On this day for the United States
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Events
- 1680 – Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
- 1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
- 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist James Smithson.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek – The war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
- 1901 – The U.S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
- 1905 – Russian and Japanese peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth.
- 1932 – A 5.1–kg (11.2–pound) chondrite–type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
- 1944 – World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
- 1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
- 1949 – US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the National Military Establishment with the United States Department of Defense.
- 1954 – At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
- 1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
- 1971 – The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
- 1977 – In Yonkers, New York, 24–year–old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year's period.
- 1981 – The head of John Walsh's son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the U.S. Congress to pass the Missing Children's Act to give the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children, as well as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America's Most Wanted.
- 1988 – Japanese American Internment: US President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II.
- 1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
- 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea–bargain agreement for his testimony.
- 1995 – Los Angeles Dodgers are forced to forfeit against the St. Louis Cardinals after fans throw souvenir baseballs on to the field en masse.
- 2006 – Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States. All toiletries are banned from commercial airplanes.