In 1826, Samuel Morey received the patent for the first internal combustion engine.
In 1945, Operation Iceberg began as U.S. troops landed on the Japanese island of Okinawa.
In 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, which required the surgeon general’s warning on tobacco products and banned cigarette ads on radio and TV.
In 2011, a mob protesting the burning of …