- 1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
- 1879 – New York, New York’s Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
- 1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
- 1929 – The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, “The Karnival Kid”, is released.
- 1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.