1664 – New Jersey becomes an English colony.
1850 – 1st US $20 gold piece issued.
1868 – US Congress abolishes manufacturer’s tax.
1894 – Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1904 – Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund.
1912 – Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Law.
1919 – George Bernard Shaw’s “Augustus Does His Bit” premieres in NYC.
1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people.
1933 – FDR conducts his 1st “fireside chat”
1945 – NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment.
1951 – Comic strip “Dennis the Menace,” first appears in the British comic magazine The Beano’.
1956 – Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24).
1970 – US lowers voting age from 21 to 18.
1971 – The Allman Brothers Band record their live albums “Live at Fillmore East” on this date and the following day.
1974 – Ted Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington (body never found)
1980 – Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago.
1987 – Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North.
1990 – LA Raiders announce their return to Oakland.
2003 – Elizabeth Smart found after having been missing for 9 months.