1606 – Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown, Virginia.
1790 – 1st successful US cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, Rhode Island)
1820 – Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50.
1860 – South Carolina secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1893 – 1st state anti-lynching statute approved, in Georgia.
1912 – J. Hartley Manners’ “Peg O’ My Heart” premieres in NYC.
1919 – US House of Representatives restricts immigration.
1920 – Bob Hope becomes an American citizen.
1940 – Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Athletics for $42,000.
1945 – Rationing of auto tires ends in US.
1957 – Elvis Presley given draft notice to join US Army for National Service.
1962 – Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show.
1969 – Peter, Paul & Mary’s “Leaving on a Jet Plane” reaches #1.
1978 – H.R. Halderman, Nixon’s White House Chief of Staff is released from jail.
1985 – Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC.
1988 – NBC signs lease to stay in NYC, 33 more years.
1995 – American Flight 965 crashes in Columbia, 159 die, 5 survive.
2002 – US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader.
2012 – Apple is denied a patent for mobile pinch-to-zoom gestures by the US patent authorities.
2012 – Intercontinental Exchange purchases the New York Stock Exchange, the largest in the world, for $8 billion.
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