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Events
- Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina).
- Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia Canada taken from the Acadians.
- 1792 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Great Britain.
- 1812 – Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.
- Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
- First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
- 1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
- Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness.
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- women, and sends it to the U.S. statesfor ratification.
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- Imperial Japanesenavy.
- U.S. Navy vessel captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
- 1973 – Patent for the ATM granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
- 1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
- 1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.