1693: William & Mary college is the second college chartered in the US.

1910: The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated and chartered by William D. Boyce.

1918: The "Stars & Stripes", a weekly US armed forces newspaper, is first published.

1993: General Motors sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" had rigged two car-truck crashes to imply that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires.

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