1565 – 1st permanent European settlement in the US founded at St. Augustine, Florida.
1755 – Battle of Lake George in the Province of New York: British army beats French.
1858 – Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech “You may fool all the people some of the time; you can fool some of the people all he time; but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”
1892 – 1st appearance of “Pledge of Allegiance” (Youth’s Companion”
1916 -US President Woodrow Wilson signs the Emergency Revenue Act, doubling the rate of income tax and adding inheritance and munitions profit tax.
1920 – US Air Mail service begins (NYC to San Francisco)
1923 – Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.
1930 – 1st appearance of comic strip “Blondie”
1930 – Richard Drew creates Scotch tape.
1939 – FDR declares “limited national emergency” due to war in Europe.
1945 – US invades Japanese-held Korea.
1946 – Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (CPL) strikes out minors record 456.
1952 – Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Old Man & the Sea” published.
1965 – Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana & Florida.
1971 – John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington, D.C.
1974 – US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes.
1986 – “The Oprah Winfrey Show” is first broadcast nationally.
1994 – USAir Boeing 737 crashes at Pitts Airport, killing all 132 on board.
2005 – Two EMERCOM II-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; he first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
2015 – Pope Francis announces moves to streamline the annulment process within the Catholic Church.
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