On this day in 1935, Amelia Earhart, one of the world's most celebrated aviators, made the first successful solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance longer than that from the United States to Europe.
| 2001: | | The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of America Online and Time Warner, and AOL Time Warner (since shortened to Time Warner) stock began trading the next morning. |
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| 1964: | | U.S. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry announced that cigarette smoking is linked to lung cancer. |
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| 1878: | | Milk was delivered for the first time in glass bottles in New York City. |
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| 1861: | | | Alabama seceded from the Union, the fourth state to do so in the run-up to the American Civil War. |
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| 1755/57: | | | Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the U.S. Treasury, was born in the British West Indies. |
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