Events:
1624 - The Virginia Company's charter was revoked and Virginia was designated a royal colony.
1764 - At a Boston town meeting, James Otis protested the Grenville measures and first brought up taxation without representation on the road to the American Revolution.
1818 - General Andrew Jackson captured Pensacola ending the first Seminole Indian War.
1843 - Samuel Morse sent the message "What hath God wrought?" as the first telegraph message between two cities during the Industrial Revolution.
1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge was opened by President Chester A. Arthur.
Births:
1738 - George III, King of Great Britain during the American Revolution
1941 - Bob Dylan, Singer/Songwriter. He was born Robert Allen Zimmerman.
1944 - Frank Oz, Puppeteer and voice of Miss Piggy and Yoda.
Deaths:
1879 - William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of the Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper
1959 - Former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles
1974 - Duke Ellington, Jazz musician
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