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1775 — John Hancock becomes president of the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.
1797 — Thomas Jefferson writes to inquire about a former flame in one of history’s more surprising presidential correspondences.
1844 — Samuel Morse demonstrates the telegraph by sending the message “What hath God wrought?” from Washington to Baltimore, revolutionizing long-distance communication.
1883 — The Brooklyn Bridge opens after 14 years of construction, connecting the then-separate cities of New York and Brooklyn across the East River for the first time.
1917 — The British naval convoy system is introduced during World War I to protect merchant ships from German submarine attacks.
1935 — Major League Baseball holds its first night game at Crosley Field in Cincinnati.
1941 — The German battleship Bismarck sinks Britain’s HMS Hood in the North Atlantic during World War II, killing all but three of the Hood’s 1,418 crew members.
1964 — A riot erupts at a soccer match in Lima, Peru, killing hundreds in one of the deadliest sports disasters in history.
1989 — Lori Ann Auker disappears from a parking lot in Pennsylvania in a case that remains one of the region’s most haunting unsolved crimes.
2022 — A gunman kills 21 people — 19 children and two teachers — at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in one of the deadliest school shootings in American history.
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