1776 – George Washington’s retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ.
1792 – 1st cremation in US: Henry Laurens.
1863 – Abraham Lincoln issues his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of the South.
1874 – Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie, Kansas.
1886 – American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions, Samuel Gompers elected AFL president.
1909 – Bird banding society found.
1915 – John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields” appears anonymously in “Punch” magazine.
1923 – German-US friendship treaty signed.
1931 – Coaxial cable patented.
1941 – US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II.
1941 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers “Day of Infamy” speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
1952 – 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
1963 – Frank Sinatra, Jr. is kidnapped.
1969 – Police surprise attack on Black Panthers in LA.
1983 – 9th Space Shuttle Mission, Columbia 6, lands at Edwards AFB.
1987 – US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles.
1990 – Indians agree to lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1993 – Dow Jones hits record 3734.53.
2010 – With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
2012 – UN climate conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020.
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