1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.
1789 – The first U.S. presidential inaugural ball, celebrating the inauguration of George Washington, was conducted in New York City.
1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America’s oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
1976 – Honda officially launches the Accord car model.
1992 – Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. The amendment bars Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
