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1822 – Charles Graham of NY granted first US patent for artificial teeth.

1897 – Cleveland Indians fans start calling the team “Indians” (in 1915 becomes official)

1907 – 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana.

1926 – Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle.

1933 – US Congress is called into special session by FDR, beginning its “100 days”

1945 – 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs.

1946 – Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican Baseball League he refuses.

1950 – Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in NYC.

1954 – 1st local color TV commercial WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) NYC (Castro Decorators)

1957 – 4th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats South Carolina, 95-75.

1959 – The Coasters’ single “Charlie Brown” peaks at #2 on the Billboard top 100.

1964 – 1st Ford Mustang produced.

1975 – Construction on the Trans-Atlantic Pipeline System begins.

1981 – Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News.

1987 – Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors for $1 billion.

1989 – US Senate rejects President George H.W. Bush’s nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary.

1995 – Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

2007 – The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens.

2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.

2015 – US President Barack Obama signs an executive order declaring Venezuela a national security threat to the US.

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