1842 – Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine leave Liverpool, England for America on board the RMS Britannia.
1870- Construction begins on New York’s Brooklyn Bridge; completed May 24, 1883.
1899 – 1st known use of the word “automobile”, appears on an editorial in The New York Times.
1918 – US Employment Service opens as a unit of the Department of Labor.
1920 – Boston Red Sox baseball club owner Harry Frazee announces agreement to sell slugger Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 in cash and a $350,000 loan; start of the 84 year “Curse of the Bambino”
1929 – 27-year-old William S. Paley becomes CBS president.
1938 – March of Dimes established to fight polo.
1945 – Admiral Chester Nimitz begins planning assaults on Okinawa and Iwo Jima in Japan.
1952 – “Dragnet” with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV.
1961 – US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1971 – 1st AFC Championship, Memorial Stadium, Baltimore: Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders, 27-17.
1977 – Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computer, Inc.
1985 – Mitch McConnell becomes Senator of Kentucky.
1987 – Aretha Franklin is the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1992 – 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter.
1996 – 1st clamshell flip mobile phone, the Motorola StarTAC, goes on sale. Eventually 60 million are sold.
2004 – After hosting the show for over 30 years, Casey Kasem gives up the hosting duties of “American Top 40” to Ryan Seacrest.
2007 – High profile Miami Dolphins NFL head coach Nick Saban resigns after agreeing to return to college football and take head coaching job at Alabama.
2018 – Lawyers of US President Donald Trump try to stop the publication of book on Trump’s administration “Fire and Fury” by Michael Wolff.
2022 – Apple becomes the first US company to be worth $3 trillion in value, after tripling its price in under four years.
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