MARCH

March 7, 1876 -- A. G. Bell received his telephone patent

March 9, 1933 -- President Roosevelt convened the first One Hundred’s Congress

March 10, 1876 -- Alexander G. Bell sent a message over his telephone

March 12, 1933 -- The first fireside chat was broadcast live over the radio

March 18, 1834 -- The first railroad tunnel was completed

March 22, 1981 -- Postage rates went from 15-cents to 18-cents an ounce.

March 24, 1940 -- The first religious service was televised.

March 26, 1953 -- Dr. Jonas Salk announced a new polio vaccine on this day.

March 30, 1981 -- President Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.

APRIL

April 1, 1917 -- The first American soldier lost his life in WW1

April 5, 1792 -- The first Presidential veto was exercised.

April 6, 1991 -- The Persian Gulf War ended

April 12, 1945 -- Over 1,600 delegates met in San Francisco to draft a charter for the United Nations

April 14, 1912 -- The Titanic sunk

April 19, 1933 -- President Roosevelt took American currency off the Gold Standard

April 19, 1995 -- A federal building in Oklahoma City was bombed

April 30, 1975 -- Saigon fell to the Communists

MAY

May 3, 1862 -- The first known land mines were used

May 6, 1937 -- German Zeppelin exploded

May 10, 1940 -- Germany invaded the low countries of Europe

May 17, 1939 -- The first baseball game was televised

May 24, 1844 -- The first official message was sent by telegraph

May 30, 1896 -- The first automobile accident occurred

JUNE

June 4,1989 -- The Tiananmen Square Massacre took place

June 7,1945 -- The Germans surrendered unconditionally

June 11, 1934 -- The FCC began operating

June 18, 1812 -- Congress declared war on the United Kingdom

June 25, 1950 -- North Korea invaded South Korea

June 26, 1945 -- The UN charter was adopted

JULY

July 5, 1944 -- The first rocket airplane was flown

July 6, 1785 -- The decimal system of money was adopted

July 8, 1776 -- The Declaration of Independence was read publicly

July 10, 1962 -- Telstar I sent the first transatlantic satellite broadcast

July 11, 1798 -- The United States Marine Corps was a created

July 22, 1975 -- Confederate General Robert E. Lee had his U.S. citizenship restored by the U.S. Congress.

AUGUST

August 9, 1974 -- President Nixon resigned

August 10, 1821 -- Missouri became a state.

August 11, 1909 -- The first SOS was heard from an American ship.

August 13, 1907 -- The first taxicab took to the streets of New York City on this day.

August 16, 1948 -- Baseball legend Babe Ruth dies of cancer in New York at the age of fifty-three.

August 21, 1959 -- Hawaii became a state

August 24, 1869 -- The first waffle iron patent was issued.

August 25, 1916 -- The U.S. National Park Service was created on this day.

August 28, 1914 -- Austria declared war on Serbia.

SEPTEMBER

September 6, 1920 -- The first Prize fight radio broadcast.

September 7, 1899 -- The first automobile parade took place.

September 8, 1866 -- The first sextuplets were born in America

September 11, 2001 -- The World Trade Towers and the Pentagon were hit by commercial airplanes in a massive terrorist attack.

September 17, 1777 - The first Catholic funeral attended by the U.S. Continental Congress.

September 18, 1944 - Italy surrendered and turned against the Axis powers.

September 19, 1994 - President Clinton sent United States troops into Haiti as a peace keeping force.

September 20, 1921 - KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, started one of the first daily radio newscasts in the country.

September 21, 1989 -- Hurricane Hugo tore into Charleston, South Carolina, leaving over 8 billion dollars worth of damage

September 23, 1779 -- John Paul Jones said, “I have not yet begun to fight.”

OCTOBER

October 2, 1956 -- The first atomic powered clock was exhibited

October 3, 1632 -- The first colonial tobacco tax was authorized

October 4, 1909 -- The first dirigible balloon race took place.

October 5, 1939 -- Poland was split between Germany and the Soviet Union.

October 6, 1973 -- Egypt, Syria, and Jordan attacked Israel on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.

October 7, 1931 -- The first infrared photograph was taken.

October 11, 1932 -- The first political campaign was televised

October 20, 1931 -- Mickey Mantle was born.

October 21, 1918 -- Margaret Owen from New York City, set a new typing record of 170 words per minute.

October 22, 1962 -- President Kennedy announces the Cuban Missile Crisis on all three major Television Networks.

October 24, 1929 -- The stock market crash begins.

October 28, 1962 -- The Cuban Missile Crisis came to an end

NOVEMBER

November 1, 1873 -- Barbed wire was first manufactured

November 2, 1954 - The first write-in Senator won an election.

November 3, 1979 - Sixty-three hostages were taken captive in Iran by Ayatollah Khomeini.

November 4, 1862 - The machine gun was patented by R. J. Gatling.

November 7, 1848 - The first election day uniformly observed.

November 11, 1918 -- Germany surrenders to end World War I, Veteran’s Day

November 17, 1954 -- Golfer Arnold Palmer signed a contract with Wilson Sporting Goods and became a pro.

November 19, 1919 -- The Senate voted to reject the treaty of Versailles.

November 20, 1960 -- Actor Clark Gable, who played Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind," died because of an heart attack at the age of 59.

November 22, 1963 -- John F. Kennedy was assassinated

November 24, 1963 -- Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and killed

November 30, 1803 -- Spain ceded claims of the Louisiana Purchase to France.

DECEMBER

December 1, 1913 -- The first automobile service station was opened.

December 2, 1954 -- The U.S. Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Senator Joseph R. McCarthy for conduct unbecmoing of a Senator.

December 3, 1994 -- The United States Congress approved the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

December 4, 1992 -- President George H. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia, a war-torn East African nation where rival warlords were preventing the distribution of humanitarian aid to thousands of starving Somalis.

December 9, 1955 -- The first ever murder trial to be televised came to an end

December 13,1809 -- Jane Todd Crawford became the first person to have an abdominal surgical procedure performed. The operation was performed without the aid of an anesthetic.

December 15, 1854 -- Philadelphia residents were amazed as the first street cleaning machine was put into operation.

December 18, 1865 -- The 13th Amendment was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution, ensuring that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

December 25, 1941 -- Hong Kong surrendered to Japan

December 28, 1856 -- Woodrow Wilson (28th U.S. President [1913-1921]) was born.

December 30, 1965 -- Former Philippines Senate president Ferdinand Marcos is inaugurated president of the Southeast Asian archipelago nation.

December 31, 1986 -- The State of Florida passed Illinois to become the fifth most populous state in the country. In the lead: California, New York, Texas, and Pennsylvania.