1590 – Governor of Roanoke Island colony, John White returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he had left there 3 years earlier (1591)
1788 – Losantville, Ohio (now Cincinnati) founded.
1807 – Robert Fulton’s steamboat Clermont begins first trip up Hudson River.
1859 – 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette, Indiana.
1891 – Electric self-starter for automobile patented.
1903 – Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America.
1918 – Samuel Riddle buys Man O’War for $5,000.
1936 – An unemployed worker, Neils B. Ruud, in Madison, Wisconsin, receives the first unemployment benefit check paid under a state law, for $15.
1938 – 1st aircraft owned by US Forest Service in service (Oakland)
1942 – Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under Admiral George Murray on USS Hornet.
1953 – First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
1960 – Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow.
1969 – Hurricane Camille strikes US coastline and kills 259 people (mainly in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana)
1978 – 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
1985 – 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel & Co plant.
1987 – Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)
1988 – NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
1988 – US Republicans nominate George H.W. Bush for President.
1998 – Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an “improper physical relationship” with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he “misled people” about the relationship.
2016 – Flood waters recede in Louisiana leaving 13 dead and damaging 4,000 homes.
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