1789 – New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights.
1866 – Howard University founded (Washington, D.C.)
1914 – US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports.
1919 – 1st municipally owned airport in US opens (Tucson, Arizona)
1923 – Garrett Morgan patents his traffic signal design, an important development in automobile safety.
1931 – Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T)
1943 – US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island.
1947 – 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey)
1952 – George Axelrod’s “Seven Year Itch” premieres in NYC.
1959 – US adopts Universal Declaration of Children’s Rights.
1967 – At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million.
1974 – Rangers’ Jeff Burroughs wins AL MVP.
1974 – The US files antitrust suit to break-up AT&T.
1979 – US’s 1st artificial blood transfusion occurs at University of Minnesota Hospital.
1984 – McDonald’s makes its 50 billionth hamburger.
1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
1986 – World Health Organization announces first global effort to combat AIDS.
1993 – Savings and Loan scandal: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his “dealings” with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
2001 – US President George W. Bush dedicates the US Department of Justice headquarters the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, on what would have been his 76th birthday.
2013 – Ben Bradlee is presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony.
2014 – Nearly 5 million illegal migrants in the US have the threat of deportation deferred, after President Barack Obama announces sweeping immigration changes.
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