1790—1st patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.1792—Cornerstone laid for 1st US government building: US Mint in Philadelphia.
1893—Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
1922—18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world’s 1st water skis (Minn)
1932—George Washington quarter goes into circulation.
1944—US troops occupy Sansapor, New-Guinea.
1948—US President Harry Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (now Kennedy Airport), NY.
1964—Al Parker glides 644 miles without a motor.
1965—Cigarette advertising banned on British TV.
1968—Beatles close Apple Boutique, giving clothes away for free.
1970—Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends “Huntley-Brinkley Report”
1973—ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to NY Nets.
1978—Pete Rose ties NL record hitting streak at 44.
1980—John Phillips of Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges.
1981—42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends.
1987—Oriole Eddie Murray hits his 299th and 300th career home runs.
1988—Last Playboy club closes in Lansing, Michigan.
1991—Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft.
1994—Phil Rizzuto (Yanks) & Steve Carlton (Phils) enter the Hall of Town.
2006—Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raul Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana (La Pequena Habana in Spanish, Miami, Florida, where many Cuban Americans participated.
2014—The US agree to resupply arms to Israel – including rocket launchers, mortar rounds, grenades – despite condemnation of civilian casualties in Gaza.
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