1794 – US Congress passes the Neutrality Act, banning Americans from serving in foreign armed forces.
1805 – 1st recorded tornado in “Tornado Alley” (Southern Illinois)
1876 – Bananas become popular in US, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
1884 – William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying “I will not accept if nominated & will not serve if elected”
1917 – 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I.
1927 – Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard & 200-yard free-style swim record.
1933 – US drops the Gold Standard when Congress enacts a joint resolution nullifying creditors right to demand payment in gold.
1937 – Henry Ford initiates a 32 hour work week.
1944 – After receiving favorable weather reports, General Eisenhower decides to proceed with the D-Day invasion on June 6.
1947 – US Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the “Marshall Plan” to rebuild Western Europe.
1951 – Anti-slavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in serial form in “The National Era”
1967 – Murderer Richard Speak sentenced to death in electric chair.
1975 – The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (CALRA), which establishes collective bargaining for farmworkers, becomes law.
1982 – Waterfront streetcar begins operating in Seattle.
1991 – Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia12) launched.
1998 – A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks)
2001 – U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.
2001 – Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
2013 – The first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are published by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK.
2018 – US President Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their families violates international law according to the UN.
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