1712 – The Carolina Colony was officially divided into two entities: North and South.
1800 – Abolitionist John Brown was born in Torrington, CT.
1914 – President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation officially establishing Mother’s Day.
1950 – L. Ron Hubbard published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, which ultimately led to the development of a belief system called Scientology.
1951 – The United States conducted its first thermonuclear experiment by detonating a 225-kiloton device on Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific.
1960 – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the world’s first commercially produced birth control pill, Enovid-10.
1974 – The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opened impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
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