1665 – “Ye Bare & Ye Cubb” is first play performed in North America (Acomac, Va.)
1667 – Earliest recorded hurricane in North America (Jamestown, Virginia).
1859 – 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake.
1881 – Hurricane hits Florida & Carolinas; about 700 die.
1894 – Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court.
1910 – Using twenty 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball team play a night game at White Sox Park.
1913 – Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken applies to patent all-purpose zipper.
1927 – Parks College, American’s oldest aviation school, opens.
1938 – Two NYC subway trains collide at 116th Street killing 2 and injuring 51.
1945 – US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender.
1953 – “Roman Holiday”, starring Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, and Eddie Albert, is released.
1955 – “Guinness Book of World Records” 1st published.
1961 – Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on “What’s My Line.”
1965 – WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting.
1972 – US bombs Haiphong, North Vietnam.
1978 – Yankee Catfish Hunter’s 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 record in August 1978.
1986 – 38th Emmy Awards presentation – Golden Girls and Cagney & Lacey dominate.
1990 – Market prices plunge as OPEC nears informal agreement to increase output to cover shortfall due to invasion; cash market trading experiences abrupt decline.
2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles distant.
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States
