1781 – Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish speaking mestizos in the Bahia de las Fumas (Bay of Smokes)
1807 – Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat.
1833 – 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun)
1862 – General Lee invades the North with 50,000 Confederate troops during Maryland Campaign (US Civil War)
1882 – In its 1st large-scale test, Thomas Edison’s light bulb is used to light NY’s Pearl Street Station.
1888 – George Eastman patents the first roll-film camera & registers “Kodak.
1893 – English author Beatrix Potter first writes the story of Peter Rabbit for a 5 year old boy.
1918 – US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months.
1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
1941 – US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652.
1945 – US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan.
1950 – First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.
1957 – Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel.
1957 – Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school.
1982 – Arson fire engulfs apartment-hotel in LA, 25 die.
1986 – 189.42 million shares in NY Stock Exchange.
1993 – New York Yankees pitcher Jim Abbott no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0 at Yankee Stadium.
1998 – Google is formally incorporated by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
2012 – Carpet that can help prevent falls in elderly by warning them after detecting unusual footsteps is developed.
2017 – US President Donald Trump announces Dreamers program, The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) will be stopped.
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