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Events
- 1752 – Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin.
- 1790 – Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery.
- 1794 – First session of United States Senate open to the public.
- 1808 – Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
- 1809 – Robert Fulton files a patent for improvements to steamboat navigation.
- 1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry "gerrymanders" for the first time.
- 1861 – American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
- 1916 – Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
- 1937 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers Union.
- 1939 – A Lockheed XP-38 flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.
- 1941 – The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
- 1943 – World War II: General Dwight Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
- 1953 – President Dwight Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
- 1971 – Eighty-seven countries, including the US, UK, and USSR, sign the Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in international waters.
- 1973 – Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
- 1990 – Buster Douglas, a 42 to 1 underdog, deals Mike Tyson his first professional loss with the largest upset in boxing history and becomes the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
- 1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.