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1644 – England grants patent for Providence Plantation (now Rhode Island)

1794 – Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states.

1812 – Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812.

1862 – Battle of New Bern, NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern.

1900 – US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act.

1907 – By Presidential order, Japanese laborers are excluded from entering the USA.

1913 – John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation.

1923 – US President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes.

1936 – Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st edition.

1950 – FBI’s “10 Most Wanted Fugitives” program begins.

1958 – RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como’s “Catch A Falling Star”)

1964 – Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald’s murder.

1973 – Future US senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.

1983 – OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years.

1987 – 13th People’s Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby and Cybill Shepherd win (TV)

1993 – 40th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Georgia Tech beats #1 North Carolina, 77-75.

2006 – Mike Wallace retires from news program “60 Minutes” after 37 years.

2016 – Marco Rubio announces he is dropping out of the Republican presidential nomination race.

2018 – NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is not longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of genes altered.

2018 – US students across America commemorate Florida high school shooting with mass walkouts across the country.

2019 – US Senate passes resolution overturning President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration.

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