So, what significant event in American history occurred today?

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Easy, O. J. Simpson becomes first running back to rush 2,000 yard in a season - 1973.
 
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I think the Boston tea party happened around this time but I might be mistaken.
 
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The British Parliament passes "An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown", also called the English Bill of Rights, as a result of The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688.

http://www.thegloriousrevolution.org/docs/english bill of rights.htm

Along with the Magna Charta, the Habeas Corpus Act, and a few other documents, the English Bill of Rights serves to enshrine the rights of Englishmen with respect to their government. The Bill of Rights and the revolution which produced it marked a dramatic turning point in English history, at which time absolute monarchy finally gave way to the current system of constitutional monarchy, and the rights of English subjects were no longer to be dispensed with at the pleasure of the King. As the political and cultural successors of England, we Americans owe a tremendous debt to the men who risked life and limb to secure these rights. As this comparison should make clear, virtually every right that we now hold to be natural and inviolable was first propounded and defended by a small number of Englishmen more than three centuries ago. It is important that we remember hard won these rights were, lest we allow them to become diluted in the generations to follow.
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More here -

http://www.international.ucla.edu/cms/files/revolution_english bill of rights.pdf
 
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