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On this day for the United States
Events
1819 - By the
Adams–Onís Treaty , Spain sells
Florida to the United States for US$5 million.
1847 -
Mexican–American War : The
Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexican.
1853 - The
Washington University is founded in
St. Louis as Eliot Seminary.
1855 - The
Pennsylvania State University is founded.
1856 - The
Republican Party opens its first national meeting in
Pittsburgh .
1862 -
Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in
Richmond, Virginia . He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
1876 -
Johns Hopkins University is founded in
Baltimore .
1879 - In
Utica, New York ,
Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent
Woolworth stores.
1889 - President
Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting
North Dakota ,
South Dakota ,
Montana and
Washington as
U.S. states .
1923 - The United States begins the first transcontinental
airmail route.
1924 -
Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the
White House .
1942 - World War II: President
Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General
Douglas MacArthur out of the
Philippines as American defense collapses.
1944 - American aircraft bombard the Dutch towns of
Nijmegen ,
Arnhem ,
Enschede and
Deventer by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
1959 -
Lee Petty wins the first
Daytona 500 .
1973 -
Cold War : Following United States
President
Richard Nixon 's
visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1974 -
Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate
U.S. President
Richard Nixon .
1994 -
Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the
United States Department of Justice with spying for the
Soviet Union .
Births
1732 -
George Washington ,
First President of the United States (d.
1799 )
1778 -
Rembrandt Peale , American artist (d.
1860 )
1819 -
James Russell Lowell , American poet and essayist (d.
1891 )
1839 -
Francis Pharcellus Church , American editor and publisher (d.
1906 )
1874 -
Bill Klem , Major League Baseball Hall of Fame umpire (d.
1951 )
1883 -
Marguerite Clark , American silent film actress (d.
1940 )
1892 -
Edna St. Vincent Millay , American writer (d.
1950 )
1899 -
Dwight Frye , American actor (d.
1943 )
1899 -
George O'Hara , American actor (d.
1966 )
1903 -
Robert Weede , American baritone (d.
1972 )
1907 -
Sheldon Leonard , American actor (d.
1997 )
1907 -
Robert Young , American actor (d.
1998 )
1913 -
Buddy Tate , American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (d.
2001 )
1917 -
Jane Bowles , American writer and playwright (d.
1973 )
1918 -
Charlie Finley , American sports entrepreneur (d.
1996 )
1918 -
Don Pardo , American radio and television announcer
1918 -
Robert Wadlow , tallest person in history (d.
1940 )
1921 -
Wayne Booth , American literary critic (d.
2005 )
1925 -
Edward Gorey , American illustrator (d.
2000 )
1926 -
Bud Yorkin , American film director (d.
2015 )
1928 -
Paul Dooley , American actor
1929 -
James Hong , Chinese American actor
1929 -
Rebecca Schull , American actress
1930 -
Marni Nixon , American singer (d.
2016 )
1930 -
James McGarrell , American painter (d.
2020 )
1932 -
Ted Kennedy , U.S. senator from
Massachusetts (d.
2009 )
1936 -
Ernie K-Doe , American singer (d.
2001 )
1938 -
Steve Barber , American baseball player (d.
2007 )
1938 -
Ishmael Reed , American writer
1940 -
Billy Name , American photographer and
Andy Warhol archivist (d.
2016 )
1944 -
Jonathan Demme , American director (d.
2017 )
1944 -
Robert Kardashian , American lawyer (d.
2003 )
1945 -
Leslie Charleson , American actress
1945 -
Oliver , American singer (d.
2000 )
1948 -
John Ashton , American actor
1950 -
Julius Erving , American basketball player
1950 -
Ellen Greene , American actress
1952 -
Bill Frist , U.S. senator from
Tennessee
1962 -
Lenda Murray , American
bodybuilder
1965 -
Pat LaFontaine , American ice hockey player
1966 -
Rachel Dratch , American actress and comedienne
1968 -
Bradley Nowell , American musician (d.
1996 )
1968 -
Jeri Ryan , American actress
1969 -
Byron Stroud , American bassist
1972 -
Michael Chang , American tennis player
1975 -
Drew Barrymore , American actress
1982 -
Jenna Haze , American pornographic actress
1982 -
Robert Weiner, Jr. , American water polo player
1985 -
Sean Garballey , American politician
1986 -
Miko Hughes , American actor
1986 -
Rajon Rondo , American basketball player
Deaths
1890 -
John Jacob Astor III , American businessman (b.
1822 )
1961 -
Nick LaRocca , American jazz musician (b.
1889 )
1968 -
Peter Arno , American cartoonist (b.
1904 )
1974 -
Samuel Byck , American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b.
1930 )
1976 -
Florence Ballard , American singer (
The Supremes ) (b.
1943 )
1987 -
Andy Warhol , American artist, director, and writer (b.
1928 )
1994 -
Papa John Creach , American musician (b.
1917 )
1995 -
Ed Flanders , American actor (b.
1934 )
1997 -
Joseph Aiuppa , American gangster (b.
1907 )
1998 -
Abraham Ribicoff , American politician (b.
1910 )
2002 -
Chuck Jones , American animator (b.
1912 )
2002 -
Daniel Pearl , American journalist (b.
1963 )
2003 -
Daniel Taradash , American screenwriter (b.
1913 )
2004 -
Andy Seminick , American baseball player (b.
1920 )
2006 -
Anthony Burger , American musician and singer (b.
1961 )
2007 -
Dennis Johnson , American basketball player (b.
1954 )
2007 -
Howard Verne Ramsey , oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b.
1898 )
2021 -
Lawrence Ferlinghetti , American poet (b.
1919 )
Holidays and observances