1731 – In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st US library.
1789 – Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon, Ky)
1889 – Montana admitted as 41st state of the Union.
1904 – Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell receives the first U.S. patent for a separable electric attachment plug.
1910 – William H. Frost receives the first U.S. patent for an electrical insect destroyer.
1917 – Telephone company runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants.
1933 – FDR creates Civil Works Administration (CWA).
1935 – “Mutiny on the Bounty” directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1936).
1950 – 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War.
1951 – NY Yankee catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards.
1960 – JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) to become 35th US president.
1965 – “Days of Our Lives” premieres on TV.
1966 – Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California.
1979 – ABC broadcasts “Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage” with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to “Nightline”).
1988 – George H.W. Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) in US presidential election.
1990 – Unconfirmed rumors emerge that Bush might announce an airlift of supplies to US embassy in Kuwait, which could ultimately trigger a military clash.
1990 – 100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian gulf.
1991 – Carol Burnette Show premieres on CBS-TV.
2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometers or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 SC15 in 1976.
2014 – US President Obama authorizes deployment of 1500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants.
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