1492 – Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the new world.
1833 – The town of Chicago is incorporated (population 350)
1877 – Thomas Edison completes 1st model for the phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders.
1898 – Hawaii is formally annexed to US.
1908 – Henry Ford’s company builds the first Model T car.
1928 – IX Summer Olympic Games close in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1942 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Moscow for a conference with Joseph Stalin and US representative W. Averell Harriman.
1953 – Ann Davison arrives in Miami in her 23 foot boat Felicity Ann, becoming the 1st woman to sail solo across the Atlantic.
1955 – US President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour.
1960 – Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 8.21m.
1972 – “Oh! Calcutta!” closes at Belasco Theater in NYC after 1316 performances.
1972 – Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam.
1974 – Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st teammates inducted to Hall of Fame on same day.
1981 – IBM introduces its first Personal Computer (PC & PC-DOS version 1.0)
1991 – Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan.
2005 – An F2 tornado strikes the coal mining town of Wright, Wyoming, destroying nearly 100 homes and killing two people.
2007 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Southern Hills CC: Defending champion Tiger Woods wins his 4th PGA Championship by 2 shots from Woody Austin.
2013 – James “Whitey” Bulger, American organized crime boss is found guilty on 31 of 32 racketeering and firearms counts, and is found to have been involved in 11 murders.
2015 – Former US President Jimmy Carter reveals that he has cancer.
2017 – “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, Virginia turns violent when car rams protesters killing 1, injuring 19.
2020 – Europe fights a new COVID-19 surge with Germany, France and Spain posting their largest daily infection totals for three months.
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