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”
1895 – 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) for gasoline driven car.
1911 – Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, NY, September 17).
1916 – The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between IWW organizers and local police.
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 (D-Massachusetts) elected to US House of Representatives.
1953 – Paul Searls saws a 32″ log in 86.4 seconds.
1964 – US launches Mariner 3 towards Mars, no data returned.
1967 – ATS-3 launched by US to take first pictures of full earth disc.
1967 – US troops conquer Loc Ninh, South Vietnam.
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.
1976 – New American League baseball franchises to Seattle & Toronto fill up their rosters.
1976 – Pittsburgh Pirates trade Manny Sanguillen & $100,000 to A’s for manager Chuck Tanner.
1981 – Former Miami Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking, conspiracy & possession of cocaine.
1988 – Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage.
1996 – Bill Clinton is re-elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate Bob Dole.
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 – US President Donald Trump begins a 12-day trip to Asia in Toyko, Japan.
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