1610 – Henry Hudson enters the bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay.
1776 – Formal signing of he US Declaration of Independence by 56 people (date most accepted by modern historians)
1790 – 1st US census conducted, the population was 3,939,214 including 697,624 slaves.
1819 – 1st parachute jump in US.
1858 – 1st mailboxes installed in Boston and NYC streets.
1865 – Lewis Carroll publishes “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
1892 – Charles A. Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator.
1934 – 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it.
1943 – Lt. John F. Kennedy’s PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon Island.
1945 – After 3 1/2 days suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur “Chuck” Gwinn, a PV-1 Ventura pilot on a routine sector search, 316 survived.
1959 – PGA Championship, Minneapolis GC: Bob Rosburg wins by 1 stroke over Jerry Barber and Doug Sanders.
1964 – North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin incident which would eventually escalate US involvement in the Vietnam War.
1967 – “In the Heat of the Night” directed by Norman Jewison, based on John Ball’s novel of the same name, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger premieres in New York (Academy Awards Best Picture 1968)
1975 – 107 degrees F at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record).
1985 – Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, 137 die.
1990 – US President George H.W. Bush orders troops to Saudi Arabia.
1992 – Tom Seaver, Rollie Fingers, Hal Newhouser & Bill McGowan are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame.
2005 – The largest trade in NBA history is completed as 5 teams combine to swap 13 players; deal brings Antoine Walker & Jason Williams to Miami, leads to Heat’s 1st ever championship that season.
2012 – American swimmer Michael Phelps wins an unprecedented third consecutive gold medal in the 200m individual medley in 1:54:27 at the London Olympics.
2013 – Carl Icahn sues computer giant Dell in an attempt to derail a buyout bid by the CEO, Michael Dell.
2017 – US President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them.
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