1732 – 1st known ad for “Poor Richard’s Almanack” (Pennsylvania Gazette)
1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with President Jackson)
1849 – M. Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning, he accidently upset lamp containing turpentine & oil on his clothing & sees cleaning effect.
1867 – United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
1869 – William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum.
1905 – Intercollegiate Athletic Association of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)
1923 – George Bernard Shaw’s “St. Joan” premieres in NYC.
1942 – Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times.
1948 – US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite.
1958 – Chipmunks (Alvin. Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hits #1.
1969 – Neil Simon’s “Last of the Red Hot Lovers” premieres in NYC.
1976 – “Fiddler on the Roof” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 167 performances.
1981 – 1st American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
1984 – TV soap “Edge of Night” ends 28 year run.
1991 – Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year.
1993 – Dow-Jones hits record 3793.49.
2000 – U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
2008 – The Detroit Lions finished the season 0-16 with a 31-21 loss to the Green Bay Packers. The first time in National Football League history that a team went winless in a 16-game season.
2009 – Scarlett Johansson makes her debut on Broadway in the Arthur Miller play “A View from the Bridge.”
2012 – Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children.
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