1800 – John Adams becomes the first US president to live in White House.
1834 – First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game).
1848 – First US women’s medical school opens (Boston).
1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
1913 – Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively.
1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
1917 – In WW I, the1st US soldiers are killed in combat.
1921 – National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League.
1931 – Dupont introduces synthetic rubber.
1943 – Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area.
1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill US President Harry Truman at Blair House.
1951 – Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella wins the 1st of his 3 NL MVPs.
1953 – 5th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Herb Thomas wins.
1966 – NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day).
1971 – Eisenhower dollar put into circulation.
1977 – US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st January, 1981.
1979 – US Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler.
1981 – 1st Class US Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents.
1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
1993 – STS-58 (Columbia) lands.
2012 – Google’s Gmail becomes the world’s most popular email service.
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