1714 – Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built later)
1830 – 1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
1890 – African American inventor William Purvis receives a patent for the fountain pen.
1904 – Marconi Co establishes “COD” as 1st international radio distress signal.
1911 – 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco.
1925 – Musical “Big Boy” with Al Jolson premieres in NYC.
1927 – Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game in Hinckley, Illinois.
1929 – “Tarzan”, one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears.
1944 – US Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59.
1948 – US President Harry Truman raises taxes for the Marshall Plan.
1950 – Hank Snow’s 1st appearance on “Grand Ole Opry”
1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment, 1st public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held at IBM’s head office in New York.
1961 – 1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16.
1968 – 1st class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents.
1969 – US Congress doubles president salary.
1980 – American President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation to bail out the Chrysler Corporation with a 1.5 billion dollar loan.
1991 – Saddam Hussein prepares his troops for what he says will be a long violent war against the US.
1998 – Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signs affidavit denying she had an affair with President Bill Clinton.
2007 – Phil Jackson wins his 900th game as a head coach, becoming the fastest coach to reach 900 career wins.
2019 – Amazon overtakes Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable listed company for the first time, worth $797 billion.
About Author
