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Events
- 1805 - First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn).
- 1813 - War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Ontario, York (present day Toronto, Canada).
- 1861 - President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
- 1865 - The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
- 1865 - The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom were Union survivors of the Andersonville Prison.
- 1911 - Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
- 1936 - The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
- 1974 - 10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for impeachment of US President Richard Nixon
- 1978 - Former Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
- 1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
- 1987 - The U.S. Justice Department bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
- 2002 - The last successful telemetry from NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
- 2006 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
