1776 – Harvard College conferred the first honorary Doctor of Laws degree to George Washington.
1829 – James Carrington of Wallingford, CT patented the coffee mill.
1860 – The Pony Express debuted as horse and rider relay teams simultaneously left St. Joseph, MO, and Sacramento, CA.
1866 – Rudolph Eickemeyer and G. Osterheld of Yonkers, New York patented a blocking and shaping machine for hats.
1882 – Jesse James was shot to death by Robert Ford, a member of his own gang.
1936 – Bruno Hauptmann, convicted in the 1932 kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s baby, was executed.
1996 – Theodore Kaczynksi, aka the Unabomber, was arrested at his cabin near Lincoln, MT.
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