1664 – 1st Baptist Church organizes (Boston)
1892 – Sierra Club formed by John Muir and others in San Francisco, for conservation of nature.
1923 – US Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere.
1928 – Dodge Brothers Inc and Chrysler Corporation merge.
1929 – 1st all color talking picture “On With the Snow” exhibited (NYC)
1936 – Alan Turing submits “On computable Numbers” for publication, in which he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers.
1937 – Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to vehicular traffic.
1940 – Irving Berlin’s musical “Louisiana Purchase” premieres in NYC.
1951 – The Jerry Colonna Show debuts on ABC-TV.
1956 – President Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus.
1961 – Amnesty International founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
1962 – US stock market drops $20.8B in 1 day.
1968 – AL baseball announces it is splitting into 2 divisions.
1972 – White House “plumbers” break into the Democratic National Headquarters at Watergate in Washington, DC.
1974 – “Magic Show” opens at Cort Theater NYC for 1859 performances.
1987 – 60th US National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci.
1989 – Indianapolis 500: Emerson Fittipaldi wins.
1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton’s former business partners in the Watergate land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
2010 – “Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready)” single released by Alicia Keys (Billboard Song of the Year 2010)
2017 – Indianapolis 500: Takuma Sato wins in 3:13:03.3584.
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