1787 – 1st American comedy, “The Contrast” made its debut in NYC.
1789 – George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration.
1818 – Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot amendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
1861 – US President Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states (US Civil War)
1900 – US Post Office issues 1st book of postage stamps.
1922 – Annie Oakley sets women’s record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row.
1929 – NY Yankees become 1st team to wear uniform numbers.
1935 – 1st radio broadcast of “Fibber McGee & Molly”
1940 – 1st televised baseball game, WGN-TV, (White Sox vs Cubs exhibition)
1945 – US troops land on He Shima, Okinawa.
1956 – 1st solar powered radios go on sale.
1959 – NY Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard.
1962 – Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News.
1967 – “Walking Happy” closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 performances.
1978 – NBC’s premiere of miniseries “Holocaust”
1980 – Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis.
1987 – FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves.
1990 – Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $260 per week.
2007 – Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 people and injures 23 others before committing suicide.
2012 – For the first time since 1977 no Pultizer Prize is awarded for fiction.
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