1751 – 1st hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital) in the 13 Colonies in America.
1752 – 1st US fire insurance policy issued in Philadelphia.
1904 – Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace.
1919 – Yanks’ Jack Quinn & Senators’ Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie.
1924 – Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire).
1924 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz, merging the two companies.
1928 – General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, NY).
1940 – NY World’s Fair reopens.
1942 – William Faulkner’s collection of short stories, Go Down Moses, is published.
1947 – BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire (Akron, Ohio).
1951 – American engineer Jay Forrester applies for patent for computer core memory.
1959 – “Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb” by Byrnes & Connie Stevens hits #4.
1960 – 1st contraceptive pill is made available for sale.
1968 – Richard Harris releases “MacArthur Park.”
1976 – Last broadcast of “Marcus Welby, MD” on ABC-TV.
1985 – Madonna’s “Crazy For You” single goes #1.
1987 – 1st heart-lung transplant take place in Baltimore.
1994 – Musical “Grease” opens at Eugene O’Neill Theater NYC for 1,503 performances.
2009 – An American soldier in Iraq opened fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, leaving 5 other soldiers dead and 3 soldiers wounded.
2015 – Record price for a work of art at auction: Picasso’s The Women of Algiers (Version ‘O’) sells for US $179.3 million at Christies in New York.
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