1750 – First school in America to offer manual training courses opens in Maryland.
1824 – US House of Representatives begins to decide outcome of election deadlock between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson (Adams wins)
1843 – 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens.
1878 – 1st White House telephone installed.
1903 – “The Great Train Robbery”, the 1st Western film, released.
1913 – 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pittsburgh)
1913 – Ford Motor Company institutes world’s 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford.
1917 – Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha, Nebraska.
1929 – Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S. Lowe.
1936 – Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use.
1942 – Gasoline rationed in US.
1952 – The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation.
1955 – Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.
1968 – “Promises Promises” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1281 performances.
1973 – Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year.
1982 – “Thriller”, 6th studio album by Michael Jackson is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1984, best-selling album of all time, Billboard Album of the Year 1983)
1994 – PTL leader Jim Bakker released from jail.
1997 – Westinghouse formally changes its name to CBS.
1998 – Exxon announces a $73.7 billion USD deal to buy Mobil, creating Exxon-Mobile, the world’s largest company.
2008 – The US economy has been in recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research announces today.
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