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On this day for the United States
Events
1788 –
New Hampshire ratifies the
Constitution and is thus admitted as the 9th state in the
United States .
1813 –
Laura Secord sets out to warn
British forces of an impending
U.S. attack on
Queenston ,
Ontario during the
War of 1812 .
1877 – The
Molly Maguires , ten
Irish immigrants, are hanged at the
Schuylkill County and
Carbon County, Pennsylvania Prisons.
1898 –
Guam becomes a U.S. territory.
1915 – The
U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in
Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1942 – World War II: A
Japanese
submarine surfaces near the
Columbia River in
Oregon , firing 17 shells at nearby
Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the
U.S. mainland.
1948 – The
"Manchester Baby" (SSEM) runs the first ever computer program stored in electronic memory.
1948 –
Columbia Records introduces the
long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in
New York City .
1964 – Three
civil rights workers,
Andrew Goodman ,
James Chaney and
Mickey Schwerner , are murdered in
Neshoba County ,
Mississippi ,
United States , by members of the
Ku Klux Klan .
1973 – In handing down the decision in
Miller v. California 413 US 15, the
Supreme Court of the United States establishes the
Miller Test , which now governs obscenity in U.S. law.
1982 –
John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted
assassination of
U.S. President
Ronald Reagan .
2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., indicted 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the
Khobar Towers in
Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2004 –
SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded
spaceplane to achieve
spaceflight .