1805 – US Marines attack shores of Tripoli.
1838 – Fire destroys half of Charleston.
1865 – Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) is chartered.
1937 – 1st US social security payment made.
1942 – Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma, killing 100, injuring 300.
1946 – 1st radar installed aboard a commercial ship.
1956 – Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing.
1959 – “Today” show goes abroad 1st time (Paris, France)
1960 – 1st automatic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
1961 – NFL officially recognizes Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
1965 – RC Duncan patents “Pampers” disposal diaper.
1969 – Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational.
1978 – Cooling tower collapse at a coal-fired power plant at Willow Island, West Virginia, kills 51.
1982 – Trial of John W Hinkley, Jr. attempted assassin of President Reagan, begins.
1984 – Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake, Montana.
1991 – Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by David Ozio.
1994 – Former US President Richard Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California.
2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
2011 – U.S. President Barack Obama, coerced by incessant false “birther” accusations, publicly releases a copy of his birth certificate.
2011 – The deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest outbreak, in United States history.
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