2009 Campaign Aims for Tobacco-free Dubai
1980 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network
1961 FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard
1951 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada)
1949 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)
1947 Photosensitive glass developed
1888 California gets its 1st seismograph
1881 Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange
1880 1st pay telephone installed
1877 Society of American Artists forms
1869 Voting machine patented by Thomas A. Edison
1808 1st U.S. land-grant university founded at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
1789 1st U.S. congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
1638 1st earthquake recorded in U.S., at Plymouth, Mass
1495 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller
History created - 31 May 2009
2009 May Finishes on a Blistering High, 50-degree heat on Sunday.
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