1776 – First revolutionary flag raised.
1811 – US Sen. Thomas Pickering is first senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US)
1842 – first US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania.
1882 – Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust.
1893 – First US commemorates & first US stamp to picture issued (Queen Isabella, patron of Columbus)
1900 – John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
1906 – Willis Carrier 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.
1934 – 1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania.
1938 – Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded.
1954 – Herman Wouk’s “Caine Mutiny,” premieres in NYC.
1960 – Senator John F. Kennedy, announces his candidacy for the US Presidency.
1965 – Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters.
1969 – Australian Rupert Murdock gains control of the ‘News of the World’
1975 – US Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species.
1986 – Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement.
1990 – Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2810.15)
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 F; 68 deaths are reported.
2017 – US House Republicans vote to gut the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, a public uproar forces them to back down the next day.