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Events
- 1778 – South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
- 1900 – The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal
- 1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
- 1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
- 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
- 1937 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
- 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins.
- 1972 – Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
- 1976 – The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
- 1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
- 1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
- 2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves 57 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.
- 2009 – The United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Port Royal runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef.