1590 – John White returns to Roanoke, NC to find no trace of colonists he left there 3 years earlier.
1788 – Losantville, Ohio (now Cincinnati) founded.
1807 – Robert Fulton’s steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River.
1846 – Commodore Robert F. Stockton, US Navy, annexes California.
1859 – 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette, Indiana.
1870 – 1st ascent of Mt. Rainier, Washington.
1891 – Electric self-starter for automobile patented.
1915 – Hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas (275 killed).
1933 – Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game.
1939 – “Wizard of Oz” opens at Loew’s Capitol Theater in NY.
1952 – “Fallout” 1st used (NY Times).
1953 – Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
1960 – Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow.
1969 – 51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd (Fayetteville, NC native) shoots a 276 at NCR GC, Dayton Ohio for victory.
1978 – 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
1980 – George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401.
1987 – Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57).
I988 – US Republicans nominate George H.W. Bush for President.
1988 – NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
1998 – Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an “improper physical relationship” with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he “mislead people” about his relationship.
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