1691 – Yorktown, Virginia founded.
1858 – Britain’s Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan for 1st time by transatlantic telegraph cable, he replies, “It is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by conqueror on the field of battle.”
1898 – Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster.
1904 – NYC begins building Grand Central Station.
1914 – World War I: Battle of Cer begins.
1924 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Helen Wills Moody beats 7-time winner Molla Bjurstedt Mallory 6-1, 6-3.
1930 – The first color sound cartoon “Fiddlesticks” by Ub Iwerks (ex Walt Disney studio) is released.
1944 – US 15th Army corps reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux.
1954 – “Sports Illustrated” magazine begins publishing.
1959 – USSR introduces installment buying.
1964 – St Louis Cards Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a double header.
1969 – First performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Auditorium Theater, Chicago)
1984 – LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges.
1987 – Northwest Airlines flight 255 crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)
1988 – NY Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers.
1991 – US President George H.W. Bush declares recession is near an end.
2003 – U.S. Representative Bill Janklow (SD) hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter and will resign from Congress.
2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 7th of 8 gold medals at the Beijing Olympics when he takes the 100m butterfly in Olympic record 50:58: beats Milorad Cavic of Serbia by 0.01.
2012 – Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange is granted political asylum by Ecuador.
2016 – “When the Levee’s Broke” documentary directed by Spike Lee, of effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, premieres at New Orleans Arena.
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