1775 – US Continental Congress creates United States Post Office in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin.
1790 – US Congress passes the Funding Act of 1790 making the federal government responsible for debts incurred by the states.
1903 – 1st automobile trip across the United States (San Francisco to New York) completed by Horatio Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker.
1917 – J. Edgar Hoover gets job in US Department of Justice.
1926 – National Bar Association incorporates.
1933 – Joe DiMaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League.
1944 – Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam.
1945 – Declaration of Postsdam: US, Britain and China demand the unconditional surrender of Japan during WWII.
1947 – President Truman signs National Security Act (1947), establishing Department of Defense, CIA, National Security Council and Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1948 – President Harry Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 to desegregate the US armed forces, directing “equality of treatment and opportunity” in the military.
1955 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Meadowbrook CC: Doug Ford scores a 4 & 3 win over Cary Middlecoff in the Tuesday final; first of 2 majors (Masters 1957)
1962 – Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher.
1971 – Apollo 15 launched (Scott and Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Mars.
1983 – US threatens action to preserve navigation in Persian Gulf.
1987 – ‘Catfish’ Hunter, Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball Hall of Fame.
1990 – US President George H.W. Bush signs American With Disabilities Act.
1993 – Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km.
2014 – The Chinese government suspends the operations of a Shanghai meat dealer and makes arrests after the company sold out-of-date meat for fast food chains, including McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
2017 – US President Donald Trump announces policy to ban transgender people from the military, overturning Obama era changes.
2018 – Facebook has single worst day of any public company on the stock market – losing 19% or $119 billion market value.
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