1832 – Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio.
1868 – Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms.
1900 – New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground “Rapid Transit Railroad” that would like Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1920 – 1st US Coast Guard air station established (Morehead City, NC)
1934 – U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, declaring the Philippines independent after a period of 10 years.
1942 – US government begins moving native-born citizens with Japanese ancestry into detention centers under Executive Order 9066, with intention of preventing home-grown espionage.
1947 – Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency.
1955 – 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service.
1960 – US appeals court rules novel “Lady Chatterly’s Lover” not obscene.
1966 – Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance.
1974 – 36th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Marquette, 76-64; Wolfpack first title; first tournament officially designated as a Division 1 Championship.
1981 – “Nightline with Ted Koppel” premieres on ABC.
1986 – Men’s International Professional Tennis Council announces Jimmy Connors’ 10 week suspension and $20,000 fine for storming off the court after defaulting against Ivan Lendl at Boa Raton, Florida and February.
1987 – 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win.
1989 – Worst US soil spill, Exxon’s Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons off Alaska.
1998 – Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 12, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded.
2010 – Lee Kun-hee returns to Samsung Electronics chief executive officer (CEO) position after his resignation on April 21, 2008.
2017 – US President Donald Trump and Republican party forced to pull their attempt to repeal Obamacare after internal opposition.
2019 – Investigation headed by Special Council Robert S. Mueller finds no evidence President Trump colluded with Russia in 2016 election.
2020 – Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announces postponement of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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