[Sailor Steve]

1621 The first duel in America took place in the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.

1812 The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain.

1873 Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for a U.S. President.

1927 The U.S. Post Office offered a special 10-cent postage stamp for sale. The stamp was of Charles Lindbergh’s "Spirit of St. Louis."

1936 Charles "Lucky" Luciano was found guilty on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution.

1942 The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.

1948 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.

1953 Seventeen major-league baseball records were tied or broken in a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers.

1959 A Federal Court annulled the Arkansas law allowing school closings to prevent integration.

1959 The first telecast received from England was broadcast in the U.S. over NBC-TV.

1983 Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

1996 Richard Allen Davis was convicted in San Jose, CA, of the 1993 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas.

1998 The Boston Globe asked Patricia Smith to resign after she admitted to inventing people and quotes in four of her recent columns.

1999 Walt Disney's "Tarzan" opened.

2000 In Algiers, Algeria, the foreign ministers of Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a preliminary cease-fire accord and agreed to work toward a permanent settlement of their two-year border war.

2002 In Jerusalem, a suicide bomber killed 19 people and injured at least 50 more on a city bus. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.


2014 Sailor Steve fell victim to the CopyPasta fad.