1788 – Maryland votes to cede a 10 square mile area for the District of Columbia.
1907 – 1st all-steel passenger railroad coach completed in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
1913 – President Woodrow Wilson signs the Federal Reserve Act into law. It creates the central banking Federal Reserve System.
1919 – First hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched.
1928 – NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network.
1937 – First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
1946 – Highest ridership in New York City subway history with 8.8 million passengers.
1948 – “Cinderella,” the first full-length ballet by Frederick Ashton with music by Serg Prkofiev, is first presented by Sandler’s Wells Ballet at Covent Garden, London.
1954 – The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
1962 – Cuba starts returning United States prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion
1968 – Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders become the first people to orbit the Moon aboard Apollo 8.
1975 – Congress passes Metric Conversion Act.
1986 – Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, completes first nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands.
1987 – Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford, escapes from Alderson Prison.
1994 – Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players.
1997 – US Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18.
1997 – Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing
2002 – A MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MIG-25, making it the first time in history that an aircraft and a modern unmanned drone had engaged in combat.
2016 – United Nations Security Council adopts a landmark resolution demanding a halt to all Israeli settlement in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967. Resolution 2334 was moved by New Zealand, Malaysia, Senegal and Venezuela and passed 14-0 with a United States abstention.
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