1812 – US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere.
1849 – NY Herald reports gold discovery in California.
1911 – NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times.
1914 – In a message to the Senate, US President Woodrow Wilson urges the American people to be ‘neutral in fact as well as name’
1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
1941 – Umpire Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming on the field holding an umbrella to get a rainout.
1944 – US 15th Army Corps occupies Mantas-Gassicort at Paris.
1955 – Hurricane Diane kills 200 & 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. US).
1959 – Satellite Discover 6 launched into polar orbit.
1960 – Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
1960 – The first commercial atomic energy reactor, owned by the Yankee Atomic Electric Company, achieves a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in Rowe, Deerfield River, Massachusetts.
1964 – Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched.
1976 – President Gerald Ford wins Republican presidential nomination at KC convention.
1981 – 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22.
1993 – Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13.
1993 – Mattel & Fisher Price toy companies merge.
1995 – After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel.
1997 – STS 85 (Discovery 23) lands
2014 – NASA satellites take photos showing that the eastern basin of the Aral Sea had for the first time completely dried up.
2015 – US Food and Drug administration approves Female Viagra libido pill Addyi.
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