1877 – To his amazement, Thomas Edison recorded himself reciting “Mary had a little lamb” on his just completed cylinder phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders.
1898 – Hawaii was formally annexed to the US.
1908 – Henry Ford’s company builds the first Model T car.
1922 – Dedication of Frederick Douglass’ home in Washington, D.C., as a national shrine.
1930 – Clarence Birdseye is granted a patent for a method for quick freezing food (patent US 1773079A)
1936 – 120 degrees F, Seymour, Texas (state record)
1942 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Moscow for a conference with Joseph Stalin and US representative W. Averell Harriman.
1944 – Pipeline under the ocean (Pluto) begins operating.
1953 – Ann Davison arrives in Miami in her 23-foot boat Felicity Ann, becoming the 1st woman to sail solo across the Atlantic.
1955 – Hurricane Connie makes landfall near Fort Macon, North Carolina, as a Category 3 storm.
1955 – US President Eisenhower raises the minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour.
1962 – 1st time 2 people in space.
1972 – “Oh! Calcutta!” closes at Belasco Theater in NYC after 1316 performances
1972 – Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam.
1974 – Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st teammates inducted into the Hall of Fame on the same day.
1981 – IBM introduces its first Personal Computer (PC & PC-DOS version 1.0)
1990 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Shoal Creek: Wayne Grady of Australia wins his only major title by 3 strokes from American Fred Couples.
2004 – New Jersey Governor James McGreevery comes out as gay.
2012 – XXX Summer Olympic Games close in London, England.
2015 – Former US President Jimmy Carter reveals that he has cancer.
2021 – 195 million Americans across 34 states are under heat advisory warnings from the Pacific Northwest to the Northeast as summer of intense heat continues in the Northern Hemisphere.
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