1797 – Albany replaces New York City as capital of New York.
1862 -1st US income tax (3% of incomes > $600, 5% of income > $10,000.
1863 – President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states shall be “forever free.”
1892 – Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opened.
1903 – President Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Roosevelt unveil new renovations to The White House, including new West Wing.
1913 – US Post Office begins parcel post deliveries.
1916 – 1st blood transfusion using stored and cooled blood is performed.
1919 – Edsel Ford succeeds his father, Henry Ford, as president of the Ford Motor Company.
1928 – 1st US air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio.
1934 – Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (US bank guarantor)
1942 – The Rose Bowl was played in Durham, North Carolina, instead of Pasadena, California because of security concerns in the wake of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor; in it, Oregon State defeated Duke, 20-16.
1944 – General Clark replaces General Patton as commander of US 7th Army.
1951 – Chicago broadcaster Paul Harvey begins his national radio program “Paul Harvey News and Comment” from WENR-AM for the ABC network.
1960 – Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts behind bars at San Quentin Prison, California. Merle Haggard among the inmate audience.
1966 – Simon & Garfunkel’s “Sound of Silence” reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
1971 – Cigarette advertisements banned on TV..
1976 – Liberty Bell moves to new home across the street from Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1979 – US & China (People’s Republic) begin diplomatic relations.
1981 – International Year for the Disabled begins.
1983 – PGA inaugurates all-exempt tour.
1990 – David Dinkins sworn in as 1st African-American mayor of New York City.
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