1908 – Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
1916 – The United States protests the “Blacklist” issued by the British forbidding trade with some 30 US firms.
1926 – National Bar Association incorporates.
1933 – Joe DiMaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League.
1941 – US embargo on oil-export to Japan.
1944 – Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam.
1947 – President Harry Truman signs National Security Act (1947), establishing the 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.
1958 – Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explore IV.
1964 – Teamster President and union leader Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy.
1970 – Cincinnati Reds catcher Johnny Bench, playing for the day in the outfield, goes 4-for-5 with 7 RBIs, including 3 consecutive home runs off St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Steve Carlton in a 12-5 win at Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati.
1972 – Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle.
1983 – United States threatens to preserve navigation in Persian Gulf.
1987 – Catfish Hunter, Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
1990 – President George H.W. Bush signs the American With Disabilities Act.
1998 – US Senior Men’s Golf, Riviera CC: Hale Irwin wins by 1 stroke ahead of Vicente Fernandez of Argentina.
2005 – Space Shuttle program STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA’s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
2017 – 3 live king cobras reported inside potato chip cans by customs officials in Los Angeles.
2018 – Facebook has the single worst day of any public company on the stock market – losing 19% or $119 billion market value.
2022 – Two new studies published in “Science” both confirm COVID-19 most likely began in the Human Seafood Market in Wuhan, China.
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