1800 – John Adams becomes the first US President to live in the 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, in good conditions.
1870 – US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
1896 – First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine.
1913 – Less than a week after the US non-intervention promise, President Woodrow Wilson demands that Mexican dictator Huerta resigns.
1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
1926 – US Air Commerce Act passes.
1931 – Dupont introduces synthetic rubber.
1943 – US troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island.
1945 – First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H. Johnson.
1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill US President Harry Truman at Blair House.
1955 – Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont, Colorado.
1965 – 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco.
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.
1981 – 1st Class US Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents.
1991 – Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.
2011 – Danielle Steel’s novel “Hotel Vendome” is published.
2012 – Google’s Gmail becomes the world’s most popular email service.
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