1634 – 1st tavern in Boston (Mass) opens (Samuel Cole).
1791 – 1st US internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
1837 – Congress increases US Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9.
1855 – US Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use.
1873 – US Congress & government retroactively raise own salaries.
1885 – American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates.
1900 – US Steel Corporation organizes.
1917 – US Congress passes 1st excise profits tax on corporations.
1923 – Time magazine publishes 1st issue featuring Joseph G. Cannon (Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
1931 – “Star Spangled Banner” officially becomes US national anthem by congressional resolution.
1955 – Elvis Presley makes his 1st TV appearance on a broadcast of radio show “Louisiana Hayride”
1959 – 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched.
1972 – Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain, Georgia.
1984 – Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1)
1985 – Bill Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million.
1991 – Los Angeles police officers severely beat motorist Rodney King, the beating is famously captured on amateur video and later leads to riots when the police officers are acquitted.
1992 – US President George H.W. Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to.
1998 – Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee about Microsoft’s dominant position in the software industry.
2002 – 33rd NAACP Image Awards: “Ali” wins Outstanding Motion Picture.
2013 – A 2 year old US girl becomes the first child born with HIV to be cured.
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