1735 – Evening Post begins publishing (Boston, Mass)
1817 – 60-70 foot serpent sightings reported offshore in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
1838 – United States Exploring Expedition headed by Charles Wilkes departs for the Pacific Ocean and Antarctica.
1872 – 1st mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward.
1894 – US Congress creates Bureau of Immigration.
1914 – US President Woodrow Wilson issues “Proclamation of Neutrality”
1920 – 22 year old representative Harry T. Burn is deciding vote in Tennessee’s and thus America’s ratification of the 19th Amendment to the constitution allowing women’s suffrage after better from his mother.
1926 – Weather map televised for 1st time.
1938 – FDR dedicates Thousand Island Bridge connecting US & Canada.
1944 – Chartres freed by US 3rd Army forces during WWII led by General Charles S. Patton.
1954 – James E. Wilkins is 1st black to attend a US cabinet meeting.
1962 – Peter, Paul & Mary release their first hit “If I Had a Hammer”
1963 – James Meredith becomes the 1st black graduate from University of Mississippi.
1976 – Korean axe murder incident: 2 US soldiers tasked with cutting down a poplar tree blocking the view of UN observers are killed by North Koreans claiming it was planted by Kim II-sung in the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
1984 – Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville, Florida, spills 2.5 millions of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire.
1991 – Hurricane Bob hits NC with 115 MPH wind.
2000 – A Federal jury finds the US Environmental Protection Agency guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the NO FEAR ACT.
2005 – Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) serial killings in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
2011 – The “West Memphis Three” are released from prison after 18 years in imprisonment.
2017 – White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon is fired by US President Donald Trump.
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