1722—The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border.
1729—North Carolina becomes a royal colony.
1775—Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta.
1814—George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive.
1850—Gold discovered in Oregon (Rouge River)
1854—Walter Hunt is awarded the first US patent for a paper shirt collar.
1860—1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yale)
1866—Ulysses S. Grant named 1st general of Army.
1871—Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa.
1913—Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies.
1936—115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx.
1944—US troops march into Guam.
1946—At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
1947—US Department of Army created.
1961—Roger Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a doubleheader.
1964—Beatles’ album “A Hard Day’s Night” goes #1 & stays #1 fro 14 weeks.
1975—“A Chorus Line”, longest-running Broadway show (6,137) premieres.
1983—Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion.
1992—25th Olympic Summer games open in Barcelona, Spain.
1997—QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 years.
2001—Faced with declining oil prices, OPEC ministers agree to cut crude oil production quotas by about 4%, or 1 million barrels per day.
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