1854 – Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges.
1876 – Thomas Edison patents mimeograph.
1910 – The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army’s Wright Flyer.
1911 – The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire.
1911 – Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law would come into effect in 1913.
1918 – 6 US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command & shoots 20 Germans & captures 12 more.
1946 – Dreyfuss family, owners of Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney & John Galbreath for $25 million.
1950 – Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA All-American Golf Open.
1950 – Florence Chadwick swims English Channel (13:23)
1955 – Fidel Castro forms “July 26th Movement”
1961 – Verne Gagne beats Gene Kiniski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ.
1972 – NY Yanks sign 30-year lease to play in remodeled Yankee Stadium.
1973 – US vice-president Spiro T. Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are “damned lies” from government contracts in Maryland. Vowed not to resign.
1983 – July in KC, Mo. awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned)
1985 – Baseball’s new agreement permits 2 new National League teams in 1993.
1987 – Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait.
1988 – Goose Gossage registers career save #300.
1988 – Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years.
2004 – John Elway is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
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