1755 – 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine.
1850 – 1st US $20 gold piece issued.
1894 – Coca-Cola is sold in bottle for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1904 – Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund.
1912 – Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low.
1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people.
1933 – FDR conducts his 1st “fireside chat”
1945 – NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment.
1947 – US President Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism.
1951 – Comic strip “Dennis the Menace,” 1st appears in the British comic magazine, The Beano’
1956 – Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
1964 – 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine & Roses, Barbra Streisand wins 2.
1965 – “Wooly Bully” single released by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.
1968 – 11th Grammy Awards: “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” by Glen Campbell wins best record.
1980 – Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago.
1986 – 210.25 million shares traded on NY Stock Exchange.
1989 – 15th People’s Choice Awards: Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Phylicia Rashad win (TV)
1993 – Entertainment Tonight’s 3,00th show.
1998 – “Sound of Music” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC.
2003 – Elizabeth Smart found after having been missing for 9 months.
2019 – Dozens charged in US college admission scandal by US federal prosecutors, including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman