1870 – Fred Goldsmith demonstrates that a curve ball isn’t an optical illusion.
1898 – Edwin Prescott patents roller skates.
1905 – NYC begins building Grand Central Station.
1918 – US troops overrun at Arkhangelsk by Bolshevik troops.
1930 – The first color sound cartoon, “Fiddlesticks”, by Lib Iwerks (ex-Walt Disney studio), is released.
1944 – US 15th Army Corp reaches Eure and surrounds Dreux.
1947 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Ralph Kiner hits three consecutive HRs for host Pittsburgh Pirates in a 12-7 win over St. Louis Cardinals; both clubs smash a then MLB record ten homers.
1954 – American brand management company Authentic Brands Group first published sports magazine “Sports Illustrated”
1961 – Martin Luther King Jr. protests for black voting rights in Miami, Florida.
1965 – American Football League’s 9th franchise is officially awarded to Joe Robbie and television star Danny Thomas: Miami Dolphins started play in AFL’s Eastern Division in 1966.
1975 – “Rodgers & Hart” closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 108 performances.
1984 – LA federal jury acquits automaker John Z. DeLorean on cocaine charges.
1987 – Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives).
1988 – IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence.
1991 – US President George H.W. Bush declares recession is near an end.
1998 – PGA Championship Men’s golf, Sahalee CC: Vijay Singh of Fiji wins by 2 shots from American Steve Sricker.
2016 – “When the Levees Broke,” a documentary directed by Spike Lee, of the effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, premieres at New Orleans Arena.
2016 – Wildfire breaks out in San Bernardino County, California, engulfing 15,000 acres, prompting an evacuation of 82,000 people
2021 – First official water shortage at Lake Mead major reservoir on the Colorado River supplying 40 million people, with cuts mandated mainly for Arizona.
2021 – US President Joe Biden says, “I stand squarely behind my decision” to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan, despite the sudden collapse of the country to the Taliban.
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