1692 – Five more people hanged for witchcraft (19 in all) in Salem, Massachusetts.
1848 – New York Herald is the first major eastern newspaper to report the discovery of gold in California.
1909 – Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home of automobile race Indianapolis 500, opens in Speedway, Indiana.
1918 – Irving Berlin’s musical “Yip Yip Yaphank” premieres in NYC.
1932 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin Babcock Stark 6-2, 6-2 for her first of 4 straight US singles crowns.
1941 – Baseball umpire Jocko Conlian ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on the field holding an umbrella to get a rainout.
1944 – US 90th/Polish 1st Division occupies Chambois, Normandy.
1951 – Bill Veech (St. Louis Browns) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3’7″ little person, to pinch-hit; he walked on four pitches.
1957 – NY Giants board of directors voted 8 to 1 to move their baseball franchise to San Francisco in 1958.
1960 – American CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident): sentenced to 3 years in prison plus 7 in a labor camp, he served 17 months before being exchanged for a captured Soviet KGB spy.
1964 – Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched.
1980 – Kansas City Royals’ George Brett hitting streak ends at 50 games.
1984 – PGA Championship Men’s golf, Shoal Creek: Lee Trevino wins his 2nd PGA Championship by 4 strokes from Gary Player and Lanny Watkins.
1984 – Republican convention in Dallas, Texas nominates incumbent Ronald Reagan for President.
1991 – Hurricane Bob hits the US.
2001 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf, Angus Gein CC: Annika Sorenstam wins by 2 from Kelly Robbins.
2008 – “The Fame”, debut album by Lady Gaga is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year, Best Electronic/Dance album 2009)
2016 – City of San Francisco unveils a statue of singer Tony Bennett outside of the Fairmont Hotel, where he first performed his signature song “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” in 1961.
2018 – Rudy Giullani, US President Donald Trump’s lawyer claims in interview with NBC Chuck Todd that “truth isnt’ truth”
2020 – US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says he will suspend a controversial plan to cut costs until after the election.
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