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On this day for the United States
Events
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1686 –
Albany, New York formally chartered as a municipality by Governor
Thomas Dongan
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1793 –
Alexander Mackenzie reaches the
Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro–American to complete a transcontinental crossing north of
Mexico.
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1796 – Surveyors of the
Connecticut Land Company name an area in
Ohio "
Cleveland" after Gen.
Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
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1805 –
Napoleonic Wars:
War of the Third Coalition –
Battle of Cape Finisterre – Inconclusive naval action fought between a combined French and Spanish fleets under Admiral
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral
Robert Calder.
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1864 –
American Civil War:
Battle of Atlanta – Outside of
Atlanta, Georgia,
Confederate General
John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on
Union troops under General
William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
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1916 – In
San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a
Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
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1933 –
Wiley Post becomes first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
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1934 – Outside
Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1"
John Dillinger is mortally wounded by
FBI agents.
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1937 –
New Deal: The
United States Senate votes down President
Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the
Supreme Court of the United States.
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1942 – The
United States government begins compulsory civilian
gasoline
rationing due to the wartime demands.
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1962 –
Mariner program:
Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
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1992 – Near
Medellín,
Colombian
drug lord
Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the
United States.
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1997 – The second
Blue Water Bridge opens between
Port Huron, Michigan and
Sarnia, Ontario.
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1999 – The first version of
MSN Messenger was released by
Microsoft.
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2003 – Members of
101st Airborne of the
United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in
Iraq, killing
Saddam Hussein's sons
Uday and
Qusay, along with
Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14–year old son, and a bodyguard.