1832 ~ J.I. Howe patented the pin machine.

1874 ~ Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice of osteopathy.

1909 ~ The first transcontinental auto race ended in Seattle, WA.

1933 ~ Germany became a one political party country when Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis.

1941 ~ Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

1942 ~ V-Mail, or Victory-Mail, was sent for the first time.

1946 ~ Jet airplanes were used to transport mail for the first time.

1959 ~ Eddie Lubanski rolled 24 consecutive strikes in a bowling tournament in Miami, FL.

1964 ~The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller’s book, "Tropic of Cancer", could not be banned.

1970 ~ U.S. President Richard Nixon signed 26th amendment, lowering the voting age to 18.

1977 ~ John N. Mitchell became the first former U.S. Attorney General to go to prison as he began serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up. He served 19 months.

1978 ~  James W. Christy and Robert S. Harrington discovered the only known moon of Pluto. The moon is named Charon.

1981 ~ Mark David Chapman pled guilty to killing John Lennon.

1989 ~ The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year-old civil war.

1998 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally obtained by authorities could be used at revocation hearings for a convicted criminal's parole.

1999 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the Americans with Disability Act.