1622 – John Mason and Ferdinando Gorges receive a land patent of the Province of Maine.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
1833 – Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200.
1846 – US Act of Congress passes establishing the Smithsonian Institution, now world’s largest museum and research complex.
1869 – O.B. Brown patents moving picture projector.
1885 – Leo Daft opens America’s 1st commercial operated electric streetcar (Baltimore)
1889 – Dan Rylands patents screw cap
1921 – FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian island of Campobello.
1934 – Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player.
1948 – Allen Funt’s “Candid Camera” TV debut on ABC.
1960 – Los Angeles premiere of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh.
1966 – Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere & leaving it again.
1975 – 57th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 276 at Firestone Akron.
1975 – David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon.
1981 – Coca-Cola Bottling Co. agrees to pump $34 million into black businesses.
1990 – US’s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus.
1996 – Bob Dole picks Jack Kemp as his Republican VP running mate.
1997 – Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to a record 5 year, $575 million deal.
2014 – Unrest breaks out in Ferguson, Missouri after the death of African American Michael Brown by a policeman.
2015 – Google announces its restructure as Alphabet, a holding company with Google, YouTube, Android and Chrome as subsidiaries.
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