125: Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer is killed by Native American forces led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Bighorn ft. Author of Vengeance: The Last Stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull, Tom Clavin.
124: President Lincoln signs the National Banking Act into law establishing plan for a national currency backed by securities
123: The United States military and a coalition of allies invades Iraq to disarm the country of weapons of mass destruction they believed Iraq to possess.
122: President Nixon is the first US president to visit the People's Republic of China
121: The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in New York Harbor ft. Professor of History and Director of the NYU Institute of French Studies, Edward Berenson.
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