1628 – 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Massachusetts.
1802 – US Academy at West Point founded.
1822 – Charles Graham patents false teeth.
1869 – Charles E. Hires sells his 1st root beer, in Philadelphia.
1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey, 22-year-old housewife from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the 1st woman to drive across the US, in a Maxwell 30, drives 3,800 miles from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days.
1915 – US President Woodrow Wilson sends 2nd Lusitania not to Germany protesting sinking of the Lusitania and refuting German claim British blockade illegal.
1924 – “Jelly-Roll Blues” is recorded by blues great Jelly Roll Morton.
1930 – Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1934 – 1st appearance of Donald Duck in a cartoon, “The Wise Little Hen”
1943 – “Pay-as-you-go” (withholding) US income tax deductions authorized.
1946 – 66,545 fans help Yanks break million attendance mark, the earliest.
1954 – Joseph Welch asks US Senator Joseph McCarthy “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” during Senate-Army hearings.
1958 – “Purple People Eater” by Sheb Wooley hits #1.
1964 – Jack Nicklaus wins British Open golf tournament.
1972 – 14″ of rain in 6 hours burst Rapid City, South Dakota dam, drowns 237.
1975 – Tony Orlando & Dawn receives gold record for “He Don’t Love You”
1984 – Donald Duck’s 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland.
1996 – Michelle McGann wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic.
2013 – Edward Snowden publicly makes his identity known as the leaker of NSA documents.
2017 – Tennis player Venus Williams causes car accident that leads to death of another passenger in Palm Beach, Florida.
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