1896 – Dial telephone patented.
1908 – America’s Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to be greeted with a tremendous welcome as 221 American sailors desert to remain in Australia.
1912 – Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect.
1920 – First United States commercial radio station, 8MK WWJ, begins daily broadcasting.
1930 – Dumont’s first TV broadcast for home reception airs in New York City.
1938 – New York Yankees future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd and final grand slam in an 11-3 win over the Philadelphia Athletics at Shibe Park.
1948 – 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Cardinals 28, All-Stars 0 with 101,220 people in attendance.
1956 – Republicans convene at Cow Palace in San Francisco, California.
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act, an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion.
1967 – LPGA Western Open Women’s Golf, Pekin Country Club in Illinois: Kathy Whiteworth wins by 7 strokes over Sandra Haynie.
1971 – FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr.
1974 – Nolan Ryan’s pitch measured at record 100.4 mph.
1977 – NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter and Saturn, and later Uranus and Neptune.
1985 – Israel ships 96 TOW missiles to Iran on behalf of the United States.
1991 – Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid National Football League player with a 5-year extension worth $25 million.
1998 – United States embassy bombings: 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.
2015 – 30 students at West Point Military Academy are injured in a mass pillow fight.
2019 – Computer systems in 22 small Texas towns hacked and held to ransom in coordination attack that prompts FBI investigation.
2020 -Kamala Harris accepts her nomination for vice president, becoming the first woman of color on a major-party ticket in the United States, saying, “there is no vaccine for racism.”
2023 – Tropical Storm Hilary makes landfall on Mexico’s Baja peninsula, the first tropical storm to hit the region in 84 years.
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