The first American college football game took place on November 6, 1869, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Rutgers beat Princeton, six goals to four.
The rules used were actually those for soccer.
It was not until the 1870s that rugby rules began to prevail in the sport, making the game more like modern football.
As of 1990, there were about 9,000 cable television companies in the U.S.
Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry first brought an armed squadron to Tokyo Bay in 1853, when he delivered a letter from President Millard Fillmore to the emperor of Japan. In 1854, on a second expedition, Perry succeeded in persuading the Japanese to open their previously isolated society to U.S. trade.
The first college to be founded in America north of Mexico was a college for young men founded by French Jesuits at Quebec in 1635. Harvard, the first college in the British colonies, was founded in 1636.
John Tyler was the first president to have a veto overridden by Congress in 1845.
Previous handguns before the Colt revolver could fire only once before they had to be reloaded. Samuel Colt’s invention, patented in 1835, had a six-chambered cylinder that rotated with each shot, automatically readying another bullet for firing. The Colt revolver became standard equipment on America’s western frontier.
Clarence Darrow did not graduate from law school. Darrow (1857-1938), famed for his defense in the Scopes trial of 1925, briefly attended the University of Michigan law school but did not get a degree. He studied on his own and got most of his legal education in a law office in Youngstown, Ohio.