1656 All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her)

1692 Last person hanged for witchcraft in US

1756 Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University

1776 American patriot, captain Nathan Hale executed for spying

1784 Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK

1789 Office of Postmaster General of the US established by Congress

1791 Michael Faraday (chemist, physicist) born

1792 Origin of French Republican Era

1863 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech

1868 Race riots in New Orleans La

1869 The opera "Das Rheingold" is produced (Munich)

1883 The Grand Trunk Railway acquires the 452 mile Midland Railway.

1903 Italo Marchiony granted patent for the ice cream cone

1905 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia (10 blacks & 2 whites killed)

1911 Cy Young at 44, wins his 511th & final game

1913 Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson New Mexico

1914 German U-Boat, the U-9, sunk three British cruisers in the North Sea

1915 Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its first class

1919 Steel strike begins in US

1927 Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney)

1937 Forest fire kills 14 & injures 50 in Cody Wyoming

1943 U.S. destroyers and landing craft land Australian troops at Finschhafen, New Guinea.

1944 Boulogne reoccupied by Allies

1946 Evelyn Dick charged with butchering husband

1949 USSR detonates its first atomic bomb

1950 Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general

1955 Commercial TV begins in England

1955 Heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano KOs Archie Moore in 9

1960 Mali (without Senegal) gains independence from France (National Day)

1961 Peace Corps established

1964 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens on Broadway, runs 3,242 performances

1966 Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game

1970 Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses

1973 "A Little Night Music" opens at the Majestic Theater on Broadway

1973 Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's first Jewish Secretary of State

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