1310 – Shoes were made for both right & left feet.
1639 – Dorchester, Mass., forms 1st school funded by local taxes.
1775 – Citizens of Mecklenburg County, NC declare independence from Britain.
1830 – D. Hyde patents fountain pen.
1861 – North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union.
1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent the first blue jeans with copper rivets.
1899 – First speeding infraction by a New York cabbie driving an electric car – 12 mph down Lexington Street.
1916 – Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting.
1926 – Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies.
1927 – At 7:40 AM, Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris, aboard Spirit of St. Louis (1st non-stop flight).
1932 – Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic.
1942 – US Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve.
1959 – Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car “Falcon.”
1970 – 100,000 march in NY supporting US policies in Vietnam.
1984 – “On Your Toes” closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 505 performances.
1985 – FBI arrest John A. Walker, Jr. convicted of spying for USSR.
1986 – Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-TV.
1995 – CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung.
2013 – Yahoo purchases Tumbler for $1.1 Billion.
2015 – David Letterman, after 33 years, hosts the “Late Show with David Letterman” for the last time.
2015- 5 major world banks (JP Morgan, Barclays, Citigroup, RBS and USB) fined $5.7 Billion for manipulating currency markets – some of the largest ever fines.
2015 – NASCAR 2016 Hall of Fame inductees: Bobby Isaac, Terry Labonte and Jerry Cook.
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