1825 – The U.S. House of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential elections, when it selected John Quincy Adams to be president over Andrew Jackson who had won more popular votes.
1870 – Congress authorized the United States Weather Bureau, later renamed the National Weather Service (NWS).
1942 – Congress instituted daylight savings time, then called “war time.”
1963 – The first Boeing 727 took off from Renton Field in Renton, Washington.
1969 – The Boeing 747 made its first test flight at the Boeing plant in Everett, Washington, ushering in the age of the jumbo jet.
1987 – Twenty years after the first woman was admitted to the New York Stock Exchange, the Exchange Luncheon Club decided to install a women’s restroom! Before then, women had to walk down a flight of stairs.
2001 – The U.S.S. Greeneville, a Pearl Harbor-based nuclear-powered, fast-attack submarine, collided with the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru, sinking the fishing boat and killing 9 of the 35 persons aboard. The Greeneville was surfacing when it struck the Japanese ship.
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