1492: Columbus' fleet sets sail west.
1675: New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians.
1753: The first steam engine arrives in US colonies.
1796: The Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," "United States".
1830: Charles Durant, the first US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ.
1850: California becomes the 31st state.
1850: Territories of New Mexico and Utah created.
1862: Civil War. Lee splits his army and sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry.
1863: Civil War. Battle of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.
1878: Millie Myrtle Kraus was born to Edward and Martha in Arkansas.
1908: Orville Wright makes the first 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Virginia.
1912: J. Verdrines becomes the first to fly over 100 mph (107 mph).
1926: The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) is created by Radio Corporation of America.
1942: WWII. The first bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Oregon.
1943: WWII: Italy surrenders to Allies.
1943: WWII: US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche).
1944: WWII: Allied forces liberate Luxembourg.
1944: WWII: US 113th cavalry passes Belgium-Dutch borders.
1945: WWII:Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies.
1945: The first "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay & taped into the log.
1950: The first use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune.
1971: 1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison.
1977: The first TRS-80 computer sold.
1982: Conestoga 1, the firstt private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight.
1983: Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2).
1990: Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait.