1832 – South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification.
1874 – American inventor Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire.
1896 – 1st US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont.
1903 – Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter.
1916 – Mexican and US representatives sign a protocol at Atlantic City, under which Pershing’s troops will withdraw and each nation’s army will guard the border. President Carranza of Mexico will refuse to accept it.
1917 – Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when a bomb explodes at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin police headquarters building.
1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
1936 – Noel Coward’s “Tonight at 8:30” premieres in NYC.
1947 – John Steinbeck’s novel “Pearl” published.
1954 – Air Force One, 1st US Presidential airplane, christened.
1969 – Apollo 12 returns to Earth.
1969 – Lt William L Calley charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial.
1971 – Dan “DB” Cooper parachutes from a Northwest Airline 727 with $200,000.
1974 – Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT-2 treaty to reduce each side’s number of nuclear weapons.
1976 – Reds Joe Morgan wins his 2nd straight NL MVP Award.
1980 – “9 to 5 and Odd Jobs” 23rd studio album by Dolly Parton is released.
1991 – 1st international flight from Long Island’s MacArthur Airport (to Mexico)
1993 – Brady bill passes establishing 5-day waiting period for US handgun sales.
2014 – A 12-year old boy is shot dead by police in Cleveland, after brandishing what turned out to be a fake gun in a playground.
2015 – Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is charged with first-degree murder of 17 year old African American Laquan McDonald in 2014.
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