1776 – Continental Congress authorizes a medal for George Washington.
1813 – First US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex.
1863 – First US Army Medal of Honor awarded.
1865 – SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400.
1902 – Irving W. Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine.
1910 – Chalmers Auto Co. offers a new car to each league’s batting champ.
1919 – Woodrow Wilson’s dream of a League of Nations becomes a reality after the League of Covenant is adopted at the Paris Peace Conference.
1937 – Washington Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page.
1941 – Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon, South Carolina, incorporated.
1943 – Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio.
1951 – E. Purcell & E.M. Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab.
1961 – Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered.
1965 – Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
1966 – US Supreme Court rules “poll tax” unconstitutional.
1987 – Supreme Court rules women and minorities may get jobs if less qualified.
1988 – NASA launches space vehicle S-206.
1996 – US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill.
2006 – Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
2018 – North Korean leader Kim Jong un begins surprise trip to Beijing by train to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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