1663 – King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island.
1693 – NYC authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies.
1776 – Col John Nixon gives the 1st public reading of the Declaration of Independence to an assemblage of citizens in Philadelphia.
1800 – Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination in the US to his son to prevent smallpox.
1879 – Governor Holden of North Carolina declares Caswell County to be in a state of insurrection.
1889 – Wall Street Journal begins publishing.
1932 – Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22.
1946 – Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary.
1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
1960 – Fidel Castro ends Havana’s Intl League team, Sugar Kings move to New Jersey.
1963 – US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba.
1972 – US sells grain to USSR for $750 million.
1975 – US President Gerald Ford announced he’ll seek Republican presidential nomination.
1978 – Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus.
1985 – Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Reds.
1988 – Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992.
1994 – Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try O.J. Simpson.
2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
2015 – The New York Stock Exchange stops trading for nearly four hours due to a technical error.