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Events
- 1804 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
- 1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican–American War.
- 1864 - American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
- 1880 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.
- 1891 - Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
- 1902 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.
- 1918 - Warner Bros. releases its first major film My Four Years in Germany.
- 1933 - An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 120 people.
- 1945 - The Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
- 1969 - In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.. He would later retract his guilty plea.
- 1970 - Vietnam War: Capt. Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes.
- 1975 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
- 1982 - The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.
- 2000 - The NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
- 2006 - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.