1841 – John Hampton patents venetian blinds.
1864 – Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends after 2500 casualties.
1878 – American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY.
1888 – American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine.
1897 – Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division.
1914 – 20th US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 290 at Midlothian CC Ill.
1922 – Curly Lambeau & Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise.
1936 – Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did not get good fielding, Sox suspend him.
1947 – 1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win.
1959 – Hawaii becomes 50th state.
1967 – Ken Harrelson becomes baseball’s 1st free agent.
1983 – 110 degrees F (43 C) at Fayetteville, NC) (state record)
1983 – “La Cage aux Folles” opens at Palace Theater NYC for 1761 performances.
1987 – Clayton Lonetree, 1st US marine court-martialed for spying, convicted.
1989 – Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune.
1995 – US marshals move in on Randy Weaver’s cabin Idaho.
1996 – Netscape Browser 3.0 is released.
1997 – US government forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E Coli break out.
2000 – 82nd PGA Championship: Tiger Woods becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year. He ties the to-par record for the PGA (-18) with Bob May, and wins in a playoff.
2017 – Next total solar eclipse visible from North America.
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