1789 — Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"
1839 — First U.S. anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
1865 — U.S. issues first gold certificates
1875 — Harvard-Yale game is first college football contest with uniforms
1895 — First shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
1900 — Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
1921 — U.S., France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1927 — NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
1937 — NBC forms first full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
1942 — Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1946 — First artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, MA
1956 — Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses
1982 — Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington D.C.
1986 — U.S. violates Iran arms boycott