Coca Cola is sold in glass bottles for the first time

The Great Blizzard hits the East Coast leaving as much as 55 inches of snow

The first discernible speech is transmitted over a telephone system

The first Barbie doll goes on display at the American Toy Fair

Egypt opens the Suez Canal which Mediterranean and Red Seas across Egypt

Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

Bayer patents aspirin

The Boston Massacre occurs

George Washington is elected first US President

The Concept of a Leap Year was introduced to the Calendar

The Chemical structure of DNA is discovered

Effa Manley becomes first woman elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

The Grand Tetons is made a National Park

First African American Congressman is sworn in

The Voice of America made its first broadcast, in German, to counter the propaganda of Nazi leaders.

US flag raised on Iwo Jima

U.S. hockey team beats the Soviets in the “Miracle on Ice”

American Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first woman to earn a doctorate in dentistry.

John Glenn becomes first American to orbit Earth

The Donner Party is rescued