1789 – US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act.
1901 – Burials within San Francisco City limits prohibited.
1907 – Bank of Italy (later Bank of America) opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, San Francisco.
1918 – Pittsburgh and Boston Braves lay a MLB record 20 scoreless innings before, Pirates win, 2-0 in 21.
1927 – Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards.
1936 – XI Summer Olympic Games are opened by Adolph Hitler in Berlin.
1941 – The first Jeep is produced.
1948 – The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
1953 – California introduces sales tax (for education)
1963 – Arthur Ashe becomes first African-American tennis player to be named in the US Davis Cup team.
1969 – 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival.
1971 – Richard Petty wins the Dixie 500 in Atlanta, Georgia to become the first NASCAR driver to win $1m in career earnings.
1972 – 1st article exposing Watergate scandal by Bernstein and Woodward in “The Washington Post”
1981 – “Endless Love” single released by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie (Billboard Song of the Year 1981, Billboard Greatest Song Duet of All-Time)
1988 – Rush Limbaugh begins his national radio show.
1993 – 14-time MLB All Star Reggie Jackson is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
2000 – First patient to receive the Jarvik 2000, the first total artifical heart that can maintain blood flow in addition to generating a pulse.
2010 – Australian Stuart Appleby finishes with an 11-under-59 to win the Greenbrier Classic at White Sulphur Springs, to become only the 5th player and first non-American to break 60 on the PGA tour.
2014 – USA and UN announce a 72 hour ceasefire between Israel and Palestine, though it quickly breaks down.
2017 – Christopher A. Wray confirmed as F.B.I Director by US Senate.
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