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 19th 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.
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