1816 – American Bible Society organized in New York.
1847 – American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1865 – 1st US train robbery (North Bend, Ohio)
1893 – Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the NY Stock Exchange.
1908 – Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco.
1920 – US President Woodrow Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal.
1922 – Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx)
1925 – John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee.
1936 – Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip.
1941 – First modern perfume Chanel No. 5 released by fashion designer Coco Chanel.
1942 – US begins rationing sugar during WW II.
1943 – Postmaster General Frank C. Walker invents Postal Zone System.
1945 – Mauthausen Concentration camp in Austria liberated by US forces from 41st Reconnaissance Squadron.
1948 – 1st squadron of jet aircraft aboard a carrier.
1958 – Jim Bailey (US) runs mile a record 3:58:6 in Los Angeles, California.
1961 – Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
1975 – A’s release pinch runner Herb Washington, who played 104 games without batting, pitching, or fielding. He did steal 30 bases and scored 33 runs.
1987 – Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings.
2013 – 5 people are killed after a limousine catches fire in Hayward, California.
2018 – Electric cigarette explodes killing a man in St. Petersburg, Florida, first death from a vaping product.
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