1810 – Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US.
1836 – Battle of the Alamo: After 13 days fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett.
1886 – 1st US alternating current power plants starts, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
1899 – “Aspirin” (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffman at German company Bayer.
1902 – Permanent US Census office created by legislation passed by Congress.
1918 – US naval boat “Cyclops” disappears in Bermuda Triangle.
1940 – 1st US telecast from an airplane, NYC.
1944 – USAAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin.
1945 – George Nissen of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, receives a patent for the first modern trampoline.
1950 – Silly Putty goes on sale in the US.
1962 – St Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals.
1965 – 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North Atlantic, JR Williford.
1967 – Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison.
1978 – Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia.
1991 – Following Iraq’s capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, US President George H.W. Bush told Congress that “aggression is defeated. The war is over”
1998 – Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Connecticut state lottery.
2007 – Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial.
2015 – US State Department charges 2 Vietnamese and a Canadian citizen with cyberfraud, for stealing 1 billion email addresses for spam.
2017 – US President Donald Trump signs his second executive order barring travelers from 6 mostly Muslim countries for 90 days but leaves out Iraq.
2017 – Wikileaks publishes “Vault 7” CIA documents detailing its hacking and surveillance techniques.
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