1804: American agriculturist and engineer John Deere was born. 1814: Gardner Colton, who first used nitrous oxide (laughing gas) as an anesthetic, was born. 1871: Henry Steinway, of overstrung iron-frame grand piano frame, died. 1889: Harry Nyquist, of Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem fame, was born. 1935: Monopoly was first marketed by Charles Darrow, and was later bought my Parker Brothers. 1938: American industrialist Harvey Firestone, who founded the tire company that bears his name, died. 1943: The U.S. government announced that shoe rationing (stamp no. 17) would go into effect in two days, limiting each purchaser to three pairs for the remainder of the year. 1964: Beatlemania arrived in the U.S. on the Ed Sullivan Show. 1971: Women in Switzerland won the right to vote. 1984: Navy Captain Bruce McCandless became the first human being to fly untethered in space when he exited the U.S. space shuttle Challenger and maneuvered freely, using the Manned Maneuvering Unit. 2003: The last (unsuccessful) attempt was made to contact the Pioneer 10 spacecraft.