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- 1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
- 1892 – Pearl S. Buck (pictured), humanitarian and author whose bestselling Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize in Literature winning novel The Good Earth created popular American sympathy for China, is born.
- 1917 – The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia against Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I.
- 1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
- 1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
- 2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
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