Edward Bennett Williams 1920
- 1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act passed by the U.S. Congress.
- 1870 - E.J. DeSemdt patented asphalt.
- 1884 - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented "flaked cereal."
- 1902 - The Boer War ended between the Boers of South Africa and Great Britain with the Treaty of Vereeniging.
- 1913 - The 17th Amendment went into effect. It provided for popular election of U.S. senators.
- 1955 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered that all states must end racial segregation "with all deliberate speed."
- 1962 - Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel. Eichmann was a Gestapo official and was executed for his actions in the Nazi Holocaust.
- 1977 - The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was finished after 3 years of construction.
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