1665 – New Amsterdam legally becomes an English colony and rename New York after English Duke of York.
1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City.
1776 – Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights.
1787 – US Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old.
1845 – George Abernathy becomes 1st governor of Oregon Country.
1909 – “Shine On, Harvest Moon” by Ada Jones & Billy Murray hits #1.
1917 – Secret Service extends protection of president to his family.
1935 – Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15 1/2 hours in Senate’s longest speech on record (150,000 words)
1939 – Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY.
1948 – 48th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 276 at Rivera CC in LA.
1954 – Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” is originally released.
1955 – “Mr. Peepers” (TV Comedy) starring Walter Cox airs for first time on NBC.
1963 – “Cleopatra” directed by Joseph Mankiewicz and starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton premieres in NYC.
1965 – Sonny & Cher make their 1st TV appearance in “American Bandstand”
1967 – US Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages.
1978 – US House of Representatives allows live radio coverage.
1980 – Ronald Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests.
1987 – US President Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” the Berlin wall.
2012 – World Health Organization concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer.
2015 – Al-Qaeda’s 2nd-in-command Nasser al-Wuhayshi (Osama Bin Laden’s former private secretary) is killed in a US air strike in Yemen.
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