1778 – New Orleans businessman Oliver Pollock creates the “$” symbol.
1853 – Cincinnati becomes 1st US city to employ fulltime professional firefighters.
1889 – 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)
1899 – NC Mutual opens doors for business.
1927 – 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master’s Voice.
1930 – American golfer Bobby Jones starts his Grand Slam season by winning the Southeastern Open by 13 strokes over Horton Smith at the Forest Hills-Ricker Golf Course in Atlanta, Georgia.
1934 – Clyde Barrow kills two young highway patrolmen, H.D. Murphy and Edward Bryant Wheeler, at the intersection of Route 114 near Grapevine, Texas. Bonnie Parker’s role in the murders helps turn public perception against the gang for good.
1941 – US Navy takes over Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay.
1945 – Battle of Okinawa: US ground forces invade Okinawa during World War II in the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific theatre.
1954 – US Army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC.
1960 – Census determines the resident population of the United States to be 179,245,000.
1967 – The United States Department of Transportation begins operation.
1970 – US President Richard Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements from 1st January 1971.
1976 – Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs’ parents house in Cupertino. California.
1986 – World oil price dip below $10 a barrel.
1991 – US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour.
1993 – Reigning NASCAR Winston Cup champion Alan Kulwicki perishes in a private plane crash en route to Bristol for the Food City 500.
2004 – Google introduces Gmail: the launch is met with skepticism on account of launch date.
2019 – Saudi Arabian oil company Saudi Aramco revealed to be world’s most profitable company when its earnings released – $111.1 billion in the last year.
2019 – Us online sales overtake retail sales for the first time, with 11.813% online compared with 11.807% for general merchandise stores.
2020 – US President Donald Trump says the US Strategic National Stockpile is almost depleted amid widespread shortages of medical equipment to fight COVID-19.
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