1609 ― Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island
1773 ― Benjamin Franklin writes, "There never was a good war or bad peace."
1852 ― Olympia Columbian is first newspaper published north of Columbia River
1875 ― First newspaper cartoon strip
1910 ― First commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1919 ― U.S. marines inserted in Honduras
1926 ― Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
1928 ― First TV drama airs - WGY's “The Queen's Messenger”
1946 ― First mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation held
1951 ― Florence Chadwick becomes first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France taking 16 hours and 19 minutes
1988 ― Sports Aid runners join Race Against Time to feed the world
2001 ― The worst terrorist attack on American soil in history ― 2819+ die in hijacked airplane attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and when on crashes into a field in Western Pennsylvania