1788 – Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga.
1809 – 1st US geology book published by William Maclure.
1869 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before US Congress.
1887 – US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor.
1905 – US begins supervising the Dominican Republic’s national and international debt, testing President Theodore Roosevelt’s “Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine.
1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
1930 – 1st radio broadcast of “Lone Ranger” (WXYZ-Detroit)
1937 – 1st US Presidential Inauguration day held on Jan. 20th, (previously March 4th)
1945 – Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President.
1953 – 1st US telecast transmitted to Canada from Buffalo, NY.
1953 – 1st live US coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower)
1961 – J.F. Kennedy is inaugurated as President of the United States, the youngest ever sworn in.
1965 – The Byrds record “Mr. Tambourine Man”
1977 – George H.W. Bush ends term as 11th director of CIA.
1980 – President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow.
1981 – Ronald Reagan inaugurated as 40th US President.
1981 – 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days released.
1986 – 1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.
1991 – “Black & Blue” closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 829 performances.
1999 – The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafes’.
2009 – Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States’ first African-American president.
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