1789 – Ben Franklin writes “Nothing…..certain but death & taxes”
1843 – Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts.
1865 – US issues 1st gold certificates.
1895 – First shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii.
1909 – 259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry, Illinois.
1909 – Collier’s magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
1920 – Hudson River frozen at Albany.
1927 – New York – New Jersey Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens.
1942 – Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18 in the US.
1952 – False fingernails 1st sold.
1967 – Baseball’s owners OK AL expansion to Seattle & Kansas City.
1970 – US Vice President Spiro Agnew calls TV executives “impudent snobs”
1977 – Final Al Capp comic strip of “Li’l Abner” (1934-77)
1979 – Ronald Reagan in New York announces his candidacy for US President.
1980 – US spacecraft Voyager 1 sends back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn.
1982 – Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens in Washington, D.C., featuring the names of over 58,000 US soldiers killed or missing in the Vietnam War.
1986 – US President Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran.
1997 – Ken Griffey Jr. unanimously wins AL MVP.
2001 – War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorists acts or planned acts on the United States.
2001 – US President George W. Bush orders that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve be filled to capacity over the next few years.
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