1492 – Lead (graphite) pencils first used.
1682 – William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York.
1776 – Benjamin Franklin departs for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
1810 – US annexes western Florida.
1858 – Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine.
1881 – Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & Clanton involved in gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona.
1903 – Yerba Buena is first Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay.
1916 – Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
1940 – The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
1949 – US President Harry Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents.
1954 – Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine.
1958 – PanAm flies first transatlantic jet from New York to Paris.
1962 – JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba. Nikita Khrushchev sends not to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed its bases in Turkey: offer is rejected.
1966 – US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf of Tonkin, 43 die.
1970 – “Doonesbury” comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers.
1973 – President Nixon releases first White House tapes on Watergate scandal.
1982 – US budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982.
1994 – Jordan & Israel sign peace accord.
2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
2017 – US President Donald Trump declares the opioid crisis a public health emergency.
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