1798 1st direct federal tax on the states-on dwellings, land & slaves 

1798 Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous & malicious" writing 
againstUS governmnet.

1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration

1921 Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of 
killing their shoe company's paymaster

1951 Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races

1953 1st national monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver

1958 King Faisal II Prime Minister of Iraq is assassinated at Baghdad. Reign of Saddam begins. 

1966 Richard Speck rapes & kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory

1973 Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to the Everly Brothers.

1987 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million

Notable birthdays

1834 James Abbott McNeill Whistler artist (Whistler's Mother) 

1811 Clara Fisher (actress)

1862 Florence Bascom, 1st American woman Geologist PhD 

1910 William Hanna animator (Hanna-Barbera) called the poor man’s Disney.

1858 Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst suffragist; and mother of Christabel and Sylvial Pankhurst.

1861 Kate M. Gordon (reformer, pro-suffrage at the state level, against a federal amendment)

1868 Gertrude Bell writer, traveler, museum administrator

1901 Pancho Barnes (Florence Lowe Barnes) (aviator, movie stunt pilot)

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