- 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Florida with 600 men – by 1536 only 4 survive
- 1803 John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
- 1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
- 1973 Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
- 2004 Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage
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