1779 – US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time).
1823 – 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt.
1850 – Woman’s Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
1865 – General William T. Sherman’s Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC.
1892 – 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Mass)
1918 – First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu in the US are reported at Fort Riley, Kansas.
1953 – 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
1953 – American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb 15,000 feet on Mars Bluff, South Carolina; it created a crater 75 feet across, but the nuclear core did not detonate, due to 6 safety catches.
1959 – “Raisin in the Sun”, 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens.
1967 – 14th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Duke 82-73.
1968 – Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for “Dock of the Bay”
1972 – OPEC threatens “appropriate sanctions” against companies that “fail to comply with….any action taken by a Member Country in accordance with {OPEC} decisions.”
1977 – Muslims hold 130 hostages in Washington, DC.
1982 – Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion.
1986 – 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange.
1986 – NFL adopts instant replay rule.
1991 – Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records.
1991 – Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf’s streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1.
1999 – Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2012 – US soldier kills 16 civilians in Afghanistan.
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