1799 – Rep Mathew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives, after an argument.
1800 – US population: 5,308,483: African American population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
1835 – Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. in 1st attempted assassination of a U.S. President.
1862 – USS Monitor, the US Navy’s first ironclad warship launched.
1911 – 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba.
1928 – 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US.
1934 – 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by US government, NYC.
1944 – World War II: United States troops land on Majuro, Marshall Islands.
1946 – 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime.
1956 – Martin Luther King Jr.’s home bombed.
1960 – CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)
1961 – JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps.
1964 – Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail.
1966 – -27 degrees F, New Market, Alabama (state record)
1968 – Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, “Honey”
1973 – Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts.
1975 – Erno Rubik applies for a patent for his “Magic Cube” invention, later to be known as a Rubik’s cube.
1977 – 8th (final) part of “Roots” is most-watched US entertainment show ever (100 million)
1997 – Minuteman III launches.
2003 – Richard Reid sentenced to life in prison for attempting to bomb an American Airlines flight with 197 on board.
2015 – Shake Shack founded by Danny Meyer first lists on the New York stock exchange.
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