1842 – Micah Rugg patents a nuts & bolts machine.
1886 – 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston, South Carolina, 110 die.
1895 – 1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0)
1910 – Theodore Roosevelt makes a speech in Kansas advocating a ‘square deal’: property shall be ‘the servant and not the master of the commonwealth’
1911 – The “Sullivan Act” requiring New Yorkers to possess licenses for firearms small enough to be concealed comes into effect.
1919 – John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago.
1935 – FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents.
1937 – Detroit’s rookie Rudy York sets record for HRs of 18 HRs in August.
1940 – US National Guard assembles.
1954 – Hurricane Carol hits New England, 70 die. Costliest ever hurricane at the time and 1st storm name to be retired.
1955 – 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated (Chicago, Illinois)
1959 – Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean’s NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game.
1965 – US Congress establishes Department of Housing & Urban Development.
1973 – Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) National Championship won by Earl Anthony.
1983 – Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz.
1986 – Aeromexico DC-9 & small plane collide in LA, killing 82 (15 on the ground)
1990 – Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season.
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris.
2012 – Apple loses its patent dispute with Samsung in Tokyo, Japan.
2015 – US President Barack Obama arrives in Alaska on a 3 day tour highlighting climate change.
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