1762 – 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury.
1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.
1865 – William Shepherd is issued the first patent for liquid soap.
1867 – Fisk University forms.
1901 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1902 – US President Theodore Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car.
1906 – 1st Victor Victrola manufactured.
1921 – J. Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of the FBI.
1933 – Bill Veeck urges midsummer inter-league games & a split season.
1946 – Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it.
1957 – Floyd Patterson KOs Pete Rademacher in 6 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
1962 – Savannah, world’s 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va. to Savannah, Ga.
1964 – Supreme’s “Where Did Our Love Go” reaches #1.
1975 – McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens.
1984 – Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced.
1984 – Republican convention in Dallas re-nominates President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H.W. Bush.
1990 – US President George H.W. Bush calls up military reserves.
1994 – DNA testing links OJ Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman.
2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
2012 – Russia and Vanuatu become members of the World Trade Organization.
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