1310 – Shoes were made for both right & left feet.
1734 – 1st Jockey Club forms in South Carolina.
1775 – Citizens of Mecklenburg County, NC declare independence from Britain.
1830 – 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)
1861 – North Carolina becomes 11th and last state to secede from Union.
1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent first blue jeans with copper rivets.
1892 – George Sampson patents clothes dryer.
1916 – Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting.
1926 – Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies.
1927 – At 7:30 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 to 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”
1967 – 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam.
1970 – 100,000 march in NY supporting US policies in Vietnam.
1973 – 25th Emmy Awards: Waltons, All in the Family & Mary Tyler Moore win.
1985 – Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1300 for 1st time.
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
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