- 354 Birth of St. Augustine of Hippo, greatest of the Early Latin Church Fathers. Of his many writings, two have endured: "Confessions" describes the circumstances leading to his conversion to the Christian faith, and "The City of God" was written as a Christian view of the sacking of Rome by the Visigoths in the year 410.
- 1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"
- 1839 1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
- 1875 Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
- 1895 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
- 1921 US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
- 1927 NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
- 1931 Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st US woman senator
- 1933 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, MN
- 1940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released
- 1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses
- 1967 Carl B Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland Oh)
- 1971 Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet (Mars)
- 1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
- 1986 NASA launches space vehicle S-199
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