1776—Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people.
1790—1st US census (population of 3,939,214: 697,624ae slaves) is conducted.
1791—Samuel Briggs & his son, patent nail-making machine.
1819—1st parachute jump in US.
1858—1st mailboxes installed in Boston & NYC streets.
1865—Lewis Carroll publishes “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
1873—San Francisco Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes.
1909—1st Lincoln head pennies minted.
1909—Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers.
1934—Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces.
1943—Lt. John F. Kennedy’s PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon Islands.
1953—Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash.
1964—North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin.
1972—Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London.
1990—US President George H.W. Bush orders troops to Saudi Arabia.
1991—Space Shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched.
1999—“The Sixth Sense”, starring Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, and Haley Joel Osment, premieres.
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