1776 – New Jersey gives the right to vote to all adults who could show a net worth of 50 pounds.
1776 – Continental Congress resolves “these United Colonies are & of right ought to be Free and Independent States”
1843 – An alligator falls from the sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina.
1881 – US President James Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker; Garfield dies 79 days later.
1901 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner, Montana.
1911 – Detroit Tigers legend Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game in 14-6 rout of Cleveland. Streak ends next game.
1926 – US Army Air Corps created; Distinguished Flying Cross authorized.
1937 – Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear flying over the Pacific Ocean.
1943 – Lieutenant Charles Hall becomes 1st African American pilot to shoot down a Nazi plane.
1955 – “Lawrence Welk Show” premieres on ABC.
1956 – Elvis Presley records “Hound Dog” and “Don’t Be Cruel”
1962 – Sam Walton opens his first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas.
1964 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law.
1972 – “Fiddler on the Roof” closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 3242 performances.
1979 – Susan B. Anthony dollar is released, 1st US coin to honor a woman.
1991 – Donald Trump proposes to Marla Maples and gives her a 7.5 carat diamond ring.
1994 – US Air DC-9 crash near Charlotte, North Carolina, 37 killed.
2000 – Bush Administration announce that it will seek to let oil companies drill on about 1,500,000 acres of the Gulf of Mexico.
2008 – A settlement was reached allowing former NBA franchise, the Seattle SuperSonics to move to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
2015 – BP agrees to compensate US government & gulf states $18.7 billion for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
2017 – US President Donald Trump tweets edited wrestling video of himself attacking ‘CNN’.
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