1716 – 1st lighthouse in American colonies lit (Boston Harbor)
1814 – Francis Scott Key inspired to write the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry”, later becomes lyrics of the “Star Spangled Banner”
1848 – Alexander Stewart opens 1st US department store.
1872 – Britain pays US $15 1/2 million for damages during Civil War.
1886 – George K. Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee, patents typewriter ribbon.
1901 – Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the youngest man to serve as US President, after William McKinley finally dies after an anarchist shoots him in Buffalo.
1939 – World’s 1st practical helicopter, the VS-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky takes (tethered) flight in Stratford, Connecticut.
1940 – US Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)
1944 – US 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid.
1948 – Groundbreaking ceremony for UN world headquarters.
1948 – Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater.
1954 – Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage.
1963 – Mary Ann Fischer of Aberdeen, South Dakota, gives birth to America’s 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls & a boy.
1968 – 1st broadcast of “60 Minutes” on CBS-TV.
1975 – Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott’s record, playing in 242 games as a teen.
1983 – Texan San Jacinto county sheriff James “Humpy” Parker convicted of violating inmates civil rights and of torture.
1994 – All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of the season.
1998 – Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
2015 – 14 year old Texan Ahmed Mohamed arrested at school when home-made clock assumed to be a bomb – Mark Zuckerberg and US President Barack Obama send supportive tweets.