1609 -English explorer Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay.
1830 – 1st American built locomotive, “Tom Thumb” races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!
1837 – Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufacture Worcestershire Sauce.
1861 – Battle of Fort Hatteras, North Carolina.
1898 – Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink “Pepsi Cola”
1907 – United Parcel Service is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
1922 – WEAF in NYC airs first radio commercial (Queensboro Realty-$100 for 10 minutes)
1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1950 – Earle & Roy Mack purchase 54% of A’s from Connie Mack Jr.
1957 – US Senator James Thurmond (Rep, SC) begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill.
1963 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “I have a dream speech” addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
1965 – 1st Subway sandwich shop opens in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
1968 – Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago’s Democratic National Convention.
1971 – The US dollar is allowed to float against the Japanese yen for the first time.
1973 – Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s song “Monster Mash” goes gold.
1973 – “Smoke on the Walter” by Deep Purple goes gold.
1983 – Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 HRs onto roof at Comiskey Park.
1986 – US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
1990 – F5 strength tornado hits Plainfield, Illinois, killing 29 and injuring 353.
2012 – Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the United States Republican Party’s candidate.
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