Date Events
1598 William Harvey discovered blood circulation

1742 1st performance of Handel’s “Messiah” in Dublin
1748 Ruins of Pompeii found
1766 1st Fire Escape patented
1775 Revolutionary War begins- “Shot heard Around the World”
1789 1st Meeting House of Representatives
1789 George Washington inaugurated as first US President
1790 US Patent System formed
1792 Philadelphia Mint Authorized by Congress

1805 Premier of “Eroica” conducted by Beethoven
1813 Rubber is patented
1828 1st edition of Webster’s Dictionary published
1858 Harriet Tubman began her Underground Railroad
1860 Pony Express began
1865 Lincoln shot in Ford’s Theater by Booth
1879 1st t time milk sold in bottles
1888 Eastman Kodak forms
1893 Mormon Temple in Salt Lake dedicated

1900 1st book of stamps issued by USPS
1902 Radium isotope isolated by the Curies
1906 8.25 San Francisco earthquake
1906 Einstein introduces “Theory of Relativity”
1937 1st Social Security payment made
1946 Weight Watchers formed

1954 TV dinner first put on sale by Swanson
1962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring “CBS Evening News”
1968 Martin Luther King buried in Atlanta
1968 President Johnson signs “Civil Rights Act
1976 Apple Computer formed