1683 – The first Mennonites arrived in America aboard the Concord. The German and Dutch families settled in an area that is now a neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA.
1783 – Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock
1847 – “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte was first published in London.
1848 – The steamboat SS California left New York Harbor for San Francisco via Cape Horn.
1857 – The American Chess Congress held their first national chess tournament in New York City.
1863 – The first Turkish bath was opened in Brooklyn, NY, by Dr. Charles Shepard.
1866 – The Reno Brothers pulled the first train robbery in America near Seymour, IN. They got away with $10,000.
1876 – American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
1886 – Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Resident Patient
1889 – The Kinescope was exhibited by Thomas Edison. He had patented the moving picture machine in 1887.
1890 – Polygamy was outlawed by the Mormon Church.
1893 – Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat
1948 – Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya.
1949 – U.S. president Harry Truman signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Act. The act provided $1.3 billion in the form of military aid to NATO countries.
1954 – E.L. Lyon became the first male nurse for the U.S. Army.
1961 – U.S. president John F. Kennedy advised American families to build or buy bomb shelters to protect them in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.
2014 – John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
By: Archa Dave
