1830 – D Hyde patents fountain pen.
1861 – North Carolina becomes 11th and last state to secede from the Union.
1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent the first blue jeans with copper rivets.
1916 – Codell, Kansas hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 & 1918)
1916 – Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting.
1926 – Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies.
1927 – At 7:40 AM, Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris, aboard Spirit of St. Louis (1st non-stop flight)
1939 – “3 Little Fishies” by Kay Kyser swam to #1.
1944 – US Communist Party dissolves.
1959 – Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car “Falcon”
1967 – 10,000 demonstrates against war in Vietnam.
1969 – US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill in Vietnam.
1973 – 25th Emmy Awards: Waltons, All in the Family & Mary Tyler Moore win.
1979 – Elton John is the 1st western pop star to tour USSR.
1986 – Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-TV.
1991 – Chicago Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA’s MVP.
1993 – 274th and final “Cheers” episode on NBC.
2013 – Yahoo purchases Tumbler for $1.1 Billion.
2015 – David Letterman, after 33 years, hosts the “Late Show with David Letterman” for the last time.
2017 – US President Donald Trump begins his 1st foreign trip arriving in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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