This Day In History
- 1776 The second Continental Congress made the term ''United States'' official, replacing ''United Colonies.''
- 1836 Abraham Lincoln received his license to practice law.
- 1850 California became the 31st state of the union.
- 1893 Frances Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, gave birth to a daughter, Esther, in the White House.
- 1926 The National Broadcasting Co. was created by the Radio Corporation of America.
- 1943 Allied forces landed at Salerno and Taranto during World War II.
- 1948 The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.
- 1956 Elvis Presley made the first of three appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
- 1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.
- 1971 Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a siege that claimed 43 lives.
- 1993 PLO leaders and Israel agreed to recognize each other.
- 1993 Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was buried in his homeland, four years after his death in exile.
- 1997 Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.
- 2001 Afghanistan's military opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood was fatally wounded in a suicide attack by assassins posing as journalists.
- 2003 The Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay $85 million to 552 people to settle clergy sex abuse cases.
- 1893 Esther Cleveland (daughter of U.S. President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland; first child of a U.S. President to be born at the White House; died June 25, 1980)
- 1925 Cliff Robertson (Academy Award-winning actor:)
- 1951 Michael Keaton (Douglas) (actor: Batman, Beetlejuice, Mr. Mom)
- 1952 Angela Cartwright (actress: Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space)
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