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Events
- Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
- U.S. House of Representatives.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
- 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.
- Universal Pictures.
- 1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
- Communist Partymembers.
- 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.
- Missile Mail.
- USAFtest pilot Carl Cross were both killed.
- 1966 – 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 U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
- U.S. city of Emporia, Kansas, killing six.
- U.S. Marines in Bosnia.