1803 US Senate approves Thomas Jefferson's nomination of James Monroe and Robert Livingstone to negotiate purchase of New Orleans from France
1962 Operation Chopper begins, America's first combat mission in the Vietnam War
1971 US Federal grand jury indicts Rev Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger
1991 US Congress gives George H. W. Bush authority to wage war against Iraq
1995 Murder trial against O.J. Simpson, begins in LA
1997 Space Shuttle STS 81 (Atlantis 18), launches into space
2017 US President Barack Obama in surprise presentation awards Vice President Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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