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1775 US Continental Congress creates United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin
1788 New York becomes 11th state to ratify US constitution
1790 US Congress passes the Funding Act of 1790 making the federal government responsible for debts incurred by the states
1865 Patrick Francis Healy is 1st African American awarded PhD (from University of Leuven, Belgium)
1896 Vitascope Hall, 1st permanent for-profit movie theatre, opens in New Orleans
1903 Horatio Nelson Jackson, Sewall K. Crocker, and a bulldog named Bud complete 1st automobile trip across the United States; San Francisco to New York in a 2-cylinder Winton (63 days, 12 hours, and 30 minutes)
1908 United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
1944 The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain (nicknamed “gasometer").
1945 US cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb
1945 Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister after election defeat
1947 President Truman signs National Security Act (1947), establishing Department of Defense, CIA, National Security Council and Joint Chiefs of Staff
1948 1st black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show
1948 President Harry Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 to desegregate the US armed forces, directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in the military
1990 US President George H. W. Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
2018 Facebook has the single worst day of any public company on the stock market - losing 19% or $119 billion market value

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