1789 – 1st US Congress begins regular sessions during George Washington’s presidency at Federal Hall, NYC (ending 1791)
1818 – Congress decides on the US flag: 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars.
1850 – City of Los Angeles incorporated.
1862 – Peninsular Campaign, launched in southeastern Virginia, aimed at capturing Richmond during US Civil War begins, Confederate victory (US Civil War)
1902 – Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million.
1917 – US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WWI.
1922 – WAAB (Baton Rouge, La) becomes 1st US radio station with “W” calls.
1932 – Vitamin C 1st isolated, CC King, University of Pittsburgh.
1940 – R. Rodgers/Lorenz Hart’s “Higher & Higher” premieres in NYC.
1945 – US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany.
1968 – Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned.
1968 – US civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
1969 – Haskell Karp receives the 1st temporary artificial heart, implanted by surgeon Denton Cooley at Texas Heart Institute in Houston.
1973 – World Trade Center, then the world’s tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories)
1975 – Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.
1987 – Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 points.
1991 – Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
2008 – Raid on Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints owned YFZ Ranch in Texas; 401 children and 122 women taken into state custody.
2017 – Alibaba becomes the world’s largest retailer according to US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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