1789 – US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department.
1866 – Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
1909 – Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1 hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds.
1918 – Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, NY.
1920 – Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation.
1931 – Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota destroyed thousands of acres of crops.
1940 – Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts.
1940 – Buggs Bunny, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery, Bob Givens (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in “Wild Hare”
1949 – 1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies.
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.
1988 – Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer.
1991 – TV Guide publishes its 2000th edition.
2003 – 90th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)
2014 – Obama reaffirms Israel’s “right to defend itself”, but condemns civilian casualties in Gaza.
2015 – Fiat Chrysler fined record $105 million by US regulators over their number of car recalls.
2017 – Boy Scouts of America chief Michael Surbaugh apologies for politically motivated remarks made by President Donald Trump at rally attended by 30,000 scouts.
2017 – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos briefly becomes world’s richest man at $91.4B overtaking Bill Gates for half a day.
2018 – CBS Chairman Leslie Mooves is accused of sexual misconduct in the “New Yorker” by Ronan Farrow.
2019 – US President Trump, calls Baltimore a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” calls Congressman Elijah Cummings responsible.
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