1783 – General George Washington, later 1st US President, bids farewell to his army after the American Revolutionary War.
1824 – Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Andrew Jackson beats J.Q. Adams.
1854 – Cobblestone paving of Washington Street between Dupont & Kearny begins.
1889 – North Dakota becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes 40th state in the United States.
1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
1915 – First US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio.
1920 – Warren G. Harding elected 29th US President.
1948 – US President Harry Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas E. Dewey.
1950 – The Clover Dairy Company test-market the first concentrated milk (Sealtest) in the U.S. in Wilmington, Delaware.
1954 – JS Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC).
1959 – Charles Van Doren confesses the TV quiz show “21” was fixed.
1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
1976 – New Jersey voters approve gambling for Atlantic City.
1983 – US President Ronald Reagan signs bill establishing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
1984 – Velma Barfield (NC) becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1988 – Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab & 6 universities.
1989 – “Meet Me in St. Louis” opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 253 performances.
1992 – First test flight of Airbus A330.
1993 – Dow Jones hits record 3697.64.
2000 – The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
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