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1723 – Author and philosopher Adam Smith (An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations) was born in Fife, Scotland.

1819 – Mathematician and astronomer John Couch Adams (discovered the planet Neptune) was born in Lidcott, England.

1895 – Actor William Boyd (“Hopalong Cassidy”) was born in Cambridge, OH.

1933 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt took the U.S. off the gold standard, which had been in use since 1879.

1967 – The “Six Day War” between Israel and Egypt in response to growing tension between the 2 countries.

1968 – Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY), U.S. Attorney General under his older brother John F. Kennedy, was shot by Sirhan Sirhan after celebrating his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary in Los Angeles.  He died the following day.

2004 – Former President Ronald Reagan died at his home in Los Angeles, CA, at the age of 93.

1738 – King George III of Great Britain was born in London.

1831 – The independent constitutional monarchy of Belgium named Prince Leopold I as its first king.

1876 – The Transcontinental Express train arrived in San Francisco, 83 hours after leaving New York City.

1896 – Henry Ford took a trial run around the streets of Detroit, MI, in his “Quadricycle,” the first vehicle he had designed.

1910 – Christopher Cockereel, inventor of the Hovercraft, was born in Cherry Hinton, England.

1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded under the name “Plan of Award.”

1919 – Congress passed the 19^th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, and sent it to the states for ratification.

Suffrage Parade, New York City, ca. 1912

1931 – The first rocket-glider flight was made by William Swan in Atlantic City, NJ.

1989 – The People’s Army of China opened fire on pro- democracy student protestors in Peking’s Tiananmen Square.