1890 – President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products.
1901 – English engineer Hubert Cecil Booth patents the powered vacuum cleaner.
1937 – Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
1954 – Hurricane Carol kills 68 on the US East Coast.
1957 – US Senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24 hours, 27 minutes against civil rights.
1961 – James Benton Parsons is confirmed as 1st African American judge of a US District Court.
1963 – Hotline communication link between the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the Kremlin in Moscow installed. Often known as the ‘red telephone’ no phones were ever used, relying instead on Teletype equipment, fax machine and most recently secure email.
1965 – Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball.
1967 – US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice.
1976 – Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of NBC’s “Today Show”
1979 – In a wild encounter at the US Open, John McEnroe beats Ilie Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; Nastase is defaulted by the umpire then reinstated.
1983 – Guion Bluford becomes 1st African American astronaut in space.
1987 – Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minnesota’s 10-6 win over Milwaukee.
1992 – 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard.
1995 – Cable News Network joins the internet.
2006 – Greg Maddux wins his 330th career game.
2015 – Rap artist Kanye West announces he will run for President in 2020 at the MTV Video Music Awards.
2017 – Hurricane Irma forms near Cape Verde Islands, will go on to become category 5 hurricane and kill at least 102.
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