1821 – 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classed, Philadelphia.
1857 – Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published.
1858 – 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra.
1904 – 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes.
1925 – Robert A. Millikan confirms the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Science at Madison, Wisconsin.
1936 – American fashion designer Ruth Harkness captures a cub (Su Lin) in China – becomes 1st live panda cub to enter the US.
1938 – Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil’ Abner, creates Sadie Hawkins Day.
1944 – Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize.
1946 – US President Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze.
1961 – PGA eliminates Caucasians only rule.
1965 – Willie Mays named NL MVP.
1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
1967 – Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon.
1970 – Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins.
1982 – Brewers’ Robin Yount wins AL MVP unanimously.
1984 – Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title.
1998 – Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing – largest civil settlement in US history.
2014 – Asia-Pacific countries, including China and the United States, announce plans to co-operate more closely in the fight against corruption.
2014 – United States lead air strikes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul against Islamic State (IS).
2015 – San Diego’s SeaWorld announces it will overhaul its killer whale show after controversy over the whales treatment
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