1707 – Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
1773 – Boston tea party incident – Sons of Liberty protesters throw tea shipments into Boston harbor in protest against British Imposed Tea Act.
1890 – Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, TN.
1905 – “Variety” covering all phases of show business, 1st published.
1907 – As a gesture of the US’s new presence as a world power, President Theodore Roosevelt sends the US Battle Fleet on a round-the-world cruise, visiting ports internationally.
1908 – 1st credit union in US forms (Manchester, NH).
1912 – 1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cents parcel post, issued.
1913 – Charlie Chaplin began his film career at Keystone for $150 a week.
1924 – Hiram Bingham is elected as a Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate forcing him to resign as Governor of Connecticut after serving only one day in office, the shortest term of any Connecticut Governor.
1937 – Theodore Cold and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
1944 – Ardennes campaign (‘Battle of the Bulge’) begins in Belgium.
1946 – French fashion designer Christian Dior and his backer Marcel Boussac found fashion house Christian Dior.
1950 – US President Harry Truman proclaims state of emergency against “Communist Imperialism”
1962 – David Lean’s film “Lawrence of Arabia”, based on life of T.E. Lawrence premieres, starring Peter O’Toole (Best Picture 1963).
1971 – Don McLean’s 8+ minute version of “American Pie” released.
1978 – Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $14M to local banks.
1982 – The Federal Reserve announces that the operating capacity of factories has gone down to 67.8%.
1991 – Florida Marlins sign their 1st player, 16 year old pitcher Clemente Nunez.
1995 – The official adoption of the name “Euro.”
2015 – US Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.25% for the first time since 2006.
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