President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference to be carried live on radio and television in 1961.

The nation's first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated, in Haleyville, Alabama in 1968.

American Airlines began jet flights between New York and Los Angeles on the Boeing 707 in 1959.

Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as Emperor of the French and was banished to the island of Elba in 1814.