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1772 Captain James Cook begins his second voyage to the South Seas aboard HMS Resolution to search for Terra Australis (Southern Continent) 1787 US Congress adopts the Ordinance of 1787 (Northwest Ordinance), establishing the first organized US territory, setting requirements for statehood, guaranteeing equal status with the original 13 states, outlawing slavery, and protecting civil liberties 1835 Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson files for a patent for his screw propeller design 1863 Anti-draft protests in New York City turn violent, with over 100 people killed, including the lynching of Black individuals, 2,000 injured, and 50 buildings burned; riots last for 3 days 1865 P. T. Barnum's museum in New York burns down, giantess Anna Haining Swan just escapes 1949 Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist Catholics 1960 US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate 1978 Jockey Ron Turcotte (36) aboard Flag of Leyte Gulf, crashes during a race at Belmont Park, crushing several vertebrae and remaining paralyzed from the waist down until his death in 2025. Ronald Joseph Morel Turcotte (July 22, 1941 – August 22, 2025) was a Canadian thoroughbred race horse jockey best known as the rider of Secretariat, winner of the U.S. Triple Crown in 1973. 1994 Former NFL running back, broadcaster, and actor O.J. Simpson, who is charged with murder, gives hair samples for testing 1994 Tonya Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, is sentenced to two years in prison for his role in the attack on American Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan 2013 #BlackLivesMatter created in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman on trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin 2018 Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay record $4.7 billion in damages in talc cancer case by jury in US state of Missouri 2018 US Department of Justice charges 12 Russian intelligence officers with cyberattacks against Democratic officials during 2016 US election 2024 Former US President Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt at an outdoor campaign rally in rural Butler, Pennsylvania; gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks fires 6 to 8 shots killing one spectator, critically wounding two, and hits Trump in the ear with a bullet before being killed by a Secret Service sniper