1781 – Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish speaking mestizos in the Bahia de las Fumas (Bay of Smokes)
1807 – Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat.
1833 – 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun)
1882 – 1st large-scale test of Thomas Edison’s light bulb-lighting of NY’s Pearl Street Station.
1885 – 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)
1893 – English author Beatrix Potter first writes the story of Peter Rabbit for a 5 year old boy.
1923 – NY Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia A’s, 2-0.
1940 – CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB.
1945 – US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan.
1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
1951 – NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast.
1956 – IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer that uses magnetic disk storage.
1957 – Ford Motor Co. introduces Edsel.
1961 – Carol Burnette-Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio.
1970 – George Harrison releases “My Sweet Lord” single.
1972 – “The Price is Right” – US’s longest running games show debuts on CBS.
1981 – Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC.
1986 – 189.42 million shares traded on NY Stock Exchange.
1991 – “Most happy Fella” opens at NY State Theater NYC.
1998 – Google is formally incorporated by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
2012 – Carpet that can help prevent falls in elderly by warning them after detecting unusual footsteps is developed.