1835 – P T Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US.
1857 – James Gibbs of Virginia, patents th chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine.
1875 – Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission.
1886 – Grover Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency (Frances Folsom).
1901 – Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday (NY).
1919 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers).
1928 – Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft.
1933 – FDR authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House.
1942 – Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a US Navy aviator.
1952 – Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette.
1957 – US TV interviews Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet First Secretary.
1975 – VP Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA.
1977 – New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City.
1979 – Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley signs first homosexual rights bill.
1983 – Toilet catches fire on Air Canada’s DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati.
1985 – RJ Reynolds Company proposes a merger with Nabisco.
1994 – Sharon Stone files $12m lawsuit against her jeweler.
1997 – Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168.
2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!.
2015 – US Congress passes new legislation for reform National Security Agency procedures, restricting gathering of phone records.
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