Gottfried Von Leibniz 1649
- 1862 - The U.S. Congress established the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
- 1863 - During the U.S. Civil War, the first day's fighting at Gettysburg began.
- 1867 - Canada became an independent dominion.
- 1898 - During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba.
- 1909 - Thomas Edison began commercially manufacturing his new "A" type alkaline storage batteries.
- 1943 - The U.S. Government began automatically withholding federal income tax from paychecks.
- 1960 - Somalia gained its independence from Britain through the unification of Somaliland with Italian Somalia.
- 1966 - The Medicare federal insurance program went into effect.
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