1775 – US Continental Congress creates United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.), in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin.
1790 – US passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts.
1878 – In California, poet and American West outlaw calling himself “Black Bart” makes his clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box found later with a taunting poem inside.
1903 – 1st automobile trip across the United States (San Francisco to New York) completed by Horatio Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker.
1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
1917 – J. Edgar Hoover gets job in US Department of Justice.
1945 – Declaration of Potsdam: US, Britain and China demand the Japanese surrender during WWII.
1947 – President Truman signs National Security Act (1947), establishing Department of Defense, CIA, National Security Council and Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1948 – President Harry Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 to desegregate the US armed forces, directing “equality of treatment and opportunity” in the military.
1958 – Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV.
1964 – Teamsters President and US union leader Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy.
1971 – Apollo 15 launched (Scott and Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon.
1981 – 36th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley.
1984 – Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single.
1987 – Catfish Hunter, Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball Hall of Fame.
1990 – US President George H.W.Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act.
1998 – 19th U.S. Senior Golf Open: Hale Irwin is winner.
2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA’s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia disaster in 2003.
2017 – US President Donald Trump announces policy to ban transgendered people from the military, overturning Obama era changes.
2017 – 3 live king cobras reported found inside potato chip cans by customs officials in Los Angeles.
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