1628—1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Mass.
1732—Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe.
1772—1st Protestant church west of Pennsylvania (in Ohio) holds communion.
1790—1st book copyrighted under constitution, “Philadelphia Spelling Book”
1856—500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1869—Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer. (Philadelphia)
1890—Opera “Robin Hood” premieres in Chicago.
1909—Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the USA, driving a Maxwell automobile 3,800 miles from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days with three non-driving female companions.
1915—William Jennings Bryan quits as US Secretary of State.
1924—“Jelly-Roll Blues” is recorded by blues great Jelly Roll Morton.
1930—Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1943—“Pay-as-you-go” (withholding) US income tax deductions authorized.
1954—Joseph Welch asks US Senator Joseph McCarthy “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” during Senate-Army hearings.
1958—“Purple People Eater” by Sheb Wooley hits #1.
1960—ABC & AFL sign a 5 year contract.
1962—Tony Bennett debuts in concert at Carnegie Hall in NYC.
1969—Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice.
1975—Tony Orlando & Dawn receives gold record to “He Don’t Love You”
1985—American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon.
2013—Edward Snowden publicly makes his identity known as the leaker of NSA documents.
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