Wally Amos, Jr. 1936 - Entrepreneur, created Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies
- 1862 - The U.S. Congress established the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
- 1863 - During the U.S. Civil War, the first day's fighting at Gettysburg began.
- 1867 - Canada became an independent dominion.
- 1898 - During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba.
- 1943 - The U.S. Government began automatically withholding federal income tax from paychecks.
- 1963 - The U.S. postmaster introduced the five-digit ZIP (Zoning Improvement Plan) code.
- 1966 - The Medicare federal insurance program went into effect.
- 1997 - The sovereignty over Hong Kong was transferred from Great Britain to China. Britain had controlled Hong Kong as a colony for 156 years.
- 2003 - In Hong Kong, thousands of protesters marched to show their opposition to anti-subversion legislation.
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