1729 | Civil Rights: First American nun to take vows, Sister St. Stanislas Hachard, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1781 | War of Independence: Battle of Guilford Court House.
1783 | War of Independence: The Newburgh Conspiracy occurred, where officers planned a coup for failure of salary payment, ultimately quelled by Washington who showed up and addressed the concerns.
1767 | POTUS: President Jackson was born.
1820 | Statehood: Maine joined the Union.
1859 | Publisher Arthur Hawley Scribner was born.
1874 | Politician Harold L. Ickes was born.
1887 | Michigan’s William Alden Smith becomes the nation’s first salaried fish and game warden.
1888 | Engineer Squire Whipple died.
1889 | Entrepreneur Melville Reuben Bissell died in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1892 | Jesse Reno patented the escalator.
1892 | New York became the first state to use voting machines - the Myers Automatic Booth.
1913 | POTUS: Democrat President Wilson holds the first Presidential Press Conference.
1916 | Mexican-American War: General Pershing pursued Pancho Villa into Mexico with 15,000 troops.
1918 | Historian Richard Ellman was born in Highland Park, Michigan.
1919 | The American Legion was formed.
1933 | SCOTUS: Justice (Joan) Ruth Bader-Ginsburg was born.
1935 | Cleric Jimmy Lee Swaggart was born.
1941 | Musician Mike Love was born.
1942 | Wrestler “The Iron Sheik” was born.
1945 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt via Executive Order (#9528), later codified in statue, authorized the “Medal of Freedom.”
1965 | The first T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant opened.
1965 | POTUS: Democrat President Johnson addressed a joint session of congress in an address known as “We Shall Overcome” to press for adoption of the Civil Rights Act.
1971 | On ARPANET, the internet forerunner, chat rooms debuted.
1975 | Actress Eva Longoria was born.
1985 | The first Internet domain was registered.
1998 | Entrepreneur Robert Jheri Redding died.
1998 | Pediatrician Benjamin Spock died.