1675 – 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)
1790 – 1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address.
1833 – Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established.
1835 – The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time.
1865 – Dr. John A. Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, Calif.
1889 – Dr. Herman Hollerith receives 1st patent for a mechanical tabulating machine.
1904 – Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen.
1925 – 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas.
1945 – “Youth for Christ” organizes.
1954 – Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his 1st two songs, “Casual Love” & “I’ll Never Stand in Your Way”
1955 – WUNC TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting.
1956 – Elvis Presley’s “Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog” single goes #1 stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single).
1962 – Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro experience, he came in 50th.
1968 – Jacques Cousteau’s 1st undersea special on US network TV.
1975 – Judge John Sirica orders releases of Watergate’s John W. Dean III, Herbert W. Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison.
1982 – AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies.
1989 – “42nd Street” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 performances.
1996 – Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths.
2002 – President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
2008 – Joe Gibbs retires, for the second time, as head coach of the Washington Redskins.
2013 – Steve Nash records his 10,000th NBA career assist against Houston.
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