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1790 – 1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.

1876 – US Coast Guard officers’ training school established (New Bedford, Massachusetts)

1928 – In the first women’s Olympic track event, American sprinter Elizabeth Robinson equals her own record 12.2s to win 100m gold medal in Amsterdam….Canadians Franny Rosenfield & Ethel Smith dead-heat (12,3s)

1932 – Cleveland Indians christen their new home, Municipal Stadium before more than 76,000 fans, lose opener, 1-0 to the Philadelphia A’s.

1936 – IOC awards Tokyo, Japan 1940 Summer Olympic Games (later cancelled, Second Sino-Japanese War)

1944 – US troops occupy Sansapor, New Guinea.

1948 – US President Harry Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (now Kennedy Airport), NY.

1961 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Olympia Fields CC: Jerry Barber wins his only major title in a Monday 18-hole playoff with Don January (67-68)

1964 – Al Parker glides 644 miles without a motor.

1970 – Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends “Huntley-Brinkley Report”

1971 – Apollo 15 astronauts take 6 1/2 hour electric car ride on Moon.

1973 – Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 5 months later.

1978 – Cincinnati infielder Pete Rose singles off Phil Neikro to extend his hitting streak to 44 games as Reds edge Atlanta Braves, 3-2; ties Willie Keeler’s 81-year-old NL record.

1980 – Hurricane Allen forms in the Atlantic Ocean, will go on to become the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atkabtuc Basin with winds of 190 mph.

1988 – Last Playboy Club closes in Lansing, Michigan.

1995 – Walt Disney announces the acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC for $19 billion; network of properties now consist of Disney, ABC Sports, ESPN and ESPN2.

2006 – Fidel Castro temporarily hands over power to brother Raul Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana (La Pequena Habana in Spanish), Miami, Florida, where many Cuban Americans participated.

2012 – Michael Phelps becomes the greatest medals winner in Olympic history as part of the winning American 4 x 200m freestyles relay team in London: Phelps’s 19th career Olympic medal and 15th overall gold.

2017 – Anthony Scaramucci removed as White House Communications Director after less than 2 weeks.

2018 – Facebook discloses and removes Russian-linked network of sites attempting to interfere in American politics.

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