1859 – 1st passenger train service to Peekskill, New York (New Haven Railroad)
1879 – National League baseball owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players.
1907 – Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral.
1911 – Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning.
1916 – American oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller becomes the world’s first billionaire.
1920 – Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10.
1927 – Telephone service begins between US & Mexico.
1930 – NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising.
1940 – “Double or Nothing”, a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Show.
1947 – Dizzy Gillespie presented his 1st Carnegie Hall concert in NY.
1950 – Telephone answering machine created by Bell Laboratories.
1953 – Milton Berle Show premieres.
1953 – US government gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China.
1962 – JFK authorized use of federal troops to integrate University of Mississippi.
1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
1967 – Gladys Knight & Pips release “I Heard it Through the Grapevine.”
1982 – Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago.
1990 – Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years.
1996 – Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3 months after Japan)
2008 – Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, its largest single-day point loss, following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual.
2017 – Mysterious sonic attacks on US diplomats prompt US to warn citizens not to travel to Cuba and pull some embassy staff.
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