Scott Allsop's Blog, page 148
August 10, 2020
11th August 1929: Babe Ruth becomes the first Major League Baseball player to hit 500 home runs
The ball sailed over the right-field fence to land in Lexington Avenue that ran alongside Cleveland’s League ...
August 9, 2020
10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution
It had taken Congress eight years to agree on how to fulfil James Smithson’s desire to establish and institution ‘for the increase and diffusion of ...
August 7, 2020
8th August 1925: More than 50,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan stage a march in Washington D.C.
Tens of thousands of Ku Klux Klan members took part in an organised march through Washington ...
August 4, 2020
5th August 1861: Abraham Lincoln signs US income tax into law to help pay for the American Civil War
The Revenue Act of 1861 was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln, imposing U.S. federal income tax for the first ...
August 3, 2020
4th August 1914: Woodrow Wilson proclaims US neutrality in the First World War
President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the neutrality of the United States in the First World ...
August 1, 2020
2nd August 1873: The Clay Street Hill Railroad becomes San Francisco’s first cable car
The Clay Street Hill Railroad was successfully tested, becoming San Francisco’s first operational cable ...
July 31, 2020
1st August 1981: Cable music television channel MTV is launched
Originally broadcast from a studio in New Jersey, MTV launched at 12:01am with the words ‘Ladies and gentlemen, rock and ...
July 30, 2020
31st July 1790: The first U.S. patent was awarded to Samuel Hopkins
The first U.S. patent was awarded to Samuel Hopkins for an improvement ‘in making Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and ...
July 29, 2020
30th July 1619: The General Assembly of Virginia, the oldest continuous elected assembly in the New World, convenes for the first time
The oldest continuous elected legislative assembly in the New World, the House of Burgesses in Virginia, convened for the first ...
July 28, 2020
29th July 1914: Successful voice test of the first transcontinental telephone line between New York and San Francisco
The world’s first transcontinental telephone line was successfully voice tested between New York and San ...
