1586 – Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia.
1789 – US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department.
1844 – Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, North Carolina.
1888 – Philip Pratt unveils 1st American electric tricycle.
1909 – Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h-12m-40s.
1918 – Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, NY.
1931 – Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota destroyed thousands of acres of crops.
1940 – Bugs Bunny, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery, Bob Given (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in “Wild Hare”
1944 – US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy.
1947 – Yankee catcher Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak.
1959 – William Shea announces plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961.
1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking.
1974 – House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment.
1983 – Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan & Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal.
1987 – First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreck begins by RMS Titanic, Inc.
1991 – TV Guide publishes its 2000th edition.
1993 – NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million.
2003 – 90th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)
2017 – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos briefly becomes world’s richest man at $91.4B overtaking Bill Gates for one day.
2017 – Reince Priebus resigns as Chief of Staff to US President Donald Trump, shortest non-interim tenure ever.