1817 – First private mental health hospital opens in the US, Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1862 – US Department of Agriculture created.
1905 – Las Vegas founded in Nevada.
1911 – Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act)
1928 – Mickey Mouse makes his 1st ever appearance in silent film “Plane Crazy”
1933 – 1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate.
1934 – US Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive.
1940 – Richard and Maurice McDonald open the 1st McDonald’s restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1942 – Gasoline 1st ration in US (17 Eastern States)
1951 – AT&T becomes the 1st US corporation to have a million stockholders after a young car salesman, Brady Denton, purchases 7 shares worth $1,078.
1957 – Evangelist Billy Graham launches his “crusade” in front of 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden in NYC.
1960 – Taxes took 25% of earnings in US.
1963 – Peter, Paul & Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)
1972 – Assassination attempt on US Governor George Wallace of Alabama by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland.
1973 – California Angel Nolan Ryan’s 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0.
1987 – Last episode of “The Late Show with Joan Rivers” after the host is fired by Fox network.
1991 – US President George H.W. Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A’s-Baltimore Oriole baseball game.
2007 – 42nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood & Brad Paisley win.
2015 – Carl Icahn invests $100 million in Lyft, a ride-sharing service.
2019 – US birthrate in 2018 the lowest for 32 years (total fertility rate 1,728 births per 1,000 women), with record lows for teen births.
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