1841 – First wagon train arrives in California.
1862 – Dr. Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis.
1879 – James Ritty patents first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his saloon in Dayton, Ohio.
1904 – First stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium)
1924 – Nellie Taylor Ross elected first US female governor (Wyoming)
1928 – American gangster Arnold Rothstein is shot at a business meeting for reportedly refusing to pay gambling debts (dies 6th November)
1929 – Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould and their polar expedition team begin a 2 1/2 month, 1500-mile dog-sled journey into the Queen Maud Mountains. The first exploration of the interior of Antarctica.
1939 – First air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Illinois.
1939 – US allows “cash & carry” arms sales during WW II.
1949 – “One Man’s Family” premieres on TV.
1950 – US troops vacate Pyongyang North Korea.
1954 – Philadelphia A’s move to Kansas City.
1970 – Genie, a 13 year old feral child found in Los Angeles, California, having been locked in her bedroom by her father for most of her life.
1980 – Republican candidate Ronald Reagan is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent Democrat US President Jimmy Carter by a landslide.
1981 – Dr. Georg Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive drugs for Elvis Presley.
1994 – San Francisco: First conference that focuses on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
2003 – Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy becomes the first person indicted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was eventually acquitted.
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate John McCain.
2014 – The US votes in mid-term elections: Republicans retain the house & regain the Senate.
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