1784 – Benjamin Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as American’s symbol.
1802 – Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library.
1938 – Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States.
1871 – US income tax repealed.
1875 – Electric dental drill is patented by George F. Greene.
1907 – 1st US federal court election practices law passed.
1918 – Herbert Hoover, US Food Administrator, calls for “wheatless” & “meatless” days for war effort.
1920 – Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
1934 – The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
1939 – Filming begins on film “Gone With the Wind”
1942 – 1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland.
1961 – 1st woman personal physician to a US President – Janet G. Travell (to John F. Kennedy)
1962 – Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker’s “Twist” is impure & bans it from all Catholic schools.
1970 – “Bridge ofer Troubled Water” 5th and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year, Best Engineered Non-Classical Album 1971)
1984 – US navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters & a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1989 – US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus.
1998 – President Bill Clinton says “I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
2006 – Western Union discontinues its telegram service.
2013 – The United States Sentencing Commission is hacked by Anonymous in response to the suicide of Aaron Swartz.
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