1586 – Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Columbia.
1775 – First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred.
1833 – Oberlin College in Ohio, the first truly coeducational college, opens.
1847 – Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper “North Star”
1901 – At the MLB meeting, the Milwaukee Brewers franchise is officially dropped from the American League, and replaced by the St. Louis Browns.
1911 – Willis Carrier presents his influential “Rational Psychrometric Formulae” on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
1923 – First Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Washington, D.C.)
1931 – Alka Seltzer goes on sale.
1947 – Tennessee Williams’ “Streetcar Named Desire” premieres in NYC.
1950 – Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast.
1953 – Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in the Republican Party.
1971 – US President Richard Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa’s jail term.
1979 – Christies auction a thimble for a record $18,400.
1988 – NY lotto pays $45 million to twelve winners (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
1989 – Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H.W.Bush, declare the Cold War over.
1999 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
2005 – XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.
2014 – Protests erupt in cities across the US after a grand jury decides not to charge the New York City police officer who killed Eric Garner with a chock-hold.
2015 – US Defense Secretary Ash Carter announces all combat roles in US armed forces will be opened to women.
2017 – First pizza party in space held by astronauts of the International Space Station.
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