Events:
1790 - The first Copyright Act was signed by President George Washington.
1862 - The Battle of Seven Pines began near Richmond.
1870 - The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1870 was passed by Congress.
1913 - The 17th Amendment was passed.
1921 - Naval oil reserves at Elk Hills, California and Teapot Dome, Wyoming were transferred to the Department of the Interior later leading to the Teapot Dome Scandal.
1957 - Arthur Miller was convicted of contempt of Congress because he refused to name Communist writers.
Births:
1819 - Walt Whitman, poet
Deaths:
1997 - Rosie Will Monroe, Rosie the Riveter
