1870 – Postcards first used in USA.
1905 – 1st College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 17-0 in Annapolis.
1923 – Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal.
1929 – Former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe in the Teapot scandal – 1st US Cabinet member to go to jail.
1951 – Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom.
1955 – Tappan sells 1st microwave oven.
1960 – 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC.
1960 – Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses.
1962 – US Ambassador to the UN Adali Stevenson demands USSR UN rep Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying “I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over.”
1964 – 1st appearance of The Rolling Stones on “The Ed Sullivan Show”
1972 – Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Kenneth J. Arrow & John R. Hicks.
1974 – US Air Force fires 1st ICBM.
1978 – Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues.
1983 – US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!)
1988 – ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy pigs’ popularity as pets.
1994 – Susan Smith of South Carolina claims her 2 kids were carjacked (she actually killed them)
2001 – Windows SP first becomes available.
2010 – “Speak Now” 3rd studio album by Taylor Swift is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2011)
2020 – Pope Francis announces appointment of 13 new cardinals including 1st African American Wilton Daniel Gregory.
2021 – Elon Musk makes a record $25 billion in one pushing his estimated worth to $255.2 billion, likely making him the richest person ever according to Forbes.
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