1753—George Washington becomes a master mason.
1821—1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969)
1830—Plans for city of Chicago laid out.
1862—US government collects its 1st income tax.
1897—Henry A. Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia.
1914—US declares neutrality on the outbreak of WWI.
1925—US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation.
1941—Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US.
1945—Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season.
1955—President Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters.
1956—Elvis Presley releases “Hound Dog”
1958—Dumont TV Network crumbles.
1968—100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, California.
1972—Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Governor Wallace.
1977—US President Carter establishes Department of Energy.
1981—Oliver North is assigned to White House duty.
1985—“Dreamgirls” closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1522 performances.
1994—Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on NY parkway.
1996—26th Olympic games closes at Atlanta, Ga.
2010—California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state’s voters in 2008, was overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.
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