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1788 – NY City becomes 1st capital of US. 1789 – 1st loan to US government (from NYC banks) 1847 – American-Mexican war: US General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City. 1869 – Jay Gould & James Fisk attempt to control US gold market. 1919 – Guy Bolton & George Middleton’s “Adam & Eve,” premieres in NYC. 1922 – The Straw Hat Riot begins in New York City as people protest the right to wear straw hats beyond the accepted end date of September 15. 1927 – Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees. 1936 – Acting on the orders of Louis Buchalter, Murder, Inc. killers gun down …..

1787 – American statesman George Mason suggests the addition of a Bill of Rights to the Constitution modeled on previous state declarations, but the motion is defeated. 1814 – Battle of North Point fought near Baltimore during War of 1812. 1857 – 423 die when “Central America” sinks of Cape Romain, SC. 1907 – Lusitania arrives in NYC after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record) 1918 – WWI: US forces launch an attack on German-occupied St. Mihiel. 1928 – Hurricane in Florida kills 6,000. 1935 – Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 357.46 mph. 1940 – 49 die & 200 injured when Hercules Powder Co plant explodes …..

1773 – Benjamin Franklin writes “there never was a good war or bad peace” 1847 – 1st singing of Stephen Foster’s “Susanna” (in Pittsburgh) 1853 – 1st electric telegraph used – Merchant’s Exchange, San Francisco to Pt Lobos, Californina. 1909 – Max Wolf rediscovers Halley’s comet. 1922 – Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader. 1936 – FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam. 1941 – FDR orders US Navy that any Axis ship found in American waters to be shot on sight. 1941 – Charles Lindbergh, charges “British, Jewish & Roosevelt administration” are trying to get US into WWII. 1941 – Construction of …..

1608 – John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Virginia. 1776 – George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers. 1846 – Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine. 1897 – Lattimer Massacre – a sheriff’s posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, USA. 1910 – Great Idaho fire destroys 3 million acres of timber. 1913 – Lincoln highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway. 1919 – NYC welcomes home General John J. Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers. 1932 – Independent City owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in NYC. 1953 – Swanson sells its 1st “TV dinner” 1966 – …..

1753 – 1st steam engine arrives in north American colonies. 1776 – Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (was the United Colonies) 1850 – Territories of New Mexico & Utah created and California is admitted as the thirty-first state of the Union. 1861 – Nurse Sally Tompkins is officially commissioned as a officer (and its only woman officer) by the confederate US Army. 1904 – Mounted police 1st used in NYC. 1908 – Orville Wright makes his 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va. 1919 – Boston’s police force strikes. 1926 – National Broadcasting Company created by Radio Corporation of America. 1934 – G Kaufman …..

1565 – 1st permanent European settlement in the US founded at St. Augustine, Florida. 1755 – Battle of Lake George in the Province of New York: British army beats French. 1858 – Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech “You may fool all the people some of the time; you can fool some of the people all he time; but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” 1892 – 1st appearance of “Pledge of Allegiance” (Youth’s Companion” 1916 -US President Woodrow Wilson signs the Emergency Revenue Act, doubling the rate of income tax and adding inheritance and munitions profit tax. 1920 – US Air Mail service begins (NYC …..

1630 – The City of Boston, Massachusetts is founded. 1813 – “Uncle Sam” 1st used to refer to the US, by Troy Post of New York. 1860 – Excursion steamer “Lady Elgin” drowns 340 in Lake Michigan. 1876 – Frank James and his gang are involved in a disastrous raid in Northfield, Minnesota, results in the death or capture of multiple gang members (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested) 1914 – NY Post Office Building opens to public. 1915 – Johnny Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll (US Patent D47789) 1916 – Workmen’s Compensation Act passed by Congress. 1936 – Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begins operation. 1948 – 1st use of synthetic …..

1620 – The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World. 1628 – Puritans from Massachusetts Bay Colony land at Salem. 1716 – 1st lighthouse built in north America (Boston) 1837 – Oberlin collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men) 1862 – Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland. 1899 – Carnation processes its first can of evaporated milk. 1901 – US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, and anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York. 1909 – Word received that American explorer Robert Peary had discovered the North Pole, 5 months earlier. 1916 – 1st true supermarket, …..

1777 – Flag of the United States flown in battle for the 1st time at Cooch’s Bridge, Delaware, a skirmish during American Revolutionary War. 1833 – New York Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper) 1865 – American commander in SC orders Freedmen’s Bureau to stop seizing land. 1891 – Cotton pickers organize union & stage strike in Texas. 1916 – US President Woodrow Wilson signs Adamson Act, providing an 8-hour day on interstate railroads, preventing a national railroad strike. 1929 – Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches all time high of 381.17, to be shortly followed by the Crash of 1929. 1935 – First automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm …..

1682 – William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World. 1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen. 1862 – Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia ends with a Confederate victory over Union forces. 1890 – President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products. 1901 – Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner. 1930 – Warren Buffett, American business magnate (world’s wealthiest person in 2008), born in Omaha, Nebraska. 1945 – General Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan. 1951 – US & Philippines sign mutual defense pact. 1954 – Hurricane Carol kills 68 on the …..

1829 – President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses. 1908 – Allen Winter wins US 1st $50,000 trotting race. 1910 – Yellow Cab is founded. 1912 – 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin. 1916 – US Department of Interior forms National Park Service. 1921 – US signs peace treaty with Germany. 1932 – Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight. 1936 – Odorless cornstarch is patented in the US by Ralph W Kerr. 1943 – US forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II. 1950 – US President Harry Truman orders army to take control of railroad to avert a strike. 1956 – …..

1814 – British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812) 1853 – 1st potato chips prepared by chef George Crum at Moon’s Lake House, near Saratoga Springs, New York (popular legend says he invented though earlier recipes exist) 1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. 1891 – Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera. 1893 – Tornado destroys coast of Savannah & Charleston, about 1,000 die. 1912 – District of Alaska becomes an organized incorporated territory of the United States. 1932 – 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart. 1936 – FDR gives …..

1796 – African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated. 1850 – 1st US National Women’s Rights Convention convenes in Worchester, Massachusetts. 1869 – 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in San Francisco, from Boston. 1889 – 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (San Francisco) 1904 – Automotive tire chain patented. 1920 – Mary Roberts Rinehart & Avery Roberts play “The Bat” based on Reinhart’s novel “The Circular Staircase” premieres on Broadway in New York. 1921 – Austria and the US formally end war; the US does the same with Germany on the 25th, and Hungary on the 29th. 1936 – 17 year-old Bob Feller’s 1st game, he strikes out …..

1762 – 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport, Rhode Island, Mercury. 1848 – United States annexes New Mexico. 1865 – William Sheppard is issued the first US patent for liquid soap. 1901 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded. 1906 – 1st Victor Victrola manufactured. 1921 – J. Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of the FBI. 1945 – Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup. 1956 – US President Eisenhower and VP Richard Nixon re-nominated by Republican convention in San Francisco. 1962 – Savannah, world’s 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah,Ga. 1963 – NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in …..

1735 – Evening Post begins publishing (Boston, Mass) 1817 – 60-70 foot serpent sightings reported offshore in Gloucester, Massachusetts. 1838 – United States Exploring Expedition headed by Charles Wilkes departs for the Pacific Ocean and Antarctica. 1872 – 1st mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward. 1894 – US Congress creates Bureau of Immigration. 1914 – US President Woodrow Wilson issues “Proclamation of Neutrality” 1920 – 22 year old representative Harry T. Burn is deciding vote in Tennessee’s and thus America’s ratification of the 19th Amendment to the constitution allowing women’s suffrage after better from his mother. 1926 – Weather map televised for 1st time. 1938 – FDR dedicates Thousand …..

1590 – Governor of Roanoke Island colony, John White returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he had left there 3 years earlier (1591) 1788 – Losantville, Ohio (now Cincinnati) founded. 1807 – Robert Fulton’s steamboat Clermont begins first trip up Hudson River. 1859 – 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette, Indiana. 1891 – Electric self-starter for automobile patented. 1903 – Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America. 1918 – Samuel Riddle buys Man O’War for $5,000. 1936 – An unemployed worker, Neils B. Ruud, in Madison, Wisconsin, receives the first unemployment benefit check paid …..

1691 – Yorktown, Virginia founded. 1780 – British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, South Carolina. 1858 – Britain’s Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan. 1891 – President Benjamin Harrison attends the dedication of the Bennington Battle Monument in Bennington, Vermont. 1904 – NYC begins building Grand Central Station. 1927 – 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park, Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth) 1934 – US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915) 1947 – Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pittsburgh Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs. 1954 – “Sports Illustrated” magazine begins publishing. 1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 84,700 feet. 1962 – Ringo Starr …..

1635 – 1st recorded north American hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony. 1848 – M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair. 1893 – US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea. 1906 – 1st freight deliver tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago. 1911 – Procter & Gamble unveils its Crisco shortening. 1914 – Panama Canal opens (under cost) 1923 – Mexico & US reach accord over oil concession of 1917. 1944 – US 7th Armour division reaches Chartres. 1945 – US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends. 1945 – Victory over Japan Day, the Japanese surrender and the end of WWII is announced in Japan (due to time zones 14th …..

1866 – World’s 1st roller rink opens (Newport, Rhode Island) 1896 – Harvey Hubbell patents electric light socket with a pull chain. 1909 – SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC. 1914 – John Wray patents animation. 1924 – 1st newsreel pictures of US presidential candidates were taken. 1934 – 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay. 1944 – US air raid on Palembang. 1950 – Ethel Rosenberg testifies before grand jury on allegations of spying for the Soviet Union. 1951 – 100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi River in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois. 1956 – 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620. 1971 …..

1622 – John Mason and Ferdinando Gorges receive a land patent of the Province of Maine. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London. 1821 – Missouri admitted as 24th US state. 1833 – Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200. 1846 – US Act of Congress passes establishing the Smithsonian Institution, now world’s largest museum and research complex. 1869 – O.B. Brown patents moving picture projecter. 1889 – Dan Ryland patents screw cap. 1921 – FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Island of Campobello. 1949 – US National Military Establishment renamed Department of Defense. 1960 – Discoverer 13 …..

1803 – 1st horses arrive in Hawaii. 1831 – 1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY) 1841 – Erie boat in Buffalo NY catches fire; 242 die. 1898 – Rudolf Diesel obtains patent #608,845 for his internal combustion engine, later known as the diesel engine. 1904 – Libanus McLouth Todd of Rochester, New York patents his check-writing machine, the Protectograph designed to protect against check forgers. 1910 – Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine. 1930 – 113 degrees F at Perryville, Tennessee (state record) 1944 – Smokey Bear debuts as spokesman for fire prevention. 1945 – US drops 2nd atomic bomb “Fat Man” on Japan destroys part …..

1789 – US Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service. 1820 – 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii. 1909 – US issues 1st Lincoln penny. 1915 – Dario Resta, driving a Peugeot, wins the first Chicago Car race ever to average over 100-mile race in Chicago: average speed 101.8 mph. 1929 – NY Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games for the second time in 13-1 win v Philadelphia A’s. 1939 – Millionaire Howard Hughes is presented with a Congressional Gold Medal. 1942 – 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW II, Guadalcanal, Solomon Island. 1953 – Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses …..

1863 – Governor Seymour asks President Lincoln to suspend draft in NY. 1882 – US Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration. 1900 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company founded. 1921 – 1st aerial crop dusting in Troy, Ohio, to kill caterpillars. 1921 – MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Landis hands out life bans to 8 Chicago White Sox players accused in Black Sox scandal despite their acquittal by a Chicago jury. 1923 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th US President upon death of President Warren G. Harding. 1932 – Official automatic timing & photo-finish camera for track events is used for first 1st time at Los Angeles Olympics instrumental in changing …..

1610 – Henry Hudson enters the bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay. 1776 – Formal signing of he US Declaration of Independence by 56 people (date most accepted by modern historians) 1790 – 1st US census conducted, the population was 3,939,214 including 697,624 slaves. 1819 – 1st parachute jump in US. 1858 – 1st mailboxes installed in Boston and NYC streets. 1865 – Lewis Carroll publishes “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” 1892 – Charles A. Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator. 1934 – 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it. 1943 – Lt. John F. Kennedy’s PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon Island. 1945 – After …..

1789 – US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act. 1855 – Castle Clinton in NYC opens as 1st US receiving station for immigrants. 1876 – Colorado becomes 38th state of the Union. 1901 – Burials within San Francisco City limits prohibited. 1911 – Omar N. Bradley (18) begins education in West Point. 1918 – Pittsburgh and Boston Braves play a MLB record 20 scoreless innings before Pirates win 2-0, in 21. 1941 – The first Jeep is produced. 1944 – Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st African-American congressman from New York. 1952 – California introduces sales tax (for education) 1957 – 1st commercial building heated by Sun (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1958 – …..

1777 – Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army. 1849 – Benjamin Chambers patents breech loading cannon. 1893 – Henry Perky patents shredded wheat. 1912 – US government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights (censorship) 1922 – 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world’s 1st water skis (Minnesota) 1932 – George Washington quarter goes into circulation. 1944 – US troops occupy Sansapor, New Guinea. 1948 – US President Harry Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (now Kennedy Airport, NY) 1964 – Al Parker glides 644 miles without a motor. 1964 – US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon. 1969 – Mariner 6 makes its closest approach to planet …..

1619 – House of Burgesses, Virginia forms, 1st elective American governing body. 1739 – Casper Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, New Jersey. 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. 1889 – Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Naval Treaty” (BG) 1909 – Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane 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 …..

1773 – 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mountains completed, Schoenbrunn, Ohio. 1847 – Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA. At the end of 1847, only 15 law schools exist in the United States. 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C. 1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England. 1914 – 1st transcontinental phone link made between New York City and San Francisco. 1927 – 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY) 1928 – Test footage first created for Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” with Mickey Mouse. 1936 – RCA …..

1849 – Memmon is first clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of NY. 1866 – Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US. 1896 – City of Miami incorporated. 1900 – Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut. 1915 – Because of virtual anarchy, US Marines go ashore in Haiti on orders from President Woodrow Wilson; this will lead to an occupation that will last until 1934. 1933 – 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC. 1943 – US President FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US. 1945 – US Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die. 1951 – Walt …..

1729 – North Carolina becomes a royal colony. 1854 – Walter Hunt is awarded the first U.S. patent for a paper shirt collar. 1866 – David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral in US Navy. 1866 – Ulysses S. Grant names 1st General of Army. 1871 – Carousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa. 1918 – Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, California. 1926 – 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx. 1941 – FDR bans selling benzene/gasoline to Japan. 1944 – Operation Cobra: US forces begin major offensive in Normandy with air bombardment. 1946 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean …..

1758 – George Washington elected to Virginia House of Burgesses representing Fredrick County. 1824 – Harrisburg Pennsylvania newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll, with a clear lead for Andrew Jackson. 1847 – Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah. 1893 – For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard, Men’s double championship in Chicago. 1929 – US President Herbert Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war. 1936 – 121 degrees (F), near Alton, Kansas (state record) 1942 – Irving Berlin’s musical “This is the Army” premieres in NYC. 1952 – “High Noon”, American Western …..

1664 – 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of NY, arrive in Boston. 1764 – James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation. 1829 – American William Austin Burt patents “typographer” (typewriter) 1872 – African American inventor Elijah McCoy is granted a patent for lubricators for steam-engine. 1880 – 1st commercial hydroelectric power plant begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1904 – Ice cream cone created during St. Louis World Fair – the 1st cone reputedly by Charles E. Menches. 1925 – NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers. 1937 – Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University) 1944 – US troops occupy Pisa, Italy. 1947 …..

1669 – John Locke’s Constitution of English colony Carolina is approved. 1865 – In market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true western showdown. 1873 – Jesse James and James Younger gang’s 1st train robbery (Adair Iowa) 1915 – Woodrow Wilson sends the third Lusitania note, warning Germany that future infringement of American rights will be deemed ‘deliberately unfriendly’ 1925 – John T. Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in the “Scopes monkey trial’, Dayton, Tennessee, fined $100 & costs. 1930 – US Veterans Administration forms. 1943 – “Stormy Weather”, directed by Andrew L. Stone, starring Bill …..

1861 – Confederate states’ congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Virginia. 1868 – 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes. 1881 – Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops. 1917 – WW I draft lottery held: #258 is 1st drawn. 1921 – Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the floor of US House of Representatives. 1926 – A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests. 1935 – 1st broadcast of “Gang Busters” on NBC-radio. 1940 – Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart (#1 is “I’ll Never Smile Again” by Tommy Dorsey) 1944 – US President FDR …..

1692 – 5 more people are hanged for witchcraft (20 in all) in Salem, Massachusetts. 1860 – 1st railroad reaches Kansas. 1875 – Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick children, makes trial trip, NYC. 1910 – Cleveland Indian baseball player Cy Young registers 500th career victory against Washington 5-4 in 11 innings. 1913 – Billboard publishes earliest known “Last Week’s 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs”, Malinda’s Wedding Day is #1. 1930 – Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team return to the United States following the first exploration of the Interior of Antarctica. 1939 – Dr. Roy P. Scholz is 1st surgeon to use …..

1743 – 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal) 1864 – US President Abraham Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service. 1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld’s “Follies of 1907” premieres in NYC. 1914 – US army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps. 1940 – Democratic Convention nominates FDR for a 3rd term. 1942 – 1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Golden State Park track opens. 1947 – US President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act. 1951 – Jersey Joe Walcott, at 37, becomes oldest to win heavyweight championship. 1955 – 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially. 1960 – Baseball’s …..

1603 – Sir Walter Raleigh arrested by forces of King James. 1775 – 1st military hospital approved. 1856 – The Great Train Wreck of 1856 between Camp Hill and Fort Washington, Pennsylvania kills over 60 people. 1867 – 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established. 1902 – Orioles forfeit to St Louis having only 5 players available to play, they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL. 1925 – Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits. 1942 – Estimated 34.5 inches of rainfall, Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record) 1944 – 2 ammunition ships explode at Port Chicago, California, killing 322. 1954 – Construction of Disneyland commences. …..

1787 – US Ordinance of 1787 passed, establishes first organized US territory. 1835 – Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson files for a patent for his screw propeller design. 1865 – Horace Greeley, founder and editor of he “New-York Tribune” reputedly advises his readers to “Go west young man” 1919 – Chicago White Sox pitcher Carl Mays walks off mound blaming teammates for lack of support afield. 1923 – American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first recognized dinosaur eggs, in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia. 1930 – David Sarnoff reports in NY Times “TV would be a theater in every home” 1939 – Frank Sinatra makes his recording debut. 1950 – Doctors …..

1774 – Citizens of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, pass a symbolic declaration of independence. 1843 – Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy. 1861 – Will Bill Hickok reputed to have shot and killed David McCanles, possibly his first kill. Hickok later acquitted after found he acted in self defense. 1901 – Cy Young wins his 300th game. 1930 – 34th US Golf Open: Robert T “Bobby” Jones wins. 1933 – Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour) 1945 – Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games. 1954 – Major League Baseball Players Association founded. 1954 – President Eisenhower put forward a plan …..

1798 – US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress. 1804 – Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel. 1916 – US Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act. 1923 – Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M. 1943 – US 82nd Airborne division shot at by “friendly fire” in Sicily. 1955 – Congress authorizes all US currency to say “In God We Trust” 1955 – New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado with 300 cadets. 1960 – “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is first published by J.B. Lippincott …..

1850 – Millard Fillmore sworn in as President of US (replacing Taylor) 1866 – Indelible pencil patented by Edson P. Clark, Northampton, Massachusetts. 1892 – 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio) 1914 – Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles. 1926 – 30th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto CC in Ohio. 1929 – US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency. 1938 – “Yankee Clipper” completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic. 1938 – Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours. 1949 – 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced in Toledo, Ohio. 1950 – “Your Hit Parade” premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV. 1962 …..

1815 – 1st natural gas well in US is discovered. 1842 – Notary Stamp Law passes. 1869 – Corncob pipe, made from small corn kernels, invented. 1893 – Daniels Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without medication. 1910 – Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude. 1918 – US Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal (not to be confused with other countries’ decorations of the same name) 1933 – Frankford Yellowjackets sold, rechristened Philadelphia Eagles. 1944 – In World War II, US troops secure Saipan as Japan falls. 1948 – Satchel Paige, 42, debuts in majors pitching 2 scoreless inning for Cleveland. 1951 – US …..

1776 – Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to Continental Congress. 1820 – Tomato is proven to be non-poisonous by Colonel Robert Gibbon eating a tomato on steps of courthouse in Salem, New Jersey. 1870 – U.S. Congress creates federal holidays (New Years Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day), initially applicable only to federal employees. 1894 – Labor Day established as a holiday for US federal employees. 1902 – US buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million. 1935 – FDR orders a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox, Kentucky. 1940 – “Quiz Kids” premieres on radio. 1951 – “Amos ‘n’ …..

1778 – Liberty Bell returns home to Philadelphia after the British departure. 1847 – New York & Boston linked by telegraph wires. 1867 – Bank of California opens doors. 1893 – Great stock crash on NY stock exchange. 1914 – US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia. 1934 – Federal Savings & Loan Association created. 1950 – US sends 35 military advisors to South Vietnam. 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. 1962 …..

1797 – Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow, though farmers fear effects of iron on soil. 1848 – 1st pure food law enacted in US. 1894 – Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto. 1900 – Dr. Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever. 1916 – Cleveland Indians experiment with numbers on their jerseys (one game) 1924 – Ziegfeld Follies opens on Broadway. 1934 – FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions. 1945 – United Nations Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco. 1946 – Fred Allen’s last radio show, his guest is Jack Benny. 1968 – Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned …..

1638 – Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in the American Colonies. 1798 – US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens. 1868 – Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina readmitted to US. 1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as “Custer’s Last Stand” 1910 – US Mann Act passed (no woman across state lines for immoral purposes) 1926 – 61st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Royal Lytham. 1938 …..