1679 – New Hampshire becomes a county in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1789 – 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress.
1793 – US President George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
1842 – 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published.
1851 – New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy)
1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers ‘Atlanta Compromise’ address.
1919 – Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast.
1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air with 18 stations (and WOR as NYC affiliate)
1947 – US Department of Defense 1st day of operation.
1958 – The Fresno Drop: Bank of America mails out 60,000 BankAmericards in Fresno, California, the first credit card (later renamed VISA)
1969 – Tiny Tim & Miss Vicky get engaged.
1975 – Heiress-turned-bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in San Francisco.
1977 – US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together.
1989 – Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico.
1990 – 500 lb 6′ Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Squares, NYC.
1995 – Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Baltimore to move Browns.
1995 – Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands.
1997 – Ted Turner gives $1billion to the United Nations, creating the public charity, the United Nations Foundation.
2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2014 – 8 people (including 2 children) are shot dead in Bell, Florida.
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