1789 – US War Department established a regular army.
1849 – 1s passenger train service to Peekskill, New York (New Haven Railroad)
1879 – NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players.
1907 – Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral.
1915 – 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent.
1916 – American oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller becomes the world’s first billionaire.
1920 – Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10.
1927 – Telephone service begins between US & Mexico.
1940 – “Double or Nothing”, a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Net.
1947 – Dizzy Gillespie presented his 1st Carnegie Hall concert in NY.
1950 – Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories.
1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
1967 – Gladys Knight & Pips release “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”
1982 – Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago.
1983 – US Congress authorizes President Reagan to keep 1,600 US Marines in Lebanon.
1990 – Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years.
1994 – House votes to end lobbyists buying meals & entertainment for Congress.
1996 – Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3 months after Japan)
2006 – US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.
2008 – Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, its largest single-day point loss, following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual.
2017 – Mysterious sonic attacks on US diplomats prompt US to warn citizens not to travel to Cuba and pull some embassy staff.
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