1659 – Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Daniel Defoe)
1787 – 1st US voyage around the world – Columbia leaves Boston.
1841 – Samuel Slocum patented the stapler.
1846 – Anesthetic ether used for 1st time by American dentist Dr. William Morton who extracts a tooth.
1867 – Midway Islands formally declared a US possession.
1898 – City of New York established.
1919 – Avery Hopwood’s “Gold Diggers” premieres in NYC.
1927 – Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary)
1935 – Gershwin’s “Porgy & Bess” premieres in Boston.
1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated by FDR.
1949 – American chemist Percy L. Julian at the Glidden Company announces an improved method for producing cortisone.
1950 – Radio’s “Grand Ole Opry” is broadcast on TV for 1st time.
1960 – “The Flintstones” the first animated sitcom created by Hanna-Barbera premiers on ABC in the US.
1961 – Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of the tea lost.
1968 – 1st Boeing 747 rolls out.
1977 – Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1988 – IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer.
1997 – Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 4.
2004 – The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retires.
2014 – A case of Ebola Virus reaches Dallas, Texas.
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