The United States exhibited the country’s first-ever lion in Boston.
Source
President George Washington proclaimed the day an official National Day of Thanksgiving for the United States of America.
Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' novel was published in the US.
The New York and Harlem Railroad became the first railroad to operate in the US.
The last Concorde to ever fly made a lap of honor over the English channel.
J.B. Sutherland from Detroit patented refrigerated railroad cars.
