1777 – George Washington’s army returns to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
1791 – NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street.
1821 – Kentucky abolishes debtors’ prisons.
1895 – George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
1900 – New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million.
1903 – The Wright Brothers make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1924 – 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY.
1935 – First flight of the Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota) airplane.
1944 – US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast, detainees released.
1947 – New York struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27″ of snow.
1953 – US Federal Communications Commission approves RCA’s black & white-compatible color TV specifications.
1957 – US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile.
1965 – Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50 cents)
1976 – Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national.
1986 – US Congress forms “Irangate” committee.
1991 – NBA’s most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80.
1994 – KML’s last DC-10 goes out of service.
2003 – SpaceShipOne flight 11P piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first supersonic flight.
2012 – NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field.
2015 – Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals is arrested on fraud charges in New York by the FBI.
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