1680 – The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1693 – NYC authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies.
1776 – Colonel John Nixon gives the 1st public reading of he Declaration of Independence to an assemblage of citizens in Philadelphia.
1816 – Frost in Waltham, Massachusetts during “year without a summer”
1870 – Governor Holden of North Carolina declares Caswell County to be in a state of insurrection.
1889 – Wall Street Journal begins publishing.
1932 – Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22.
1944 – Japanese kamikaze attacks on US lines at Saipan.
1946 – Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary.
1960 – Fidel Castro ends Havana’s International League baseball team, Sugar Kings move to New Jersey.
1963 – US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba.
1969 – US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam.
1972 – US sells grain to USSR for $750 million.
1981 – Senate confirms Sandra Day O’Conner to Supreme Court (99-0)
1990 – 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890)
1994 – Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try O.J. Simpson.
1999 – Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida.
2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
2015 – The New York Stock Exchange stops trading for nearly four hours due to a technical error.
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