1885 – $100,000 is raised in the United States for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
1909 – Distress signal “SOS” is first used by the Arapahoe off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
1919 – The Green Bay Packers football club is founded by George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau. It was named after sponsor Indian Packing Company.
1924 – First newsreel pictures of a US presidential candidates were taken.
1934 – First federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.
1943 – United States amphibians land at Brolo on the north coast of Sicily.
1945 – Allies refuse Japan’s offer to surrender on the condition that Emperor Hirohito retains his status.
1950 – Ethel Rosenberg testifies before a grand jury on allegations of spying for the Soviet Union.
1951 – First televised baseball game in color on WCBS in New York City has the Boston Braves beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 8-1.
1956 – First flight of a 4-motor Cessna 620.
1965 – “Help!,” a musical comedy film featuring the Beatles, is released in the United States.
1971 – Construction begins on the Louisiana Superdome.
1979 – 28 degrees in Embarrass, Minnesota.
1988 – Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina opens.
1991 – Space Shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands.
1999 – The Salt Lake City tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one person.
2008 – Airbnb is founded by Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Biecharczyk.
2015 – Largest outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York with over 100 cases, including 12 deaths, in the South Bronx.
2016 – American swimmer Michael Phelps wins the men’s 200 meter individual medley in 1:54.66 at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. He’s the third athlete and first swimmer to win four consecutive Olympic gold medals in one event.
2022 – Attorney General Merrick Garland says he personally approved the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s property on the same day a Washington Post source says FBI search was for missing documents on nuclear weapons.
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