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Events
- 1788 - The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
- 1820 - The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
- 1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo - After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken.
- 1856 - The University of Maryland, College Park is chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College.
- 1857 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
- 1899 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
- 1900 - A coal mine explosion in West Virginia traps 50 coal miners.
- 1946 - Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
- 1948 - USS Newport News, the first air-conditioned naval ship, is launched from Newport News, Virginia.
- 1951 - The trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg begins.
- 1964 - Prophet Elijah Muhammad officially gives Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali meaning "beloved of Allah".
- 1970 - Suspected murderer Charles Manson releases Lie: The Love & Terror Cult to help finance his defense.
- 1981 - After 19 years presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
- 1983 - The United States Football League begins its first year of competition.
- 1988 - Students at Gallaudet University go on strike in favor of the selection of a deaf university president. The protest is called Deaf President Now.
- 2006 - South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs a bill into legislation that would ban most abortions in the state.
- 2007 - Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. was found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial.
- 2007 - United States lottery Mega Millions set a new world record for the highest jackpot ever offered of US$390 million.