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1455 Johannes Gutenberg prints first
book, the Bible (estimated date)
1813 First US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded
in Waltham, MA
1822 Boston is incorporated as a city
1836 Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison
eventually killed
1861 President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly
in Washington to take office
1874 Major Walter Winfield patents game called
"sphairistike" (lawn tennis)
1886 Charles M. Hall completed his invention of
aluminum
1886 London Times publishes world's first classified
ad
1892 First college student government established,
Bryn Mawr, PA
1893 Rudolf Diesel received a German patent for
the diesel engine
1896 Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield
1903 Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA
1905 Rotary Club International established by
4 men in Chicago
1910 United Wireless Telegraph Company in Philadelphia
sponsored the first morse code radio contest
1916 Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1
gold coin
1921 First US transcontinental air mail flight
arrives in New York
1927 President Coolidge creates Federal Radio
Commission (FCC predecessor)
1936 First rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake
NY
1942 First attack on the U.S. mainland near
Santa Barbara, California
1943 The song "As Time Goes By" from
the movie Casablanca was copyrighted
1945 US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima
1952 "Slow Poke" by Pee Wee King topped
the charts
1954 First mass inoculation with Salk vaccine
(Pittsburgh)
1957 "Too Much" by Elvis Presley topped
the charts
1960 Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field
(opened in 1913)
1963 The Chiffons recording of "He’s
So Fine" was released
1963 "Hey Paula" by Paul & Paula
topped the charts
1968 Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBAer to score
25,000 points
1974 "The Way We Were" by Barbra Streisand's
topped the charts
1980 "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
by Queen topped the charts
1985 "Careless Whisper" by George Michael
topped the charts
1987 Supernova 1987A in LMC first seen; first
naked-eye supernova since 1604
1988 Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights
& play up to 18 night games
1991 "All the Man That I Need" by Whitney
Houston topped the charts
1995 Dow Jones closes above 4,000 for first time
(4,003.33)
1997 NBC TV shows "Schindler's List",
completely uncensored, 65 million watch
1997 Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded
in cloning an adult mammal
