1675 – 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)
1790 – 1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address.
1835 – US national debt is $0 for the first and only time in history.
1867 – African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. despite President Andrew Johnson’s veto.
1906 – A landslide in Harverstraw, New York, caused by the exaction of clay along the Hudson Bay River, kills 20 people.
1918 – Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition of alcohol) of the US Constitution.
1925 – 1st all-female US State Supreme Court appointed, Texas.
1935 – Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy.
1945 – “Youth for Christ” organizes.
1963 – “Mona Lisa”, on loan, unveiled in America’s National Gallery of Art.
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares “War on Poverty”
1968 – Jacques Cousteau’s 1st undersea special on US network TV.
1973 – Judge Sirica begins the trial of the Watergate burglars in Washington, D.C.
1982 – Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
1991 – Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins & Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame.
1996 – Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths.
1998 – Unabomber suspect Ted Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer.
1998 – World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life.
2002 – President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
2011 – Attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 and wounds 13, including Giffords.
2018 – US record year for cost of natural disasters announced – $306 billion in 2017.
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