1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1865 – Battle of Kinston, North Carolina (Wilcox’s Ridge, Wise’s Forks)
1884 – Susan B. Anthony addresses U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, 16 years after legislators 1st introduced a federal women’s suffrage amendment.
1894 – The state of New York enacts the nation’s first dog-licensing law.
1913 – Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes.
1927 – Pan American Airlines incorporates.
1934 – Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars.
1944 – US resumes bombing of Berlin.
1948 – US Supreme Court rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional.
1953 – Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming last 2 years.
1958 – William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters.
1959 – Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx’s final TV appearance together.
1966 – Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame.
1972 – 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp.
1983 – House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR.
1983 – President Reagan 1st known use of term “Evil Empire” (about the USSR) in speech in Florida.
1991 – Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalist & 2 American soldiers it captured.
2012 – Toyota recalls 700,000 vehicles over safety concerns.
2014 – Malaysia Airlines 370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history.
2018 – US President Trump authorizes tariffs on steel and aluminum, excluding Canada and Mexico.