1998 Supreme Court rules attorney-client privilege extends beyond the grave, exempting Vince Foster's conversations with his lawyers from being used as evidence by Kenneth Starr
1995 Chopper 4 1st used on WNBC TV (New York City) news
1988 At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts
1987 Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials
1986 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs
1984 Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
1974 Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs
1970 New York City transit fare rises from 20 cents to 30 cents, new larger tokens used
1968 State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A and M
1965 U.S. confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
1962 3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz
1961 Junior, [Norman Giscombe], R&B singer, Mama used to Say
1960 Lionel Bart's musical "Fings ain't wot they used t'be," premieres
1957 World's biggest glass oven used
1956 Transatlantic telephone cable (Newfoundland-Oban) is used
1954 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania)
1954 U.S. Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
1954 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Massachusetts
1949 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used
1945 New balata ball used in baseball, 50% livilier
1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmission
1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops
1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat, Gloster Meteor
1944 1st jet fighter used in combat, Messerschmitt 262
1936 Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign
1935 Lie detector 1st used in court, Portage, Wisconsin
1933 1st voice amplification system to be used in U.S. Senate
1929 Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, New York
1925 Thermit explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, New York
1922 Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada)
1920 Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation
1920 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track in Emeryville, California
1916 1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France
1914 U.S. Post Office 1st used an automobile to collect and deliver mail
1913 Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools
1909 SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC
1908 1st football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh)
1905 Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used
1904 Mounted police 1st used in New York City
1900 The term "orienteering" is 1st used for an event
1898 Machine gun 1st used in battle
1897 Yerkes Observatory 40" (1m) refractor used for 1st time
1888 Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale
1879 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London and Cyprus
1879 1st electric arc light used in the California Theater
1878 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
1877 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers
1877 Catcher's mask 1st used in a baseball game
1870 Postcards 1st used in U.S.
1870 Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly
1867 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck and Co, New York
1867 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall
1862 Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time
1859 Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used
1856 Violence in Senate, South Carolina rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner
1855 New York City regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration
1854 1st street-cleaning machine in U.S. 1st used in Philadelphia
1853 1st electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos)
1846 Anesthetic ether used for 1st time (Dr. Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
1845 Ether 1st used in childbirth in U.S., Jefferson, Ga
1842 Ether was used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr. Crawford Long
1839 Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Penn
1835 New Orleans gives U.S. government Jackson Square to be used as a mint
1819 William Thomas Green Morton, dentist, used ether, HOF 1920
1813 "Uncle Sam" was 1st used to refer to U.S. (Troy Post of New York)
1811 James Young Simpson, Scotland, obsterician, used chloroform
1792 Guillotine 1st used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier
1782 Great Seal of U.S. used for 1st time
1611 Word "telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi)
1507 Geographer Martin Waldseemuller 1st used name America
1492 Lead pencils 1st used
1346 Battle at Crecy-England's longbows defeat France, cannons used for 1st time in battle
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