1602 – 102 Mayflower Pilgrims and about 30 crew land at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts.
1784 – John Jay becomes acting US Secretary of State.
1829 – 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated in Baltimore.
1872 – Phileas Fogg completes his round the world trip in 80 days, in Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days”
1909 – 1st junior high school established (Berkeley, California)
1913 – 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World.
1921 – Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional.
1929 – 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas, Tx)
1933 – Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, University of Pennsylvania.
1944 – Cards’ Marty Marion wins NL MVP.
1956 – Martin Luther King, Jr. and others sit in the new integrated bus.
1962 – US & Cuba Accord, releases Bay of Pigs captive.
1968 – Apollo 8: 1st manned Moon voyage launched with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders.
1970 – Oregon v. Mitchell Supreme Court case was decided, lowering the minimum voting age in U.S. federal elections to 18. The voting age for state and local elections was left to states discretion.
1978 – Police in Des Plaines, Illinois, arrest John Wayne Gacy for murder.
1988 – Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine.
1994 – Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street NYC.
1996 – Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher David Ho is named Time Magazine’s Man of the Year.
2005 – Civil Parnership Act comes into force in the UK, with Elton John and David Furnish one of the first couples to form a same-sex civil union.
2016 – Carl Icahn is announced as Special Advisor to the President on Regulatory Reforms, under President Donald Trump.
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