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Events
- 1715 - Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
- 1783 - Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified.
- 1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth and Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States.
- 1892 - The General Electric Company forms.
- 1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
- 1927 - Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Norma and Constance Talmadge become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
- 1947 - Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.
- 1955 - Ray Kroc opens his first franchise of McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.
- 1986 - The United States launch Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.