1865 – President Andrew Johnson proclaims an end to “insurrection” in Texas.
1888 – Longest US men’s single tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T.S. Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80-game 1st-round contest.
1896 – Dial telephone patented.
1908 – America’s Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to be greeted with a tremendous welcome: 221 American soldiers desert to remain in Australia.
1912 – Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect.
1920 – 1st US commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit begins daily broadcasting.
1930 – Dumont’s 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
1938 – Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & last grand slam.
1947 – Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time.
1964 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act, an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion.
1965 – Rolling Stones release their single “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (their 1st #1 US hit) in the UK.
1971 – FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr.
1982 – US marines land in Beirut Lebanon.
1986 – Postal worker Patrick Sherrill shot 14 fellow workers dead in Edmond, Oklahoma.
1990 – George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner.
1991 – Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million.
1997 – Shelly Moore, 18, of Tennessee, crowned 15th Miss Teen USA.
1998 – U.S. embassy bombings: the United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack.
2006 – 88th PGA Championship: Tiger Woods shoots a 270 at Medinah Country Club.
2015 – 30 students at West Point Military Academy are injured in a mass pillow fight.
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