1792

President George Washington signed an act creating the United States Post Office Department.

1905

The U.S. Supreme Court, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, upheld, 7-2, compulsory vaccination laws intended to protect the public’s health.

1907

President Theodore Roosevelt signed an immigration act which excluded “idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics, insane persons” from being admitted to the United States.

1933

Congress proposed the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to repeal Prohibition.

1938

Anthony Eden resigned as British foreign secretary following Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s decision to negotiate with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

1965

America’s Ranger 8 spacecraft crashed on the moon, as planned, after sending back thousands of pictures of the lunar surface.

Birthdays

Racing Hall of Famer Roger Penske is 86. Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is 69. Basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley is 60. Model Cindy Crawford is 57. Actor Chelsea Peretti is 45. Comedian Trevor Noah is 39. Actor Miles Teller is 36. Singer Rihanna is 35.