1775 – The first U.S. military service, the U.S. Army, was established by a Congressional Resolution.
1777 – The Continental Congress adopted a resolution stating that “the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white” and that “the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.”
1811 – Author Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin) was born in Litchfield, CT.
1922 – Warren G. Harding became the first U.S. President to be heard on radio, when he dedicated the Francis Scott Key Memorial and on radio station WEAR in Baltimore.
1951 – The U.S. Census Bureau unveiled UNIVAC 1, the world’s first commercially produced electronic digital computer, in Washington, D.C. The massive computer was 8 feet high, 7-1/2 feet wide and 14-1/2 feet long.
1982 – After 6 weeks of fighting, Argentina surrendered to British troops, ending a war over the Falkland Islands. Argentina had invaded the British dependent territory in April 1982. During the brief war, Argentina suffered 655 killed, while Britain lost 236.
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