1972 - George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer and left paralyzed while campaigning in Laurel, Maryland, for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1602 - Cape Cod was discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold.
1886 - poet Emily Dickinson died in Amherst, Massachusetts.
1911 - the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1918 - US airmail began service between Washington, Philadelphia and New York.
1930 - Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a United Airlines flight between San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
1940 - nylon stockings went on general sale for the first time in the United States.
1942 - gasoline rationing went into effect in 17 states, limiting sales to three gallons a week for non-essential vehicles.
1963 - US astronaut L. Gordon Cooper blasted off aboard "Faith Seven" on the final mission of the Project Mercury space program.
1969 - Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned amid a controversy over his past legal fees.
1970 - Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed when police opened fire during student protests.
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