Today:
1629 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills about 10,000 people.
1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is established in Massachusetts.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga begins.
1866 – New Orleans’ Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
1898 – Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes.
1930 – Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup in Montevideo by defeating Argentina 4–2.
1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks USS Indianapolis, leading to the greatest single loss of life at sea in the history of the US Navy.
1956 – A Joint Resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizing “In God We Trust” as the U.S. national motto.
1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
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