1871 – Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, NY.
1888 – 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C. Stone in Washington, D.C.
1899 – 1st known use of the word “automobile”, appears in an editorial in The New York Times.
1918 – US Employment Service opens as a unit of the Department of Labor.
1938 – March of Dimes established to fight polio.
1943 – 1st missing persons telecast (NYC)
1945 – Admiral Chester Nimitz begins planning assaults on Okinawa and Iwo Jima in Japan.
1945 – US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa.
1946 – As a reward for his wartime cooperation, Governor Thomas E. Dewey commutes Charles “Lucky” Luciano’s pandering sentence on condition that he does not resist deportation to Italy.
1957 – 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1959 – Alaska admitted as 49th state.
1961 – US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1977 – Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computers, Inc.
1980 – Gold hits record $634 an ounce.
1985 – Mitch McConnell becomes Senator of Kentucky.
1990 – Panama’s leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities.
1993 – Michael Milkin, the “junk bond king”, is released from jail after 22 months.
1996 – 1st clamshell flip mobile phone, the Motorola Star TAC, goes on sale. Eventually 60 million are sold.
1998 – Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke.
2018 – Lawyers for US President Donald Trump try to stop the publication of book on Trump’s administration “Fire and Fury” by Michael Wolff.
2019 – 116th US Congress convenes in Washington, D.C., electing Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House of Representatives for the second time.
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