1891 – Electric self-starter for automobiles patented.
1903 – Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America.
1908 – Bank of Italy (now Bank of America) opens new headquarters, the Bank of Italy building at Clay & Montgomery, San Francisco.
1915 – Hurricane makes landfall near Galveston, Texas killing 275, and causing $50M damage.
1936 – An unemployed worker, Neils B. Ruud, in Madison, Wisconsin, receives the first unemployment benefit check paid under a State law, for $15.
1938 – 1st aircraft owned by US Forest Service in service (Oakland)
1943 – US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17s during attack on Schweinfurt and Regensburg.
1952 – “Fallout” 1st used (NY Times)
1960 – Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow.
1966 – NASA satellite Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit.
1969 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, NRC CC: Ray Floyd of Fayetteville, NC, wins first of his 4 major titles by 1 stroke from South African Gary Player.
1978 – 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
1980 – George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401.
1986 – Bronze pig statue unveiled at Pike Place Market, Seattle.
1987 – Muhammad Ali elected to “Ring” magazine’s Boxing Hall of Fame.
1998 – Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an “improper physical relationship” with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he “misled people” about the relationship.
2008 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf, Ottawa Hunt GC: Australian Katherine Hull wins by 1 shot from Se Ri Pak.
2020 – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the 1st US college to send students home and convert to online classes after 135 COVID-19 cases detected.
2022 – China issues its highest red alert heat warning for at least 138 cities and counties amid the country’s longest heatwave since records began (64 days)
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