1789 – US Treasury Department established by Congress.
1798 – First bank robbery in the US: Bank of Pennsylvania robbed of $162,821 at Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia.
1859 – A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
1864 – Union General William T. Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during US Civil War.
1897 – “McCal” magazine first published.
1901 – Theodore Roosevelt advises “Speak softly & carry a big stick”
1914 – The US Treasury Department establishes the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to provide up to $5 million worth of insurance for merchant ships and their crews.
1929 – Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros.
1930 – 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hours)
1940 – Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated.
1954 – WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting.
1962 – Stan Musial’s 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place.
1963 – CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes.
1969 – The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
1978 – John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston.
1984 – “Zorba” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 362 performances.
1987 – Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan.
1991 – Jerry Lewis’ 26th Muscular Dystrophy telephone raises $45,071,657.
1996 – Soyuz TM-24, lands.
2015 – Earth’s trees number just over 3 trillion according to study in “Nature” by Thomas Crowther of Yale University.
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