1733 – Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston.
1869 – The Charles, considered the world’s first “oil tanker”, departs from the United States headed for Europe with a bulk capacity of 7,000 barrels of oil.
1872 – Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy.
1909 – Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plan to the army.
1928 – George Eastman shows first amateur color motion pictures to guests at his New York house including Thomas Edison.
1935 – 1st Penquin book is published, starting the paperback revolution.
1942 – FDR signs bill creating women’s Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1945 – After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-58. 880 of the crew died, many after being attacked by sharks, the inspiration for the movie Jaws.
1956 – US motto “In God We Trust” authorized.
1964 – US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam.
1965 – LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966.
1966 – US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam.
1971 – US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon.
1974 – House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of “high crimes & misdemeanors” to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up.
1975 – US Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit; Hoffa legally declared dead in 1982.
2002 – The accounting law referred to as “The Sarbanes Oxley Act” signed into law by President George W. Bush.
2003 – The last ‘old style’ Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line in Mexico.
2013 – Wikileaks disclosure Bradley {later Chelsea} Manning convicted of 17 espionage charges.
2017 – Russian President Vladimir Putin announces American diplomats in Russia cut by 755 in response to American sanctions.
2018 – Official Malaysian investigation into the disappearance of Flight 370 is unable to determine what happened.