1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to
farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!

1848 1st pure food law enacted in US. Drugs were added later. Here’s a history.

1870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens

1919 1st issue of NY Daily News published

1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing credit unions

1945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF

1959 Queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open the St Lawrence Seaway

1963 Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner)

1965 General Westmoreland was  given authority to commit  U.S. forces in Vietnam.  Here’s what Westmoreland had to say 30 years later.

1970: Bernadette Devlin, Catholic activist and MP from Ulster, was arrested in Londonderry after conviction for her part in 1969 Bogside. Became youngest woman to become member of parliament. Bernadette Devlin,

1974 Liz  Taylor and Richard Burton break up after ten years of marriage. In October they remarry, only to divorce again the summer of 75. If you can’t keep track On this day in 75 Sonny and Cher’s divorce is made final. Four days later Cher married Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers and Sonny becomes a Republican.

1975 two FBI agents are killed on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation at Wounded Knee in South Dakota.  Two hundred  FBI agents are  flown in to conduct the largest manhunt (in domestic US history) for AIM (American Indian Movement) activist Leonard Peltier

1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched

1982 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3521. Do you know what an asteroid is?

1983 "Loving" soap opera premiers on TV

1993  President Clinton punishes Iraq for a failed   plot to kill  former  President George Bush in Kuwait. Twenty three Tomahawk missiles were fired at Iraqi intelligence headquarters. Here’s some background and of  course the story doesn’t end there.

1996: U.S. Supreme court rules that Virginia Military Institute must admit women.

Notable Birthdays

1767 Sarah Pierce born (educator)

1812: Frances Flora Bond (Fanny) Palmer born (artist

1819 –1893 Abner Doubleday credited with inventing American baseball. Maybe?

1881: Jessie Field Shambaugh born (4-H pioneer, educator)

1890: Jeanne Eagels born (actress)

1892 –1973 Pearl S Buck China, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938)

1893 –1958 Big Bill Broonzy Miss, blues singer/guitarist (Blues by Broonzy)

1904 –1964 Peter Lorre actor (M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers)

1914 (1911?): Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson Zaharias born (athlete)