- 1776: George Washington designed the first U.S. flag with thirteen
red and white stripes and a Union Jack in the corner.
- 1788: Georgia became the fourth U.S. state to be admitted to the
Union.
- 1811: U.S. Sen. Thomas Pickering became the first senator to be
censured when he revealed confidential documents communicated by
the president of the United States.
- 1839: French pioneering photographer Louis Daguerre took the first
photograph of the moon.
- 1870: Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began.
- 1890: Alice Sanger became the first female White House staffer.
- 1900: A company set up by Emile Verlinger, the inventor of the
Gramophone, began manufacturing 7-inch, single-sided records in
Montreal.
- 1903: President Theodore Roosevelt shut down the post office in
Indianola, Miss., for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress
because she was black.
- 1910: The first junior high school in the U.S. opened in Berkeley,
Calif.
- 1913: The National Woman's Party was formed to take direct action
in earning women the right to vote.
- 1921: Religious services were broadcast on radio for the first time
as KDKA in Pittsburgh aired the regular Sunday service of the
city's Calvary Episcopal Church.
- 1929: The United States and Canada reached agreement on joint
action to preserve Niagara Falls.
- 1935: Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial in Flemington, N.J., on
charges of kidnapping and murdering the infant son of aviator
Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife, Anne.
- 1938: Book publisher Simon and Schuster was founded.
- 1942: The Japanese captured the Philippines capital of Manila and
the nearby air base at Cavite.
- 1959: The first lunar space shot to escape the Earth's gravitational
pull, the unmanned Luna I, was launched by the Soviet Union. It
passed to within 4,600 miles of the moon before moving on to a
solar orbit.
- 1960: Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts announced his
candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
- 1965: Martin Luther King Jr. began a drive to register black voters.
- 1971: A barrier collapsed at Ibrox Park football ground at the end
of a soccer match in Glasgow, Scotland, killing 66 people.
- 1979: The Sid Vicious murder trial opened in New York. Vicious was
formally accused of the murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, in
their Greenwich Village apartment.
- 1983: The musical play "Annie," based on the "Little Orphan Annie"
comic strip, closed on Broadway after 2,377 performances. Gary
Trudeau took a 20-month break from writing his comic strip
"Doonesbury."
- 1984: W. Wilson Goode, the son of a sharecropper, was sworn in as
Philadelphia's first black mayor.
- 1995: The most distant galaxy yet discovered was found by
scientists using the Keck telescope in Hawaii. It was estimated to
be 15 billion light years away.
*Happy Birthday*
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- Jim Bakker, 60, evangelist
- Tia Carrere, 32, actress, "Wayne's World"
- Gabrielle Carteris, 38, actress, "Beverly Hills 90210"
- David Cone, 36, MLB Pitcher
- Cuba Gooding Jr., 31, actor, "Jerry Maguire"
- Wendy Phillips, 47, actress, "Promised Land"
- Christy Turlington, 30, model
- Pernell Whitaker, 35, boxer, Olympic gold medalist