1904 – Automobile tire chain patented by Harry D. Weed.
1914 – Japan declares war on Germany in World War I.
1919 – “Gasoline Alley” cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune.
1924 – Mars’ makes closest approach to Earth since the 10th century.
1936 – 17-year-old Cleveland Indians future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller’s first Major League Baseball game as a starter, strikes out 15 St. Louis Browns’ in a 4-1 win at League Park, Cleveland.
1946 – “The Big Sleep,” directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, premieres.
1948 – World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries.
1952 – Kitty Wells becomes the first woman to reach #1 on Billboard Country chart with “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” The song stays at the top for 15 weeks.
1954 – First flight of the military’s C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1962 – First Europe-United States live TV program via Telestar.
1970 – Roberto Clemente compiles his record second straight 5-hit game.
1973 – Intelsat communications satellite launched.
1980 – Charles O. Finley sells Oakland Athletics franchise for $12.7 million to Walter Haas Jr., who is the owner and CEO of Levi Strauss.
1987 – 15-year-old boy hijacks KLM B737 and demands $1 billion.
1990 – United States begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf.
1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled “A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.”
2005 – Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane.
2015 – English IndyCar driver Justin Wilson suffers a head injury during a race crash at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania.
2020 – Republican party convention begins by formally renominating Donald Trump for a second presidential term.
2022 – In a domestic terrorism case, two men are found guilty of plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
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