1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
1860 – Joseph Smith III, creates the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by reorganizing the previous church organized by his father, Joseph Smith, Jr.
1893 – Andy Bowen & Jack Burke box 7 hours, 19 minutes to no decision (111 rounds)
1909 – 1st credit union forms in US.
1912 – Electric starter 1st appear in cars.
1924 – 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight.
1930 – Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar.
1938 – Teflon invented by Roy J. Plunkett.
1943 – British & US armies link up in Africa during WW II.
1954 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island.
1957 – NYC ends trolley car service.
1965 – Intelsat 1 (“Early Bird”) 1st commercial geosynchronous communications
satellite launched.
1968 – Gas and gunpowder explosions at sporting goods store, downtown Richmond, Indiana, kills 41 and injures more than 150.
1973 – Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks.
1980 – Post It Notes introduced.
1987 – Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler.
1992 – US Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal
agents into buying mail-order child pornography.
2012 – US F-18 Hornet crashes into side of apartment building in Virginia with no fatalities.
2016 – US primary elections: Wisconsin won by Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Ted Cruz.
2017 – Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Florida for talks with US President Donald Trump.
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