1663 – King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island.
1693 – NYC authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies.
1776 – Col John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Declaration of Independence (Philadelphia)
1796 – US State Department issues 1st US passport.
1800 – Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination in the US to his son to prevent smallpox.
1816 – Frost in Waltham, Massachusetts during “year without a summer”
1835 – Liberty Bell cracks (again)
1870 – Governor Holden of North Carolina declares Caswell County to be in a state of insurrection.
1889 – Wall Street Journal begins publishing.
1905 – Part of Angel Island in San Francisco Bay allocated for Immigration Detention Center.
1932 – Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22.
1933 – Public Works Administration becomes effective.
1944 – Japanese kamakize attacks on US lines at Saipan.
1950 – Leroy Downs awarded first Order of Purple Heart in Korea.
1963 – Reports of Charlie Finley’s intention to move KC A’s baseball team to Oakland.
1972 – US sells grain to USSR for $750 million.
1981 – Senate confirms Sandra Day O’Conner to Supreme Court (99-0)
1994 – Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try OJ Simpson.
2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the US Space Shuttle program.
2015 – The New York Stock Exchange stops trading for nearly four hours due to a technical error.
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