1753 – 1st steam engine arrives in US colonies.
1776 – Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the United Colonies)
1830 – Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ.
1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
1861 – Nurse Sally Tompkins is officially commissioned as an officer (and its only woman officer) by the Confederate US Army.
1904 – Mounted police 1st used in NYC.
1908 – Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hour airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va.
1926 – National Broadcasting Company (NBC) created by Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
1932 – Steamboat SS Observation explodes in NYC East River (71 killed).
1934 – G. Kaufman & M. Hart’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” premieres in NYC.
1942 – 1st bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes.
1945 – 1st “bug” in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay & taped into the log.
1951 – 1st broadcast of “Love of Life” on CBS-TV.
1957 – “Diana” by Paul Anka reaches #1.
1963 – Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools.
1977 – 1st TRS-80 computer sold.
1983 – Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco 2).
1990 – George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait.
2001 – 121st Women’s U.S. Open: Venus Williams beats Serena Williams (6-2,6-4).
2015 – Apple unveils the iPad Pro and new iPhone 6S in San Francisco.
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