1861 – To fund the Civil War effort, the U.S. Government established the first income tax at 3 percent of incomes over $800.
1861 – U.S. Army abolished flogging.
1864 – Union Adm. David G. Farragut led his fleet to victory in the battle of Mobile Bay, Ala., during the Civil War.
1884 – The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal was laid on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor.
1930 – Former astronaut and test pilot Neil Alden Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio.
1933 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the National Labor Board, predecessor of the National Labor Relations Board.
1963 – The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed a treaty banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in space and under water.
1968 – The republican National Convention convened in Miami Beach.
1981 – The federal government began firing air traffic controllers who were on strike
