1860 – US’s 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nevada)
1874 – Harry S. Parmelee patents sprinkler head.
1986 – Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain.
1909 – SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC.
1919 – Green Bay Packers football club founded by George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau – named after sponsor Indian Packing Company.
1934 – 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.
1945 – Allies refuse Japan’s surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito.
1948 – Summer Olympics opens in London.
1956 – 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620.
1962 – Beach Boys release “Surfin’ Safari”
1966 – Last Beatle concert tour of US begins.
1968 – Satchel Paige, 62, & needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves.
1973 – “American Graffiti”, directed by George Lucas, opens in cinemas across the United States.
1974 – 56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood NC.
1978 – Legionnaire’s disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta.
1984 – During a radio voice test, US President Reagan jokes he “signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes.”
1991 – 73rd PGA Championship: John Daly shoots a 276 at Crooked Stick, Indiana.
1999 – The Salt Lake City tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.
2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 154-year-history.
2015 – Largest ever outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York – 12 dead, with over 100 cases in the South Bronx.
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