1620 – 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock.
1620 – Myles Standish and a group of 18 settlers are attacked by 30 Native Americans, which became as the “First Encounter”
1816 – Indiana becomes 19th state of the Union.
1872 – Pickney Benton Stewart Pinchback takes office as the first African American US Governor in Louisiana.
1902 – The US signs a treaty with Cuba allowing for a 20 percent reduction of tariff rates on imported Cuban products.
1909 – Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC.
1919 – Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Alabama.
1930 – Bank of the United States closes in New York City.
1941 – Germany & Italy declare war on USA.
1946 – Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label.
1951 – Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement from baseball.
1954 – USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va.
1961 – “Please, Mr. Postman” by Marvelettes released.
1961 – JFK provides US military helicopters & crews to South Vietnam.
1967 – “Guess Who’s coming to Dinner”, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katherine Hepburn, premieres in NYC (Hepburn – Academy Award for Best Actress 1968)
1975 – US 1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents.
1985 – General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC.
1997 – Federal judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows.
2009 – Tiger Woods announced an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage.
2014 – CIA Director John Brennan defends interrogation methods used after 9/11 but admits some methods were “abhorrent”
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