1847 – New York & Boston linked by telegraph wires.
1893 – Great stock crash on NY stock exchange.
1929 – 1st color TV demo, performed by Bell Laboratories in NYC.
1939 – 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0)
1949 – “Captain Video & His Video Rngers” debut on DUMONT-TV.
1950 – North Korean troops reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders US Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict.
1955 – 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
1957 – Hurricane Audrey kills 526 in Louisiana & Texas.
1959 – Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the All-Star Game.
1962 – Ross Perot begins Electronic Data Systems.
1973 – John W. Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon’s “enemies list’
1977 – 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise.
1979 – Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities.
1980 – US revives draft registration.
1985 – Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica) is decertified.
1986 – Anne White shocks Wimbledon by wearing only a body stocking.
1995 – Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), launches.
2003 – The United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), enrolls almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
2008 – Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
2017- Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook has reached 2 billion monthly users.
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