1775 – 1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters San Francisco Bay.
1846 – Oregon territory divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel.
1861 – Enlistment increases from 3 months to 2 years.
1861 – US Army abolishes flogging.
1861 – US levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)
1864 – US Civil War Battle of Mobile Bay won by the Union led by Rear Admiral Farragut with the cry “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”
1891 – World’s 1st traveler’s cheques issued (American Express)
1914 – US and Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US.
1917 – The entire US National Guard is taken into national service, subject to presidential rather than state control.
1924 – Comic strip “Little Orphan Annie” by Harold Gray debuts.
1953 – “From Here to Eternity” based on book by James Jones, directed by Fred Zimmermann and Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra is released (Best Picture 1954)
1957 – “American Bandstand” premieres on Network TV (ABC)
1957 – Comic strip “Andy Capp” made its debut.
1960 – Detroit Tigers trades manager Jimmy Dykes for Cleveland’s Joe Gordon.
1967 – Bobby Gentry releases her only hit “Ode to Billy Joe”
1979 – Willie Mays, Warren Giles, & Hack Wilson inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame.
1981 – US President Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers.
1992 – 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge.
2013 – General Motors signs a record breaking $559 million marketing deal with Manchester United.
2013 – Alex Rodriquez, New York Yankee MLB player, is banned for 211 games for using human growth hormones.
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