1776 – Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 50 people (date most accepted by modern historians)
1791 – Samuel Briggs and his son granted a US patent for a nail-making machine.
1865 – Lewis Carroll published “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
1909 – Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers.
1921 – After 3 hours of deliberation a Chicago jury acquits 8 Chicago White Sox players accused in Black Sox scandal; next day they are banned from organized baseball for life.
1934 – 1st airplane train. Plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it.
1939 – Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers.
1943 – Lt. John F. Kennedy’s PT boat 109 sinks at Solomon Islands.
1952 – 17 year-old future world champion Floyd Patterson wins the gold medal in the middleweight division at the Helsinki Olympic Games with a 1st round KO of Romanian Vasile Tita.
1959 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Minneapolis GC: Bob Rosburg wins by 1 stroke from Jerry Barber and Doug Sanders.
1965 – Morley Safer sends 1st Vietnam report indicating the US is losing the war.
1975 – 104 degrees at Providence, Rhode Island (state record)
1985 – Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, 137 die.
1989 – NASA confirmed Voyager 2’s discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24.
1992 – American Jackie Joyner-Kersee becomes first athlete to win consecutive gold medals in the grueling heptathlon with a 199 point win over Irine Belova (Soviet Union) at the Barcelona Olympics.
1994 – Congressional hearings begin on Whitewater scandal involving Bill and Hillary Clinton.
2005 – The largest trade in NBA history is completed as 5 teams combine to swap 13 players; deal brings Antoine Walker & Jason Williams to Miami, leads Heat’s 1st championship that season.
2012 – American swimmer Michael Phelps wins an unprecedented third consecutive gold medal in the 200-meter individual medley in 1:54.27 at the London Olympics.
2013 – Carl Ican sues computer giant Dell in an attempt to derail a buyout bid by the CEO, Michael Dell.
2016 – Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 billion in value.
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