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Events
- 1788 - A fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans and leaves most of the town in ruins.
- Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated.
- 1913 - Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
- 1928 - Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
- Cleveland, Ohio.
- Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
- space probes.
- 1965 - civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1970 - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
- Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
- 1980 - On the season finale of the J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase"Who Shot JR?"
- 1989 - Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
- Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
- to power with an increased majority.
- before committing suicide. Weise had priorly killed his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend.