1789 - The U.S. Post Office was established.
1879 - The British Zulu War began.
1889 - Almon B. Stowger applied for a patent for his automatic telephone system.
1894 - Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time.
1912 - The Girl Scout organization was founded. The original name was Girl Guides.
1933 - President Paul von Hindenburg dropped the flag of the German Republic and ordered that the swastika and empire banner be flown side by side.
1985 - Former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announced that he planned to drop Secret Service protection and hire his own bodyguards in an effort to lower the deficit by $3 million.
1987 - "Les Miserables" opened on Broadway.
1993 - Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female U.S. attorney general.
1998 - Astronomers cancelled a warning that a mile-wide asteroid might collide with Earth saying that calculations had been off by 600,000 miles.
2009 - It was announced that the Sear Tower in Chicago, IL, would be renamed Willis Tower.
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