1775 The Post Office is esablished by the Continental Congress with Ben Franklin as postmaster general.

1788 New York becomes 11th state to ratify constitution

1788 New York ratifies the U.S. Constitution.

1790 US passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts

1812 Frigate Essex captures British brig Leander

1847 Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society

1847 Liberia, setled in Africa by freed U.S. slaves, becomes the first African colony to become an independent state.

1848 The first Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)

1863 At Salineville, OH John Hunt Morgan & 364 troops surrender

1865 Patrick Francis Healy is first black awarded PhD (Louvain Belgium)

1866 Canoe Club opens in England

1887 The first Esperanto book published

1905 P Gotz discovers asteroid #568 Cheruskia

1908 Federal Bureau of Investigation established

1912 First airborne radio communications from naval aircraft to ship (LT John Rodgers to USS Stringham)

1918 Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites & 1 black killed)

1920 Women in the US obtain the right to vote as the 19th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified.

1923 James Hoyt Wilhelm, pitcher

1926 National Bar Association incorporates

1940 Formation of Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service (RAAFNS)

1942 CAPT Joy Bright Hancock appointed Director, Women's Naval Reserve.

1945 Churchill resigns as Britain's PM

1947 Department of Defense established

1947 National Security Act establishes the CIA

1948 Pres Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment & opportunity" in the armed forces

1948 President Harry S. Truman orders desegregation of the Armed Services.

1948 The first black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show

1949 C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1951 Lick

1952 Eva "Evita" Peron Argentina's first lady, dies in Buenos Aires at 33

1952 Mickey Mantle hits his first grand-slammer

1953 Cuban pirate radio station's first transmission at Santiago de Cuba

1953 Fidel Castro leads attack on Moncada Barracks, begins Cuban rev

1954 3 aircraft from USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) shoot down 2 Chinese fighters that fired on them while they were providing air cover for rescue operations for a U.K. airliner shot down by a Chinese aircraft.

1955 Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers

1956 Egypt seizes Suez Canal (soon Britian and France along with Isreal show up)

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