Scott Allsop's Blog, page 46

24th January 1935: The first canned beer goes on sale from the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company in Richmond, Virginia

Canned beer was an immediate success and the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company saw sales skyrocket. Other brewers soon began to adopt the new packaging, and by the end of the year over 200 million cans of beer had sold in the United ...

23rd January 1849: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to receive a medical degree in the USA

Blackwell graduated first in her class and became the first woman to achieve a medical degree in the United ...

22nd January 1973: The Supreme Court issues its decision on the Roe v. Wade abortion case

Justice Harry Blackmun wrote the majority opinion that the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution gives women in the United States the ‘fundamental’ freedom choice in family matters, including whether or not to have an ...

21st January 1954: Launch of USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine

Nuclear propulsion enabled Nautilus to smash numerous records including those for both submerged speed and distance, and became the first submarine to transit the North Pole in August ...

20th January 1986: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day first observed as a federal holiday

President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law on 2 November ...

19th January 1920: Foundation of the American Civil Liberties Union

The organization now boasts more than 1.2 million members and continues to provide legal support where individual rights and liberties are ...

18th January 1911: Eugene Ely lands the first aircraft on a ship when he touches down on USS Pennsylvania

Following a brief flight, Ely executed a successful landing on USS Pennsylvania in a Curtiss Model D 'Pusher', despite being caught off-guard by the sudden updraft that struck the aircraft as he reached the temporary wooden landing ...

17th January 1966: Palomares incident sees a B-52 break apart after a mid-air collision, dropping four nuclear bombs

The B-52 bomber was taking part in Operation Chrome Dome when it collided with a KC-135 Stratotanker and broke apart, resulting in the deaths of 8 airmen and dropping 4 thermonuclear bombs onto the Spanish fishing village of ...

16th January 1919: Nebraska becomes the vital 36th of the 48 states to approve prohibition in the 18th Amendment

Nationwide prohibition began on 17 January the following year, and existed until its repeal by the Twenty-first Amendment in ...

15th January 1892: Rules for basketball published for the first time by James Naismith

On 15 January, 1892, Naismith published his original list of thirteen rules in the Springfield College school newspaper, The Triangle. According to documents found after his death, these were inspired by a game he played as child called ‘duck on a rock’ and he was nervous about whether the game would catch on since he had previously introduced games that his students did not ...