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On this day for the United States
Events
1763 -
Indian Wars :
Pontiac's Rebellion begins -
Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at
Fort Detroit .
1840 - The
Great Natchez Tornado strikes
Natchez, Mississippi , killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest
tornado in
U.S. history.
1847 - In
Philadelphia , the
American Medical Association (AMA) is founded.
1864 -
American Civil War : The
Army of the Potomac , under General
Ulysses S. Grant , breaks off from the
Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
1915 -
World War I : a
German
submarine U-20 sinks the
RMS Lusitania , killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turned many formerly pro-Germans in the
United States of America against the
German Empire .
1947 -
Kraft Television Theater debuts, running for the next 11 years.
1960 -
Cold War :
U-2 Crisis -
Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding
American
U-2 pilot
Gary Powers .
1964 -
Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 , a
Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near
San Ramon, California , killing all 44 aboard; the
FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
1992 -
Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the
United States Constitution making the
27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the
U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
1992 -
Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its maiden voyage (
STS-49 ).
1998 -
Mercedes-Benz buys
Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms
DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
1999 - A jury finds
The Jenny Jones Show and
Warner Bros. liable in the shooting death of
Scott Amedure , after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode. Schmitz later killed Amedure and the jury awarded Amedure's family US$25 million.