Dickens Travels to America
1842 Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine leave Liverpool, England for America on board the RMS Britannia
- 1852 First Chinese immigrants arrive in Hawaii
- 1899 First known use of the word "automobile" appears in an editorial in The New York Times
- 1922 First living person is depicted on a U.S. coin when Governor Thomas Kilby appears on the Alabama Centennial half dollar
- 1933 Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States
- 1947 First opening session of Congress is televised; it does not happen again until 1977
- 1953 Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress, both representing Ohio
- 1957 1st electric watch, the Hamilton Electric 500, introduced by the Hamilton Watch Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Hillary Reaches the South Pole
1958 Edmund Hillary leads a Commonwealth team to the South Pole using modified Ferguson tractors, becoming the first to reach the Pole by land since 1912
- 1959 Alaska is admitted as the 49th US state
- 1980 Price of gold hits record $634 an ounce
- 1996 First successful clamshell flip mobile phone, the Motorola StarTAC, goes on sale; eventually, 60 million units are sold
The Late Late Show
2005 Scottish comic Craig Ferguson becomes the host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS; hosts the program through 2014
- 2009 The Bitcoin network is created as the first block of the digital currency is mined by a person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto
- 2018 Previously unknown ancient Beringian group is unearthed in Alaska, among the earliest known Native American groups, dating to about 11,500 years ago
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