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Events
- 1841 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Amistad case, concerning captive Africans who seized control of the slave-trading ship carrying them: the court rules that they had been taken into slavery illegally.
- Vera Cruz.
- 1856 - Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House on the University of Alabama.
- 1862 - American Civil War: The first battle between two ironclad warships, a five-hour battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, results in a draw.
- United Mine Workers, begins.
- 1916 - Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.
- Ford Flathead engine leaves the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.
- Emergency Banking Act to Congress.
- incendiary bombs. The resulting firestormkills over 100,000 people.
- 1954 - McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy," produced by Edward R. Murrow.
- 1959 - The Barbie doll debuts.
- defectsto the United States.
- 1975 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
- 1984 - The Competitive Enterprise Institute in founded in Washington, D.C.
- 1986 - United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The bodies of all seven astronauts were still inside.
- Hispanic Americanto serve in that position.
- civil rightswhen they beat him during an arrest.
- USA Patriot Act, to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens.