The first president was Mustafa Kemal, later known as Kemal Ataturk.ġ929 - America's Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market.ġ940 - The first peacetime military draft began in the U.S.ġ945 - The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each.ġ956 - Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal Crisis.ġ956 - "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premiered on NBC. President McKinley, was electrocuted.ġ911 - American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer died.ġ923 - Turkey formally became a republic after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. He was the founder of Pennsylvania.ġ863 - The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded.ġ901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. South African president of the African National Congress (1969-91)Īmerican businessman and White House chief of staff (1969-73) convicted of Watergate crimesġ618 - Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded under a sentence that had been brought against him 15 years earlier for conspiracy against King James I.ġ652 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed itself to be an independent commonwealth.ġ682 - William Penn landed at what is now Chester, PA. Rock singer, TV personality ("The Osbournes")Īmerican inventor developed Singer sewing machineĢ6th president of the United States (1901-9)Īmerican educator president of Yale University (1950-63) Rock musician (Presidents of the United States of America) The deal created the second largest banking company in the U.S. announced it had agreed to buy FleetBoston Financial Corp. He was the country's first elected leftist leader.Ģ003 - Bank of America Corp. He also scored his 150th career touchdown.Ģ002 - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected president of Brazil in a runoff. He achieved the record in his 193rd game. The beat the San Francisco Giants in Game 7 of the series.Ģ002 - Emmitt Smith (Dallas Cowboys) became the all-time leading rusher in the NFL when he extended his career yardage to 16,743. It was the believed that the gunmen were staging a coup.Ģ002 - The Anaheim Angels won their first World Series. The other sank and 60 people were missing.ġ999 - Armenia's Prime Minister and seven other government officials were killed during a parliamentary session. Majzoub, his wife, and his nine-month-old son, and a passerby were injured in the blast.ġ998 - "Lion King II: Simba's Pride" was released on video.ġ998 - Two boats hit head-on in India. President Reagan.ġ998 - The reunion episode "CHiPs '99" aired for the first time on the cable network TNT.ġ998 - A car bomb exploded in the car of a Palestinian leader Mahmoud Majzoub. The stock market was shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination attempt on U.S. prison population had exceeded one million for the first time in American history.ġ997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 554.26 points. Justice Department announced that the U.S. President Kennedy agreed to the new aspect of the agreement.ġ978 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord.ġ994 - The U.S. They had been married on January 14, 1954.ġ954 - The first Walt Disney television show "Disneyland" premiered on ABC.ġ962 - The Soviet Union adds to the Cuban Missile Crisis by calling for the dismantling of U.S. It was later shown on NBC television.ġ954 - Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were divorced. It was the first rapid-transit subway system in America.ġ925 - Fred Waller received a patent for water skis.ġ927 - The first newsreel featuring sound was released in New York.ġ931 - Chuhei Numbu of Japan set a long jump record at 26' 2 1/4".ġ938 - Du Pont announced "nylon" as the new name for its new synthetic yarn.ġ947 - "You Bet Your Life," the radio show starring Grouch Marx, premiered on ABC. The robbery was credited to George "Western" Leslie even though there was not enough evidence to convict him, only two of his associates were convicted.ġ880 - Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Lee.ġ904 - The New York subway system officially opened.
It was Macy's eighth business adventure, the other seven failed.ġ878 - The Manhattan Savings Bank in New York City was robbed of over $3,000,000.
The treaty is also known as "Pinckney's Treaty."ġ858 - Roland Macy opened Macy's Department Store in New York City. The series of 85 essays, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, were published under the pen name "Publius."ġ795 - The United States and Spain signed the Treaty of San Lorenzo. 1659 - William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson became the first Quakers to be executed in America.ġ787 - The first of the Federalist Papers were published in the New York Independent.
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