1807 – Robert Fulton’s steamboat Clermont begins first trip up Hudson River.
1891 – 1st public bathhouse with showers open in NYC (People’s Bath)
1891 – Electric self-starter for automobile patented.
1903 – Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America.
1915 – Hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas (275 killed)
1933 – MLB player Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game.
1936 – An unemployed worker Neils B. Ruud, in Madison, Wisconsin, receives the first unemployment benefit check paid under a State law, for $15.
1942 – US 8th Air Force bombers stage first independent raid on Europe, attack Rouen, France.
1955 – Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 & doing $1.8 billion damage.
1961 – Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress.
1966 – NASA satellite Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit.
1969 – Hurricane Camille strikes US coastline and kills 259 people (mainly in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana)
1978 – 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloons (3 Americans)”
1987 – Mohammad Ali elected to “Ring” magazine’s Boxing Hall of Fame.
1987 – Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th consecutive game)
1994 – NY Central park reservoir officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis.
1997 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Winged Foot GC: Davis Love III wins his only title by 5 strokes from Justin Leonard.
1998 – Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an “improper physical relationship” with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he “misled people” about the relationship.
2008 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf, Ottawa Hunt GC: Australian Katherine Hull wins by 1 from Se Ri Pak.
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