1651– Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding poor people from adopting excessive styles of dress.
1656–Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against Quakers. The marriage of church–and–state in Puritanism makes them regard the ritual–free Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
1834– In Philadelphia, Whigs and Democrats stage a gun, stone and brick battle for control of a Moyamensing Township election, resulting in one death, several injuries, and the burning down of a block of buildings.
1835– John Templeton, John Moore, Stanley Cuthbart and Ellen Ritchie were charged in Wheeling, Virginia with illegally teaching blacks to read.
1865–Cheyennes and Arapahos signed a treaty with the U.S. at a camp on the Little Arkansas River in Kansas. However, none of the parties to the treaty abided by it.
1912– While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former US President Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. With a fresh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech.
1913– The Senghennydd Colliery disaster kills 439 people in South Wales. It is the UK's worst mining disaster.
1913– The New Mexico Supreme Court upholds a sodomy conviction. Ex Parte DeVore, 136 P. 47.
1916– Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee Universities refuse to play against a black person.
1949– Eleven leaders of the U.S. Communist Party are convicted, after a nine–month trial, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Ten defendants are sentenced to 5 years in prison each, and the eleventh to 3 years. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions on June 4, 1951.
1968–Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio in San Francisco for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War. Charged with mutiny, their long prison sentences are later reduced to two years.
1979– The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C. demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people," drawing 200,000 people.
1999– The South Carolina Supreme Court rules that the video poker machines in the state must be unplugged by June 30, 2000.
From 2001
2001– Delta Flight 458 from Atlanta to Newark, New Jersey, is diverted to Charlotte–Douglas International Airport, and passengers are taken off the flight while officials investigate a report of two "Middle Eastern men" making threats in a foreign tongue. It turned out to be two Orthodox Jews who were praying peacefully.