1676 – 1st colonial prison organized in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
1776 – 1st gun salute for an American warship in a foreign port – US Andrew Doria at Fort St. Eustatius (Dutch Caribbean island)
1801 – First edition of New York Evening Post.
1824 – New York City’s Fifth Avenue opens for business.
1875 – William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities.
1914 – Federal Reserve System formally opens.
1935 – Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart’s musical “Jumbo” premieres in NYC.
1939 – Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail.
1944 – US 9th division & 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen.
1945 – “The Lost Weekend”, based on Charles R. Jackson’s novel, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman is released (Best Picture 1946).
1950 – US President Harry Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat.
1957 – Celtic Bill Russell sets NBA record of 49 rebounds beat Philadelphia 111-89.
1959 – “Sound of Music” opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 1443 performances.
1961 – US President JFK decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing US combat troops.
1963 – Touch-tone telephone introduced.
1973 – US President Richard Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline.
1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia completes its 1st operational flight.
1988 – President Reagan and the First Lady participate in the official state arrival ceremony, meetings and a state dinner with Margaret Thatcher.
2000 – Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
2010 – In University Park, Texas, the groundbreaking ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Center takes place.
2015 – Largest diamond discovered in more than a century, a 1,111 carat stone found in the Karowe mine, Botswana.
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