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.
1924 – 1st network pictures of US presidential candidates were taken.
1934 – 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.
1943 – US amphibians land at Brolo on the north coast of Sicily.
1950 – 17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885)
1950 – Ethel Rosenberg testifies before a grand jury on allegations of spying for the Soviet Union.
1951 – First televised baseball game in color on WCBS in New York City; Boston Braves beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 8-1.
1956 – 1st flight of 4-motor Cessna 620.
1963 – Kingston Trio are mystery guests on “What’s My Line?”
1969 – Future Baseball Hall of HOF’er Don Drysdale, the last LA Dodger to play in Brooklyn, retires because of damage to his right pitching shoulder.
1974 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Tanglewood Park: Lee Trevino wins the first of his 2 PGA Championships, 1 stroke ahead of defending champion Jack Nicklaus.
1984 – During a radio voice test, US President Reagan jokes he “signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever, We begin bombing in 5 minutes.”
1988 – Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, NC opens.
1991 – Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands.
1993 – Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out (Danny Tartabul-NY)
2005 – American Justin Gatlin becomes only the 2nd athlete to take sprint doubles, winning 200m in 20.04 at the World Championships in Helsinki, Finland.
2015 – Largest ever outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York – 12 dead with over 100 cased in the South Bronx.
2020 – US Democratic candidate for President Joe Biden announced California Senator Kamala Harris is his running mate, the 1st woman of color selected by a major Party.
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