1865 – Lewis Carroll publishes “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland”
1909 – Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers.
1921 – After 3 hours deliberation a Chicago jury acquits 8 White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal, next day they are banned from organized baseball for life.
1934 – 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it.
1939 – US Hatch Act prohibits activity by federal workers.
1943 – Lt. John F. Kennedy’s PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon Islands.
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 had survived.
1952 – 17 year-old future world champion Floyd Patterson wins the gold medal in the middleweight division at the Helsinki Olympic Games with a 1st round KO of Romanian Vasile Tita.
1959 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Minneapolis GC; Bob Rosburg wins by 1 stroke from 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.
1965 – Morley Safer sends 1st Vietnam report indicating the US is losing.
1973 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame 3rd baseman George Brett gets his 1st MLB hit on debut for the Kansas City Royals in 3-1 win v Chicago White Sox.
1979 – Washington, D.C. trial attorney Edward Bennett Williams buys MLB’s Baltimore Orioles from Jerrold Hoffberger for reported $12.3 million.
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.
1996 – The star-studded United States men’s basketball team, Dream Team III, beat Yugoslavia 95-69 to win the gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics.
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.
2009 – Michael Phelps ends the World Swimming Championship in Rome with his 5th gold medal as part of the US 4x100m medley relay team that recorded the 43rd world record of the controversial meet.
2017 – US President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them.
2018 – Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value.
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