"The Isles", Lake Hopatcong, N.J. August 9, 1909.
Alabama became the first state to ratify the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution providing for an income tax.
The U.S. mint halted the production of the Lincoln head VDB marked pennies, with the initials of designer Victor David Brenner, on them. 22,350,000 of the pennies had been put into circulation.
Production had only been ongoing for one week.
Friedrich Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer, diplomat, and dedicated and open opponent of the Nazis, was born. He would later be active in the Kreisau Circle and July 20 plot, under which he was to have been the German Secretary of State in the Foreign Office and lead negotiator with the Western Allies.
He was executed on August 26, 1944, for his role in the plot.
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