1799 – Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)
1807 – Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire.
1859 – 1st Pullman sleeping car in service.
1862 – Federal tax levied on tobacco.
1878 – 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)
1902 – Tinker, Evers & Chance appear together for 1st time.
1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in capacity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1939 – General George Marshall sworn in as the United States Army Chief of Staff.
1939 – In the “scoop of the century,” Telegraph journalist Clare Hollingsworth becomes the first to report the outbreak of World War II.
1949 – 1st network detective series-Private Eyes- premieres.
1953 – Fokker begins building F-27 Fokker Friendship.
1954 – Hurricane Carol strikes Long Island and New England, kills 68.
1962 – United Nations announces Earth’s population has hit 3 billion.
1975 – NYC transit fare rises from 35 cents to 50 cents.
1977 – 1st TRS-80 model I computer sold.
1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1995 – Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio.
2012 – US drone strike kills 5 people in North Waristan, Pakistan.
2015 – Google changes its logo, biggest redesign since 1999.
2015 – Pope Francis tells priests to pardon women who have had an abortion, in a letter release by the Vatican.