1751 – 1st hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital) in the 13 Colonies in America.
1752 – 1st US fire insurance policy issued in Philadelphia.
1816 – American Bible Society forms (NY)
1858 – Minnesota admitted as 32nd US state.
1892 – American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co.
1904 – Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace.
1907 – Bank of San Francisco Incorporated.
1924 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging the two companies.
1927 – Louis B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences.
1928 – General Electric opens 1st TV station (Schenectady, NY)
1940 – NY World’s Fair reopens.
1942 – William Faulkner’s collection of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
1947 – BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tires (Akron, Ohio)
1951 – Jay Forrester patents computer core memory.
1959 – “Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb” by Byrnes and Connie Stevens hits #4.
1965 – Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument.
1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed.
1987 – 1st heart-lung transplant takes place (Baltimore)
1994 – Musical “Grease” opens at Eugene O’Neill Theater NYC for 1,503 performances.
2015 – Record price for a work of art at auction: Picasso’s The Women of Algiers (Version ‘O’) sells for US$179.3 million at Christies in New York.
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