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Marine Corps Barracks Bombing Lebanon

In 1684, English King Charles II revokes the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter due to repeated violations of the charter’s terms including trading with other countries and running an illegal mint.

In 1694, American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec.

In 1775, The Congressional Committee meeting with General Washington agreed to accept the Penobscot, Stockbridge, and St. John's Indian tribes offers of assistance, allowing them to be employed in the Army if necessary.

In 1775, Washington’s General Orders concern discipline: Colonel David Brewer of the 9th Regiment is dismissed from the Continental Army. Brewer had fraudulently placed his teenage son on the army rolls, though the boy remained at home, and had employed soldiers on his own farm while drawing public supplies.

In 1777, a British Royal Navy fleet of ships, trying to open up supply lines along the Delaware River and the occupying British army in Philadelphia, is bombarded by American cannon fire and artillery from Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania.

In 1813, The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).

In 1819, First ship sails through the Erie Canal from Rome, New York, to Utica, New York.

In 1850, Suffragist organizers hold the first-ever National Women’s Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts.

In 1910 Blanche Scott becomes the first woman to fly at a public event in the US in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

In 1915, In 1915, an estimated 25,000 women marched on Fifth Avenue in New York City in support of women’s suffrage.

In 1920, Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, & Bill Burns as go-betweens in "Black Sox" 1919 World Series Baseball scandal.

In 1933, John Dillinger and his gang rob Central National Bank, in Greencastle, Indiana. They take $75, 000.

In 1941, The Disney animated classic Dumbo had its world premiere.

In 1944, During World War II, U.S. forces under the leadership of Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., commenced a decisive air and sea battle against the Japanese on the central Philippine island of Leyte.

In 1952, Charlie Chaplin's "Limelight", starring himself and Claire Bloom, with an appearance by Buster Keaton, premieres in New York City; Not released in Los Angeles until 1972, winning Chaplin his only competitive Academy Award for original score.

In 1973, President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor over to Judge John J. Sirica.

In 1983, suicide bombers drove truckloads of high explosives into the barracks of U.S. Marines and French paratroopers in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French troops.

In 1987, the U.S. Senate rejected the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork 58-42.

In 1989, 23 people were killed in an explosion at a Phillips Petroleum chemical complex in Pasadena, Texas.

In 1995, a jury in Houston convicted Yolanda Saldivar of murdering Tejano singing star Selena.

In 2001, Apple introduced the iPod, a portable media player that became one of the most successful and revolutionary products of the early 2000s.