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Events
- Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
- 1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti–slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten–month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
- , taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
- Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- 1917 – World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day."
- U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
- 1946 – A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, kills 61 people.
- George Marshall calls for economic aid to war–torn Europe.
- The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
- Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
- 1976 – Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
- 1977 – The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.
- AIDS.
- Excedrindeaths.
- General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
- 2001 – U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.