1651 - Laws were passed in Massachusetts forbidding poor people from adopting excessive styles of dress.
1656 - Massachusetts enacted the first punitive legislation against Quakers. The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism made them regard the ritual-free Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
1834 - In Philadelphia, Whigs and Democrats staged a gun, stone and brick battle for control of a Moyamensing Township election, resulting in one death, several injuries and the burning down of a block of buildings.
1835 - John Templeton, John Moore, Stanley Cuthbart and Ellen Ritchie were charged in Wheeling, Virginia with illegally teaching blacks to read.
1840 - Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.
1865 - Cheyennes and Arapahos signed a treaty with the U.S. at a camp on the Little Arkansas River in Kansas. However, none of the parties to the treaty abided by it.
1912 - While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper William Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech.
1913 - The New Mexico Supreme Court upheld a sodomy conviction. Ex Parte DeVore, 136 P. 47.
1916 - Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson was excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee Universities refused to play against a black person.
1927 - The California Court of Appeals, in upholding a sodomy conviction, ruled that corroborative evidence could be circumstantial in nature. People v. Khan, 115 260 P. 391.
1949 - Eleven leaders of the U.S. Communist Party were convicted, after a nine-month trial, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Ten defendants were sentenced to 5 years in prison each, and the eleventh to 3 years. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions on June 4, 1951.
1953 - Ike promised to fire as a Red any federal worker invoking the 5th Amendment.
1968 - Vietnam War: 27 soldiers were arrested at the Presidio in San Francisco for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Viet Nam War. Charged with mutiny, their long prison sentences were later reduced to two years.
1970 - The U.S. conducted an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
1971 - Two people were killed in a Memphis, Tennessee race riot.
1971 - The U.S. conducted an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
1973 - The Thailand's University Student are Victory protest democratic against the goverment 77 dies and 857 Injured
1979 - The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C. demanded "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people." It drew 200,000 people.
1999 - The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the video poker machines in the state must be unplugged by June 30, 2000.
2001 - Delta Flight 458 from Atlanta to Newark, New Jersey, was diverted to Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, and passengers were taken off the flight while officials investigated a report of two "Middle Eastern men" making threats in a foreign tongue. It turned out to be two Orthodox Jews who were peacefully praying.
