1773 - The British Parliament passed the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the East India Company, undermining colonial American merchants by essentially granting the company a monopoly in the American tea trade on May 10. A special party ensued the following December, courtesy of Boston, Royal Colony of Massachusetts.
1791 - Birth of Samuel F.B. Morse, American telegraph inventor.
1805 - "...to the shores of Tripoli." After a 500 mile march from Egypt, a contingent of U.S. Marines and Berber mercenaries captured Derna, Tripoli, deposing pasha Yusuf Karamanli.
1822 - Birth of Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union forces and 18th U.S. President.
1861 - Virginia seceded from the Union, now West Virginia secedes from Virginia.
1896 - Birth of Wallace Hume Carothers, American chemist who developed nylon.
1900 - Birth of Walter Lantz, American cartoonist who created Woody Woodpecker.
1981 - Xerox introduces the computer mouse -- and computers have been infested ever since.
2006 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower, New York City's new World Trade Center.
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