1866 – President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over.
1896 – Dial telephone patented.
1908 – America’s Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to be greeted with a tremendous welcome; 221 American sailors desert to remain in Australia.
1915 – Chicago White Sox obtain ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson from Cleveland for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer & $31,000; Jackson involved in ‘Black Sox Scandal’ 1919.
1929 – 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed.
1930 – Dumont’s 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
1940 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill says of Royal Air Force, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”
1947 – Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time.
1956 – Republicans convene in Cow Palace.
1958 – Cubs use 1st baseman Dale Long as their 1st major league lefty catcher since 1906.
1964 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act, an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion.
1965 – Eddie Mathews & Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team.
1971 – FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr.
1974 – Nolan Ryan pitched measured at record 100.4 mph.
1982 – US marines land in Beirut, Lebanon.
1986 – Postal worker Patrick Sherrill shot 14 fellow workers dead in Edmond, Oklahoma.
1991 – Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million.
1998 – U.S. embassy bombing: US military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
2006 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Medina CC: Tiger Woods wins his 3rd PGA Championship by 5 strokes from Shaun Micheel.
2018 – Pope Francis releases letter to all Catholics condemning sexual abuse atrocities and clerical cover-ups, “We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them”
2019 – Computer systems in 22 small Texas towns hacked and held for ransom in coordinated attack prompts FBI investigation.
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