1899 – 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY.
1905 – US Secretary of War William Howard Taft makes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines.
1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England.
1920 – 1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San Francisco.
1928 – Test footage first created for Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” with Mickey Mouse.
1932 – Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., U.S. troops disperse the last of the “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans.
1944 – Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours.
1952 – 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet.
1955 – Smokey Burgess hits 3 HRs to help Pirates beat Reds, 16-5.
1957 – Jack Paar’s The Tonight Show premieres.
1959 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
1967 – Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134.
1969 – Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars.
1976 – In New York City, the “Son of Sam” kills one person and seriously wounds another in first of series of attacks.
1981 – Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated.
1987 – Ben & Jerry’s and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor, Cherry Garcia.
1989 – Phillies retire Steve Carlton’s #32.
1995 – Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st exhibition game 20-14.
2012 – British Senior Open Men’s Golf, Turnberry: Fred Couples wins by 2 strokes from fellow American Gary Hallberg.
2015 – Microsoft launches Windows 10.
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