1785 – US Congress unanimously resolves the name of US currency to the “dollar” and adopts decimal coinage.
1798 – US law makes aliens “liable to be apprehended, restrained…..& removed as alien enemies.
1854 – 1st Republican state convention (Jackson, Michigan)
1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine.
1898 – US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii.
1904 – The US Democratic party nominates little known New York Judge Alton B. Parker for presidential nominee – virtually assuring the election of Theodore Roosevelt.
1908 – Robert Peary’s expedition sails from NYC for north pole.
1928 – 1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY)
1932 – 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents.
1943 – US destroyer William D Porter {Willie Dee} launched.
1944 – World’s largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother’s – Barnum & Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford, Connecticut)
1945 – US President Harry Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom.
1957 – Harry S. Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri.
1965 – Rock group “Jefferson Airplane” forms.
1970 – California passes 1st “no fault” divorce law.
1971 – White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks.
1983 – Supreme Court rules retirement plans can’t pay women less.
1999 – U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic Calpernia Addams.
2013 – 3 people are killed and 181 are injured after a Boeing 777 crash lands at San Francisco Airport.
2016 – Pokémon Go, the real-world mobile game by Niantic, is first released.
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