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Events

• John Adams is elected as the second U.S. president– 1796
• Canada’s first chartered bank, Bank of Montreal, opened in Quebec– 1817
• Ulysses S. Grant elected president of the U.S.– 1868
• In California, the poet and outlaw calling himself Black Bart made his last robbery when he stole a Wells Fargo strongbox from a stagecoach. A handkerchief left at the scene led to his arrest– 1883
• The first automobile show in the United States opened at New York’s Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the Automobile Club of America– 1900
• William Howard Taft elected as president of the U.S.– 1908
• Mary Jacob received a patent for a brassiere– 1914
• Detroit-Windsor tunnel opened– 1930
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt reelected for second term– 1936
• The U.S.S.R. launched space satellite Sputnik II, carrying a dog– 1957
• Mariner 10 spacecraft launched, Cape Canaveral, Florida– 1973
• Good Morning America debuted with co-hosts David Hartman and Nancy Dussault– 1975
• Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton was elected 42nd President of the US. Five women won Senate seats, including Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun, who became the first African-American woman senator– 1992
• U.S. Air Force’s uncrewed X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission 5 landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The space plane had spent 780 days in orbit, breaking the previous record of 718 days in 2017.– 2019