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 American passport.
1797—1st US senator (William Blount of Tennessee) expelled by impeachment.
1800—Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination in the US to his son to prevent smallpox.
1835—Liberty Bell cracks (again)
1870—Gov. Holden of NC declares Caswell County in a state of insurrection.
1889—Wall Street Journal begins publishing.
1907—Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st “Follies” on NY Theater roof.
1923—Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)
1932—Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22.
1946—Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary.
1955—84th British Golf Open: Peter Thompson shoots a 281 at St. Andrews.
1963—US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba.
1969—US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam.
1979—Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus.
1981—Senate confirms Sandra Day O’Conner to Supreme Court (99-0)
1988—Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992.
1999—Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida.
2012—119th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Serena Williams beats A Radwanska (6-1, 5-7, 6-2)
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