An assortment of events from 1765 to 1972 occurred today; many were notable precedents not often remembered or mentioned, despite their impact & impetus for improving our lives.
1765 Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on American colonists.
1775 British MP Edmund Burke addresses English Parliament advocating for peace with the American colonies.
1935 - Many "on this day sites" suggest it marked when "blood tests were authorized as evidence in court cases in New York", but in reality it became a mandate for blood tests to be used! " "In 1935, the New York legislature responded to the Beuschel v. Manowitz case by passing a statute that allowed courts to require blood group testing in civil cases"