1665 – NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights.
1779 – US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time).
1865 – General William R. Sherman’s Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina.
1888 – Great blizzard of ’88 strikes northeastern USA.
1918 – First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu in the US are reported at Fort Riley, Kansas.
1927 – 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh.
1941 – FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain).
1953 – 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams).
1958 – American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft. on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates crater 75 feet across, bomb without its nuclear capsule.
1959 – “Raisin in the Sun”, 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens.
1967 – 15th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Duke, 82-73.
1971 – Jim Morrison leaves for Paris to reorient himself emotionally and creatively and to avoid the jail sentence given to him in Miami. He will never return to the US.
1982 – Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigns rather than face expulsion.
1982 – US boycotts Libyan crude oil.
1983 – 9th People’s Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds, Jane Fonda & Katharine Hepburn win (Motion Picture) and Tom Selleck, Linda Evans & Loretta Swit win (TV).
1986 – 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange.
1986 – NFL adopts instant replay rule.
1991 – Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf’s streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1 in tennis.
2001 – 48th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats #6 North Carolina, 79-53.
2013 – North Korea cuts the phone line with South Korea, breaching the 1953 armistice.
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