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1789 – New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights. 1866 – Howard University founded (Washington, D.C.) 1914 – US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports. 1919 – 1st municipally owned airport in US opens (Tucson, Arizona) 1923 – Garrett Morgan patents his traffic signal design, an important development in automobile safety. 1931 – Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T) 1943 – US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island. 1947 – 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey) 1952 – George Axelrod’s “Seven Year Itch” premieres in NYC. 1959 – US adopts Universal Declaration of Children’s Rights. 1967 – At 11 AM, …..

1644 – First protestant ministry society in New England. 1805 – Lewis & Clark expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross the west. 1861 – Julia Ward Howe committed “Battle Hymn of the Republic” to paper. 1863 – US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; “Four score & seven years ago….” 1872 – E.D. Barbour of Boston is awarded the first U.S. patent for the first ‘calculator’, an adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals. 1895 – American inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patents the pencil. 1911 – NY receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy. 1923 – The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton …..

1307 – William Tell reputedly shoots apple off his son’s head. 1787 – First Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston. 1805 – 30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee’s house in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, first woman’s club in America. 1861 – The first provisional meeting of the Confederate Congress is held in Richmond, Virginia. 1865 – Mark Twain publishes “Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” 1872 – Suffragette Susan Anthony is arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshall and charged with illegally voting. 1902 – Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names the teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt. 1913 – Lincoln Deachey performs first airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego) …..

1603 – English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason. 1800 – Congress holds its 1st session in Washington, D.C. in an incomplete Capitol Building. 1827 – The Delta Phi fraternity, America’s oldest continuous social fraternity, founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York. 1853 – Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections. 1862 – Union General Ambrose Burnside marches north out of Washington, D.C., to begin the Fredericksburg campaign. 1894 – Serial killer H.H. Holmes is arrested in Boston after being tracked there from Philadelphia by the Pinkertons. 1913 – 1st US dental hygienists course forms, Bridgeport, Connecticut. 1913 – The first ship sails …..

1676 – 1st colonial prison organized in Nantucket, Massachusetts. 1776 – 1st gun salute for an American warship in a foreign port – US Andrew Doria at Fort St Eustatius (Dutch Caribbean island) 1801 – First edition of New York Evening Post. 1824 – New York City’s Fifth Avenue opens for business. 1871 – National Rifle Association is first chartered in the State of New York. 1901 – Booker T. Washington and his family are invited to dine at the White House with Teddy and Edith Roosevelt, prompting condemnation from the South. 1914 – Federal Reserve System formally opens. 1933 – Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR. 1939 – Al …..

1763 – Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland. 1791 – 1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens. 1864 – Union Major General Sherman leaves Atlanta on his “March to the Sea” 1869 – Free postal delivery formally inaugurated. 1904 – King C. Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade. 1919 – US Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty) 1937 – First US congressional session in air-conditioned chambers. 1939 – The first unemployment compensation law, under the Social Security Act, that of the District of Columbia, was approved for grants by the Social Security Board. 1940 – 1st 75,000 men called …..

1666 – Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs) 1732 – First professional librarian in North America, Louis Timothee, hired in Philadelphia. 1832 – First streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12 cents, rode on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Street. 1834 – William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 years, 4 months. 1851 – “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville first published by Harper and Brothers in the US. 1883 – “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson is first published as a book by Cassell & Co. 1908 – Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light. 1910 – 1st airplane flight from deck of a …..

1789 – Ben Franklin writes “Nothing…..certain but death & taxes” 1843 – Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts. 1865 – US issues 1st gold certificates. 1895 – First shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii. 1909 – 259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry, Illinois. 1909 – Collier’s magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields. 1920 – Hudson River frozen at Albany. 1927 – New York – New Jersey Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens. 1942 – Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18 in the US. 1952 – False fingernails 1st sold. 1967 …..

1799 – Andrew Ellicott makes the first known record of a meteor shower observation in the U.S. from a ship off the coast of Florida Keys. 1873 – Bay District Race Track in San Francisco opens. 1915 – Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry. 1922 – The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. 1925 – US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts. 1926 – The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival liquor gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers. 1927 – Notre …..

1766 – The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen’s College (later renamed Rutgers University) 1775 – The Second continental Congress forms Continental Marines, precursor to the United States Marine Corps. 1891 – Granville T Woods patents electric railway. 1898 – Race riot in Wilmington, NC (8 killed) 1908 – 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room. 1911 – Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corporation for scholarly and charitable works. 1920 – George Bernard Shaw’s “Heartbreak House” premieres in NYC. 1942 – US-British troops occupies Oran, Algeria. 1951 – 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance. 1954 – “Marine Corps War Memorial” unveiled …..

1620 – After a month of delays off the English coast and about two months at sea, the Mayflower spots land (Cape Cod) 1821 – 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st, Philadelphia. 1857 – Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published. 1904 – 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes. 1924 – Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st US elected woman governor (of Texas) 1925 – Robert A. Millikan confirms the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin. 1930 – 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama. 1936 – American fashion designer Ruth Harkness captures a panda cub …..

1701 – William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges. 1731 – In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st library in the north American colonies. 1789 – Bourbon Whiskey 1st distilled from corn by Elijah Craig in Bourbon, Kentucky. 1861 – USS San Jacinto commanded by Charles Wilkes captures two Confederate diplomats from the British mail steamer Trent, almost causing a war between the US and the UK. 1904 – American President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B. Parker (D). 1910 – 1st Washington State election in which women could vote. 1910 – William H. Frost receives the first U.S. patent for an electrical insect destroyer. 1933 – FDR creates Civil Works Administration. …..

1639 – First Post Office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts. 1773 – John Hancock is elected as moderator at a Boston town meeting that resolves that anyone who supports the Tea Act is an “Enemy to America” 1872 – Ulysses S. Grant re-elected US President. 1889 – Louisa Woosley first woman to be ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination (US Cumberland Presbyterian Church) 1895 – 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) for gasoline driven car. 1900 – Under US military control since the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Cuba now calls its own constitutional convention. 1916 – The Everett Massacre …..

1783 – General George Washington, later 1st US President, bids farewell to his army after the American Revolutionary War. 1824 – Popular presidential vote 1st recorded: Andrew Jackson beats John Quincy Adams. 1859 – Abolitionist John Brown found guilty of murder, conspiring slaves to revolt and treason against Virginia and sentenced to hang. 1867 – Women’s fashion magazine “Harper’s Bazaar” is 1st published. 1889 – North Dakota becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes 40th state in the United States. 1907 – US banker J.P. Morgan locks over 40 bankers in his library to force them to find ways to avert New York banking crisis. 1934 – MLB All-Star team led …..

1800 – John Adams becomes the first US President to live in the White House. 1834 – First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game) 1848 – First US women’s medical school opens (Boston) 1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles, in good conditions. 1870 – US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations) 1896 – First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine. 1913 – Less than a week after the US non-intervention promise, President Woodrow Wilson demands that Mexican dictator Huerta resigns. 1915 – Parris Island is …..

1868 – Standard uniform approved for US postal carriers. 1892 – Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. 1906 – George Bernard Shaw’s “Caesar & Cleopatra” premieres in NYC. 1913 – 1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway is dedicated. 1918 – Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in US in 1 week. 1922 – Karel & Josef Capek’s “World We Live In” premieres in NYC. 1938 – Great Depression: In an effort to try restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public. 1941 – Prior to US joining WWII, German submarine U-552 torpedoes US destroyer Reuben …..

1768 – First Methodist church in North American colonies initiated (Wesley Chapel, NYC) 1864 – Helena, Montana’s capital, founded. 1873 – P T Barnum’s circus, “Greatest Show on Earth”, debuts (New York City) 1894 – Daniel Cooper patents time clock. 1905 – George Bernard Shaw’s “Mrs Warren’s Profession” premieres in NYC. 1942 – US aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea. 1945 – US government announces end of shoe rationing. 1945 – Clarence Birdseye sells first frozen peas. 1953 – Dr. Albert Schweitzer & Gen. George Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize. 1954 – US Defense Department announces elimination of all racially segregated regiments. 1972 – Worst US rail accident in 14 years; …..

1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against King James I of England. 1811 – 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans. 1833 – 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded. 1872 – J.S. Risdon patents metal windmill. 1904 – First intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas) 1929 – “Black Tuesday” Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the “Great Depression” 1940 – Lottery for 1st US WWII draftees held: #158 drawn 1st. 1945 – First ballpoint pen goes on sale, manufactured by Biro. 1953 – A Baltimore group purchases St. Louis Browns. 1958 – Dr. …..

1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is founded by Englishman William Penn. 1775 – US Navy forms as the Continental Navy. 1871 – Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption. 1893 – Hurricane hits coast between Savannah, Georgia & Charleston, South Carolina. 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson says US will never attack another country. 1920 – League of Nations moves headquarters to Geneva. 1920 – Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins. 1938 – DuPont announces its new synthetic polyamide fiber will be called “nylon” 1941 – Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan. 1954 – President …..

1780 – John Hancock becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts. 1870 – Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore. 1870 – Postcards first used in USA. 1906 – US inventor Lee de Forest patents “Audion”, a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio & broadcasting. 1923 – Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal. 1929 – Former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe in the Teapot scandal – 1st US Cabinet member to go to jail. 1930 – 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began. 1940 – Benjamin O Davis, Sr. becomes 1st African American general in US Army. 1951 – Peace talks …..

1861 – West Virginia secedes from Virginia. 1901 – First woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor) 1908 – Billy Murray hits the charts with “Take Me Outto the Ball Game” 1911 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole. 1911 – Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years. 1926 – Harry Houdini’s last performance, at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan. 1929 – “Black Thursday”, start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%. 1931 – George Washington …..

1813 – The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom. 1888 – Pelham Bay Park in Bronx vested. 1893 – C Dazey’s “In Old Kentucky” premieres in NYC (27 seasons) 1915 – 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa) 1915 – An estimated 25,000 supporters in a woman’s suffrage march on New York’s Fifth Ave, led by Dr. Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters. 1932 – “Fred Allen Show” premieres on radio. 1933 – …..

1746 – Princeton University (NJ) received its charter. 1836 – Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of the Republic of Texas. 1861 – 1st telegraph line linking West & East coasts completed. 1879 – Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb. 1906 – Henry Ford becomes President of Ford Motor Company. 1907 – Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum & Bailey circus. 1924 – Toastmasters International is founded. 1928 – Herbert Hoover speaks of “American system of rugged individualism” 1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. 1938 – Chester Carlson demonstrates …..

1765 – Stamp Act Congress meets in New York City, writes the Declaration of Rights and Grievances. 1781 – British forces under General Charles Cornwallis sign terms of surrender to George Washington and comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown at 2 pm; US Revolutionary War ends. 1870 – 1st African Americans (4) elected to US House of Representatives. 1914 – US Post Office 1st used an automobile to collect and deliver mail. 1915 – US bankers arrange a $500 million loan to the British and French. 1926 – John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle. 1932 – Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech. 1932 – Jimmie Foxx wins AL MVP and …..

1691 – New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth. 1904 – Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors. 1919 – Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created as subsidiary of General Electric. 1933 – Albert Einstein arrives in US as a refugee from Nazi Germany. 1941 – USS Kearney becomes the 1st US destroyer torpedoed in World Wide II, while the country is still neutral. 1954 – Philadelphia Eagle Adrian Burk passes from 7 touchdowns vs Washington (49-21) 1955 – Lee Meriwether joins Today Show. 1960 – US & Britain sign accord for nuclear submarine bases. 1962 – Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship. 1967 – …..

1780 – Royalton, Vermont and Turnbridge, Vermont last major raid of the American Revolutionary War. 1829 – Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston) 1848 – 1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania. 1869 – Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing. 1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah. 1907 – Belasco Theater opens at 111 W 44th St NYC. 1916 – Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic in the US at 46 Amboy St, Brooklyn. 1940 – Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr. is promoted to brigadier general, the first African-American person to become a general in the US military. 1943 – Chicago …..

1726 – Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England. 1811 – The Juliana, 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation. 1887 – A Miles patents elevator. 1890 – Daughters of American Revolution founded. 1922 – First women FBI “special investigator”, Alaska Davidson, appointed. 1929 – JC Penny opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states. 1939 – Albert Einstein informs FDR of the possibilities of an atomic bomb. 1956 – American League President Will Harridge bars Washington Senators move to west coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners. 1958 – 2nd US Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls …..

1845 – Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis. 1865 – John Wesley Hyatt patents the billiard ball made from cellulose nitrate (celluloid) in Albany, New York (patent US50359A) 1886 – 1st dinner jacket (tuxedo) worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY. 1904 – Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St. NYC. 1930 – Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years. 1933 – 1st synthetic detergent, “Dreft” by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale. 1941 – German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney. 1943 – US bombers accidentally strike Enschede, Netherlands, causing 151 deaths. 1957 – US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance …..

1635 – Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony. 1701 – Collegiate School of Connecticut (Yale U), chartered in New Haven. 1837 – Steamboat “Home” sinks off Okracoke, North Carolina, killing 100. 1888 – Washington Monument opens for public admittance. 1903 – 11″ rainfall in 24 hours (NYC). 1936 – Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles. 1941 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program – beginning of the Manhattan project. 1946 – First electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50. 1947 – First telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane. 1960 – Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2″) 1963 …..

1492 – Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course. 1765 – Stamp Act Congress (First Congress of the American Colonies) convenes in New York City to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. 1816 – 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans. 1856 – Cyrus Chambers, Jr. patents folding machine that folds book and newspapers. 1919 – Fritz Kreisler & F. Jacobi’s “Apple Blossoms” premieres in NYC. 1929 – Ramsay MacDonald is first British Prime Minister to address US Congress. 1931 – 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY. 1940 – World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking …..

1783 – Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock. 1866 – 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000) 1889 – Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture. 1893 – Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat. 1918 – US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die. 1935 – Market Street Railway, San Francisco, starts using trackless trolley coaches. 1946 – 90 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in October. 1946 – US President Harry Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine. 1949 – US Truman Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO) 1956 – Dr. Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine. 1961 – JFK advises …..

1862 – Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas. 1875 – Palace Hotel on Market Street opens in San Francisco. 1892 – Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup. 1905 – Orville and Wilbur Wright’s “Flyer III” flight 38.5 km in 38.3″ 1924 – 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News. 1925 – WSM-AM in Nashville, Tenn begins radio transmissions. 1943 – US air raid on Wake, Japanese execute 98 US prisoners in retaliation. 1945 – “Meet the Press” premieres on radio. 1953 – Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of US. 1953 – The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held. 1960 …..

1636 – In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony’s 1st law drafted. 1648 – Peter Stuyvesant establishes American’s 1st volunteer fire service. 1854 – Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair. 1897 – George Bernard Shaw’s “Devil’s Disciple” premieres in NYC. 1931 – Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts. 1933 – Esquire magazine is 1st published. 1949 – United Nations’ permanent NYC headquarters is dedicated. 1958 – Transatlantic commercial jet passenger service began (BOAC) 1963 – Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba & Haiti. 1975 – A Cessna 310Q airplane crashes over Wilmington, NC, killing the pilot and severely injuring several pro wrestlers affiliated with the …..

1789 – George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification. 1866 – J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener. 1871 – Brigham Young, Mormon leader, arrested for bigamy. 1872 – Morgan State University founded. 1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West. 1904 – White Sox left-hander Doc White’s streak of 45 consecutive MLB scoreless innings is snapped by the New York Highlanders in Chicago; White Sox win, 7-1 at South Side Park. 1919 – US President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially …..

1851 – 1st Hawaiian stamps issued. 1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing. 1868 – “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott is published in America by Roberts Brothers of Boston. 1885 – Special delivery mail service begins in US. 1890 – Congress creates Weather Bureau. 1907 – A downturn in the stock market leads to a run on the dollar; US President Theodore Roosevelt will be forced to call on financier J.P. Morgan to help manage the financial crisis. 1908 – Henry Ford introduces …..

1789 – US War Department established a regular army. 1849 – 1s passenger train service to Peekskill, New York (New Haven Railroad) 1879 – NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players. 1907 – Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral. 1915 – 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent. 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. 1940 – “Double or Nothing”, a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Net. 1947 – Dizzy Gillespie presented …..

1542 – Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay, naming it San Miguel and claims it for Spain. 1701 – Divorce legalized in Maryland. 1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay. 1787 – Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval. 1850 – US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment. 1867 – The United States takes control of Midway Island. 1904 – Woman arrested for smoking a cigarette in a car on 5th Avenue, NYC. 1928 – 1st recording session in Nashville (Warmack’s Gully Jumpers) 1937 – FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon) 1951 – Allie …..

1779 – John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain. 1852 – George L Aiken’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” premieres in Troy, NY. 1864 – Jesse James’ gang surprise attack train: 150 killed. 1892 – Book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company. 1903 – Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name. 1906 – Henry Ford’s first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan. 1909 – US President Taft sets aside some 3 million acres of oil-rich public land (including Teapot Dome, Wyoming) for conservation purposes. 1930 – Cubs’ Hack Wilson’s 2 HRs give him …..

1772 – New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine. 1789 – Thomas Jefferson appointed 1st US Secretary of State; John Jay becomes 1st US Chief Justice, and Edmund J Randolph becomes 1st US Attorney General. 1872 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City. 1895 – US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3 cent piece. 1914 – Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce. 1933 – Sidney Kingsley’s “Men in White” premieres in NYC. 1950 – UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul. 1953 – Billy Hunter is last St. Louis Browns player to …..

1493 – Christopher Columbus embarks on his 2nd expedition to the New World, setting sail with a fleet of 17 ships. 1657 – First autopsy & coroner’s jury verdict is recorded in Maryland. 1789 – US Federal Judiciary Ac is passed & creates a six-person Supreme Court. 1869 – Black Friday; Wall Street panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold. 1889 – Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder. 1906 – V Herbert & H Blossom’s musical “Red Mill” premieres in NYC. 1924 – Boston, Massachusetts, opens its airport. 1929 – Lt James Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in 1st all-instrument flight. 1930 …..

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 …..