Jack Kemp 1935
- 1585 - A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, NC.
- 1754 - At the beginning of the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered the small, circular Fort Necessity in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French.
- 1787 - The U.S. Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which established the rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery.
- 1954 - In Geneva, the United States, Great Britain and France reached an accord on Indochina which divided Vietnam into two countries, North and South, along the 17th parallel.
- 1978 - Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.
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