1753—1st steam engine arrives in US colonies.
1776—Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the United Colonies)
1817—Alexander Twilight, probably first African American to graduate from a US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College.
1839—John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph.
1850—Territories of New Mexico & Utah created.
1850—California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. State.
1861—Nurse Sally Tompkins is officially commissioned as an officer (and its only woman officer) by the Confederate US Army.
1895—American Bowling Congress forms (NYC)
1904—Mounted police first used in NYC.
1919—Boston’s police force forms strike.
1926—National Broadcasting Co. created by Radio Corporation of America.
1934—G. Kaufman & M Hart’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” premieres in NYC.
1945—1st “bug” in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweezers from a relay & taped into the log.
1951—1st broadcast of “Love of Life” on CBS-TV.
1954—Indians becomes 1st Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season.
1956—Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show for the 1st time.
1963—Alabama Gov. George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools.
1969—Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82.
1977—1st TRS-80 computer sold.
1983—Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (CoCo2)
1987—Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter.
2013—133rd Women’s U.S. Open: Serena Williams beats Victoria Azarenka (7-5, 6-7, 6-1)
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