On June 4, 1812, the U.S. House of Representatives passed its first war declaration, approving going to war against Britain.

In 1919, Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which said the right of Americans to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

In 1940, during World War II, the Allies completed the evacuation of more than 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France.

In 1990, Dr. Jack Kevorkian carried out his first publicly assisted suicide, helping Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old Alzheimer’s patient from Portland, Oregon, end her life in Oakland County, Mich.

In 1998, a federal judge sentenced Terry Nichols to life in prison without parole for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people.