1846 – Oregon territory divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel.
1861 – President Lincoln signs the first US personal Income Tax into law (3% of incomes over $800)
1864 – Battle of Mobile Bay, won by the Union Army led by Rear Admiral Farragut with the cry “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” (US Civil War)
1882 – Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
1914 – 1st electric traffic light installed in the USA on the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.
1924 – “Little Orphan Annie” comic strip by Harold Gray is 1st published in the New York Daily News.
1932 – Clyde Barrow and two associates kill Sheriff C.G. Maxwell and his deputy, Eugene C. Moore, the first time the Barrow gang
1943 – World War II: at around 11 AM during the Battle of Troina, Mount Etna erupts sending ash and lava miles into the sky.
1953 – Operation “Big Switch”; Korean War prisoner exchange at Panmunjom.
1953 – “From Here to Eternity” based on book by James Jones, directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1954)
1957 – “American Bandstand” premieres on network TV (ABC)
1964 – US begins bombing North Vietnam.
1967 – Bobby Gentry releases her only hit “Ode to Billy Joe”
1974 – US President Richard Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in.
1979 – Willie Mays, Warren Giles & Hack Wilson inducted in Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY.
1981 – US President Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers.
1982 – PGA Championship, Southern Hills CC: Raymond Floyd fires an opening round 9-under-par 63, tying tournament 18-hold record.
1992 – 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge.
2010 – Group led by Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan & Pittsburgh attorney Chuck Greenberg is confirmed as winning bidder in court ordered auction of Texas Rangers MLB franchise (value $593m)
2013 – MLB bans New York Yankee infielder Alex Rodriquez for 211 games as a result of the Biogenesis Laboratories scandal.
2017 – UN Security Council votes to impose sanctions on North Korea for its continued missile program.
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