1796 – The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
1798 – The U.S. Marine Corps is re-established. They had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
1804 – A duel occurs in which Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens: Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
1921 – Former President Willam Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
1979 – The Skylab space station is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
