1492 – Lead pencils first used.
1682 – William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York.
1774 – First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
1776 – Benjamin Franklin departs for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
1810 – US annexes western Florida.
1858 – Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine.
1881 – Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday & Clanton involved in gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona.
1916 – Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control).
1927 – Duke Ellington sings “Creole Love Song.”
1940 – The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
1941 – US savings bonds go on sale.
1949 – US President Harry Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents.
1951 – Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden, for heavyweight boxing championship.
1954 – Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine.
1954 – Walt Disney’s 1st television program, “Disneyland”, premieres on ABC.
1961 – First test flight of Saturn launch vehicle.
1962 – JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba.
1962 – Nikita Khrushchev sends not to JFK offering to withdraw missiles from Cuba if US closed its bases in Turkey; offer is rejected.
1982 – US budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982.
1988 – Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service.
1993 – NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte.
2001 – The United States passes the USA Patriot Act into law.
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