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1665—NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights.

1779—US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1789—Benjamin Banneker with L’Enfant begin to lay out Washington, DC.
1823—1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt.
1850—Woman’s Medical College of Penn (1st female medical)
1965—General William T. Sherman’s Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC.
1888—Great blizzard of ’88 strikes northeastern US.
1892—1st public basketball game (Springfield, Mass)
1897—A meteorite enters the earth’s atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia.  The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
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)
1953—American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb 15,000 feet on Mars Bluff, South Carolina; it created a crater 75 feet across, but the nuclear core did not detonate, due to 6 safety catches.
1958—Starting this season, American League batters are required to wear batting helmets.
1967—Pink Floyd releases 1st single (Arnold Layne)
1977—Muslims hold 130 hostages in Washington, DC.
1982—Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion.
1986—NFL adopts instant replay rule.
1991—Janet Jackson signs $40M, 3 album deal with Virgin records.
1997—Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II.
2012—US soldier kills 16 civilians in Afghanistan.

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