1639 – First Post Office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts.
1773 – John Hancock is elected as moderator at a Boston town meeting that resolves that anyone who supports the Tea Act is an “Enemy to America”
1872 – Ulysses S. Grant re-elected US President.
1889 – Louisa Woosley first woman to be ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination (US Cumberland Presbyterian Church)
1895 – 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) for gasoline driven car.
1900 – Under US military control since the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Cuba now calls its own constitutional convention.
1916 – The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between IWW organizers and local police.
1917 – General Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time.
1935 – Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly.
1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for an unprecedented third term, defeating Republican candidate Wendell Willkie.
1946 – John F. Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts) elected to US House of Representatives.
1964 – US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned.
1968 – Republican candidate Richard Nixon is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Hubert Humphrey and Independent candidate George Wallace.
1974 – Walter E. Washington, becomes first elected mayor of Washington, D.C.
1981 – Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking, conspiracy & possession of cocaine.
1989 – Browns’ Bernie Kosar sets club record of 16 consecutive pass completions.
1996 – Bill Clinton is re-elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate Bob Dole.
1997 – 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns he is named American League Manager of the Year.
2009 – US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan (US Army Medical Corps) killed 13 and wounded 43 at Fort Hood, Texas in the largest mass shooting ever at a US military installation.
2017 – Gunman shoots 26 dead and injures 20 at a church in Sunderland Springs, Texas.
2017 – Paradise Papers are leaked; 13.4 million documents from offshore investment firm Appleby, mentioning Queen Elizabeth and Wilbur Ross US Secretary of Commerce.
2017 – US President Donald Trump begins a 12-day trip to Asia in Tokyo, Japan
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