1778 – 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass
1841 – China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the 1st Opium War
1887 – US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
1930 – 1st radio broadcast of “Lone Ranger” (WXYZ-Detroit)
1955 – The first nuclear powered submarine, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton, Connecticut
1958 – A group attempting the 1st surface crossing of Antarctic join up at the South Pole
1965 – The US Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars & return
2009 – Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States’ first African-American president
