1707 England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
1863 Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars & Bars"
1873 The first US postal card issued
1930 The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
1931 The 102-story Empire State Building opens in New York NY
1943 Food rationing begins in US
1960 CIA agent Francis Gary Powers, piloting an American U-2 reconnaissance plane, is shot down over the Soviet Union near Sverdiovsk
