1665 – NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights.
1779 – US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time).
1789 – Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L’Enfant begin to lay out Washington, DC.
1823 – 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt.
1850 – Woman’s Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school).
1865 – General William T. Sherman’s Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC.
1927 – 1st golden gloves tournament.
1958 – American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft. on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates crater 75 ft.
across, bomb without its nuclear capsule.
1959 – “Raisin in the Sun”, 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens.
1967 – 14th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Duke, 82-73.
1968 – Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for “Dock of the Bay”
1981 – Johnny Mize and Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame.
1982 – US boycotts Libyan crude oil.
1983 – 9th People’s Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds, Jane Fonda & Katharine Hepburn win (Motion Picture) and Tom Selleck, Linda Evans & Loretta Swit win (TV).
1986 – NFL adopts instant replay rule.
1886 – 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange.
1991 – Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf’s streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1.
1995 – Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US.
2001 – 48th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats #6 North Carolina, 79-53.
2012 – 59th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #17 Florida State beats #4 North Carolina, 85-82.