1811 – US Sen. Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents by the president of the US.
1842 – 1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania.
1890 – Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer.
1903 – US President Theodore Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola, Miss., for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black.
1906 – Willis Carter receives a US patent for the world’s first air conditioner.
1921 – 1st religious service radio broadcast in US, KDKA-Pittsburgh.
1929 – US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls.
1938 – Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded.
1944 – 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)
1945 – Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955.
1952 – “Pal Joey” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 542 performances.
1960 – Senator John F. Kennedy, announces his candidacy for the US Presidency.
1968 – Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant.
1969 – Australian Rupert Murdoch gains control of the ‘News of the World’
1970 – US population is 293,200,000; Black population: 22,600,000 (11.1%)
1974 – 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon.
1983 – Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing “Doonesbury”
1990 – Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)
1999 – A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches in Chicago, where temperatures plunged to -13 degrees; 68 deaths are reported.
2007 – 73rd Orange Bowl: #5 Louisville beats #15 Wake Forest, 24-13.
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