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.
1920 – 1st US commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit begins daily broadcasting.
1929 – 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed.
1930 – Dumont’s 1st TV broadcast for home reception (New York City)
1942 – Dim out regulations implemented in San Francisco.
1947 – Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time.
1957 – US Air Force balloon, manned by David Simons, breaks an altitude record at 102,000 feet, over Minnesota and South Dakota.
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act, an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion.
1971 – FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr.
1974 – Nolan Ryan pitch clocked at 100.4 mph.
1989 – Howard Johnson joins Bobby Bonds & Willis Mays hitting 30 home runs & steals 30 bases in a Major League Baseball season.
1991 – Miami Dolphins’ Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million.
1995 – British Open Women’s Golf, Woburn, Duke’s Course: Australian Karrie Webb scores a 6 stroke win over runners-up Annika Sorenstam and Jill McGill.
1998 – US embassy bombings: US military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda 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, Medinah CC: Tiger Woods wins his 3rd PGA Championship by 5 strokes over Shaun Micheel.
2011 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, Westchester CC: Fred Couples wins first of 2 Champions Tour major titles with birdie on 3rd playoff hole against John Cook.
2019 – Computer systems in 22 small Texas towns hacked and held to ransom in coordinated attack prompts FBI investigation.
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