1792: The United States authorizes the minting of the $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins as well as the silver dollar, dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime.
1796: Haitian revolt leader Toussaint L’Ouverture takes command of French forces at Santo Domingo.
1801: The British navy defeats the Danish at the Battle of Copenhagen.
1865: Confederate President Jefferson Davis flees Richmond, Virginia as Grant breaks Lee’s line at Petersburg.
1910: Karl Harris perfects the process for the artificial synthesis of rubber.
1914: The U.S. Federal Reserve Board announces plans to divide the country into 12 districts.
1917: President Woodrow Wilson presents a declaration of war against Germany to Congress.
1917: Jeannette Pickering Rankin is sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
1931: Virne "Jackie" Mitchell becomes the first woman to play for an all-male pro baseball team. In an exhibition game against the New York Yankees, she strikes out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
1932: Charles Lindbergh pays over $50,000 ransom for his kidnapped son.
1944: Soviet forces enter Romania, one of Germany’s allied countries.
1958: The National Advisory Council on Aeronautics is renamed NASA.
1963: Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King begins the first non-violent campaign in Birmingham, Alabama.
1982: Argentina invades the British-owned Falkland Islands.
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