1677 – 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston.
1789 – 1st American novel, W H Brown’s “Power of Sympathy” is published.
1846 – 1st edition of Charles Dickens’ “Daily News”
1880 – 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis, Tennessee.
1887 – Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms.
1899 – Opel manufactured its first automobile.
1903 – “Wizard of Oz” premieres in NYC.
1908 – NYC regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public.
1915 – Kiwanis International founded in Detroit.
1927 – 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
1942 – Count Basie records “One O’clock Jump”
1949 – 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman)
1954 – 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (NYC)
1956 – “Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)” closes at Golden NYC after 849 performances.
1967 – US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming.
1980 – Gold hits record $850 an ounce.
1990 – John McEnroe becomes 1st ever player to be expelled from the Australian Open.
1999 – In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the US Coast Guard intercepts a ship carrying 4,300 kg of cocaine.
2008 – Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%.
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