Otis Redding 1941 - His hit "(Sitting on) The Dock of the Bay" was recorded three days before he was killed in a plane crash in 1967.
- 1776 - The second Continental Congress officially made the term "United States", replacing the previous term "United Colonies."
- 1836 - Abraham Lincoln received his license to practice law.
- 1926 - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
- 1942 - Japan dropped incendiaries over NE in an attempt to set fire to the forests in Oregon and Washington. The forest did not ignite.
- 1948 - North Korea became the People's Democratic Republic of Korea.
- 1957 - The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction was signed into law by U.S. President Eisenhower.
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