1776 – Virginia state constitution adopted and Patrick Henry made governor.
1863 – George Armstrong Custer, age 23, appointed Union Brigadier General.
1891 – US National Forest Service organized.
1906 – US Congress pass the Hepburn Act, permitting the regulation of rates charged railroads, pipelines, and terminals engaged in interstate commerce.
1927 – 1st flight West Coast arrives in Hawaii.
1936 – Empire State Building broadcast high definition TV-343 lines.
1940 – US passes Alien Registration Act requiring aliens to register.
1941 – Joe DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler’s record.
1944 – US 7th army corps conquers Cherbourg.
1949 – US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II.
1956 – US Federal interstate highway system act signed.
1964 – Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in the US Senate.
1966 – Vietnam War: US planes bomb the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi and the port city of Haiphong for the first time.
1972 – US Supreme Court rules (5-4) that death penalty is cruel & unusual.
1979 – San Diego Chicken reborn at Jack Murphy Stadium.
1990 – Maria Maples father sues National Enquirer for $12M.
2002 – US Vice President Dick Cheney serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfield: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush’s plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
2009 – Financier Bernard Madoff sentenced to 150 years in prison, US maximum, for conducting massive Ponzi Scheme.
2016 – US Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter lifts Pentagon’s ban on transgender people serving in the US armed forces.
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