1814 – British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812)
1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.
1891 – Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera.
1912 – NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US Olympians.
1912 – District of Alaska becomes an organized incorporated territory of the United States.
1932 – 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart.
1942 – Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands between United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
1954 – US President Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act of McCarthyism.
1956 – 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Washington, D.C.
1963 – John Pennel is first person to pole-vault 17′.
1975 – PGA Tournament Players Championship, Colonial CC: Al Geiberger leads wire-to-wire to finish 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Dave Stockton.
1983 – Cincinnati’s Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak to 745.
1989 – Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling.
1992 – Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida, making landfall at Elliott Key and later Homestead, 44 die and $25 billion in damage is recorded.
1995 – Microsoft debuts Windows 95.
2006 – After signing a one-day contract with the San Francisco 49ers, Jerry Rice officially retires from the NFL.
2008 – Summer Olympics in Beijing becomes the most watched event on TV ever – nearly 5 billion, 70% of world’s population.
2011 – Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple Inc., and is succeeded by Tim Cook, as a result of illness.
2015 – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces that for the first time 1 billion people logged into Facebook.
2018 – Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler sends cease-and-desist letter to President Trump demanding he stop using the band’s songs at rallies.
2020 – First documented case of a person being re-infected with COVID-19 a second time, a Hong Kong man four months after first infection.
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