1799 – Andrew Ellicott makes the first known record of a meteor shower observation in the U.S. from a ship off the coast of Florida Keys.
1873 – Bay District Race Track in San Francisco opens.
1915 – Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry.
1922 – The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1925 – US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts.
1926 – The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival liquor gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers.
1927 – Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green.
1928 – British steamer “Vestris” capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110.
1933 – 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1941 – Alma Heflin, the first American female test pilot for commercial aircraft, made her first flight for the Piper Aircraft Corporation, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania.
1946 – A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
1954 – Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed.
1966 – Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become National Wresting Association (NWA) champ.
1966 – Buzz Aldrin takes the first ‘space selfie’, a photo of himself performing extravehicular activity in space during the Gemini program.
1969 – US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai.
1979 – US President Carter announces a halt to Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets.
1987 – Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine.
1997 – Pedro Martinez wins NL Cy Young Award.
2001 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
2015 – Out Magazine names Barack Obama ‘Ally of the Year, Obama becomes 1st sitting US President to post for cover of a gay magazine
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