1834 – First African-American granted a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter.
1884 – George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
1892 – Arthur Conan Doyle publishes “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” collection of 12 stories originally published serially in “The Strand Magazine”
1922 – 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens on Third Avenue, NYC.
1922 – 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC.
1926 – A.A. Milne’s book “Winnie the Pooh” released.
1934 – “Lux Radio Theater” premieres.
1943 – US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17s during assault on Schweinfurt.
1947 – Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015)
1952 – UN General Assembly first meets at its new headquarters in New York.
1958 – The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.
1960 – Peace Corps 1st suggested by John F. Kennedy in a speech at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
1962 – US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba.
1964 – Martin Luther King, Jr. announced as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1966 – 175 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam.
1968 – 1st live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)
1976 – Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to American economist Milton Friedman.
1982 – US President Ronald Reagan proclaims a war on drugs.
1996 – Packer Chris Jacke kicks longest field goal to end overtime (53 yards)
2014 – Utah State University receives terrorist threats pertaining to Anita Sarkeesian’s planned lecture the following day.