1888 – American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine.
1897 – Oldsmobile first manufactured by Olds Motor Vehicle Company in Lansing, Michigan.
1914 – US Open Men’s Golf, Midlothian Country Club: 21-year-old Walter Hagen holds off amateur Chick Evans by 1 stroke to win the first of his 2 Open titles; first of 11 major championships.
1929 – Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town.
1942 – Walt Disney’s animated movie “Bambi”, based on the book by Felix Salten, is released.
1953 – Baseball player representatives Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire labor leader John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiations with team owners.
1959 – Hawaii becomes the 50th US state.
1961 – American country singer Patsy Cline records then-struggling songwriter Willie Nelson’s song “Crazy”, in Nashville, Tennessee.
1965 – Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit. It was the 19th human spaceflight.
1967 – China reports downing of 2 US bombers.
1968 – PFC James Anderson Jr. is 1st African American Marine to win Medal of Honor (Vietnam War)
1975 – Al Bumbry hits 17th inside-the-park home run in Baltimore Orioles history.
1983 – 110 degrees F at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record)
1987 – “Dirty Dancing,” film directed by Emile Ardolino, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, opens in the United States.
1992 – US Marshals move in on Randy Weaver’s cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho to apprehend him on firearms charges. An 11 day stand-off ensues.
1997 – US government forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E-Coli break-out.
2007 – Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph. Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.
2016 – Kevin Durant scores 30 as the United States retains the Olympic men’s basketball title with a comfortable 96-66 win over Serbia at the Rio de Janeiro Games.
2017 – Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $417 million to a woman who developed ovarian cancer after using their talc-based products.
2021 – Flash flooding in Humphreys County, Middle Tennessee, kills 22 with dozens missing.
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