1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner, which later was renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
1917 – J. Edgar Hoover gets a job in the United States Department of Justice.
1931 – LPGA Western Open Women’s Golf, Midlothian Country Club: June Beebe beats Mrs. Melvin Jones 3 & 2 for golf’s only major title.
1933 – Joe DiMaggio ends his 61 game hitting streak in the Pacific Coast League.
1941 – United States embargo on oil export to Japan.
1945 – Declaration of Potsdam: United States, Britain and China demand the unconditional surrender of Japan during World War II, but the Japanese government disregards the ultimatum.
1947 – President Harry Truman signs the National Security Act, establishing the Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Council and Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1953 – Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.
1958 – Army launches fourth successful satellite, Explorer IV.
1963 – Syncom 2, the first geosynchronous communications satellite, launched.
1972 – Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle.
1979 – Estimated 43 inches of rain falls in Alvin, Texas, which was a national record.
1981 – New York Mayor Ed Koch is given the Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant.
1984 – Montreal Expos’ Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,502nd single.
1990 – President George H.W. Bush signs the American With Disabilities Act.
2005 – Space Shuttle program STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA’s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
2017 – President Donald Trump announces policy to ban transgender people from the military, overturning Obama era changes.
2018 – Over 700 immigrant children still separated from their parents in the United States as court imposed deadline to reunite passes.
2022 – Russia announces it will leave the International Space Station at the end of 2024.
2023 – The government is being kept in the dark about unidentified anomalous phenomena or unidentified flying objects, claims former military intelligence officer David Grusch while testifying to a United States House of Representative committee.
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