On this day in history
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1792: The U.S. Postal Service is created.
1809: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the power of the federal government is greater than any individual state in the Union.
1900: J.F. Pickering patents his airship.
1906: Russian troops seize large portions of Mongolia.
1915: President Woodrow Wilson opens the Panama-Pacific Expo in San Francisco to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal.
1918: The Soviet Red Army seizes Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
1938: Hitler demands self-determination for Germans in Austria and Czechoslovakia.
1941: The United States sends war planes to the Pacific.
1954: The Ford Foundation gives a $25 million grant to the Fund for Advancement of Education.
1959: The FCC applies the equal time rule to TV newscasts of political candidates.
1962: Mercury astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth.
1963: Moscow offers to allow on-site inspections of nuclear testing.
1965: Ranger 8 hits the moon and sends back 7,000 photos to the United States.
1968: The North Vietnamese army chief in Hue orders all looters to be shot on sight.
1971: Young people protest having to cut their long hair in Athens, Greece.
1982: Carnegie Hall in New York begins $20 million in renovations.
Source: HistoryNet.com
