1526 – 1st slave revolt in the American colonies occurs in South Carolina.
1692 – Edward Bishop is jailed for proposing flogging as a cure for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
1793 – President Washington attends opening of Rickett’s, 1st circus in US.
1823 – R J Tyers patents roller skates.
1864 – US mints 2 cent coin (1st appearance of “In God We Trust”)
1898 – Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry.
1915 – 1st military use of gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I.
1940 – Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan was inevitable.
1951 – Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in New York City.
1954 – NBA adopts 24-second shot clock & 6 team-foul rule.
1959 – Yankee Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings.
1966 – Atlanta Braves win their 1st game, beating NY Mets 8-4.
1969 – 1st human eye transplant performed.
1976 – Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor.
1981 – Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his 3rd shutout in 4 starts.
1991 – Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from Tonight Show.
1998 – Disney’s Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, USA.
2000 – In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seized six-year-old Elian Gonzalez from his relatives’ home in Miami, Florida.
2016 – Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees C.
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