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Events
- 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
- 1923 – Checker Cab puts its first taxi on the streets.
- 1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon, mechanic).
- 1930 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held.
- 1953 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashed and burned near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
- 1959 – Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.
- 1965 – Vietnam War: The United States uses B–52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
- 1979 – SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
- 1981 – The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.
- 1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
- 1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.