Associated Press

On Sept. 9, 1776, the second Continental Congress formally adopted the name “United States of America.”

In 1850, California was admitted as the 31st state.

In 1948, the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was declared.

In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction, a measure primarily concerned with protecting voting rights. It also established a Civil Rights Division in the U.S. Department of Justice.

In 1971, prisoners seized control of the maximum- security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, demanding improvements to inmate treatment and living conditions.

In 2022, King Charles III gave his first speech as new monarch, vowing to carry on the “lifelong service” of his mother Queen Elizabeth II.