the US Federal Reserve, succeeding Alan Greenspan.
2008 – BladenOnline newspaper debuts in Bladen County, NC.
2016 – Alphabet, Google’s parent company, surpasses Apple as the world’s most valuable company ($568bn vs $535bn), after releasing income results.
2017 – Rex Tillerson confirmed as 69th US Secretary of State.
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