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1940 – Billboard magazine publishes its first music popularity chart, the predecessor to today's Hot 100; 1940 – U.S. presidential election, 1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected president to a record third term, Henry A. Wallace is elected vice president; 1940 - Color television is demonstrated by the Columbia Broadcasting System
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: James B. Allen (); Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: Nathan Green Gordon (); Lieutenant Governor of California: Goodwin Knight (); Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Gordon L. Allott ()
At least 48 deaths occurred in the United States as a result of Beryl. July 13, 2024 – While campaigning for the 2024 U.S. presidential election, former President of the United States Donald Trump is injured in an assassination attempt at a rally he held near Butler, Pennsylvania. [46]
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Steve Windom (); Lieutenant Governor of Alaska: Fran Ulmer (until December 2), Loren Leman (starting December 2); Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: Winthrop Paul Rockefeller ()
1979 – The Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurs, America's most catastrophic nuclear power plant accident in its history. 1979 – The Iran hostage crisis begins. In the aftermath, a second energy crisis develops, tripling the price of oil and sending U. S. gasoline prices over $1 per gallon for the first time.
November 30 – Exhibition American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America 1750–1900 opens at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. [4] December 23 or December 24 – Moweaqua Coal Mine disaster: a methane gas explosion claims 54 lives in Illinois. December 27 – Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City.
Smaller marches also occur in Boston, Seattle, and Madison, Wisconsin. Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, hitchhiking in Meadville, Mississippi, are kidnapped, beaten, and murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Their badly decomposed bodies are found by chance in July during the search for missing activists Chaney, Goodman, and ...
1952 – The debut of the Today show on NBC, originally hosted by Dave Garroway is the fourth longest running talk show on television. 1952 – ANZUS Treaty enters into force; 1952 – Immigration and Nationality Act; 1952 – In the United States presidential election, Dwight D. Eisenhower elected as president, Richard Nixon elected as vice ...