* 1900, the first gasoline-powered Pierce automobile was taken on a test
drive through the streets of Buffalo, New York. George N. Pierce first
founded the Pierce Company in 1878 as a manufacturer of household items.
The first few Pierce prototypes involved steam power, but in 1900 the
designers shifted to gasoline engines
* 1932, the crime lab that is now referred to as the FBI Scientific
Crime Detection Laboratory officially opened in Washington, D.C. The
lab, which was chosen because it had the necessary sink, operated out of
a single room and had only one full-time employee, Agent Charles Appel.
Agent Appel began with a borrowed microscope and a pseudo-scientific
device called a helixometer
* 1944, during World War II, U.S. bombers based on Saipan attacked Tokyo
in the first raid against the Japanese capital by land-based planes
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