John Dillinger 1902 - Gangster
- 1807 - British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
- 1832 - J.I. Howe patented the pin machine.
- 1933 - Germany became a one political party country when Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis.
- 1939 - The first U.S. water-ski tournament was held at Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York.
- 1941 - Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
- 1944 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the "GI Bill of Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
- 1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It required that the voting age in the United States to be 18.
- 1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights.
- 1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the Americans with Disability Act.
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