1906 – Cuba’s 1st president, Tomes Estrada Palma, asks for US intervention.
1914 – Japan declares war on Germany in World War I.
1919 – “Gasoline Alley” cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune.
1930 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: England’s Betty Nuthall Shoemaker beats Anna McCune Harper 6-1, 6-4 for her lone major title.
1936 – 17-year-old Cleveland Indians future Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Feller’s debut Major League Baseball game. He strikes out 15 St. Louis Browns in 4-1 win at League Park, Cleveland.
1944 – US 20th Army Corp enters Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine.
1952 – Kitty Wells becomes 1st woman to reach #1 on Billboard Country Chart with “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”, stays at top for 15 weeks.
1954 – First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1964 – St. Louis Cardinals are 11 games back in the National League standings, but go on to win the World Series, 4-games-to-3 over the New York Yankees.
1972 – Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) nominated Vice President Spiro Agnew but not unanimously: 1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley.
1982 – Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter.
1985 – Paul Hornung awarded $1.16 million by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games.
1987 – 15-year-old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion.
1990 – United States begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf.
1993 – New York Stock Exchange’s Dow Jones reaches record high of 3,638.56 points.
1996 – Osama bin Laden issues a message entitled “A declaration of war against Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.”
2005 – Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane.
2015 – 12-year-old boy trips and rips 17th-century painting “Flowers” by Paola Poppora worth $1.5 million at exhibition in Taiwan.
2020 – President Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway announces she is stepping away from the White House for family reasons.
2022 – Nicki Minaj’s single “Super Freaky Girl” debuts at #1; first female rapper to do so since Lauren Hill in 1998 with “Doo Wop (That Thing)”
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