1657 – 1st Quakers arrive in New Amsterdam (NY).
1789 – 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
1843 – It snows in Buffalo and Rochester, NY, & Cleveland, Ohio.
1860 – Thomas Edison granted his first patient for the Electric Vote Recorder (U.S. Patent 90,646)
1880 – US census is 50,155,783.
1911 – 1st US group insurance policy written in Passaic, New Jersey.
1925 – Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp (1st of record 2130 consecutive games)
1933 – Century of Progress world’s fair opens in Chicago.
1941 – NY Giants Mel Ott hits his 400th HR & his 1,500th RBI.
1957 – Don Bowden becomes 1st American to run a sub-4 minute mile (3:58.7)
1961 – FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard.
1968 – Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs Robinson” hits #1.
1970 – “Everything is Beautiful” by Ray Stevens hits #1.
1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1980 – 1st transmission of CNN, the Cable News Network.
1990 – Dow Jones Average hits a record high of 2,900.97.
1994 – FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts.
2005 – The longest oil/natural gas explosion in the Houston, Texas area occurs in Crosby, Texas. The drill was owned by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Company.
2007 – Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan.
2009 – General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
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