Tom Ridge 1945 - First Director of the Office of Homeland Security
- 1842 - The first fiscal year was established by the U.S. Congress to start on July 1st.
- 1873 - The school board of St. Louis, MO, authorized the first U.S. public kindergarten.
- 1920 - The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the voting booth.
- 1934 - Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to Germany.
- 1945 - The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II.
- 1957 - The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled of the assembly line.
- 1990 - The 55 Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait left Baghdad by car and headed for the Turkish border.
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