- 1794 Congress changes US flag to 15 stars and 15 stripes
- 1863 Chenille yarn making machine patented by William Canter in NYC
- 1888 The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C., to promote "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge" [1]
- 1928 Swedish-American inventor E.F.W. Alexanderson, of General Electric, demonstrates the first television receiver at Proctors Theatre in Schenectady, New York
- 1930 Mickey Mouse comic strip first appears
- 1938 The Church of England accepts the theory of evolution
Ford's Plastic Patent
1942 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies
- 1948 First country music TV show, "Midwestern Hayride," premieres on WLW-T in Cincinnati, Ohio
1962 Chubby Checker's song "The Twist", credited with starting the Twist dance craze, goes to #1 in the charts two years after first reaching number one spot
Weaver First Black Cabinet Selection
1966 Robert C. Weaver is the first Black person selected for the cabinet by US President Lyndon B. Johnson (Housing and Urban Development - HUD)
- 1978 NASA select its first American women astronauts
- 1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's "Y.M.C.A." song [1]
- 1987 Seven top New York City Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each
- 2016 Record Powerball lottery held in America - $1.6 billion, (3 winning tickets)
- 2021 World's oldest known cave painting of an animal, a pig 45,000 years old, is discovered in Leang Tedongnge cave on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia [1]
- 2022 Australian equals hottest temperature on record of 50.7C (123.26F) in Onslow, Western Australia
- 2025 China announces a record trade surplus of $990 billion, with the country now producing a third of the world's manufactured goods [1]
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