1912 – US government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights (censorship) 1922 –...
History
1872 – Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy. 1928 – George Eastman shows first amateur...
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1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England. 1914 – 1st transcontinental...
1896 – City of Miami incorporated. 1914 – Foxtrot first danced at New Amsterdam...
1909 – Orville Wright tests 1st Army airplane, flying 1 hour, 12 minutes, 40...
1908 – Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the...
1850 – Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River) 1935 – 115 acre Orchard Beach...
1880 – 1st commercial hydroelectric power plant in the world begins generating electricity in...
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1829 – William Austin Burt patents America’s first “typographer” (typewriter) 1872 – African American...
1893 – Katherine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” in Colorado. 1916 – A...
1853 – Central Park in New York was created when New York State Legislature...
1868 – 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes. 1890 – Snow and hail...
1864 – President Abraham Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service. 1907 –...
1861 – Congress authorizes paper money. 1897 – 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying...
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1867 – D.R. Averill of Ohio patents ready mixed paint. 1902 – John McGraw...
1912 – American athlete Jim Thorpe is placed in top 4 in all 10...
1864 – Gold is discovered in Helena, Montana. 1870 – Congress grants Mary Todd...
1923 – The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los...
1916 – Congress passes Federal Road Act. 1934 – Franklin Roosevelt became the 1st...
1890 – 1st concrete paved street built (Bellefontaine, Ohio) 1913 – World’s official highest...
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1776 – Colonel John Nixon gives the 1st public reading of the Declaration of...
1905 – 127 degrees, Parker, Arizona (state record until 1994) 1912 – American athlete...
1785 – Congress unanimously resolves the name of US currency to the “dollar” and...
1865 – Secret Service begins operating under the Treasury Department. 1934 – “Bloody Thursday”...
1776 – Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Great Britain. 1796...
1871 – Jesse James robs a bank of $45,000 in Corydon, Iowa. 1898 –...
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1865 – One-time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine found...
1862 – Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco and on...
1896 – William S. Hadaway patents an electric stove in the US. 1906 –...
1863 – The first 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa. 1891 –...
1776 – Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to Continental Congress. 1820 –...
1893 – Great stock crash on New York stock exchange. 1923 – Capt. Lowell...
1900 – Dr. Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever. 1911 – US...
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1867 – 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B. Smith of Ohio. 1910 –...
1868 – Christopher Latham Sholes patents the Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially...
1870 – Congress creates Department of Justice. 1918 – Circus train rammed by troop...
1893 – 1st Ferris Wheel opens at Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. 1904 –...
1867 – President Andrew Johnson announces the Alaska Purchase. 1921 – 11.5 inches of...
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1865 – Union General Gordon Granger declares slaves are free in Texas, now the...
1898 – Steel pier, 1st amusement pier, opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey. 1912...
1896 – Temperature hits 127 degrees F at Fort Mojave, California. 1902 – “The...
1916 – Boeing Model 1 (B&W Seaplane), the 1st Boeing product, flies for the...
1834 – Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr., Springfield, Vermont. 1900 – Having been...
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1899 – New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117...
1776 – Continental Congress creates a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence with...
1902 – Patent for window envelope granted to H.F. Callahan. 1924 – 1st political...
1901 – New York Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cincinnati Reds, 25-13....
1872 – Congress endorses penny post card. 1905 – President Theodore Roosevelt sends identical...
1900 – British Open Men’s Golf, St. Andrews: Englishman J.H. Taylor wins title for...
1889 – Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks.. 1912 – The eruption...
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1876 – Bananas become popular in US, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. 1884...
1895 – Henry Ford takes the 1st Ford through the streets of Detroit. 1912...
1888 – Baseball poem “Casey at the Bat” 1st published by the San Francisco...
1901 – Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday in New York. 1913...
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1885 – Dr. John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan files application for patent...
1908 – First Federal workman’s compensation law approved. 1916 – Indianapolis 500: Dario Resta...
1892 – Sierra Club formed by John Muir and others in San Francisco, for...
1896 – Tornado hit St. Louis, killing 255, leaving thousands homeless. 1904 – New...
1868 – President Andrew Johnson is acquitted by the Senate by one vote during...
1895 – Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for gross indecency. 1919 –...
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1830 – “Mary Had a Little Lamb” by Sarah Josepha Hale is first published...
1903 – 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin. 1908 –...
1843 – 1st wagon train with 700 – 1,000 migrants departs Independence, Missouri for...
1881 – American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton. 1906 – Louis H. Perlman...
1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Homestead Act to provide cheap...
1884 – Ringling Brothers circus premieres. 1910 – Passage of Earth through tail of...
1897 – Herbert Henry Dow founds Dow Chemical in Midland, Michigan. 1917 – First...
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1792 – 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street. 1875...
1771 – The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia...
1862 – US Department of Agriculture created. 1896 – Tornado kills 78 in Texas....
1878 – Vaseline is granted a patent (U.S. Patent 127,568) 1908 – 1st passenger...
1888 – DeWolf Hooper 1st recites “Casey at Bat” 1911 – New York Giant...
1902 – 140,000 miners of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania go on strike by the...
1816 – American Bible Society forms in New York 1907 – A derailment outside...
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1883 – First appendectomy performed in North America by Abraham Grovers in Canada. 1917...
1822 – Charles Graham of New York granted the first US patent for artificial...
1886 – Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta sells the first Coca-Cola (contained cocaine) 1912 –...
1840 – Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, kills 317. 1914 – Congress establishes Mother’s Day....
1893 – Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the New York Stock...
1846 – Michigan ends the death penalty. 1878 – Thomas Edison’s phonograph shown for...
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1861 – President Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army volunteers and another 18,000 seamen. 1901...
1878 – US stops minting 20 cent coin. 1885 – “Good Housekeeping” magazine is...
1873 – 1st US postal card issued. 1900 – Premature blast collapses mine tunnel...
1789 – George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States...
1892 – Charlie Reilly is first pinch hitter. 1905 – 2″ rain falls in...
1855 – 1st veterinary college in the US incorporated in Boston. 1881 – Billy...