Matthew Ridgway 1895
- 1903 - The U.S. imposed a $2 head tax on immigrants.
- 1908 - The U.S. government declared open war on on U.S. anarchists.
- 1931 - The "Star Spangled Banner," written by Francis Scott Key, was adopted as the American national anthem. The song was originally a poem known as "Defense of Fort McHenry."
- 1952 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld New York's Feinberg Law that banned Communist teachers in the U.S.
- 1969 - Sirhan Sirhan testified in a Los Angeles court that he killed Robert Kennedy.
- 1985 - Women Against Pornography awarded its ‘Pig Award’ to Huggies Diapers. The activists claimed that the TV ads for diapers had "crossed the line between eye-catching and porn."
- 1995 - A U.N. peacekeeping mission in Somalia ended. Several gunmen were killed by U.S. Marines in Mogadishu while overseeing the pull out of peacekeepers.
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