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Events
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières - American invaders are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
- 1789 – James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys - Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
- 1887 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punched card calculator.
- 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
- 1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporated Universal Pictures.
- 1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
- 1949 – Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
- 1953 – Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits the U.S. city of Flint, Michigan, and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.
- 1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
- 1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
- 1966 – One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and USAF test pilot Carl Cross were both killed.
- 1966 – Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed. [1]
- 1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
- 1968 – James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1968 – The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1974 – An F4 tornado strikes the U.S. city of Emporia, Kansas, killing six.
- 1995 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.