1865 – 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of President Lincoln are found guilty.
1870 – Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate.
1896 – W.S. Hadaway patents electric stove.
1906 – US Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’ in particular)
1911 – 51st British Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 303 at Royal St. George’s Golf Club.
1925 – Charles Jenkins is granted the U.S. patent for Transmitting Pictures over Wireless (early television).
1930 – 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady, NY.
1936 – 40 hour work week law approved for US federal employees.
1936 – Margaret Mitchell’s novel “Gone with the Wind” published.
1952 – “Guiding Light” soap opera moves from radio to TV.
1953 – 1st Chevrolet Corvette manufactured.
1960 – US stops sugar import from Cuba.
1967 – Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut.
1977 – Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later “B-1’s the B-52”.
1982 – Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification.
1988 – Chicago agrees to build a new stadium so White Sox won’t move to Florida.
1992 – 1st pay bathrooms in US open: 25 cents (NYC).
1994 – Pre-trial hearings open in LA against OJ Simpson.
1998 – Sega Channel, cable’s 1st on-demand video game service, closes down.
2012 – Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
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