- 1832 First curling club in the US opens, the Orchard Lake Curling Club
First Photo of the Moon
1839 First photo of the Moon, taken by French photographer Louis Daguerre
- 1842 First US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania
The Flying Dutchman
1843 Richard Wagner's opera "The Flying Dutchman" premieres in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony
- 1890 Alice Sanger becomes the first female White House staffer
- 1890 Record 19.2-foot alligator is shot in Louisiana by American businessman Edward Avery McIlhenny
- 1893 First US commemoratives and first US stamp to picture a woman issued (Queen Isabella, patron of Columbus)
- 1900 Émile Berliner begins manufacturing 7-inch single-sided records in Montreal
Air Conditioning
1906 Willis Carrier receives a US patent for an "Apparatus for Treating Air," the world's first modern air conditioner
- 1910 1st junior high schools in US opens (Berkeley California)
- 1913 Australia releases its first national stamp - a kangaroo on a map of Australia
- 1924 Book publisher Simon & Schuster is founded in New York by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster
- 1949 Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico
- 1984 Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Philadelphia's 1st black mayor
- 1989 "Superwoman" single released by Karyn White (Billboard Song of the Year 1989)
- 1995 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)
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