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Events
- 1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the United States Declaration of Independence.
- 1862 – The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.
- 1866 – 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint–Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
- 1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
- 1936 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
- 1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
- 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
- 1942 – Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, as the Axis power continues to expand its defensive perimeter.
- 1955 – Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
- 1965 – The US Supreme Court decides Griswold v. Connecticut effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
- 1966 – Former movie star Ronald Reagan becomes the 33rd governor of the state of California.
- 1968 – The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
- 1971 – The US Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.
- 1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
- 1987 – Washington Dulles International Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport are transferred to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
- 1995 – The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
- 1998 – James Byrd Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer and John William King in Jasper, Texas, in a racially motivated hate crime.