1812 – Louisiana Territory officially renamed “Missouri Territory”
1850 – Empire Engine Company No. 1 organized.
1876 – An express train called Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
1896 – Henry Ford takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit.
1917 – American men begin registering for the draft.
1919 – US Congress passes the Women’s Suffrage Bill, the 19th Amendment.
1929 – George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester, NY)
1940 – Winston Churchill says “We shall fight on the seas & oceans”
1942 – Capitol Record Co opens for business.
1947 – US House of Representatives approves Taft-Hartley act.
1955 – “Mickey Rooney Show” TV comedy last airs on NBC.
1967 – Monkees take home an Emmy for their Outstanding comedy series.
1967 – Curt Flood’s record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games)
1973 – A patent for the ATM is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
1975 – Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in NC.
1981 – 54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus.
1984 – Arnold Palmer fails to make US Open golf tournament 1st time in 32 years.
1985 – Supreme Court strikes down Alabama “moment of silence” law.
1991 – Pope John II compares abortion with Nazi murders.
2012 – US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi.
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