1786 – US Congress adopts silver dollar & decimal system of money.
1844 – Brigham Young chosen as head of Mormon Church following the death of Joseph Smith.
1854 – Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges.
1898 – Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes.
1911 – The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire.
1911 – Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law would come into effect in 1913.
1925 – 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, D.C.
1938 – Booneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power.
1944 – US 15th Army corps occupies Le Mans.
1945 – President Harry Truman signs the United Nations Charter.
1960 – “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini” hits #1.
1968 – Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Richard Nixon for president.
1973 – US Vice President Spiro Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are “damned lies” from government contracts in Maryland. Vowed not to resign.
1974 – US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day.
1983 – Jury in Kansas City, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned)
1989 – US space shuttle STS-28 launched.
1997 – Mariners Randy Johnson strikes out 19 White Sox.
2004 – John Elway is indicted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2007 – Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as world’s richest person with estimated net worth of US$59 billion, according to “Fortune”
2013 – Ben Bradlee is named as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.
2017 – The Walt Disney Company announces plans to create its own streaming service, canceling ties with Netflix.
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