1872 – Aaron Montgomery Ward issues the first “catalog” for his mail-order business. It is one sheet listing 163 available items.
1909 – Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C., with 2,000 cherry trees, which President William Howard Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
1914 – President Woodrow Wilson issues “Proclamation of Neutrality.”
1919 – Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois.
1926 – Weather map televised for the first time.
1930 – Eastern Airlines begins passenger service.
1938 – President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting the United States and Canada.
1944 – Chartres freed by US 3rd Army forces, led by General George S. Patton, during World War II.
1955 – Hurricane Diane kills 400 people in the United States.
1956 – Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” and “Don’t Be Cruel” reach #1 on the charts, staying for 11 weeks, which is a record for a single release.
1962 – Peter, Paul & Mary release their first hit “If I Had a Hammer.”
1973 – Hank Aaron’s record 1,378 extra base hits surpassed Stan Musial’s Major League Baseball record.
1981 – Running back, Herschel Walker, of the University of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd’s of London insurance policy for $1 million.
1986 – John Tesh’s first appearance on Entertainment Tonight.
1991 – Hurricane Bob hits North Carolina with 115 mph wind.
2000 – A federal jury finds the Environmental Protection Agency guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No Fear Act.
2008 – An American 1-2-3 in the 400-meter hurdles at the Beijing Olympics with Angelo Taylor winning gold in 47.25 seconds ahead of Kerron Clement and Bershawn Jackson.
2017 – White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon is fired by President Donald Trump.
2020 – California Governor Gavin Newsom declares a state of emergency as 27 fires burn across the state amid a continuing heat wave.
2022 – New ways to break down “forever chemicals” PFAS compounds responsible for cancers, low birth weights and lowered immunity published by scientists in journal “Science.”
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