1831 – Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery.
1841 – John Hampton patents venetian blind.
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.
1929 – Chicago Cardinals becomes 1st pro football team to train out of town.
1945 – US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program.
1959 – Hawaii becomes the 50th US state.
1962 – Vern Gagne beats Mister M (doctor X) in Minnesota to become NWA champ.
1965 – Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)
1967 – China reports downing of 2 US bombers.
1968 – Democratic Convention opens in Chicago, goes on to nominate Hubert Humphrey.
1976 – “Operation Paul Bunyan” begins in retaliation for the “Korean axe murder incident” 3 days prior. 110 troops, 27 helicopters, 3 B-52 bombers are deployed to the Korean Demilitarized Zone to cut down a poplar blocking the view of UN observers.
1983 – 110 degrees (F) at Fayetteville, NC (state record)
1987 – Clayton Lonetree, 1st US marine court-martialed for spying, convicted.
1995 – US marshals move in on Randy Weaver’s cabin in Idaho.
1996 – Netscape Browser 3.0 is released.
2017 – Total solar eclipse visible from North America.
2017 – Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $417m to woman who developed ovarian cancer after using their talc-based products.