1741 – Benjamin Franklin’s General Magazine (2nd US Magazine) begins publishing.
1838 – Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions.
1852 – Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
1878 – Silver dollar became US legal tender.
1883 – “Ladies Home Journal” begins publishing.
1900 – 1st Chinese daily newspaper in US publishes (Chung Sai Yat Po-SF)
1909 – 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC)
1914 – 1st airplane flight from LA to SF.
1932 – 1st patent for a tree issued to James Markham for a peach tree.
1937 – DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H. Carothers.
1938 – US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized.
1946 – 1st commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport, Ct.
1959 – Fidel Castro names himself Cuba’s premier after overthrowing Batista.
1963 – North Carolina forward Billy Cunningham grabs a record 27 rebounds in a game vs Clemson.
1965 – Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors.
1968 – Elvis Presley receives gold record for “How Great Thou Art”
1985 – The founding of Hezbollah.
1986 – 28th Daytona 500: Geoffrey Bodine wins (148.124 MPH)
1999 – O.J. Simpson’s 1968 Heisman Trophy is sold for $230,000 to help settle a $33.5 million civil judgement against Simpson for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend.
2006 – The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
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