1724 | Politician Abraham Yates was born.
1775 | War of Independence: King George III proclaims the American colonies to be in open rebellion (Proclamation of Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition) and orders his officials to suppress it.
1784 | Settlers in western North Carolina (present-day eastern Tennessee) established the independent State of Franklin,which existed for four years before failing to achieve U.S. statehood.
1785 | Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry was born.
1819 | Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry died (on his 34th birthday).
1846 | Sculptor Alexander Milne Calder was born.
1949 | Entertainer Rick Springfield was born.
1869 | Poet Edgar Lee Masters was born.
1912 | Actor Gene Kelly was born.
1917 | Civil Rights: Houston race riot.
1926 | Actor Rudolph Valentino died.
1927 | Civil Rights: Italian-American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed in Massachusetts.
1931 | Actress Barbara Eden was born.
1931 | Satirist Mark Russell was born.
1943 | Author Nelson DeMille was born.
1949 | Actress Shelley Long was born.
1954 | First flight of the USAF C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1960 | Composer Oscar Hammerstein died.
1970 | Actor River Phoenix was born.
1978 | Basketball Pro Kobe Bryant was born.
1982 | Entrepreneur Alfred S. Bloomingdale died.
1996 | War on Terror: Osama bin Laden issued a “Declaration of War on America.”
2019 | Entrepreneur David Koch died.
2020 | Kenosha, Wisconsin, riots start.
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