1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1792 – George Washington re-elected as US President.
1831 – Former US President John Q. Adams takes his seat as a member of House of Representatives.
1848 – US President Polk triggers Gold Rush of 1849 by confirming gold discovery in California.
1879 – 1st automatic telephone switching system patented.
1908 – 1st US football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh)
1929 – 1st US nudist organization, the American League for Physical Culture in New York City.
1932 – German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa to enter America.
1941 – US aircraft carrier Lexington and 5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor.
1945 – Flight 19 the “Lost Squadron” of 5 torpedo bombers and 14 airmen is lost east of Florida in the supposed Bermuda Triangle.
1946 – US President Harry Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order #9808.
1955 – American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) merge to form the AFL-CIO, with George Meany as President.
1955 – Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery, Alabama by Rosa Parks.
1967 – Pediatrician Benjamin Spock and poet Allen Ginsberg arrested in New York while protesting against the Vietnam War.
1978 – Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus.
1985 – Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 1,500 level for 1st time.
1988 – North Carolina grand jury indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud charges.
1993 – Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space.
2007 – Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
2017 – Democratic representative John Conyers resigns from US Congress after allegations of sexual harassment.
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