1634 – The colony of Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony.
1790 – US copyright law enacted.
1837 – Astor Hotel opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria.
1859 – Philadelphia A’s organize to play “town ball” became baseball 20 years later.
1868 – 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio.
1879 – Madison Square Garden opens in New York, named after 4th President James Madison.
1884 – Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patents “flaked cereal”
1907 – Taxis 1st began running in NYC.
1912 – US Marines land in Cuba.
1929 – Atlantic City Convention Center opens.
1941 – 1st edition of “Parade” goes on sale.
1955 – US Supreme Court orders school integration “with all deliberate speed”
1958 – Dick Dale invests “surf music” with “Let’s To Tippin”
1962 – “Tell It To Groucho” last airs on CBS-TV.
1969 – “Gitarzan” by Ray Stevens peaks at #8.
1977 – “Beatlemania” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 920 performances.
1985 – Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule 1 drug in the United States.
1989 – Speaker of US House of Representatives Jim Wright resigns.
2005 – Mark Felt, former FBI high ranking official revealed as “Deep Throat” source during Watergate investigations in “Vanity Fair” article.
2015 – Harriette Thompson age 92 years and 65 days, becomes the oldest woman to complete a marathon (Suja Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon in San Diego)
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