1786 – Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr. Hall, NYC)
1824 – Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec.
1872 – US Congress endorses penny post card.
1887 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.
1905 – US President Theodore Roosevelt sends identical notes to Japan and Russia urging them to negotiate and end hostilities, offering his personal services.
1928 – 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
1933 – A’s Jimmie Foxx homers his 1st 3 at bats for 4 consecutive HRs.
1948 – John Rudder becomes 1s African-American commissioned officer in US marines.
1953 – Cluster of 6 tornadoes touches down in Flint, Michigan killing 113.
1953 – Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court.
1962 – Jim Beatty runs world record 2 milt (8:28.8)
1963 – American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes.
1965 – US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam.
1968 – James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., is captured.
1970 – Players & management end labor dispute, up minimum salary to $12,000.
1979 – “The Source,” 1st computer public information service, goes on-line.
1988 – Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%.
1995 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
2014 – Couple ambush a restaurant in Las Vegas killing 2 police officers, a civilian and themselves.
2017 – Ex-FBI chief James Comey testifies to a US Senate committee that US President Donald Trump told “lies plain and simple”
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