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In 1793, George Washington lays first cornerstone for the US Capitol.

In 1634, Anne Hutchinson, an Englishwoman who would become an outspoken religious thinker in the American colonies, arrives at the Massachusetts Bay Colony with her family.

In 1679, New Hampshire becomes a county in Massachusetts Bay Colony.

In 1755, Fort Ticonderoga in New York opens

In 1769 ,John Harris of Boston, Massachusetts, builds the first spinet piano

In 1837, Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young co-found a "stationery and fancy goods emporium" in New York City, renamed in 1853 as "Tiffany & Co."

In 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which created a force of federal commissioners charged with returning escaped slaves to their owners.  

In 1851, New York Times founded.

In 1862, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s army pulls away from Antietam Creek, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and heads back to Virginia. The day before, at the Battle of Antietam, Lee’s force had engaged in the bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War against the army of General George B. McClellan. The armies struggled to a standstill, but the magnitude of losses forced Lee to abandon his invasion of Maryland.

In 1895, Booker T. Washington declared the Atlanta Compromise—a classic statement on race relations—in a speech at the Atlanta (Georgia) Exposition.

In 1895, Daniel David Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, performs the first chiropractic adjustment on partially deaf Harvey Lillard, restoring his hearing

In 1927, The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) debuted with a network of 16 radio stations.

In 1947, the National Security Act, which created a National Military Establishment and the position of Secretary of Defense, went into effect.  

In 1947, Central Intelligence Agency officially comes into existence after being established by President Truman in July

In 1959, Serial killer Harvey Glatman is executed in a California gas chamber for murdering three young women in Los Angeles. Resisting all appeals to save his life, Glatman even wrote to the appeals board to say, “I only want to die.”

In 1973, Future President Jimmy Carter files a report with the International UFO Bureau on September 18, 1973, claiming he had seen an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) in October 1969.

In 1975, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.  

In 2022, US President Joe Biden says in a CBS TV interview, “We still have a problem with Covid” and “We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over” [1]