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1733 English colonists led by James
Oglethorpe founded Savannah, GA
1809 Abraham Lincoln born in present-day Larue
County, Kentucky
1825 Creek Indian treaty signed
1839 Boundary dispute between Maine & New
Brunswick leads to Aroostook
1850 Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript
sells for $2,300
1870 April 15 as last day of grace for US silver
coins to circulate in Canada
1876 Albert Spalding opens his sporting good shop
1877 First news dispatch by telephone, between
Boston & Salem MA
1879 First artificial ice rink in North America
(Madison Square Garden, NYC)
1899 First 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in US
begins, Madison Square Garden, NYC
1899 State record low temperature of -47°
in Camp Clarke, NB
1908 New York to Paris auto race begins in New York
NY
1909 National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP) is founded
1915 Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in
Washington DC
1920 NL votes 6-2 for 1 commissioner AL votes
6-2 to keep group commission
1924 George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue"
premieres at Carnegie Hall
1924 President Calvin Coolidge makes first presidential
radio speech
1940 The radio play "The Adventures of Superman"
debuted on the Mutual network
1947 Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen
in eastern Siberia
1947 Record 221 lb. sailfish caught, C W Stewart,
Galapagos Islands
1949 "Annie Get Your Gun" closes after
1147 performances
1949 "War of the Worlds," causes panic in Quito, Ecuador
1949 "A Little Bird Told Me" by Evelyn
Knight topped the charts
1950 Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list
of 205 communist government employees
1950 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
1955 "Sincerely" by the McGuire Sisters
topped the charts
1955 Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur,
Kazachstan
1964 Beatles first NYC concert (Carnegie Hall)
1966 "My Love" by Petula Clark topped
the charts
1972 "Let's Stay Together" by Al Green
topped the charts
1974 Stephen Kovacs received a patent for a magnetic
heart pump
1977 "Torn Between Two Lovers" by Mary
MacGregor topped the charts
1983 "Package Saver" invented (protects
the pizza in the box)
1983 "Down Under" by Men At Work topped
the charts
1984 Cale Yarborough, becomes first Daytona 500
qualifier, above 200 MPH
1994 "The Power of Love" by Celine Dion
topped the charts
1997 A federal judge struck down the Line-Item
Veto Act
2001 Scientists published their first examinations
of nearly all the human genetic code
