1646 – Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent.
1808 – 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard.
1810 – Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US.
1836 – Battle of the Alamo: After 13 days of fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett.
1886 – 1st alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA.
1899 – “Aspirin” (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffman at German Company, Bayer.
1923 – Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms.
1933 – FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday.
1950 – Silly Putty goes on sale in the US.
1951 The trial of Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel Rosenberg begins.
1954 – 1st ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Wake Forest, 82-80 (OT).
1959 – 11th Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr win.
1965 – “How to Succeed in Business” closes at 46th St NYC after 1415 performances.
1966 – Barry Sadlers’ “Ballad of the Green Berets” becomes #1 (13 weeks).
1967 – Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted.
1972 – Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf’s all-time money winner.
1981 – Walter Cronkite signs off a anchorman of “CBS Evening News”
1990 – SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17.
2001 – US Secretary of Energy, Spencer Abraham establishes the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve to be used in emergency circumstances.
2015 – US State Department charges 2 Vietnamese and a Canadian citizen with cyberfraud, for stealing 1 billion email addresses for spam.
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