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Events
- 1779 - Army Corps of Engineers for the United States is authorized by the Congress
- 1824 - The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
- 1861 - American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
- 1888 - The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
- 1897 - A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
- 1917 - World War I: Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
- 1918 - First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu observed at Fort Riley, Kansas.
- 1927 - In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
- 1941 - World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
- 1942 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur abandons Corregidor.
- 1945 - World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
- 1959 - The original Broadway production of A Raisin In The Sun opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City.
- 1977 - The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
- 1993 - Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
- 1999 - Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
