1808 – 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard.
1861 – Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army.
1886 – 1st US nurses’ magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, NYC.
1896 – 1st auto in Detroit, Charles B. King rides his “Horseless Carriage”
1899 – “Aspirin” (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffman at German company Bayer.
1902 – Permanent US Census office created by legislation passed by Congress.
1918 – US naval boat “Cyclops” disappears in Bermuda Triangle.
1922 – Babe Ruth signs year contract with NY Yankees at $52,000 a year.
1930 – Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food.
1940 – 1st US telecast from an airplane, NYC.
1950 – Silly Putty invented.
1965 – “How to Succeed in Business” closes at 46th Street NYC after 1,415 performances.
1966 – Barry Sadlers’ “Ballard of the Green Berets” becomes #1 (13 weeks).
1967 – Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison.
1972 – Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf’s all-time money winner.
1976 – 23rd ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Virginia beats North Carolina, 67-62.
1981 – Walter Cronkite signs off as anchorman of “CBS Evening News”
1988 – 18th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,200,000.
1991 – Following Iraq’s capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that “aggression is defeated. The war is over”
1995 – 9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield.
2015 – US State Department charges 2 Vietnamese and a Canadian citizen with cyberfraud, for stealing 1 billion email addresses for spam.
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