1778 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris, the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce were signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
1788 – Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
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1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1922 – The Washington Naval Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of the United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
1938 – Bondi Beach Freak Waves “Black Sunday” in Australia
1952 – King George VI died at the age of 56. His daughter, on a safari holiday in Kenya at the time succeeded as Queen Elizabeth II.
In 1954 Mercedes introduced the 300SL coupe.
1958 – Manchester United Football Club Disaster.
1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1971- Alan Shepard became the first man to hit a golf ball on the Moon.
1989 – The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
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