1633 – Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its first government.
1860 – Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
1918 – American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks German gun nest, killing at least 25 and capturing 132 Germans.
1933 – Coit Tower dedicated in San Francisco as a monument to firefighters.
1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Charles Lindbergh’s son.
1945 – US President Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada.
1945 – Microwave oven patented.
1955 – World’s most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga, launched.
1957 – Proctor & Gamble director N. McElroy becomes US Secretary of Defense.
1957 – Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (NYC)
1966 – Wyoming’s Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yards (54,54,52)
1973 – OPEC meets with oil companies to discuss revision of 1971 Tehran agreement and oil prices; negotiations fail.
1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
1981 – US President Ronald Reagan greets predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat’s funeral.
1985 – Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident.
1990 – US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize.
1998 – US House or Representatives votes to begin impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton on charges of lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
2017 – Wildfires ignite in Northern California wine country, killing at least 41 over the next week, with 20,000 evacuated.
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