On this day in the year 1789 of the common era (CE), Georgetown in founded; it is the first Catholic college in the United States.
On this day in the year 1849 (CE), Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman in the United States to earn a medical degree, graduating from Geneva Medical College in Geneva, New York; forty years later, Daniel Hale Williams forms the Provident Hospital in Chicago, the first non-segregated hospital in the United States.
On this day in 1862 CE. Agoston Haraszthy imports 10,000 grapevine cuttings to Sonoma Valley, California, making him the region’s first vintner.
In 1943 CE Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time; thirty-four years later the television miniseries Roots, based on the biographical novel detailing the family origins of author, Alex Haley (played by James Earl Jones), premiers on ABC.
In 1973 CE, United States president Richard Nixon announces that an accord has been reached to end the Vietnam War…it would take two years to complete the withdraw.
In 1986 CE the inductees for the inaugural class of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame are named: Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Robert Johnson, Jimmie Rodgers, Jimmy Yancey, Alan Freed, John Hammond and Sam Phillips.
In 2025 CE, United States president Donald Trump issues pardons to twenty-three anti-abortion activists convicted of illegally blocking access to clinics; one year later his justice department applies the same law used to convict them to three protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota who entered a church to protest one of its pastors, who happens to also work as the regional head of the ICE field office.
On this day in the year 3268 of the common era (CE) the second Julian Period begins.
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